Chip is the founder and President of Andreae & Associates, Inc., a Washington, DC-based consulting firm specializing since 1991 in risk management and government relations strategies for international firms operating in emerging markets and across the globe.

He worked for 15 years on Capitol Hill, including 4 years with the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and 5 years as Chief of Staff for Senator Richard Lugar. As Chief of Staff, Mr. Andreae led numerous Senate staff delegations to the Near East, Latin America and Africa.

Working with the International Republican Institute, Mr. Andreae helped train newly-created political parties for two years in Bulgaria, two years in Romania, and two years in South Africa. He also has served on over a dozen election observer missions around the world on behalf of the U.S. Government.

Prior to establishing Andreae & Associates, Mr. Andreae worked for two years as Vice President and Partner of the RCF Group, a Washington-based consulting firm. He was a founding partner of Andreae, Vick & Associates for 7 years beginning in 1996. In addition to his consulting practice, Mr. Andreae has served as a Visiting Lecturer at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Mr. Andreae holds an M.A. in Government from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Political Science and History from Denison University.

Jamie serves as the Executive Vice President of the Asia Society. In 2004 he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri’s Fifth Congressional District in Kansas City. Jamie has served as Senior Fellow and Coordinator for Homeland Security Programs at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directed the CFR Task Force on Emergency Responders, as Deputy Staff Director and Senior Counselor of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as Senior Coordinator for International Public Information and Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of State, and as Director for Multilateral and Humanitarian Affairs on the National Security Council.

At the White House, he spearheaded the President’s initiative on International Public Information, drafted Presidential Decision Directive PDD-68 on the same subject, and coordinated United States Government international information campaigns for Iraq, Kosovo, and other crises. He was a Human Rights Officer for the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC) from 1991 to 1993, where he helped establish a nation-wide human rights investigation and monitoring unit for Cambodia.

A member of the Council on Foreign Relations and former White House Fellow, he holds a Ph.D. in Southeast Asian history from Oxford University, a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School, and is a magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University. Jamie Metzl has appeared widely on national media, including on Meet the Press and the Today show, he has written a book on human rights in Southeast Asia, and his other writing has appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and many other publications. He has completed three ironman triathlons and 20 marathons. His novel The Depths of the Sea was published by St. Martin’s Press in May 2004.

Richard C. Leone is President of the Century Foundation, (formerly the Twentieth Century Fund) a public policy research foundation.

His analytical and opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, and The Nation. Mr. Leone was formerly chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and State Treasurer of New Jersey. He also was President of the New York Mercantile Exchange and a managing director at Dillon Read and Co., an investment banking firm.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Academy of Social Insurance.

Morton H. Halperin is a Senior Advisor to the Open Society Institute and the Open Society Policy Center.

Dr. Halperin served in the federal government in the Clinton, Nixon and Johnson administrations. From December 1998 to January 2001 he was Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State. From February 1994 to March 1996, he was a Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Democracy at the National Security Council. In 1993, he was a consultant to the Secretary of Defense and the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and was nominated by the President for the position of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Democracy and Peacekeeping. In 1969, he was a Senior Staff member of the National Security Council staff with responsibility for National Security Planning. From July 1966 to January 1969, he worked in the Department of Defense where he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs), responsible for political-military planning and arms control.

Dr. Halperin has also been associated with a number of think tanks. He is co-Chair of the New America Foundation's Nuclear Strategy Working Group. He was a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress from June 2003 to December 2009 and was a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations from January 2001 to June 2003 and from March 1996 to December 1998. From July 1997 through December 1998, he was Senior Vice President of The Century Foundation/Twentieth Century Fund. From November 1992 to February 1994, Dr. Halperin was a Senior Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In 1974, he directed a project on government secrecy for the Twentieth Century Fund. From September 1969 to December 1973, he was a Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies of the Brookings Institution.

In addition to his involvement in foreign policy issues, Dr. Halperin worked for many years for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as Director of the Center for National Security Studies from 1975 to 1992, focusing on issues affecting both civil liberties and national security, such as the proper role of intelligence agencies and government secrecy. From 1984 to 1992, he was also the Director of the Washington Office of the ACLU, with responsibility for the ACLU’s national legislative program as well as the activities of the ACLU Foundation based in the Washington Office.

From 1960 to 1966, Dr. Halperin was associated with Harvard University where he was an Assistant Professor of Government and a Research Associate of the Center for International Affairs. Dr. Halperin has taught as a visiting professor at a number of universities, including Columbia, Harvard, MIT, George Washington, Johns Hopkins, and Yale. He has taught courses on bureaucratic politics and foreign policy, human rights policy, arms control, and Congress and foreign policy.

