Ambassador William Milam, Senior Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, D.C.  Former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan (1998-2001) and Ambassador to Bangladesh (1990-93)
Hassan Abbas, Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Fareed Zakaria is editor of Newsweek International, host of CNN`s Fareed Zakaria: GPS, and author of The Post-American World and the best-selling The Future of Freedom,

Walter Russell Mead is Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations

Hussain Abdul Hussain is the former managing editor of Beirut`s Daily Star and an expert on the Levant region of the Middle East..

Martin Jacques, visiting Research Fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre and author of: When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom and the End of the Western World. Chair: James Harding, editor, The Times