George Beebe is director of grand strategy at the Quincy Institute. He spent more than two decades in government as an intelligence analyst, diplomat, and policy advisor, including as director of the CIA’s Russia analysis, director of the CIA’s Open Source Center, and as a staff advisor on Russia matters to Vice President Cheney. His book, The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe, warned how the United States and Russia could stumble into a dangerous military confrontation. Prior to joining QI, Beebe was Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for the National Interest and served as president of a technology company that measured the impact of events, issues, and advertising campaigns on audience views.

Dr. Daniel Bessner is an historian and journalist. He is currently the Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He previously held the Joff Hanauer Honors Professorship in Western Civilization and is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, an Associate of the Alameda Institute, and a Contributing Editor at Jacobin. In 2019-2020, he served as a foreign policy advisor to Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. He earned both his M.A and Ph.D in History from Duke University.

Michael Brenes is Co-Director of the Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy and a Lecturer in History at Yale University. He is the author of For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy (2020) and the co-editor of Rethinking U.S. Power: Domestic Histories of U.S. Foreign Relations (2024) with Daniel Bessner. His forthcoming book, co-authored with Van Jackson, is titled The Rivalry Peril: How Great-Power Competition Threatens Peace and Weakens Democracy, and will be published by Yale University Press in January 2025. In addition to his academic articles and book chapters, Brenes has contributed to The New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Politico, and The Nation, among other prominent publications.

Dr. Adom Getachew is a Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. A political theorist, her research encompasses the history of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial political theory, with a focus on Africa and the Caribbean. She is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination (2019) and co-editor of W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought (2022) with Jennifer Pitts. Currently, Dr. Getachew is working on a second book exploring the intellectual origins and political practices of Garveyism, the black nationalist and pan-African movement that peaked in the 1920s. Her public writing has been featured in Dissent, Foreign Affairs, London Review of Books, The Nation, New York Review of Books, and The New York Times.

Dr. Thomas E. Graham is a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His book, Getting Russia Right, was published in September, 2023. He is a cofounder of Yale University’s Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies program and sits on its faculty steering committee. He is also a research scholar at Yale’s MacMillan Center. He has been a lecturer in global affairs and political science since 2011, teaching courses on U.S.-Russian relations and Russian foreign policy, as well as cybersecurity and counterterrorism. Dr. Graham was special assistant to the president and senior director for Russia on the National Security Council staff from 2004 to 2007, during which he managed a White House-Kremlin strategic dialogue. He was director for Russian affairs on the staff from 2002 to 2004.

Dr. Eric Haseltine is an author, futurist, and neuroscientist with extensive experience in both private industry and the public sector. He served as the associate director and CTO for national intelligence at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, director of research at the National Security Agency, executive vice president at Walt Disney Imagineering, and director of engineering at Hughes Aircraft Company. Recently, he has focused on developing innovative digital media, entertainment, and advertising, along with advanced cyber and industrial security solutions. Dr. Haseltine holds 40 patents in optics, special effects, and electronic media and has published over 100 articles in various journals, including Discover. His book, Long Fuse, Big Bang, explores prioritizing important pursuits over urgent distractions. He co-authored The Listening Cure with Dr. Chris Gilbert.

Stephen B. Heintz is the president and CEO of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), a philanthropic foundation dedicated to advancing social change for a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Heintz co-founded Dēmos, which focuses on reducing political and economic inequality in the United States, before joining the RBF in 2001. He co-chaired the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship, co-authoring 2020 report Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century. He served as executive vice president and COO of the EastWest Institute in the 1990s. Heintz is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and chairs the board of the Quincy Institute. His most recent publication is A Logic for the Future: International Relations in the Age of Turbulence.

William H. Hill is a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute. A retired Foreign Service officer, Dr. Hill is an expert on Russia and the former Soviet Union, east-west relations, and European multilateral diplomacy. He served two terms (January 2003-July 2006 and June 1999-November 2001) as Head of the OSCE Mission to Moldova, where he was charged with negotiation of a political settlement to the Transniestrian conflict and facilitation of the withdrawal of Russian forces, arms, and ammunition from Moldova. He is the author of Russia, the Near Abroad and the West: Lessons from the Moldova-Transdniestria Conflict, and No Place for Russia: European Security Institutions Since 1989.

Dr. Christopher Layne is University Distinguished Professor of International Affairs and the Robert M. Gates Chair in National Security at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to the Present and co-author of American Empire: A Debate. His current project, After the Fall: International Politics, U.S. Grand Strategy, and the End of the Pax Americana, is under contract with Yale University Press. Dr. Layne has published extensively on international relations theory and American grand strategy in prominent journals such as Foreign Affairs, International Security and Security Studies. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was a Visiting Fellow at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in 2014.

Dr. Arta Moeini is an international political theorist and scholar of modernity and geopolitics whose research spans questions of civilizational states, cultural decline and renewal, ideology in statecraft, realist approaches to foreign policy, and global cultural pluralism. He was previously a visiting senior fellow with the U.S. Global Engagement Initiative at the Carnegie Council, is the founding editor of AGON and an elected member of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters. His writings have appeared in AGON, Compact, UnHerd, The American Conservative, The National Interest, and elsewhere. He holds a BA in political science and Near Eastern studies from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master’s in international relations from Johns Hopkins SAIS, and a Ph.D. (with distinction) and MA in government from Georgetown University.

