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Anthony Clark Arend is professor of government and foreign service and chair of the Department of Government at Georgetown University, where he previously served as senior associate dean for graduate and faculty affairs in the Walsh School of Foreign Service. His research and teaching is in the fields of international law, national security law, international legal theory, and human rights.

Nicole Bibbins Sedaca is a professor of the practice of international relations and serves as the concentration chair for global politics and security in the Master of Science in Foreign Service Program in the Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign Service. She served for 10 years in the United States Department of State, working on democracy promotion, human rights, human trafficking, religious freedom, refugees, women's issues, and counterterrorism.

Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari is a Tibetan diplomat who served as special envoy of the Dalai Lama for several decades, both in Washington, D.C. and in negotiations with the Chinese government, until his resignation in 2012. Gyari had previously been elected as the speaker of the Tibetan parliament in exile. He also served in several capacities with the International Campaign for Tibet, including president and executive chairman of the board, from 1990 to 2014. He is chairman of the board of the Conservancy for Tibetan Art and Culture. Gyari helped found the Allied Committee, Institute for Asian Democracy, International Network of Engaged Buddhists, and Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization; he served as a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings and a research scholar in Asian studies at Georgetown University. He is recognized as a reincarnated Buddhist lama in the Nyingma lineage.

Mark P. Lagon is chief policy officer at Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. He is also adjunct professor, Centennial Fellow, and Distinguished Senior Scholar in Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service. Lagon previously was president of Freedom House and served as U.S. ambassador-at-large, directing the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons.

Donald McHenry was Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University from 1981 until his retirement in 2014. He was the US permanent representative to the United Nations from 1979 to 1981 and deputy US representative from 1977 to 1979. He has held a variety of positions in the US Department of State, as well as fellowships with the Brookings Institution and the Council on Foreign Relations. McHenry has also held a number of board and trustee positions at both NGOs and businesses like the Coca-Cola Company. Upon his retirement, Georgetown University established the Donald F. McHenry Chair in Global Human Development. McHenry received his M.A. from Southern Illinois University.