Doug Bandow is the Robert A. Taft Fellow with the American Conservative Defense Alliance. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he also has been affiliated with the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation. He is the author and editor of several books, including Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire (Xulon Press).
Joseph Cirincione was named President of the Ploughshares Fund in February 2008. He was formerly Senior Vice President for National Security and International Affairs at the Center for American Progress. He previously served as director of the Nonproliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment and served for eight years on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations.
Jake Colvin is Director of USA*Engage, a coalition of businesses, agriculture groups and trade associations working to promote the benefits of U.S. engagement abroad and educate the public on the harmful effects of unilateral U.S. sanctions.
James Dobbins is Director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corporation. He has previously served as Assistant Secretary of State for Europe; Special Assistant for the Western Hemisphere; Special Advisor for the Balkans; Ambassador to the EU; and Special Envoy for Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan.
Robert Dreyfuss is a journalist and author who writes frequently on national security and other topics for Rolling Stone. He is a contributing editor or writer for The Nation, The American Prospect, and Mother Jones magazines. He also has written for numerous other publications, including The New Republic and The Washington Monthly. He is author of Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam.
Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr. is the Senior Military Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. During his military career, Gard fought in both Korea and Vietnam, and served a three year tour in Germany. He also served as Executive Assistant to two secretaries of defense; the first Director of Human Resources Development for the U.S. Army, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, and President of National Defense University (NDU).
Phil Giraldi is a former CIA Counter-terrorism specialist who currently is a contributing editor for The American Conservative magazine and a columnist for Antiwar.com, writing on security and intelligence issues. He is a fellow at the American Conservative Defense Alliance.
John Isaacs is Executive Director of the Council for Livable World. Isaacs is one of the leaders of the nation's arms control community and has long been an expert on the workings of Congress. Isaacs previously served as a Legislative Assistant on foreign affairs to Representative Stephen Solarz (D-NY), a Legislative Representative on foreign policy and defense budget for Americans for Democratic Action, and a Foreign Service Officer in Vietnam.
Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. Kinzer is the author of All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror.
Flynt Leverett is a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, and global energy issues. From 1992 to 2003, he had a distinguished career in the U.S. government, serving as Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council, Middle East Expert on the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff, and Senior Analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. He left the Bush administration and government service in the spring of 2003 because of disagreements about Middle East policy and the conduct of the war on terror more generally. Among Dr. Leverett's many publications is Dealing with Tehran: Assessing U.S. Diplomatic Options toward Iran (2006).
William H. Luers was elected President of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) in 1999. Prior to joining UNA-USA, Ambassador Luers served 13 years as president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Luers had a 31-year career in the Foreign Service, serving as US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1983-1986) and Venezuela (1978-1982) and holding numerous posts in Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union, and in the Department of State, where he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe (1977-1978) and for Inter-American Affairs (1975-1977). The long-running UNA-USA track-two dialogue with a group of Iranians led to a proposal from a group of the Americans on one option for dealing more effectively with Iran’s nuclear program.
Justin Logan is Associate Director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. His primary research interests are nuclear proliferation, democracy promotion, and U.S. foreign policy toward China, Russia, and South and Central Asia.
Ed Martin is the Iran Country Representative for American Friends Service Committee. He previously served at the Mennonite Central Committee, where he was the leader of a relief program in Iran and started an interfaith student exchange program between Iran, the U.S. and Canada. He has been to Iran more than 20 times.
Ambassador William Miller is a Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and was posted in Iran for six years. Ambassador Miller spent 14 years on Capitol Hill, where he served as the staff director for three different Senate committees, including the Select Committee on Intelligence.
Carah Ong is the Iran Policy Analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Since 1999, Ong has worked for non-governmental organizations on nuclear disarmament, arms control, nuclear energy and waste, and missile defense issues. She blogs on U.S.-Iran relations at http://irannuclearwatch.blogspot.com.
Dr. Trita Parsi, Ph.D., is President of the National Iranian American Council and the author of Treacherous Alliance - The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States(Yale University Press, 2007). Dr. Parsi has conducted more than 130 interviews with senior Israeli, Iranian and American decision-makers in all three countries. He is fluent in Persian/Farsi.
Ambassador Thomas Pickering is the former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Nigeria, El Salvador, Israel, the United Nations, India and Russia. Currently, he is affiliated with the International Crisis Group, and oversees their international actions as a co-chair. In addition, he is Chairman of the American Academy of Diplomacy and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Global Panel Foundation based in Berlin and Prague.
Dr. James Walsh, Ph.D., is a Research Associate in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he is leading two series of dialogues on nuclear issues, including one with leading figures in Iran.
Doug Bandow is the Robert A. Taft Fellow with the American Conservative Defense Alliance. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he also has been affiliated with the Cato Institute, Heritage Foundation. He is the author and editor of several books, including Foreign Follies: America's New Global Empire (Xulon Press).
