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Toby Dodge is a political scientist who has been researching the politics of Iraq and the wider Middle East for the last 15 years. In addition to his work at the IISS he is also a Reader in International Politics, Queen Mary, University of London and a Fellow of the Cold War Studies Centre, London School of Economics and Politics Science. He completed a PhD on Iraqi politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Dr Dodge has carried out extensive research in Iraq both before and after regime change in 2003. He was last in Iraq in March and April 2008.

David Kang is Professor of International Relations and Business, and director of the Korean Studies Institute, at the University of Southern California. Kang is also a regular consultant for both multinational corporations and U.S. government agencies, such as the CIA, National Intelligence Council, and the State Department. Kang is author of *China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia* (2007); *Crony Capitalism: Corruption and Development in South Korea and the Philippines* (2002), and *Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies* (2003). He has published numerous scholarly articles in journals such as* International Organization *and *International Security*, as well as opinion pieces in *the New York Times*, *the Financial Times*, *the Washington Post*, *the Los Angeles Times*, and numerous Korean and Chinese newspapers. Professor Kang was previously Professor of Government and Adjunct Professor at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University, Yale University, Seoul National University, Korea University, and the University of Geneva. He received an A.B. with honors from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Berkeley.

Crate is serving his second term as a volunteer chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party. He has been chairman since January of 2003. He is currently the executive vice president and chief financial officer of Affiliated Managers Group Inc., a publicly traded asset management holding company. He is also a member of the board of trustees of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where he is chairman of the Bates College Alumni Fund. Crate received his BA from Bates College and his MBA from Columbia Business School.

Healey's political career began in the late 1990s when she unsuccessfully challenged Democratic incumbent Michael Cahill to represent the 6th Essex District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. She then served briefly as chairperson of the Massachusetts Republican State Committee. She was elected in 2002 as lieutenant governor on the Republican ticket with Mitt Romney. After Governor Mitt Romney's announcement that he would not seek re-election in the 2006 election Healey formally announced on February 8, 2006, that she would seek the Republican nomination for Governor. On November 7, Healey was defeated by Democrat Deval Patrick by 21 percentage points.

Gray Media Vice President Dominick Ianno holds nearly a decade of experience working with the Massachusetts and national media. He is often quoted in local and national media outlets and frequently appears as a guest on news and talk programs. Mr. Ianno previously served as Press Secretary in the Executive Office for Administration and Finance, where he was the chief fiscal spokesman for two Massachusetts Governors. He also supervised the communications strategy at the twenty-three state agencies which report to A&F, which include the state budget, revenue, purchasing, human resources, information technology and capital planning departments. A veteran of the Massachusetts political scene, Mr. Ianno served as the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Republican Party, where he was responsible for overseeing the party's day-to-day operations and media relations. During his tenure, the Mass GOP recruited its highest number of legislative candidates since 1990 and delivered the surprising upset special-election victory of State Senator Scott Brown. He has also worked as a research and media operative for several statewide Republican campaigns in Massachusetts, including the Weld for Senate campaign and the successful Romney-Healey and Cellucci-Swift campaigns, and spent 2 years as Communications Director for the Massachusetts Republican Party. A native of New Hartford, NY, Dominick Ianno has received a BA in political science from the State University of New York at Oswego and a JD from the New England School of Law.

Dr. G. Timothy Johnson is one of the nation's leading medical communicators of health care information. As Medical Editor for ABC News, Johnson provides on-air medical analysis for *World News Tonight*, *Nightline* and *20/20*. He has provided commentary on medical problems and answers for viewers of ABC News' *Good Morning America *since the program's debut in 1975. Johnson's programs and feature reports have won several awards, including a National Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as well as two Emmy Awards from the Boston/New England Chapter of the same organization. He earned a Gabriel Award in 1999 in the best news story category for the two-part piece, *Alzheimer's: A Faded Memory*. Johnson was selected as the recipient of the 1998 Bradford Washburn Award presented by the Museum of Science, Boston. In 1988, he received the Lewis Thomas Award for Communications from the American College of Physicians, and in 1987 and 1989, he won the Howard W. Blakeslee Award given by the American Heart Association. Originally headed for the ministry, he graduated from North Park Seminary in 1963, then decided two years later to enter medicine. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Augustana College, he graduated summa cum laude from Albany Medical College and holds a masters degree in public health from Harvard University. He is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital. Johnson is married with two children and one grandchild.

Gail Dines received her PhD from Salford University in England. She is an associate professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at Wheelock College in Boston. Dr. Dines is co-editor of the best-selling media textbook,* Gender, Race and Class in Media (Sage, 1995)*, used in over 150 colleges across the country. She is co-author of *Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality (Routledge, 1998)*. Her numerous articles on pornography, the media and violence have appeared in academic journals and books, as well as in magazines and newspapers such as *Newsweek, Time, Working Woman, New York Times, Boston Globe, USA Today, Daily Mail (England)*. Dr. Dines has also been on shows such as *Donohue, Sally Jesse Raphael, Entertainment Tonight*, and is a frequent guest on radio shows across the country.

Joseph E. Stiglitz, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics, witnessed the policymaking process firsthand as chairman of Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. He has written several books on globalization and global issues, including *The Three Trillion Dollar War* (with Linda Bilmes), *Making Globalization Work*, and *Globalization and Its Discontents*. He teaches at Columbia University and lives in New York City.

Dr. Robert L. Hilliard was the chief of the Educational Broadcasting Branch of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and chaired the Federal Interagency Media Committee for the White House. Prior to joining the Commission staff, Dr. Hilliard was both a broadcaster and teacher of broadcasting at various colleges and universities in New York and North Carolina. He also wrote a number of highly regarded college textbooks on various phrases of radio and television broadcasting. He currently teaches at Emerson College as a Professor of Visual and Media Arts and was formerly the Dean of Graduate Studies and Dean of Continuing Education there. [Source: http://www.lib.umd.edu/NPBA/oral/hilliard.html]