Dr. Halperin has authored, coauthored and edited more than a dozen books including Strategy and Arms Control (1961), Nuclear Fallacy (1987), Self-Determination in the New World Order (1992), Democracy Advantage (2004), Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy, Second Edition (2006) The Survival and the Success of Liberty: A Democracy Agenda for U.S. Foreign Policy (2009), and The Democracy Advantage, Revised Edition (2009). He has also contributed articles to a number of newspapers, magazines, and journals, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Harpers, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, on subjects including national security and civil liberties, bureaucratic politics, Japan, China, military strategy, and arms control.

Dr. Halperin was a MacArthur Foundation Fellow from 1985 to 1990 and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, the Wilbur Cross Medal awarded by the Yale Graduate Alumni Association, the John Jay Award given by Columbia College, and the Public Service Award of the Federation of American Scientists.

Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1938, Dr. Halperin received a BA from Columbia College in 1958 and a Ph.D. in International Relations from Yale University in 1961. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Jim Moorhead is a litigation partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP, where he co-chairs the Crisis Management practice group and heads the Class Action practice group.

He has provided strategic and communications advice, advocacy and crisis management to Fortune 500 and other major clients facing challenging legal, business, regulatory and political settings. Mr. Moorhead has experience representing newsworthy clients and commenting on issues of great public interest on national networks and local news stations.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Moorhead was a federal prosecutor in Baltimore and an investment banker in New York City. He recently served as chief financial officer and general counsel of an emerging growth company. He ran for statewide office in Maryland and successfully lobbied the William Donald Schaefer gubernatorial administration for creation of a commission on government efficiency and economy on which he served as an advisory member.

He holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and an A.B. in Government from Harvard College.

Since January 2008, Dr. Semmel has been a private consultant at AKS Consulting.

Dr. Semmel joined the Department of State in Spring 2003 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Nuclear Nonproliferation in the Department’s Bureau of Nonproliferation and continued in that role in the newly formed Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. His primary responsibilities included the development and execution of policies and initiatives to stem the spread of nuclear weapons, associated technologies and know-how, including export controls. He represented the Department in inter-agency meetings, bilateral and multilateral international fora, conferences and negotiations on nuclear nonproliferation issues.

From September 2001 to January 2003, he served as the Executive Director of the U.S.-China Security Review Commission, a bipartisan government Commission of twelve private citizens appointed by the Congressional leadership. He was responsible for the Commission's public hearings, research, briefings, foreign travel, and the preparation of an annual report of findings and recommendations to the Congress on the security implications of economic and financial relations between the U.S. and China.

He served on the personal staff of Senator Richard G. Lugar from 1987 to 2001, where he was the Senator’s senior Legislative Assistant for Foreign Policy. He assisted Senator Lugar on political/economic/security issues in all regions of the world. Beyond current foreign policy/national security matters, he paid special attention to international exchange programs, trade, democracy promotion, sanctions policy, human rights, international organizations, and others.

He has authored or co-authored publications on diverse foreign policy and national security issues. He has served as President of the Comparative Foreign Policy Section of the International Studies Association and the Governing Board of International Studies Association.

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and has been a Tenured Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Cincinnati. He has also been an Adjunct Visiting Professor in the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program (MSFS) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 1981, he took a position with the Department of Defense as a Foreign Affairs Specialist in the Defense Security Assistance Agency (DSAA). He served as Chief of the Analysis Division of DSAA until he moved to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in February 1985, where he had primary responsibility for the U.S. security assistance legislation, arms sales, and related foreign policy and national security issues.

He has traveled to nearly forty countries, has been an official observer to national elections in a dozen countries, and has spoken and lectured to various domestic and foreign audiences.

In 1995, he received the Ohio University College of Arts and Sciences Significant Achievement Award, and in 1996 he received the Moravian College Comenius Alumni Award for outstanding achievement. He was inducted into the Pennsylvania Athletic Hall of Fame and the Moravian College Athletic Hall of Fame. He enjoys jogging, fishing, hiking, gardening, most sports, film, reading and cooking. He is married and has an adult son.

Imran P. Siddiqi is Principal, Strategic Industries at SAP America, the world's leading business software company, where he advises CIOs and CFOs on leveraging technology to enable value creation. Prior, he was at Corporate Executive Board (CEB), a best practices research and analysis firm based in Arlington, VA that serves more than 4,700 of the world's largest corporations. At CEB, Mr. Siddiqi was Senior Director of Strategic Marketing, where he developed and launched new programs to provide cross-functional best practices to Fortune 500 corporate C-level executives; prior, he was Chief of Staff to the Chairman and CEO, where he supported executive leadership in driving business performance and Executive decisions, managed the operations of the Chairman / CEO’s office, supported strategic projects and functioned as Secretary of the Executive Committee. Prior to that role, Mr. Siddiqi was Senior Director of Research and Content Delivery at the CFO Executive Board, where he served as a strategic advisor to member Chief Financial Officers at Fortune 500 companies, conducting strategy discussions with CFOs and their teams to teach frontier practices in Finance and Executive management.

