Wolfgang Friedrich Ischinger is a German diplomat who served as chairman of the Munich Security Conference from 2008 to 2022.
Herta Däubler-Gmelin is a German lawyer,academic and politician of the Social Democratic Party. She served as Federal Minister of Justice from 1998 to 2002,and as a Member of the Bundestag from 1972 to 2009. She currently teaches as an honorary professor of political science at the Free University of Berlin,particularly on international relations and human rights,and was the Hemmerle Professor at RWTH Aachen University in 2011. She is married to the legal scholar Wolfgang Däubler.
Benita Ferrero-Waldner is an Austrian diplomat and politician,and a member of the conservative Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). Ferrero-Waldner served as the Foreign Minister of Austria 2000–2004 and was the candidate of the Austrian People's Party in the 2004 Austrian presidential election,which she narrowly lost with 47.6% of the votes. She served as the European Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy from 2004 to 2009,and as the European Commissioner for Trade and European Neighbourhood Policy from 2009 to 2010.
Norvell Kay Granger is an American Republican politician from the U.S. state of Texas. She has represented the state's 12th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997. She has been the ranking member of the United States House Committee on Appropriations since 2019,when Rodney Frelinghuysen retired.
Philip Lader,the former US Ambassador to the Court of St. James’s,was Chairman of WPP plc,the global advertising/communications services firm.
Raul Humberto Yzaguirre is an American civil rights activist. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as the president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza from 1974 to 2004 and as U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic from November 2010 to May 2013. He has 3 daughters and 3 sons.
Marilyn Ware was the U.S. Ambassador to Finland from March 2006 to March 2008.
Susan Rasinski McCaw is a businesswoman,former diplomat and philanthropist. She was a major fundraiser for the George W. Bush 2004 presidential campaign,and was appointed by the Bush administration as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Austria (2005-2007). She is currently President of SRM Capital Investments,a private investment firm. Previously,she was President of COM Investments and a Principal at Robertson Stephens &Co.
Georgette Mosbacher is an American business executive,entrepreneur,political activist who served as the United States Ambassador to Poland from 2018 to 2021. She is the chairman of the Green Beret Foundation advisory board,and a Fox News contributor. On November 19,2015,President Barack Obama nominated her as a member of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
Lucius Durham Battle was a career Foreign Service officer who served with distinction in Washington,Europe and Southwest Asia.
Mary Bonneau "Bonnie" McElveen-Hunter is an American businesswoman,philanthropist,and diplomat who is the first female chair of the board of governors of the American Red Cross. She is the founder and CEO of Pace Communications,a content and integrated marketing agency,and was the U.S. Ambassador to Finland from 2001 to 2003. She served as the finance chairwoman of Elizabeth Dole's campaign for the Republican nomination for U.S. president. She also started the first billion dollar women's leadership campaign in America for the United Way.
Joan Edelman Spero is a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs,where she researches and writes about international philanthropy and its role in the global system. From 2009 to 2010,Ms. Spero was a Visiting Scholar at the Foundation Center,where she conducted research on the role of American private foundations in U.S. foreign policy and in the global system.
Mona K. Sutphen served as the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2011. She is currently Partner &Head of Investment Strategies at The Vistria Group,a Chicago-based private equity firm founded by Marty Nesbitt. From 2013 to 2019,she was a partner at Macro Advisory Partners LLP and from 2011-2013 was Managing Director at UBS AG,covering geopolitical risk,macro-policy trends and their impact on the global economy. She has also previously held positions as an American diplomat and served on the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration. She is the co-author of The Next American Century:How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise.
Margaret Ann "Peggy" Hamburg is an American physician and public health administrator,who is serving as the chair of the board of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and co-chair of the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP). She served as the 21st Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration from May 2009 to April 2015.
John L. Nau,III is the Chairman and CEO of Silver Eagle Beverages,one of the largest Anheuser-Busch distributors in the nation. Silver Eagle employs more than 500 employees who service a territory that includes the greater San Antonio area in Bexar County and extends over 12 additional counties in southwest Texas. Silver Eagle Beverages distributes Grupo Modelo beers,a broad selection of national and local craft beers and several non-alcohol beverages and waters.
Wanda M. Austin is a former president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation,a leading architect for the nation’s national security space programs. She was both the first woman,and the first African-American,to hold this position. The Aerospace Corporation has nearly 3,600 employees and annual revenues of more than $917 million. Austin assumed this position on January 1,2008,and retired on October 1,2016. She continues as a consultant for the corporation.
Aydan Özoğuz is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD),who has been serving as a Vice-president of the German Bundestag since October 2021. She has been a member of the Bundestag since 2009 and served as deputy chairperson of the party from 2011 until 2017. She also served as Commissioner for Immigration,Refugees and Integration at the rank of Minister of State in the third government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2013 until 2018.
Barbara Anne Hendricks is a German politician and member of the SPD party.
Brenda S. Banks was an American archivist known for her work in preserving the history of Georgia as Board Chair for the Georgia Archives Institute. Her work with the Georgia Archives and her innovations in education and training programs made her a leading figure in American intellectual life.
Nancy B. Moody was the President of Tusculum College in Greeneville,Tennessee from until October 2009 through September 2017. Previously,from 2002 to 2009,Moody served as the president at Lincoln Memorial University.
