Sasha Brown is head of ethics foresight at Google DeepMind. She has stewarded the ethical analysis of groundbreaking machine learning projects and led research on topics such as AI and persuasion; AI and biosecurity; AI morality and values; governance and accountability; and the misuse and unintended consequences of AI development. Her team's work — which draws on aspects of moral philosophy, political science, and computer science — aims to anticipate how technical advances will impact society, and to create and implement ways to reduce risk. Sasha was a Yale World Fellow in 2021.

Chris Christie was inaugurated as the 55th governor of the state of New Jersey in 2010 and re-elected for a second term in 2013. He was a Republican candidate for president in both 2016 and 2024.

Prior to his service as governor, Christie was nominated by President George W. Bush and he served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from January 2002 to December 2008. Christie was elected chairman of the Republican Governors Association in 2014, leading the organization to the election of 31 Republican governors. As governor, he was the lead plaintiff in challenging the federal prohibition on sports gambling. His six-year fight concluded with a win before the U.S. Supreme Court in May 2018. In 2017, President Donald Trump appointed Christie as chairman of the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis.

Iván Duque Márquez served as president of Colombia from 2018-2022, overseeing the country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and and focusing on issues of human migration, higher education, environmental protection, infrastructure, and drug-related crime.

Duque’s public career began as an advisor at the Colombian Ministry of Finance in 2000, where he served in Washington, D.C., as Colombia's senior advisor to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) between 2001 and 2010. He took a brief absence to join the panel investigating the Israeli incursion of the ship Mavi Marmara, and then returned to the IDB as head of the Culture, Creativity, and Solidarity Division from 2011 to 2013. He served as senator from 2014-2018, where he promoted five laws on the extension of maternity leave, promotion of electric mobility, availability of defibrillators in public places, creation and promotion of the figure of BIC companies (Benefit of Collective Interest), and promotion of creative industries (Orange Law).

Chris George was the executive director of Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services (IRIS), Connecticut's largest refugee resettlement agency, from 2005-2023. He played a central role in expanding the size and impact of IRIS and was a leader in promoting community-based private sponsorship models in Connecticut and throughout the country.

Prior to leading IRIS, George spent most of his professional life living and working in the Middle East, including 12 years in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He served as chief of party for a USAID democracy program with the Palestinian Legislative Council; executive director of Human Rights Watch - Middle East; director of the Save the Children programs in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; and manager of humanitarian assistance programs in south Lebanon with the American Friends Service Committee. His international career started in 1977 as a Peace Corps volunteer in Muscat, Oman.

Ambassador Dereck J. Hogan is a career member of the U.S. Senior Foreign Service and currently serves as the executive secretary of the U.S. Department of State. In this assistant secretary-ranked position, he leads the Executive Secretariat bureau that provides policy and operational support to the Secretary of State, coordinates the internal work of the department, manages the department’s formal communications with the White House and other national security agencies, and plays a leadership role in the department’s preparation for and response to crises.

Ambassador Hogan recently served as acting assistant secretary and principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. Prior to that, he was the U.S. ambassador in the Republic of Moldova and the chargé d’affaires and deputy chief of mission in U.S. Embassy Baku, Azerbaijan. Ambassador Hogan’s other senior positions in the U.S. State Department include deputy executive secretary of the department, director of the Central European Affairs and Nordic and Baltic Affairs offices, and senior advisor to the President’s Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Elizabeth Knup completed her decade-long tenure as regional director for China at the Ford Foundation in December 2023. In that role, she oversaw Ford’s operations in China and its programmatic strategies focused on U.S.-China relations, understanding the impact of China’s political and economic power in the world, and strengthening China’s domestic philanthropic sector.

Knup is the former American director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies and also served on the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. She is currently a senior advisor to China Focus at The Carter Center, a senior advisor to the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, and a member of the board of directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

Theresa May served as the prime minister of the United Kingdom from 2016 to 2019 — the second woman ever to hold the office. Her premiership marked the culmination of 21 years of continuous service in Parliament, having held a total of 14 ministerial or shadow ministerial posts, serving as the first female chairman of the Conservative Party and the longest-serving Conservative home secretary in more than a century.

Emily Oehlsen leads Open Philanthropy’s Global Health and Wellbeing work, which accounted for more than $500 million in grants in 2023. The work focuses on four broad areas: global development through Open Philanthropy's partner organization GiveWell; scientific research to create new tools for improving global health; policy advocacy in areas like lead exposure, air quality, aid policy, metascience and innovation, and housing reform; and phasing out the worst factory farm practices. She previously worked at DeepMind, Uber, and TGG Group.

Jim Sciutto is CNN’s chief national security analyst and anchor of CNN Newsroom with Jim Sciutto. He reports and provides analysis on all aspects of U.S. national security including foreign policy, the military, intelligence community and the State Department.

Sciutto has reported from more than 50 countries across the globe including dozens of assignments from inside Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran, as well as multiple assignments in Ukraine and the Middle East. Prior to joining CNN, Sciutto served as ABC News’ senior foreign correspondent, based in London, and the Hong Kong-based correspondent for Asia Business News. Sciutto began his career as the moderator and producer of a weekly public affairs talk show on PBS. He has also served as chief of staff and senior advisor to the U.S. ambassador to China, Gary Locke.