David Chikvaidze is a Georgian and former Soviet international civil servant who served as Chef-de-Cabinet to five Directors-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Marwan Muasher is a Jordanian politican and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Jordan.

Carl Wilkens is the former head of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency International, and the the only American who chose to remain in the country during the Rwandan genocide.

Cornel West is an American public intellectual and Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University.

Timothy Snyder is an American public intellectual and professor at Yale University specializing in the history of Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and the Holocaust.

Hailed as the "Dean of Cold War Historians" by The New York Times, John Lewis Gaddis is the Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History at Yale University.

Kailash Satyarthi is an Indian social reformer who was the co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, along with Malala Yousafzai.

Jordan Hattar is a humanitarian and journalist who serves as the Director of the Amman-based INGO Help4Refugees.