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.

Jamie Stiehm is a public policy scholar at the Wilson Center where she's working on a biography of Quaker leader, Lucretia Mott. She also writes for "U.S. News and World Report" and "Politics Daily." Previously, she was a reporter for "The Baltimore Sun" and "The Hill." Marvin Kalb is Edward R. Morrow Professor of Practice Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy. His career encompasses 30 years of award-winning reporting for CBS and NBC News as chief diplomatic correspondent, Moscow bureau chief, and host of "Meet the Press." He now hosts "The Kalb Report," a discussion of media ethics and responsibility at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., and he's a regular contributor to Fox News Television and National Public Radio.

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed is currently the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University in Washington DC, the First Distinguished Chair of Middle East and Islamic Studies at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Previously he served as Pakistan's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

Haleh Esfandiari, Steve Lagerfeld, Cindy Arnson, Robert Litwak.