Václav Klaus is a Czech economist and politician who served as the second president of the Czech Republic from 2003 to 2013. From July 1992 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in January 1993,he served as the second and last prime minister of the Czech Republic while it was a federal subject of the Czech and Slovak Federative Republic,and then as the first prime minister of the newly independent Czech Republic from 1993 to 1998.
Rahm Israel Emanuel is an American politician and diplomat who is the current United States ambassador to Japan. A member of the Democratic Party,he served three terms representing Illinois in the United States House of Representatives from 2003 to 2009,then was White House Chief of Staff from 2009 to 2010 under Barack Obama,and served as mayor of Chicago from 2011 to 2019.
The Harvard Law Review is a law review published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School. According to the Journal Citation Reports,the Harvard Law Review's 2015 impact factor of 4.979 placed the journal first out of 143 journals in the category "Law". It is published monthly from November through June,with the November issue dedicated to covering the previous year's term of the Supreme Court of the United States. The journal also publishes the online-only Harvard Law Review Forum,a rolling journal of scholarly responses to the main journal's content. The law review is one of three honors societies at the law school,along with the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau and the Board of Student Advisors. Students who are selected for more than one of these three organizations may only join one.
MilošZeman is a Czech politician who served as the third president of the Czech Republic from 2013 to 2023. He also previously served as the prime minister of the Czech Republic from 1998 to 2002. As leader of the Czech Social Democratic Party,he is credited with the revival of the party into one of the country's major political forces. Zeman briefly served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1996 to 1998.
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &Sullivan,LLP is a global white shoe law firm headquartered in Los Angeles,California. The firm employs approximately 800 attorneys throughout 23 offices around the world.
Kathleen Marie Sullivan is an American lawyer and name partner at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &Sullivan,a global,litigation-only law firm headquartered in Los Angeles,California. Based in the firm's New York City office,Sullivan chairs its national appellate practice group. She is the first and only female name partner at an Am Law 100 law firm. Previously,Sullivan served as dean of Stanford Law School,where she was the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law.
Megaupload Ltd was a Hong Kong–based online company established in 2005 that operated from 2005 to 2012 providing online services related to file storage and viewing.
Crystal Nix-Hines served as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations Educational,Scientific,and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) with the rank of Ambassador between July 2014 and January 2017.
Richard William Graber is an American lawyer from Wisconsin and Republican politician who served as United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2006 to 2009.
Bas Balkissoon is a former politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 2005 to 2016 who represented the riding of Scarborough—Rouge River. From 1988 to 1997 he was a municipal councillor in Scarborough and from 1998 to 2005 he was a councillor in the amalgamated city of Toronto.
David Pressman is an American lawyer who has served as the United States ambassador to Hungary since 2022. He previously worked in the Obama administration and served as the United States ambassador to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs from 2014 to 2016. Pressman represented the United States at the United Nations Security Council and in related negotiations.
Norman L. Eisen is an American attorney,author,and former diplomat. He is a senior fellow in governance studies at the Brookings Institution,a CNN legal analyst,and the co-founder and executive chair of the States United Democracy Center. He was co-counsel for the House Judiciary Committee during the first impeachment and trial of President Donald Trump in 2020. He served as White House Special Counsel for Ethics and Government Reform,United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic,and board chair of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). He is the author of four books,including The Last Palace:Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House (2018). In 2022,he co-authored Overcoming Trumpery:How to Restore Ethics,the Rule of Law,and Democracy.
Paul Jeffrey Watford is an American lawyer who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2012 to 2023. In 2016,The New York Times identified Watford as a potential Supreme Court nominee to replace Justice Antonin Scalia. Watford resigned his judgeship in 2023 and became a partner at the law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &Rosati.
John R. Phillips is an American diplomat and attorney who served as the United States Ambassador to Italy and San Marino,serving from 2013 to 2017. As a partner at Phillips &Cohen,LLP (1988–2013) and before that,in Los Angeles,he practiced public interest law,specializing in whistleblower cases that recovered billions from companies defrauding the government.
Bruce Alan Heyman is an American businessman and former diplomat who served as U.S. Ambassador to Canada from 2014 to 2017 under President Barack Obama.
Hynek Kmoníček is a Czech diplomat and the current Czech Ambassador to Vietnam. Previously,Kmoníček served as foreign policy advisor of the President MilošZeman,and held ambassadorial posts including Czech Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York and subsequently as Ambassador to India,Australia,and the United States.
Deborah Ruth Malac is an American diplomat,who served as the United States Ambassador to Uganda. She was nominated by President Barack Obama and was confirmed by the Senate Nov. 19,2015. She previously served as United States Ambassador to Liberia.
Christopher Landau is an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Mexico from 2019 to 2021. He was nominated to the position by President Donald Trump.
