
Ambassador
Zahir Tanin, the Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations
Francesc Vendrell, Visiting Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School and former EU Special Representative to Afghanistan

Local newspapers across the country are in crisis. Closures, lay-offs, and decreased circulation have resulted in less news coverage and diminished transparency. What does that mean to the public and how does that affect the democratic process? Keynote by
Paul Starr, Prof. of Communications and Public Affairs at Princeton University`s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Adel Mahmoud M.D., Senior Policy Analyst and Lecturer with the rank of Professor at the Woodrow Wilson School and the University`s Department of Molecular Biology, and former president of Merck Vaccines;
Laura Kahn, M.D, Research Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson School’s Program on Science and Global Security; and
Lynn Enquist, the Henry L. Hillman Professor and Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and Professor in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton.
Frances Beinecke, President of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)