Author, journalist and foreign policy analyst Robin Wright has reported from 140 countries for "The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Sunday Times of London" and "CBS News". She has also written for "The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Foreign Affairs" and others. Currently a joint fellow at USIP and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Wright has been a fellow at Yale, Duke, Stanford, Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Ms. Wright is the 2012 recipient of the Overseas Press Club's Cornelius Ryan Award for the best non-fiction book on international affairs: "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World".

Robert Zemeckis is the Academy Award-winning director of Back to the Future, Contact, and What Lies Beneath.