John Vinocur is a journalist who writes about politics and sports for the Paris-based newspaper, "The International Herald Tribune". In 1984, Vinocur was awarded the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting

Floyd Norris is the chief financial correspondent of "The New York Times" and "The International Herald Tribune". He writes a regular column on the stock market for the Times, plus a blog. Floyd Norris is one of the best financial writers. He calls the shots without regard to whose toes he's stepping on, whether it be the CEO of a big NYT advertiser, the Chairman of the SEC or the Secretary of the Treasury.

Ian Bremmer is a political scientist specializing on US foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. He is president of Eurasia Group, a global political risk consultancy. Bremmer’s books include the bestselling "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall" (Simon & Schuster, 2006), named a Book of the Year by The Economist Magazine, and "Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States" (Cambridge University Press, …

Katherine Elizabeth Zoepf (born December 7, 1977 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American freelance journalist who currently reports for "The New York Observer" from Syria. A 2000 graduate of Princeton University, Zoepf has reported for "The New York Times" from New Jersey, Vietnam and Syria. She has also written for "The International Herald Tribune", "The New York Times Magazine" and "The Chronicle of Higher Education"

Vikram Chatwal (born 1 November 1971) is an American hotelier of Indian Sikh heritage. April 1999, at the age of 28, he created "Vikram Chatwal Hotels" which is an independent hotel group of 9 luxury hotels in 5 cities, with the flagship Dream Hotel. Chatwal has attended the United Nations International School in New York City, has a Bachelors Degree from Wharton Business School and has worked with Morgan Stanley.

Nicholas Nicastro is an American scholar and historical novelist. Born in Astoria, New York in 1963, he received a BA in English from Cornell University (1985), an MFA in filmmaking from New York University (1991), an M.A. in archaeology and a Ph.D. in psychology from Cornell (1996 and 2003). He has also worked as a film critic, a hospital orderly, a newspaper reporter, a library archivist, a college lecturer in anthropology and psychology, an animal behaviorist, …

Shaheen Sehbai is an America-based veteran Pakistani journalist. He has worked as a reporter for the "Dawn" newspaper in Washington D.C. and then later as an editor for "The News International" in Islamabad. On February 16, 2002, Sehbai let a story run that exposed government Pakistani ties with terrorist bombings in India (a story that also ran in The Washington Post and The International Herald Tribune by the work of the reporter, not Sehbai).

Marguerite Feitlowitz is the author of "A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture", a 1998 New York Times Notable Book and a finalist for the PEN New England-L.L. Winship Prize. A vocal critic of the Bush administration's human rights record, Feitlowitz has published a number of articles on the subject in " Salon" and "The International Herald Tribune" She currently teaches at Bennington College in Vermont.

Nick Selby leads The 451 Group's enterprise security practice, which provides objective analysis of enterprise security businesses and trends. The security practice delivers this analysis through the 451 Market Insight Service and 451 TechDealmaker reports, as well as strategic counsel. Additionally, The 451 Group's security program provides Tactical Reports - quarterly reports delving into the trends and the most pressing issues in the field of enterprise IT security - as well as . . .

An expert on U.S. foreign policy, states in transition and global political risk, Bremmer's five books include "The J Curve: A New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall," selected by The Economist as one of the best books of 2006. In 2001, Bremmer authored Wall Street's first global political risk index, now the GPRI (Global Political Risk Index) - a joint venture with investment bank Citigroup.