Prior to CEB, Mr. Siddiqi held roles in strategy consulting, including at Bain & Company and at Kaiser Associates, where he advised international companies on strategic growth opportunities. Mr. Siddiqi started his career in Finance & Planning at Engro Chemical Pakistan Ltd., where he served as Business Analyst and subsequently as Treasurer.

Mr. Siddiqi grew up in several countries including Pakistan, Yemen, Sudan, UAE, Cyprus and the UK. He earned his MBA in Finance and Total Quality Management from the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan, where his final year thesis focused on strategic planning and capacity building for CARE Foundation, an non-profit / non-governmental organization engaged in micro-credit lending and education for the rural poor in Pakistan.

Kristina Medic is an associate in the Washington office of O'Melveny & Myers LLP, where she is a member of the Adversarial Department. Her practice focuses on U.S. economic sanctions, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, political law, and antitrust law. Prior to joining the firm, she served as a law clerk in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Kristina also worked at the International Crisis Group as an advocacy officer before attending law school.

She holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law, an M.A. in International Affairs from American University, and a B.A. in Political Science and English from California Lutheran University.

Dr. Bannerman is an adjunct scholar at The Middle East Institute, where his work focuses on US-Arab relations, regional security, the peace process, and the history of the Middle East. Dr. Bannerman is also the founder of Bannerman Associates, an international consulting firm. He was a former analyst for the US State Department Policy Planning Staff and has also worked as a staffer on the Middle East and South Asia on the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He has previously taught at several universities, including Georgetown University, George Washington University, and the American University of Beirut. Dr. Bannerman has also served as an international observer of elections in Georgia, the Philippines, Haiti, Pakistan, West Bank/Gaza, Mongolia and Yemen

Mr. Brzezinski manages the international law practice in McGuireWoods' Washington office. His practice focuses on international transactions, regulatory and legal compliance and government disclosures pertaining to sanctions, Export Administration Regulations and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and the development of corporate internal compliance programs.

He is a former director of Southeast European affairs at the National Security Council at the White House. Prior to that appointment, he served as a director for Russian/Eurasian affairs on the National Security Council, where he was White House coordinator for U.S. democracy and rule of law assistance programs in the region. Before joining the White House staff, he was a corporate and securities associate at Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. in Washington, D.C. In the spring of 2005, he served as an adjunct professor at Columbia University's School for International Affairs.

Mr. Brzezinski is a graduate of Dartmouth College, University of Virginia Law School where he was on the editorial board of the Law Review, and received a doctorate in political science from Oxford University. He did a Fulbright Scholarship in Poland, and is the author of the book, The Struggle for Constitutionalism in Poland. He has published widely, including in The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Financial Times. As a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he sits on CFR's Washington Program Board. He sits on the International Policy Committee of the US Chamber of Commerce.

Tara D. Sonenshine is Executive Vice President at the US Institute of Peace. She joined the USIP leadership team in January 2009 as Vice President for Planning and Outreach. In that capacity, Sonenshine oversees strategic planning, public outreach and publications. She also manages the planning of the Public Education Center that will be part of the Institute’s new Headquarters project on the National Mall.

Prior to joining USIP, she was a strategic communications adviser to many international organizations including USIP, the International Crisis Group, Internews Networks, CARE International, the American Academy of Diplomacy and Women of Washington.

Sonenshine has served in various White House capacities, including transition director for the National Security Council (NSC). In that position, she was responsible for coordinating an interagency process to review foreign policy goals and priorities for the Clinton administration’s second term. Before that, she served as special assistant to President Clinton and deputy director of communications for the NSC (1994-1995).

In 1998, Sonenshine was at the Brookings Institution studying foreign policy and communications. Her career began in broadcast journalism in 1982 at ABC News in New York, where she served as assistant to David Burke, the vice president of news. Sonenshine went on to become editorial producer of ABC News’ Nightline, where she worked for more than a decade. She was also an off-air reporter at the Pentagon for ABC’s World News Tonight. During her tenure at ABC News, Sonenshine earned ten News Emmy Awards for coverage of China, Iran, the Philippines, and South Africa. She also won the Columbia-DuPont Award for coverage of the Los Angeles riots. A former contributing editor for Newsweek, Sonenshine is the author of numerous articles on foreign affairs published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and other newspapers.