the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Nancy McEldowney, National Security Advisor to Vice President elect Kamala Harris & former Director of the Foreign Service Institute Mark A. Milley, 39th Chief of Staff of the United States Army and 20th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Jim Nicholson, former U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Michael Oren, Israeli ambassador to the United States David Pekoske, Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration Michael Pettis, American economist, professor at Guanghua School of Management Robert D. Reischauer, Director of the U.S. Congressional Budget Office Curtis Roosevelt, international civil servant and professor James Rubin, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Chief Spokesman for the State Department (August 1997–April 2000) Vuslat Doğan Sabancı, billionaire Turkish businesswoman and chairwoman of Hürriyet Salim Ahmed Salim, Prime Minister of Tanzania, Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity, President of the United Nations General Assembly Elissa Slotkin, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Congresswoman for Michigan's 8th Congressional District William E. Schaufele Jr., former U.S. representative, UN Security Council; former Ambassador to Poland Andrew J. Shapiro Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs (2009–2013) Claire Shipman, ABC News correspondent Sichan Siv, former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Richard Mills Smith, CEO of Newsweek Frank Snepp, journalist and former CIA analyst Joan E. Spero, President of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Undersecretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Katie Stanton, head of international strategy, Twitter Puneet Talwar, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs and United States Ambassador to Morocco nominee Tian Huiyu, CEO of China Merchants Bank Jens Ulltveit-Moe, Founder and CEO of Umoe AS Alexander Vershbow, Deputy Secretary General of NATO and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Ross Wilson, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Brian Wynter, Governor of the Bank of Jamaica Donald Yamamoto, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and former ambassador to Ethiopia Peter Zalmayev, human rights activist and Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative Notable current faculty Rohit Aggarwala, commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, Emirati educator and columnist Séverine Autesserre, expert on peacebuilding and peacekeeping Scott Barrett, professor of natural resource economics John Battelle, media entrepreneur, co-founding editor of Wired Chris Blattman, development economist, blogger Jagdish Bhagwati, trade economist Richard K. Betts,