Three-time Emmy award winning journalist and anchor of CNN's Anderson Cooper 360°, Anderson Cooper has covered nearly all of major news events around the world including the 2008 Presidential elections, the economic crisis, Hurricane Katrina, and the bombings in London.

Prior to joining NBC News as the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, Andrea Mitchell was NBC News' Chief White House Correspondent. Andrea covered the 2004 presidential campaign and has had numerous exclusive interviews including one with President Fidel Castro. Her first book is titled Talking Back, a memoir about her experiences as one of the first women to cover five presidents, Congress and foreign policy.

Andrew Carroll is the founder and director of the Legacy Project, a national, all-volunteer initiative that seeks out historically significant letters written in times of war. He is the editor of several New York Times bestselling collections of letters, including Letters of a Nation and War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars, as well as the critically-acclaimed Behind the Lines: Powerful and Revealing American and Foreign War Letters, And One Man's Search to Find Them, which was nominated for a Grammy.

Author of NYT best-seller, Battle Ready, a book on his military career and foreign affairs, Anthony Zinni is a retired four-star General in the United States Marine Corps and a former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command. Additionally he is an instructor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

Bob Schieffer has been with CBS News since 1969, serving 23 years as anchor on the Saturday edition of CBS Evening News. He is one of few journalists to have covered all four of the major Washington national assignments. Most recently he has acted as the moderator of the 2008 presidential debate between Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain.

Former President of Columbia and Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Cesar Gaviria was instrumental in advancing the concept of integral solidarity and reforming its technical cooperation programs. Gaviria is known in Latin America as a conflict mediator, an advocate of democracy and a staunch supporter of regional integration and defender of human rights.