John served in senior foreign policy positions for both Democratic and Republican administrations, including as former Vice President Dick Cheney’s National Security Advisor from 2005-2009 and as Vice President Cheney’s Deputy National Security Advisor for the Middle East from 2001-2005. Previously, he also served as a senior advisor to Secretary of State Warren Christopher during the Bill Clinton administration, and as a senior member of Secretary of State James A. Baker’s Policy Planning Staff during the presidency of George H.W. Bush. Outside of government, John was Senior Counselor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and a lawyer practicing in the area of international dispute resolution. Hannah received his B.A. from Duke University, his J.D. from the Yale Law School, and did graduate work in international relations at Stanford University.

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He is a lifelong learner and entrepreneur. He has built businesses that have become public companies (twice), have been sold to large corporations and some that have been less successful. He has founded companies in media, telecommunications and business services, but now, he is thinking most about business opportunities within fintech, healthcare and health services, sustainability, B2B application software, consumer and commerce enablement, and supply chain tech.

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Before joining Hudson, Mr. Libby held several high level positions in the federal government related to his current work on national security and homeland security affairs. This included roughly a dozen years working in the White House, the US Department of Defense, and the US Department of State.

From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Libby served as chief of staff to Vice President Richard B. Cheney, assistant to the vice president for national security affairs, and assistant to the president. In these roles he attended nearly all National Security Council and Homeland Security Council meetings and participated in numerous high level meetings, at home and abroad, with foreign government and US officials. Mr. Libby’s responsibilities covered a broad range of topics, including those related to US national security strategy, the response to the 9/11 attacks, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the broader War on Terror, the Israeli-Palestinian dispute and Middle East matters, East Asian security, US relations with Russia, Central and Western Europe, Homeland Security organization, domestic preparedness and response to attacks involving weapons of mass destruction, and US economic and energy-related issues.

From 1998 to 1999, Mr. Libby served as the legal advisor to the US House of Representatives’ Select Committee on US National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the Peoples’ Republic of China, commonly known as the “Cox Committee.” The committee issued a unanimous, bipartisan multi-volume report in 1999.

From 1989 to 1993, during the George H. W. Bush administration, Mr. Libby served in the United States Department of Defense as principal deputy under secretary (strategy and resources), and later was confirmed by the US Senate as deputy under secretary of defense for policy. His responsibilities included contingency planning, defense strategy, policy aspects of the defense budget, policy planning, and defense relations with the newly emerging countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. In this period, he led a number of official delegations to foreign capitals.

Mr. Libby first entered government service with the Department of State in 1981 as a member of the Policy Planning Staff in the Office of the secretary. From 1982 to 1985 he served in the Department of State as director of special projects in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. During these years he had extensive experience with US national security issues relating to Asia.

Prior to joining the George W. Bush administration, Mr. Libby served as the managing partner of the Washington office of the international law firm Dechert. He was a member of the firm’s litigation department and chaired the Washington office’s Public Policy Practice Group. He also served as the managing partner of the Washington office of the law firm, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander & Ferdon. His legal practice in those years involved work on a major study of the legal framework for domestic security response, and a number of corporate governance and international and homeland security-related transactions or matters, as well as representation of major international corporations from various industries, including television and cable media, finance, energy, trading, computer, transportation, and defense. During these years Mr. Libby provided pro bono legal services to writers, artists, actors, scholars, public servants, and the arts.

In 1993, Mr. Libby was awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Service Award and the Department of the Navy Distinguished Public Service Award. He received the Department of State’s Foreign Affairs Award for Public Service in 1985.

A magna cum laude graduate of Yale University, Mr. Libby received the Robert D. French Award for leadership and scholarship. He also graduated Columbia University Law School, where he was the Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.

Mr. Libby’s notable publications and lectures on strategy, national security and homeland defense over the past dozen years range from “Twilight of the Arabs: The Contest for Leadership in the Muslim World” (with Hillel Fradkin), Weekly Standard, 2010, to recent works on COVID-19, China, Russia, and the war in Ukraine.

He was the executive editor of Conduct of the Persian Gulf War in 1992. His novel, The Apprentice, is set in Japan in 1903, and was published by Graywolf Press, 1996, and St. Martin’s Press, 2001, 2005.

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She began her career as a leadership analyst at CIA, and then became a manager of analysts and analytic programs. She led the Iraq Group during the attempted Islamic State takeover of Iraq and Syria and led a multidisciplinary group of analysts working crises worldwide, drawing from many perspectives to provide rich analysis to policymakers. During a tour at the National Security Council, she served as executive assistant to the deputy national security adviser for global democracy strategy and then as director for Iran, where she led interagency efforts to create innovative policies drawing on all elements of national power. After leaving the White House, she served on a team running the first Office of the Director of National Intelligence-led presidential transition, where she was responsible for liaising with both campaigns and briefing the incoming administration on a wide range of intelligence topics. Harding holds a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.