Joseph Cirincione was named President of the Ploughshares Fund in February 2008. He was formerly Senior Vice President for National Security and International Affairs at the Center for American Progress. He previously served as director of the Nonproliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment and served for eight years on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Government Operations. 
Jake Colvin is Director of USA*Engage, a coalition of businesses, agriculture groups and trade associations working to promote the benefits of U.S. engagement abroad and educate the public on the harmful effects of unilateral U.S. sanctions. 
James Dobbins is Director of the International Security and Defense Policy Center at the RAND Corporation. He has previously served as Assistant Secretary of State for Europe; Special Assistant for the Western Hemisphere; Special Advisor for the Balkans; Ambassador to the EU; and Special Envoy for Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. 
Robert Dreyfuss is a journalist and author who writes frequently on national security and other topics for Rolling Stone. He is a contributing editor or writer for The Nation, The American Prospect, and Mother Jones magazines. He also has written for numerous other publications, including The New Republic and The Washington Monthly. He is author of Devil’s Game: How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam. 
Lt. General Robert G. Gard, Jr. is the Senior Military Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. During his military career, Gard fought in both Korea and Vietnam, and served a three year tour in Germany. He also served as Executive Assistant to two secretaries of defense; the first Director of Human Resources Development for the U.S. Army, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, and President of National Defense University (NDU).
Phil Giraldi is a former CIA Counter-terrorism specialist who currently is a contributing editor for The American Conservative magazine and a columnist for Antiwar.com, writing on security and intelligence issues. He is a fellow at the American Conservative Defense Alliance.
John Isaacs is Executive Director of the Council for Livable World. Isaacs is one of the leaders of the nation's arms control community and has long been an expert on the workings of Congress. Isaacs previously served as a Legislative Assistant on foreign affairs to Representative Stephen Solarz (D-NY), a Legislative Representative on foreign policy and defense budget for Americans for Democratic Action, and a Foreign Service Officer in Vietnam.
Stephen Kinzer is an award-winning foreign correspondent who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. Kinzer is the author of All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror.
Flynt Leverett is a leading authority on U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, and global energy issues. From 1992 to 2003, he had a distinguished career in the U.S. government, serving as Senior Director for Middle East Affairs at the National Security Council, Middle East Expert on the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff, and Senior Analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. He left the Bush administration and government service in the spring of 2003 because of disagreements about Middle East policy and the conduct of the war on terror more generally. Among Dr. Leverett's many publications is Dealing with Tehran: Assessing U.S. Diplomatic Options toward Iran (2006).
William H. Luers was elected President of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) in 1999. Prior to joining UNA-USA, Ambassador Luers served 13 years as president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. Luers had a 31-year career in the Foreign Service, serving as US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1983-1986) and Venezuela (1978-1982) and holding numerous posts in Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union, and in the Department of State, where he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Europe (1977-1978) and for Inter-American Affairs (1975-1977). The long-running UNA-USA track-two dialogue with a group of Iranians led to a proposal from a group of the Americans on one option for dealing more effectively with Iran’s nuclear program. 
Justin Logan is Associate Director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute. His primary research interests are nuclear proliferation, democracy promotion, and U.S. foreign policy toward China, Russia, and South and Central Asia. 
Ed Martin is the Iran Country Representative for American Friends Service Committee. He previously served at the Mennonite Central Committee, where he was the leader of a relief program in Iran and started an interfaith student exchange program between Iran, the U.S. and Canada. He has been to Iran more than 20 times. 
Ambassador William Miller is a Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He served as the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine and was posted in Iran for six years. Ambassador Miller spent 14 years on Capitol Hill, where he served as the staff director for three different Senate committees, including the Select Committee on Intelligence. 
Carah Ong is the Iran Policy Analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Since 1999, Ong has worked for non-governmental organizations on nuclear disarmament, arms control, nuclear energy and waste, and missile defense issues. She blogs on U.S.-Iran relations at 
Dr. Trita Parsi, Ph.D., is President of the National Iranian American Council and the author of Treacherous Alliance - The Secret Dealings of Iran, Israel and the United States (Yale University Press, 2007). Dr. Parsi has conducted more than 130 interviews with senior Israeli, Iranian and American decision-makers in all three countries. He is fluent in Persian/Farsi. 
Ambassador Thomas Pickering is the former U.S. Ambassador to Jordan, Nigeria, El Salvador, Israel, the United Nations, India and Russia. Currently, he is affiliated with the International Crisis Group, and oversees their international actions as a co-chair. In addition, he is Chairman of the American Academy of Diplomacy and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Global Panel Foundation based in Berlin and Prague. 
Dr. James Walsh, Ph.D., is a Research Associate in the Security Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he is leading two series of dialogues on nuclear issues, including one with leading figures in Iran. 
