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Daniel Ellsberg is an author, lecturer, and whistleblower best known for the leak of what became known as the Pentagon Papers in 1969. Additionally, he serves as a senior fellow of the Nuclear Peace Foundation. Previously, Ellsberg served for three years in the U.S. Marine Corps before becoming a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation and a U.S. Defense Department and White House consultant on nuclear issues in 1959. He joined the Defense Department in 1964 as special assistant to the assistant secretary of defense before returning to the RAND Corporation in 1967, where he worked on the McNamara study of U.S. decision-making in Vietnam—what would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers. Since then, Ellsberg has written three books, including Papers and the War (1971) and Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (2002). Ellsberg obtained a B.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University.

Sanford J. "Sandy" Ungar currently serves as a distinguished scholar in residence at Georgetown University. Ungar also serves as a member of the Public Interest Declassification Board, to which he was reappointed in 2014. A journalist and author, Ungar previously served as the tenth president of Goucher College from 2001 to 2014. Before this, he was the director of the Voice of America, the U.S. government’s principal international broadcasting agency under the Clinton administration. Additionally, Ungar served as dean of American University's School of Communications from 1986 to 1999. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Ungar is an international journalist with experience at media outlets including Foreign Policy, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic, and he was previously the host of NPR’s flagship show, All Things Considered. Ungar obtained his B.A. in government from Harvard University and a M.A. in international history from the London School of Economics and Political Science.