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Dr. Danin was a Senior Fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations from 2010 to 2020. Danin was also a Senior Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center from 2015 to 2020 where he taught a seminar series on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Dr. Danin previously headed the East Jerusalem mission of the Quartet (US, EU, UN, and Russia) Envoy, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair from 2008-2010. He continued to serve as a principal negotiator and advisor to PM Blair on Israeli-Palestinian issues from 2010 until 2017.

In the U.S. government, Danin served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs with responsibilities for Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and Israeli-Palestinian issues from 2005-2008. Prior to that, he served for two years at the White House/National Security Council, first as Director for Israeli-Palestinian and Levant affairs, and then as acting Senior Director for Near East and North African affairs. Dr. Danin’s other roles at the State Department included a tour as the Middle East and Gulf specialist on Secretary of State Powell’s Policy Planning Staff, and a decade as a senior Middle East political and military analyst focusing on Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, and the Palestinians.

Danin holds a doctorate in the international relations of the Middle East from St. Antony’s College, Oxford University; an MSFS degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and a BA in history from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Gary is a Founding Partner of 25Madison, a NYC venture studio and investor in early-stage start-ups. Most recently, he was the Senior Vice President and Chief Global Communications Officer at SoftBank.

Gary spent the previous two decades as a senior executive at two of the world’s largest entertainment companies. From 2010-2018, he was Executive Vice President at Time Warner, where he led the company’s marketing, communications and philanthropic departments. Before that, he was EVP for Corporate Affairs and Marketing at News Corporation and a member of the company’s Office of the Chairman. While at Time Warner, Ginsberg was also an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, where he taught a class on entrepreneurship in incumbent media.

Gary began his professional career as an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett before serving in the Clinton administration as a Special Counsel in the White House Counsel’s Office and the U.S. Department of Justice. After leaving government service he became Senior Editor and Counsel to the political magazine George.

Gary is a director of Townsquare Media (NYSE: TSQ) and Schrodinger (NASDAQ: SDGR), an advisor to AnD Ventures, and Chairman of New Visions for Public Schools. He is also the author of First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (and Unelected) People who Shaped Our Presidents. Ginsberg is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University Law School and lives in New York City.

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Abrams is senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington, DC. He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor in the administration of President George W. Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the White House, and as Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela in the administration of Donald Trump.

Abrams was educated at Harvard College, the London School of Economics, and Harvard Law School. After serving on the staffs of Senators Henry M. Jackson and Daniel P. Moynihan, he was an assistant secretary of state in the Reagan administration and received the secretary of state’s Distinguished Service Award from Secretary George P. Shultz. In 2012, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy gave him its Scholar-Statesman Award.

Abrams was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC, from 1996 until joining the White House staff. He was a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom from 1999 to 2001 and chairman of the commission in the latter year, and served a second term as a member of the Commission in 2012-2014. From 2009 to 2016, Abrams was a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, which directs the activities of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is a member of the board of the National Endowment for Democracy, and teaches U.S. foreign policy at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Abrams joined the Bush administration in June 2001 as special assistant to the president and senior director of the National Security Council for democracy, human rights, and international organizations. From December 2002 to February 2005, he served as special assistant to the president and senior director of the National Security Council for Near East and North African affairs. He served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor for global democracy strategy from February 2005 to January 2009, and in that capacity supervised both the Near East and North African affairs and the democracy, human rights, and international organizations directorates of the National Security Council.

Abrams rejoined the State Department in January 2019 as Special Representative for Venezuela, and in August 2020 took on the additional position of Special Representative for Iran. He left the Department in January 2021.

Abrams is the author of five books: Undue Process, Security and Sacrifice, Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America, Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and most recently Realism and Democracy: American Foreign Policy After the Arab Spring. He is the editor of three more, Close Calls: Intervention, Terrorism, Missile Defense and “Just War” Today; Honor Among Nations: Intangible Interests and Foreign Policy; and The Influence of Faith: Religious Groups and U.S. Foreign Policy.

He is fluent in French and Spanish.

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Amb. Edelman served in senior positions at the Departments of State and Defense as well as the White House where he led organizations providing analysis, strategy, policy development, security services, trade advocacy, public outreach, citizen services and congressional relations.

From August 2005 to January 2009, he served as the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy. He oversaw strategy development as the Department of Defense’s senior policy official with global responsibility for bilateral defense relations, war plans, special operations forces, homeland defense, missile defense, nuclear weapons and arms control policies, counter-proliferation, counter-narcotics, counter-terrorism, arms sales, and defense trade controls.

He served as U.S. ambassador to the Republics of Finland and Turkey in the Clinton and Bush Administrations and was principal deputy assistant to the vice president for national security affairs.

Amb. Edelman has been awarded the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, the Presidential Distinguished Service Award, and several Department of State Superior Honor Awards. In January 2011, he was awarded the Legion d’Honneur by the French Government.

He received a bachelor’s degree in history and government from Cornell University and has a doctorate in U.S. diplomatic history from Yale University.

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