Ambassador Nancy Ely-Raphel, Former Director, Office to Combat Trafficking in Persons, US Department of State; Andrea Bertone, Associate Director, College Park Scholars International Studies, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland – College Park; Emek Uçarer, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Bucknell University; Mohamed Mattar, Co-Director, The Protection Project of the Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies; Keith Sherper, Independent Consultant; Ruth Pojman, Anti-trafficking Advisor, Europe and Eurasia Bureau, USAID; Christina Arnold, Director, Project HOPE International

With H.E. Daniel Ayalon, Israel's Ambassador to the United States

Feroz Khan, visiting fellow, Monterey Institute for International Studies; Zalmay Khalilzad, special presidential envoy for Afghanistan, National Security Council; Mohsen Milani, professor of Government and International Affairs, University of South Florida; Ahmed Rashid, correspondent, Far Eastern Economic Review and The Daily Telegraph; Nazif Shahrani, professor of anthropology, University of Indiana.Speech by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad