Douglas J. Besharov is the Joseph J. and Violet Jacobs Scholar at AEI and a professor at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Professor Besharov was the first director of the U.S. National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect. His most recent book is Recognizing Child Abuse: A Guide for the Concerned, which is designed to help professionals and laypersons identify and report suspected child abuse. He has written or edited fourteen other books and has contributed to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times.

Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at AEI. For many years he served as a member of Harvard University's Center for Population and Development Studies, and he is currently a member of the Visiting Committee for the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics and the Advisory Committee for Voluntary Foreign Aid for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). In 2006, he was appointed to the President’s Council on Bioethics. He has served as a consultant for the U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. State Department, USAID, World Bank, and other institutions on such topics as demography, international development, and East Asian security. Mr. Eberstadt has published over 300 studies and articles in scholarly and popular journals, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Review of Books, Commentary, the New Republic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. His books include Poverty in China, Foreign Aid and American Purpose, Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems, and, most recently, Health and the Income Inequality Hypothesis.

Rev. W. Wilson Goode Sr. is the senior advisor on faith-based initiatives for Public/Private Ventures, where he also directs the Amachi Program, a national faith-based mentoring model for children of incarcerated parents. In 1983, Mr. Goode became the first African American mayor of Philadelphia. Prior to that, he served as chairman of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission and managing director of the city of Philadelphia. Mr. Goode has helped create more livable communities by building housing and organizing intervention programs in education, employment, and economic development. He has served on more than forty corporate, civic, religious, and neighborhood boards of directors. He currently serves on a number of boards and is chair of four: the Free Library of Philadelphia; Cornerstone Christian Academy; Self, Inc.; and Philadelphia Leadership Foundation. Mr. Goode has been recognized by more than 2,000 organizations with awards, certificates, and honors. He is a fellow in the National Academy of Public Administration and the Society for the Study of Black Religion. Fourteen colleges and universities have recognized him with honorary doctorates.

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