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Marilyn Richardson, principal of African-Americana Consultants, is a writer and lecturer on African-American history and culture. Richardson has taught at several institutions including Harvard University, Boston University and MIT and has served as curator of Boston's Museum of Afro-American History and the African Meeting House. She is the editor of *Maria W. Stewart: America's First Black Woman Political Writer *(1987) and the author of *Black Women and Religion: A Bibliography* (1980).

Laura Secor, a journalist, has written on Iran for* The New Yorker*, *The New York Times Magazine*, and *The New Republic*. She has been a staff editor of *The New York Times* 0p-Ed page, a reporter for the *Boston Globe*, acting executive editor of *The American Prospect*, and a senior editor and writer for *Lingua Franca*. While at the Cullman Center, she will be working on a book about the movement for democratic reform in Iran.

Jessica Henderson Daniel, PhD, ABPP, is director of training in psychology at Children's Hospital, Boston, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and past president of the Society for the Psychology of Women in the American Psychological Association.

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.