Marilyn Carlson Nelson is chairman and former CEO of Carlson, one of the largest privately held companies in the world, where she has been an extremely effective business leader.

Under her leadership, the firm's systemwide sales nearly doubled, to $40 billion. She transformed Carlson into a "new model" company and initiated an employee effort that netted more than $200 million in bottom-line process and program improvements.

Michele Dunne is director of the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East.

Elected by acclamation in 2005, Fred Redmond took office as the USW's International Vice President (Human Affairs) on March 1, 2006.

Redmond joined the Steelworkers union when he went to work at Reynolds Metals Co. in McCook, Ill. in 1973. He became an active member of Local 3911 almost immediately, serving as shop steward, grievance committee member and chairman and vice-president. He served three terms as president of the local.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University. From 2009–2011 she served as Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State, the first woman to hold that position. Upon leaving the State Department she received the Secretary's Distinguished Service Award for her work leading the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, as well as a Meritorious Honor Award from the U.S.

Vin Weber is Managing Partner of Clark & Weinstock. He provides strategic advice to institutions with matters before the legislative and executive branches of the Federal government. Vin has successfully advised numerous clients on matters pertaining to mergers & acquisitions, crisis management, and strategic communications.

Francis Fukuyama is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), resident in FSI's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.  He comes to Stanford from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, where he was the Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy and director of SAIS' International Development program.

Azar Nafisi is best known as the author of the international bestseller Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books, an incisive exploration of the transformative powers of fiction in a world of tyranny.  Nafisi is a Visiting Professor and the executive director of Cultural Conversations at the Foreign Policy Institute of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC, where she is a professor of aesthetics, culture, and literature, and teaches courses on the relation between culture and politics.  Nafi

James Boland became President of the Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC) in February 2010 and was elected to a five-year term in September 2010. Mr. Boland had previously served as an Executive Vice President and later as Secretary-Treasurer of the International Union. Mr. Boland serves as Co-Chair of the International Masonry Institute, the training and development arm of the organized masonry industry; the International Trowel Trades Pension Fund; the International Health Fund; and the BAC Canadian Congress. Mr.

Senator Norm Coleman serves as the Chief Executive Officer of both the American Action Network and its sister organization, the American Action Forum. 

The Forum, a 501(c)(3), is a forward-looking policy institute dedicated to keeping America strong, free and prosperous. The Network is a 501(c)(4) action center, whose mission is to broaden the appeal and reach of center-right ideas by advancing persuasive policies and other outreach.