Thirty-ninth President of the United States and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, while serving as President Jimmy Carter created two new cabinet-level departments: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He founded The Carter Center, a non-profit organization that works to advance human rights and is heavily involved in Habitat for Humanity.

Strobe Talbott, author of six books on U.S.-Soviet relations and nuclear arms control, served in the State Department for 8 years, including a year as Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union. He entered government service after twenty-one years as a journalist for Time magazine. His last position there was as Time's Editor-at-Large and foreign affairs columnist.

Walter Mondale was elected vice president of the United States in 1976 in Jimmy Carter's administration. On the president's behalf, Mondale traveled extensively throughout the nation and the world advocating U.S. policy, and was the first vice president to have an office in the White House.

A specialist in American foreign policy, European security, and national security affairs, Ivo H. Daalder is a special adviser on national security at the Center for American Progress and is also senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He has authored over 10 books with his most recent being the American Homeland (2002).

Senior analyst for ABC News and a commentator for NPR's Morning Edition, Fawaz Gerges is an academic and author with expertise on the Middle East. He is currently the Christian A. Johnson Chair in International Affairs and Middle Easter Studies at Sarah Lawrence College.

The New York Times bestseller - The Faith Club; A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew - Three Women Search for Understanding. An interfaith memoir of spiritual reflections written in three voices and now a moving presentation will help your audiences look at themselves, their lives and the broader world in a new way. Pioneering, timely, and deeply thoughtful, The Faith Club's caring message will resonate with people of all faiths.

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.

Baron Robertson of Port Ellen was the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization from 1999-2004. He served as Defense Secretary for the UK from 1997-1999 before taking up his NATO position and becoming a life peer of Islay in Argyll and Bute. He has received numerous honors and holds the directorships of several notable companies.

Sol Gittleman is the Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor at Tufts University -- one of three current "university professors" at the school. He has been a celebrated lecturer on the Tufts campus since he started teaching there in 1966. From 1981 until 2002 he was the school's provost, and today he continues to teach on German Civilization and the rise of Nazism, immigration, and American baseball history.

Re-elected to the US Senate with 81% vote, Sen. George Mitchell was also elected Majority Leader of the Senate. A former US Attorney and Federal Judge, for six consecutive years Sen. Mitchell has been voted the Most Respected Member of the Senate. While in the Senate, he has served on the Finance, Environment and Public Works and Veterans Affairs Committees.