Regarded as a leading expert on terrorism, Jessica Stern is a lecturer at Harvard University. She has served as director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council and was the Superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She is author of Terror In The Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill.

A frequent and popular speaker on Israel, Jonathan Adelman is a professor in the Graduate School of International Studies in the University of Denver. Professor Adelman served as the doctoral dissertation advisor to the National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and is a Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington. Professor Adelman has written or edited 10 books on international affairs, is currently finishing Global Threats with an extensive focus on the Middle East.

Kevin Mitnick is a largely self-taught expert in exposing the vulnerabilities of complex operating systems and telecommunications devices, using both technical and non-technical means. With more than twenty years of experience in exploring computer security, Kevin gained unauthorized access to computer systems at some of the largest corporations on the planet. Known as the world's most famous hacker, Kevin has been the subject of countless news and magazine articles published throughout the world.

Internationally recognized as a leading expert on Hizballah, Hamas, al-Qaeda and other militant Islamic movements, Magnus Ranstorp is the Chief Scientist at the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defense College. Magnus is author of Hizballah in Lebanon and In the Service of Al-Qaeda.

During his career as a FBI Official and subsequently as an International Security Consultant, Revell has authored numerous articles on Terrorism, Counter-Intelligence and Organized Crime. As the founder of a global business and security consulting firm, Oliver Revell draws on his 30 years of working his way up in the FBI to consult his clients. He has spoken and lectured at the national and international level on these and other criminal justice and National Security subjects on a frequent basis.

Sol Gittleman is the Alice and Nathan Gantcher University Professor at Tufts University -- one of three current "university professors" at the school. He has been a celebrated lecturer on the Tufts campus since he started teaching there in 1966. From 1981 until 2002 he was the school's provost, and today he continues to teach on German Civilization and the rise of Nazism, immigration, and American baseball history.

Brzezinski served as the National Security Adviser to the President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and in 1981 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He is known for his role in the normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States.