Kenneth Anderson is a professor of law at the American University Washington College of Law. His areas of specialization include business and finance, international business, international human rights and humanitarian law, and non-profit organizations. He is on the board of advisors for the Human Rights Watch Arms Division and the Landmines Project of the Open Society Institute; he is also special council to the Open Society Institute-Soros Foundations. He was previously the Guatemala representative for the International Human Rights Law Group and a lecturer at Harvard Law School. His many publications include After Seattle: Public International Organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and Democratic Sovereignty in an Era of Globalization: An Essay on Contested Legitimacy (2000) and Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (legal editor, Norton & Co., 1999).

Roger Bate is a director of health advocacy group Africa Fighting Malaria and a fellow at the International Policy Network. He is a frequent author on global international policy issues, especially on the topics of malaria, water and trade. He has advised the South African government on water policy, and has written, co-authored, or edited ten books on climate change, water policy, food policy, risk and environmental policy. He is currently working on two books, one on global water markets and one on the DDT debate, as well as a monograph on the Cayman Turtle Farm.

Jon Entine is an adjunct fellow at the AEI and scholar-in-residence teaching communications and journalism at Miami University (Ohio). His research focuses on business ethics, media bias, and science and politics. Mr. Entine writes a regular column, "The Ethical Edge," for the British-based international magazine Ethical Corporation. He writes frequently on business and marketing. Previously, Mr. Entine spent twenty years as a network television news producer, winning more than 20 awards including two Emmys for specials on the reform movements in China and the former Soviet Union. He has also served as a lecturer and adjunct professor at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, Arizona State University, and New York University. He is currently working on a book on "Jewish Genes" (Penguin/Putnam), which examines the nexus of social and genetic identity.

John Fonte is director of the Center for American Common Culture and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute. He is also on the board of the American Council for Trustees and Alumni (ACTA). He has previously been a visiting scholar at AEI, where he directed the Committee to Review National Standards under the chairmanship of Lynne V. Cheney. He has served as a senior researcher at the U.S. Department of Education and a program administrator at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). He was a member of the steering committee for the Congressionally-mandated National Assessment for Education Progress (NAEP) which issued the "nation’s report card" on civics and government. He served as principal advisor for CIVITAS: A Framework for Civic Education funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. He is co-editor of Education for America’s Role in World Affairs (University Press).

Brian H. Hook was, until recently, an associate at Hogan & Hartson; he will now be joining the Department of Justice. He was previously a deputy legislative liaison in the office of Governor Terry E. Branstad (Iowa) and the vice president of Magellan Productions, where he directed and co-wrote the four-part documentary Culture Shock. He is the author of several pieces on government affairs and history.

Gary Johns is a senior fellow at the Institute of Public Affairs (Australia), where he heads IPA's Non-Government Organisation Project. He previously served in the Federal Parliament from 1987 until 1996. He held Parliamentary Secretary posts in Health and Treasury, and was assistant minister for Industrial Relations and special minister of state until the 1996 election. In 2002, he won the Fulbright Professional Award in Australian-United States Alliance Studies, and in March 2003 was appointed associate commissioner of the Commonwealth Productivity Commission (for an Inquiry into Workers' Compensation and Occupational Health and Safety). Mr. Johns was recently awarded a Centenary of Federation Medal for "service to Australian society through the advancement of economic, social and political issues."

Jarol B. Manheim is a professor of media and public affairs and a professor of political science at George Washington University (GWU). He was the founding director of GWU’s School of Media and Public Affairs. He is also vice chair of the political communication section of the American Political Science Association. Mr. Manheim's research focuses on strategic political communication. He was selected by CASE and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as the District of Columbia Professor of the Year in 1995. He previously taught at the City College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His books include The Death of a Thousand Cuts: Corporate Campaigns and the Attack on the Corporation (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2001) and Corporate Conduct Unbecoming: Codes of Conduct and Anti-Corporate Strategy (Tred Avon Institute Press, 2000).

Mike Nahan is executive director of the Institute of Public Affairs (Australia), where he is an experienced commentator on resource economics, economic development, state finances, and inter-governmental relations. He writes a bi-monthly column for Melbourne's Herald-Sun and has a weekly spot on Melbourne ABC Radio 3LO. Prior to joining IPA, Mr. Nahan was director of policy for the Western Australian Ministry of Economic Development. He also owned and ran a small trucking company in the United States and worked and traveled in Asia for several years. Mr. Nahan holds degrees in economics and zoology.

Marguerite A. Peeters is director of the Brussels-based Institute for Intercultural Dialogue Dynamics, which studies the key-concepts, values, and operational mechanisms of globalization and promotes an open intercultural dialogue on these issues. Since 1995, she has directed Interactive Information Services (IIS), which monitors and analyzes the emergence of the post-Cold War paradigm of international cooperation and global governance. She is also a freelance journalist for a number of European and international publications. An analytical synthesis of Ms. Peeters's studies, entitled "Hijacking Democracy - The Power Shift to the Un-elected," is posted on AEI's website.

Danielle Pletka is the vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at AEI. Her research areas include the Middle East, South Asia (India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan), terrorism, and weapons proliferation. Before coming to AEI, she was a senior professional staff member for the Near East and South Asia on the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1992 to 2002. Ms. Pletka also served as a staff writer for Insight Magazine, as well as an editorial assistant for the Los Angeles Times and Reuters in Jerusalem.

Jeremy Rabkin is a professor in the Department of Government at Cornell University, where he teaches American constitutional law, international law, and the history of political thought. He is also a member of AEI's Council of Academic Advisers. He published a monograph with the Competitive Enterprise Institute on UN supervision of public parks in American territory and presented congressional testimony of behalf of the American Land Sovereignty Act. He also co-edited the AEI volume The Fettered Presidency: Legal Constraints on the Executive Branch (1989).

David Riggs is the executive director of Green Watch (www.green-watch.org) at the Capital Research Center (CRC). He is also director of the CRC’s Education Watch project (www.educationwatch.org). An expert on environmental issues, organizations, and public policy, Mr. Riggs is also an adjunct faculty at George Mason University. He formerly worked as director of land and natural resource policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Fred L. Smith, Jr. is the founder and president of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a public interest group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government active in a wide range of economic and environmental public policy issues. Mr. Smith is a frequent commentator on regulatory initiatives. He is a columnist for Regulation and a contributing editor to Liberty. Before founding CEI, Mr. Smith served as director of government relations for the Council for a Competitive Economy, senior economist for the Association of American Railroads, and senior policy analyst at the Environmental Protection Agency. His books include Environmental Politics: Public Costs, Private Rewards (with Michael Greve), and he has contributed chapters to several books, including The True State of the Planet, Market Liberalism: A Paradigm for the 21st Century and Assessing the Reagan Years.