Amb. Daniel Ayalon, Israeli Ambassador to the United States from 2002-2006. (2008)
Bay Buchanan, conservative commentator and former Treasurer of the United States under President Reagan. (2010)
R. Nicholas Burns, leading Middle East policy expert, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and to Greece. (2011)
Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush and co-author of the federal Patriot Act. (2010)
Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master of the U.S. government’s September 11 Victims’ Compensation Fund. (2004)
Barney Frank, 16-term Congressman from Massachusetts, and former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. (2011)
David Gergen, former advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton and editor-at-large for U.S. News & World Report. (2008)
Amb. Martin Indyk, United States Ambassador to Israel and vice president for foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. (2010)
Kiki McLean, Democratic political commentator and advisor to Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore and Barack Obama. (2010)
Bruce Reidel, former CIA analyst and counter-terrorism expert, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. (2010)
The Arts
Larry Kasdan, producer and screenwriter whose credits include Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back and The Big Chill. (2009)
Dr. Richard Kogan, psychiatrist and concert pianist. (2006)
Daniel Libeskind, architect, artist and designer of such noted buildings as the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Denver Art Museum. (2006 & 2011)
Joe Morgenstern, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for The Wall Street Journal. (2010)
Yuval Waldman, conductor and violin soloist with orchestras around the world. (2009)
Science
Stuart Altman, chairman of the Health Industry Forum and member of President Clinton’s Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. (2002)
Dr. David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Robert Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech. (2002)
Dr. Jerome Groopman, the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and staff science writer at The New Yorker since 1998. (2002)
Dr. Craig J. Venter, founder of Celera Genomics, best known as one of the first to sequence the human genome. (2003)
The Media
Lawrence K. Altman M.D., science correspondent for the New York Times. (2010)
\Randy Cohen, Emmy Award-winning writer and author of the Ethicist column for the New York Times Magazine since 1999. (2007)
Linda Greenhouse, Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times and senior fellow at Yale Law School. (2005)
David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist best known for his work on the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. (2002)
Sebastian Junger, author, journalist and filmmaker, whose book War and film Restreppo chronicle the war in Afghanistan. (2011)
Anthony Lewis, columnist for the The New York Times for more than four decades and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1963. (2002)
Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of the Great Migration. (2011)
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