A specialist in American foreign policy, European security, and national security affairs, Ivo H. Daalder is a special adviser on national security at the Center for American Progress and is also senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He has authored over 10 books with his most recent being the American Homeland (2002).

Sol Gittleman is the Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor at Tufts University -- one of three current "university professors" at the school. He has been a celebrated lecturer on the Tufts campus since he started teaching there in 1966. From 1981 until 2002 he was the school's provost, and today he continues to teach on German Civilization and the rise of Nazism, immigration, and American baseball history.

The Afterburner Seminars, founded by ace fighter pilot Jim Murphy, provide a one-of-a-kind, interactive, high-energy experience that is custom-tailored to inspire leadership, integrated teamwork and the quick, flexible thinking essential to fighter pilots and business managers alike.

Author of NYT best-seller, Battle Ready, a book on his military career and foreign affairs, Anthony Zinni is a retired four-star General in the United States Marine Corps and a former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command. Additionally he is an instructor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

Professor Bruce Hoffman has been studying terrorism and insurgency for thirty years and is widely acknowledged as the world's foremost authority on these subjects. He is the author of the acclaimed book, Inside Terrorism (Columbia ...

Internationally recognized as a leading expert on Hizballah, Hamas, al-Qaeda and other militant Islamic movements, Magnus Ranstorp is the Chief Scientist at the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defense College. Magnus is author of Hizballah in Lebanon and In the Service of Al-Qaeda.

Attorney and the Founder of the Foreseeable Risk Analysis Center, Charles Slepian provides cutting edge analysis on issues of vulnerability to violence ranging from the acts of ordinary street criminals and the critical issues for corporate America, to the fear and mayhem from global terrorism. Charles has worked in many areas of security and terrorism including Aviation, Homeland, Corporate, Education, and Family security.

Former President of Columbia and Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Cesar Gaviria was instrumental in advancing the concept of integral solidarity and reforming its technical cooperation programs. Gaviria is known in Latin America as a conflict mediator, an advocate of democracy and a staunch supporter of regional integration and defender of human rights.

A frequent and popular speaker on Israel, Jonathan Adelman is a professor in the Graduate School of International Studies in the University of Denver. Professor Adelman served as the doctoral dissertation advisor to the National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and is a Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington. Professor Adelman has written or edited 10 books on international affairs, is currently finishing Global Threats with an extensive focus on the Middle East.

Regarded as a leading expert on terrorism, Jessica Stern is a lecturer at Harvard University. She has served as director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council and was the Superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is author of Terror In The Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill.