Our Leadership

Negah Angha Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council

Jeremy Ben-Ami President of J Street and former Deputy Domestic Policy Adviser for Bill Clinton

Dr. Frances Colón Senior Director for International Climate Policy at Center for American Progress

Nelson W. Cunningham Co-Founder of McLarty Associates and Former Special Advisor and General Counsel at the White House

Thomas Countryman Former acting Undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security and Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation

Ambassador Kathleen Doherty Former U.S. ambassador to Cyprus

Stephenie Foster Former Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State and founding partner of Smash Strategies

Bishop Garrison Vice President for Policy at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance

Elisa Massimino Executive Director of the Human Rights Institute at Georgetown University Law Center

Regina Montoya CEO and Chairperson of Regina T. Montoya, PLLC, former Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, and former U.S. Representative to the UN

Ambassador Tod Sedgwick Former U.S. Ambassador to the Slovak Republic

Ali Wyne Senior Research and Advocacy Advisor for U.S.-China at the International Crisis Group

David Worley Former Chair of the Democratic Party of Georgia

Paige Alexander CEO of The Carter Center and Former USAID Senior Leader

Ambassador Brooke Anderson President at Pivotal Ventures, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, and former Chief of Staff and Counselor, White House National Security Council

Nazanin Ash CEO of Welcome.US and former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs at the U.S. Department of State

Shawna Bader-Blau Executive Director of the Solidarity Center

Ambassador Dan Baer Senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

John B. Bellinger III Co-Chair of the FP4A Policy Committee, Partner at Arnold & Porter and former State Department Legal Adviser, Senior Associate Counsel to the President, and National Security Council Legal Adviser

Jason Bordoff Founding Director of the Center on Global Energy Policy, Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia SIPA, and Co-Founding Dean of the Columbia Climate School

Louis Caldera Former Secretary of the Army and co-founder The Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration

Dr. Rebecca Bill Chavez President and CEO of the Inter-America Dialogue and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. Department of Defense

Joseph Cirincione Former President of Ploughshares Fund and previously the Vice President for national security at the Center for American Progress

Ambassador Ivo H. Daalder CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and former U.S. Ambassador to NATO

Suzanne Dimaggio Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Cathy Feingold Director of the AFL-CIO International Department

Dr. Helene Gayle President of Spelman College and former President and CEO of The Chicago Community Trust

Rose Gottemoeller Former Deputy Secretary General of NATO and former Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security

Dr. Naima Green-Riley Assistant Professor at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and Nonresident Fellow with the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab

Nayyera Haq Chief Executive Officer at Avicenna Strategy and former Senior Director at the White House

Cindy Huang Director of the Office of Policy at USAID

Dr. Colin Kahl Senior Fellow at Stanford University and Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy at the U.S. Department of Defense

Ambassador Laura Kennedy Former U.S. Ambassador to Turkmenistan and former U.S. Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva

Ambassador Mark Lagon Chief Policy Officer at Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and former Ambassador-at-Large and Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons at the U.S. Department of State

Ambassador Carmen Lomellin Principal at Lomellin Global Partners, LLC and former U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States

Gina McCarthy First White House National Climate Advisor and former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator

Tjada D'Oyen Mckenna CEO, Mercy Corps, and former Deputy Coordinator of Development for Feed the Future and Assistant to the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Food Security

Senator Carol Moseley Braun Former U.S. Senator and Former U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa

Suzanne Nossel CEO of PEN America and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations

Christopher Preble Senior Fellow and Director at the Stimson Center, Reimagining US Grand Strategy

Dan Restrepo Founder and Managing Director of Restrepo Strategies and former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Western Hemisphere Affairs on the National Security Council

Ben Rhodes Advisor to Former President Barack Obama and Former Deputy National Security Advisor

Ambassador Jim Rosapepe Former Ambassador to Bulgaria

Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman The 21st U.S. Deputy Secretary of State

Ganesh Sitaraman New York Alumni Chancellor's Chair in Law at Vanderbilt Law School and the Director of the Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator for Political Economy and Regulation

Ambassador Nancy Soderberg President and CEO of Soderberg Global Solutions and former Chair of the Public Interest Declassification Board

David Wade Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former Chief of Staff to the U.S. Department of State

Ambassador Barry White Former CEO of Foley Hoag, LLP and former U.S. Ambassador to Norway

Robert B. Zoellick Senior Counselor at Brunswick Geopolitical Group and former World Bank president, U.S. Trade Representative, and Deputy Secretary of State

Andrew Albertson Executive Director

Kristina Biyad Outreach Director

Shannon Casey Operations Manager

Ernesto Fraga Scoville Peace Fellow

Esther S. Im Senior Peace and Security Advisor

Willa Lerner Political Manager

Gabriella Lewis Outreach Associate

Bill Monahan Senior Director for Policy

Evan Nye Outreach Manager

Benjamin Pearl Communications Associate

Daniel Salaru Political Fellow

Alex Stapleton Senior Climate Policy Advisor

Brian Volsky Senior Diplomacy Advisor

Alex Won Outreach Manager