Dr. Samuel Moyn is the Kent Professor of Law and History at Yale University, where he also heads Grace Hopper College. With a background in modern European intellectual history, he focuses on political and legal thought, as well as constitutional and international law from both historical and contemporary perspectives. His latest book, Liberalism against Itself: Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times (Yale University Press, 2023), stems from his Carlyle Lectures at the University of Oxford. Dr. Moyn has also authored influential works on international law and human rights, including The Last Utopia (2010), Christian Human Rights (2015), Not Enough (2018), and Humane (2021), which examines the evolution of U.S. foreign policy and warfare.

Dr. Richard Ned Lebow is Professor Emeritus of International Political Theory in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London and James O. Freedman Presidential Professor Emeritus at Dartmouth College. He is also an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge. Dr. Lebow has taught at the National and Naval War Colleges and served as a scholar-in-residence at the CIA during the Carter administration. He has held visiting appointments at various prestigious institutions, including the University of Lund, Sciences Po, and the London School of Economics. He has authored and edited 50 books and over 300 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Dr. Lebow is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Dr. Christopher Preble is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Stimson Center’s Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program, which challenges existing assumptions about US foreign policy. His research focuses on the history of US foreign policy, contemporary grand strategy, alliance relations, and the intersection of trade and national security. Preble is the author of four books, including Peace, War, and Liberty: Understanding U.S. Foreign Policy, and The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free. His writing has appeared in major publications such as the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and Washington Post. Preble co-hosts the “Net Assessment” podcast on the War on the Rocks network and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

David Adler is political economist and General Coordinator of the Progressive International. Previously, David served on the foreign policy advisory team for US Senator Bernie Sanders and directed policy for Yanis Varoufakis and the Democracy in Europe Movement (DiEM25). He was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, a Policy Leader Fellow at the European University Institute, and a Fulbright Scholar at the Colegio de México in Mexico City.

Dr. Christopher Sabatini is senior fellow for Latin America at Chatham House, and was formerly a lecturer in discipline in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University. Dr. Sabatini is also on the advisory boards of Harvard University’s LASPAU, the Advisory Committee for Human Rights Watch’s Americas Division and of the Inter-American Foundation. He is also an HFX Fellow at the Halifax International Security Forum. He is a frequent contributor to policy journals and newspapers and appears in the media and on panels on issues related to Latin America and foreign policy. Dr. Sabatini has testified multiple times before the US Senate and the US House of Representatives.

Dr. Annelle Sheline is a Research Fellow for the Middle East at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. She previously served as a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor’s Office of Near Eastern Affairs (DRL/NEA), before resigning in March 2024 in protest over the Biden administration’s unconditional support for Israeli military operations in Gaza. She is completing a book manuscript on religious authority in the Middle East. Dr. Sheline is a non-resident fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy as well as a non-resident senior fellow at the Arab Center of Washington DC. She is also currently adjunct faculty at Georgetown University.

Sarang Shidore is director of the Global South Program at the Quincy Institute, adjunct faculty member at George Washington University, and senior non-resident fellow at the Council on Strategic Risks. He writes and researches on the geopolitics of the Global South, Asia, and climate change. Shidore has published over 120 articles in outlets including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Nation, and in peer-reviewed journals. Previously, he was director of studies at the Quincy Institute, a senior research scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, and a senior global analyst at Stratfor Inc., following more than a decade’s experience in engineering and product management in the private sector.

Dr. Aslı U. Bâli is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School, focusing on public international law, human rights, and comparative constitutional law, especially in the Middle East. Before her academic career, she worked for the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and was an associate at Cleary Gottlieb, specializing in international transactions and sovereign representation. Dr. Bâli serves as co-chair of the Advisory Board for the Middle East Division of Human Rights Watch, and as President of the Middle East Studies Association. Additionally, she is on the board of the American Journal of International Law.

Katrina vanden Heuvel is the editor and publisher of The Nation magazine. She has edited several books, including The Change I Believe In (2011) and Meltdown (2009). Vanden Heuvel frequently comments on U.S. and international politics for outlets such as ABC, MSNBC, CNN, and PBS. Her articles have appeared in major publications, including the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times. She serves on the boards of various organizations, including the Institute for Policy Studies and the Roosevelt Institute, and is a judge for the Sidney Hillman Foundation’s Hillman Prize. Additionally, she co-founded the editorial board of The Nation and plays a vital role in shaping progressive political discourse.

Dr. Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a columnist for Foreign Policy magazine. He serves on the board of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005. Dr. Walt received the International Studies Association’s Distinguished Senior Scholar award in 2014. His notable works include The Origins of Alliances (1987), which won the Edgar S. Furniss National Security Book Award; Taming American Power (2005), a finalist for the Lionel Gelber International Affairs Book Award; and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (2007), a New York Times best-seller. His latest book is The Hell of Good Intentions (2018).