Dan Pink is the author of a number of best-selling books, including A Whole New Mind, a long running New York Times best-seller that has been translated into 20 languages. He has contributed to The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Wired, and is a frequent lecturer on economic transformation and changes in the workplace.

Michael Adler is a Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar. As a journalist in Vienna he reported on the International Atomic Energy Agency and he is now working on a book about diplomacy in the Iranian nuclear crisis. Robert Litwak is the Wilson Center's Vice President for Programs and also serves as Director of International Security Studies. Previously, he served as director for non-proliferation for the National Security Council.

Susan Tolchin is a political scientist, who serves as university professor in public policy at George Mason University. Martin Tolchin spent forty years with the New York Times, after which he founded The Hill and Politico, he is now a Wilson Center Senior Scholar.

Donna Leinwand is a reporter for the nation's top-selling newspaper, USA Today. She's been with the paper since 2000, covering legal issues, major crimes, the Justice Department, terrorism, and natural disasters. She is also a past president of the National Press Club. Sheri Fink is a senior fellow with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, a staff reporter for Pro Publica, and is a former public policy scholar at the Wilson Center. She was awarded a 2010 Pulitzer Prize for her investigative piece on doctors at a hospital cut off by Hurricane Katrina flood waters.