Melanne Verveer is the executive director of the Georgetown Institute for Women,Peace and Security at Georgetown University. She is a founding partner of Seneca Point Global,a worldwide women's strategy firm,and a co-founder of Seneca Women. Melanne Verveer co-authored the book Fast Forward:How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose with Kim Azzarelli.
Larry Jay Diamond is an American political sociologist and leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. Diamond is a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies,Stanford University's main center for research on international issues. At the Institute Diamond served as the director of the Center on Democracy,Development,and the Rule of Law from 2009-2016. He was succeeded in that role by Francis Fukuyama and then Kathryn Stoner.
Susan Elizabeth Rice is an American diplomat,policy advisor,and public official. As a member of the Democratic Party,Rice served as the 22nd Director of the United States Domestic Policy Council from 2021 to 2023,as the 27th U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 2009 to 2013,and as the 23rd U.S. National Security Advisor from 2013 to 2017.
Samantha Jane Power is an American journalist,diplomat,and government official who is currently serving as the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. She previously served as the 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017. Power is a member of the Democratic Party.
Kavita Nandini Ramdas is an American feminist and activist.
The Bureau of Democracy,Human Rights and Labor Affairs (DRL) is a bureau within the United States Department of State. The bureau is under the purview of the Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security,Democracy,and Human Rights.
Prince Zeid bin Ra'ad bin Zeid al-Hussein is a Jordanian former diplomat who is the Perry World House Professor of the Practice of Law and Human Rights at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also the president and CEO of the International Peace Institute. He also served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2014 to 2018. He played a central role in the establishment of the International Criminal Court,and was elected the first president of the Assembly of State Parties of the International Criminal Court in September 2002. He also served as a political affairs officer in UNPROFOR in the former Yugoslavia from 1994 to 1996.
John Joseph Donahoe II is an American businessman who is the CEO of Nike. Early in his career he worked for Bain &Company,becoming the firm's president and CEO in 1999. He is on the board of directors at Nike,The Bridgespan Group and is chairman of PayPal. Donahoe was named president and CEO of ServiceNow,a cloud company,in February 2017. He was on the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College from 2003 to 2012. On January 13,2020,Donahoe became president and CEO of Nike.
María Cristina "Marita" Perceval is an Argentine politician and member of the Justicialist Party. She was the permanent representative of Argentina to the United Nations from September 2012 to February 2016,and was a national senator for Mendoza Province from 2001 to 2009.
Amy Zegart is an American political scientist currently serving as the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution,a senior fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies (FSI),and professor of political science at Stanford University. She is also a contributing writer to The Atlantic. From 2013 to 2018,she served as co-director of FSI's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) and founder and co-director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Program.
Maria Renske "Marietje" Schaake is a Dutch politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from the Netherlands between 2009 and 2019. She is a member of Democrats 66,part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party.
Maria Otero was the first holder of the office of the Under Secretary for Civilian Security,Democracy,and Human Rights from January 15,2012,through February 4,2013. She also served as the President's Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues.
Ertharin Cousin is an American lawyer who served as the twelfth executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme from 2012 to 2017. Following the completion of her term,Cousin became Payne Distinguished Professor at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies,distinguished fellow at the Center on Food Security and the Environment and the Center on Democracy,Development and the Rule of Law,accepted an appointment as a distinguished fellow with the Chicago Council on Global Affairs,and became a trustee on the UK based Power of Nutrition Board of Directors.
Sarah E. Mendelson is an American diplomat and served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Mendelson was confirmed by the Senate on October 8,2015,and sworn into her post on October 15,2015. Mendelson was recently named Distinguished Service Professor and head of Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College's program in Washington,D.C.
Kelly Dawn Craft is an American businesswoman,politician,and former diplomat who served as the 30th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2019 to 2021 under President Donald Trump. She was confirmed as the US ambassador to the United Nations by the US Senate by a vote of 56–34,and was officially sworn in September 2019.
The Transatlantic Commission on Election Integrity is a bi-partisan initiative by leading figures in politics,tech,media and business from Europe and the US with the aim of addressing the question of foreign interference in elections.
Oleksandra Viacheslavivna Matviichuk is a Ukrainian human rights lawyer and civil society leader based in Kyiv. She heads the non-profit organization Centre for Civil Liberties and is a campaigner for democratic reforms in her country and the OSCE region. Since October 2022,she has been Vice-President of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH).
Clément Nyaletsossi Voule is a Togolese diplomat and jurist. Voule has served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association since 2018. Prior to this,Voule served as African Advocacy Director International Service for Human Rights (ISHR).
Beth Van Schaack is an American attorney and academic who serves as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice.
