Lord Archibald Hamilton served as the Conservative M.P. for Epsom and Ewell from 1978 to 2001.

He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher from 1987 to 1988 and went on to serve as a defence minister in both the Thatcher and Major governments.

Lord Hamilton was elected chairman of...

James Clad is a senior adviser at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) in Arlington, and also advises IHS Jane’s and Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA). During 2002-10, he was US deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asia, senior counselor & director for Middle Eastern affairs at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation,...

A native of the State of Idaho in the Pacific Northwest, Mark Hambley spent 32 years in the Foreign Service of the United States of America. His specialties during his varied diplomatic career included service as the U.S. Special Negotiator on Climate Change and as the principal U.S. envoy...

Ambassador Li Qingyu is President of the Iman Foundation for China. He is a Member of the Council of the Association of Former Diplomats of China. He is a former Chinese Ambassador to Algeria, Syria and Tunisia.

Mark C. Donfried is the Executive Director & Founder of the Institute of Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin.

After completing his undergraduate studies in European History and French at Columbia University, Mark Donfried then pursued graduate research at the Freie Universität Berlin and at the Institut des Études Politiques where he wrote...