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John Hardy "Johnny" Isakson (born December 28, 1944) is the Republican junior United States Senator from Georgia since 2005. Previously, he represented Georgia's 6th Congressional district in the House from 1999 to 2005.

Gideon Rose is editor of *Foreign Affairs*, the lead publication of the Council on Foreign Relations. His expertise is in international conflict, the Middle East region, and economic sanctions. Previously, Rose was managing editor of *Foreign Affairs* from 2001-2010. He was the Olin Senior Fellow and deputy director of National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations from 1995-2000. He was also the associate director for Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Security Council from 1994-1995.

Rgine Michelle Jean-Charles is an Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Romance Languages and Literatures at Boston College and a former Mellon-Mays Fellow. Her current book manuscript is on the gender violence in Caribbean and African literatures and cultures. She is also a board member and performer for A Long Walk Home, Inc., a non-profit organization that uses art therapy, the visual and performing arts to document, to educate, and to bring about social change by helping victims of trauma heal as well as to increase public awareness about community violence. She is the author of "Battles on Bodies: Staging Rape and the Democratic Republic of Congo in Lynn Nottage's Ruined."

Ron Blackwell is Chief Economist at the AFL-CIO and former Academic Dean at the New School.

Harshita Gupta is a Master’s degree candidate in the Department of Biology at Case Western Reserve University. She is pursuing research on the molecular mechanism of hearing, working in the lab of Brian McDermott, PhD, Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology. Ms. Gupta is studying the localization of the deafness gene, PMCA2, in the hair cells of the inner ear. The Biology department awarded her a full tuition scholarship, to pursue her graduate studies and teach as a biology laboratory instructor. She earned an undergraduate degree in Biotechnology, first class with distinction, from Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering in Chennai, India. Before coming to Case Western, Ms. Gupta was awarded two internships: one at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, where she studied the role of Orexin, a neuropeptide brain hormone, in diabetes, and another at the Genetic Counseling Center in Bangalore, India.

Arnold Caplan, Ph.D. is Professor of Biology and the Director of the Skeletal Research Center at Case Western Reserve University. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Caplan did a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Anatomy at Johns Hopkins University, followed by Postdoctoral Fellowships at Brandeis University with Dr. N.O. Kaplan and Dr. E. Zwilling. He joined the Case Western Reserve University Biology faculty in 1969, becoming a full Professor in 1981. His awards include the Elizabeth Winston Lanier Award given by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Kappa Delta Awards Program (1990), the Marshall R. Urist Award for Excellence in Tissue Regeneration Research from the Orthopaedic Research Society (1999), and the Genzyme Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Cartilage Repair Society (2007). He was Visiting Professor in Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco Medical School (1973) and Edna and Jacob Michael Visiting Professor of Biophysics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel (1984). In 1976 Prof. Caplan was in the Laboratory of Pierre Chambon at the Institute de Chimie Biologique, Faculty of Medicine de Strasbourg. A national and international scholar focusing on experimentation in musculoskeletal and skin development, he has trained over 125 researchers and published over 350 papers and manuscripts. His pioneering research on Mesenchymal Stem Cells has been supported by the National Institutes of Health and other non-profit and for-profit agencies.

Rebecca S. Eisenberg is a graduate of Stanford University and Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was articles editor of the *California Law Review*. Following law school she served as law clerk for Chief Judge Robert F. Peckham on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California and then practiced law as a litigator in San Francisco. She joined the University of Michigan Law School faculty in 1984. Prof. Eisenberg regularly teaches courses in patent law, trademark law, FDA law, and runs workshops on intellectual property and student scholarship. She has previously taught courses on torts, legal regulation of science, and legal issues in biopharmaceutical research. Prof. Eisenberg has written and lectured extensively about the role of intellectual property in biopharmaceutical research, publishing in scientific journals as well as law reviews. She spent the 1999-2000 academic year as a visiting professor of law, science and technology at Stanford Law School. She has received grants from the program on Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of the Human Genome Project from the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Biological and Environmental Research for her work on private appropriation and public dissemination of DNA sequence information. Prof. Eisenberg has played an active role in public policy debates concerning the role of intellectual property in biopharmaceutical research.

Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya was born in Jamshedpur, India, and lives in New York. His first novel, *The Gabriel Club*, was published in eight languages in sixteen countries.

Ed Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard, where he also serves as Director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government and the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. He studies the economics of cities, and has written on scores of urban issues, including the growth of cities, segregation, crime, and housing markets. He has been particularly interested in the role that geographic proximity can play in creating knowledge and innovation. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1992 and has been at Harvard since then.

Daniel Rasmussen graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University in 2009, winning the Kathryn Ann Huggins Prize, the Perry Miller Prize, and the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize.

Izzeldin Abuelaish, MD, MPH, is a Palestinian physician and infertility expert who was born and raised in the Jabalia refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. He received a scholarship to study medicine in Cairo, and then received a diploma from the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of London. He completed a residency in the same discipline at the Soroka Medical Center in Israel, followed by a subspecialty in fetal medicine in Italy and Belgium. He then undertook a masters in public health at Harvard University. Dr. Abuelaish has worked as a senior researcher at the Gertner Institute at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv. He now lives with his family in Toronto, where he is an associate professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto.

Parag Khanna directs the Global Governance Initiative in the American Strategy Program of the New America Foundation. He has been a fellow at the Brookings Institution and worked for the World Economic Forum and the Council on Foreign Relations. During 2007, he was a senior geopolitical advisor to U.S. Special Operations Command. Born in India, Khanna was raised in the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and Germany. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and is completing his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics. He has written for major global publications such as *The New York Times* and *Financial Times* and appeared on CNN and other television media around the world.