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.