A former Middle East consultant to ABC News, Marvin Zonis has appeared on Nightline, Larry King Live and he is a frequent commentator on NPR. He has written for every newspaper of international prominence and authored several books. His insight into the state of international political affairs merges with his expertise in economics to form a particularly insightful and intelligent report on issues facing the world today.

Dr. Philip Kotler is the author of the most widely used marketing book in graduate business schools worldwide. His efforts as the Distinguished Professor of International Marketing at the Northwestern University has helped put his school at the top of the "Best Business Schools" list in Business Week's survey for six years in a row.

Dr. Peter Senge is the Founding Chair of a global community of researchers, corporations and consultants called the Society for Organizational Learning. Dr. Senge has lectured extensively throughout the world, translating the abscract ideas of systems theory into tools for better understanding of economic and organizational change.

A frequent columnist for, Newsweek International, Jeffrey Garten is widely known in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and Foreign Affairs. He was the Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade under the Clinton administration and former Dean of Yale School or Management. He has worked on Wall Street as a managing director of Lehman Brothers.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter is an internationally known business leader, best-selling author, and expert on strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. She is the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She advises major corporations and governments worldwide, and is the author or co-author of 15 books.

Geneticist Sean Carroll is the acknowledged leader of the exciting new biological field known as "Evo Devo". His groundbreaking book, Endless Forms Most Beautiful, was published in 2005 to rave reviews ("Carroll emerges as the new, ...

Internationally recognized as a leading expert on Hizballah, Hamas, al-Qaeda and other militant Islamic movements, Magnus Ranstorp is the Chief Scientist at the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defense College. Magnus is author of Hizballah in Lebanon and In the Service of Al-Qaeda.

Writer of poetry, drama, essays and music criticism, Amiri Baraka is best known as the Father of the Black Arts Movement. Amiri Baraka is committed to social justice like no other American writer. He has taught at Yale, Columbia, and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

First Director of the Center on Aging, Health and Humanities at George Washington University, Dr. Cohen has authored more than 150 publications in the field of aging, including numerous text books and the bestseller The Brain In Human Aging. Dr. Cohen is currently conducting research on creativity and aging, retirement, assisted living and other residential settings for older adults, as well as on innovative intergenerational interventions for Alzheimer's disease.

Regarded as a leading expert on terrorism, Jessica Stern is a lecturer at Harvard University. She has served as director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council and was the Superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is author of Terror In The Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill.