Walter Mondale was elected vice president of the United States in 1976 in Jimmy Carter's administration. On the president's behalf, Mondale traveled extensively throughout the nation and the world advocating U.S. policy, and was the first vice president to have an office in the White House.

Author of Organizing Strategy: Sun Tzu Business Warcraft, Dr. Foo Check Tech is considered by many to be Asia's leading expert on Sun Tzu. By going beyond translating The Art of War: through extensive and in-depth research, a reputation he has already established globally, he makes the text a living document and seamlessly transferable to the modern world.

A former Middle East consultant to ABC News, Marvin Zonis has appeared on Nightline, Larry King Live and he is a frequent commentator on NPR. He has written for every newspaper of international prominence and authored several books. His insight into the state of international political affairs merges with his expertise in economics to form a particularly insightful and intelligent report on issues facing the world today.

Senior Editor of Asia and the Foreign Correspondent for Forbes Magazine, Robyn Meredith is a NYT bestselling author of The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What it Means for All of Us. She is a weekly globalization and geopolitics columnist for Forbes.com's "Off Shore" column.

As the Permanent Representative of Chile to the United Nations, Heraldo Muñoz is an expert on foreign affairs and the UN. He is an acclaimed author of several books, including A Solitary War, which chronicles the Iraq war and UN Security Council debates.

Author, academic, and environmentalist, Bjorn Lomborg is an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Centre and a former director of the Environmental Assessment Institute in Copenhagen. He became internationally-known for his best-selling and controversial book The Skeptical Environmentalist.

The charismatic Jeff DeGraff is a highly sought after speaker and advisor for companies that include 3M, Apple, American Airlines, Coca-Cola, GE, Johnson & Johnson, LG, Pfizer, and Toyota. He is the Clinical Professor of Management and Organizations at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, where he co-created the Competing Values school of thought that is taught in leading universities, colleges and business schools throughout the world; the Executive Director of the Innovatrium Institute for Innovation, an idea lab; and the Managing Partner of the Competing Values Company, a top innovation consulting firm.

Jorge Castaneda is the former Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs (2000-2003). He has authored more than a dozen books including Companero: The Life and Death of Che Guevara. He is a regular contributor to newspapers such as Reforma, El Pais, Los Angeles Times and Newsweek magazine.

Wolfgang Grulke has a storied background in all sorts of fascinating areas: nuclear physics, marine biology, and technology to name a few. He has addressed audiences in more than 20 countries, in person, on radio, and on television. His topics range from business transformation to technological revolutions to the sex life of fish!

Environmental advocate and artist, Marjora Carter is the Executive Director and Founder of Sustainable South Bronx, based in her hometown of South Bronx, New York. She started SSBx after determining that the environment and the local economy could be positively manipulated to alleviate poverty and public health problems simultaneously, and that project-based initiatives were needed to demonstrate their visibility.