Sami Mahroum is a professor at the Free University of Brussels and senior fellow at the Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut. He is the author of Black Swan Start-ups: Understanding the Rise of Successful Technology Business in Unlikely Places.

Michael Spence is a Nobel laureate in economics, a professor of economics at New York University’s Stern School of Business and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Orlando Patterson, a historical and cultural sociologist, is John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.

Françoise Girard is the president of the International Women’s Health Coalition.

Martha Rojas Urrego is secretary general of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.

Joseph S. Nye, Jr., a professor at Harvard, is the author of Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump.

Kevin Rudd, a former prime minister of Australia, is president of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York.

Andrea Komlosy is Professor at the Department of Economic and Social History at the University of Vienna and the author of Work: The Last 1,000 Years.