• Nicole Dueffert is a veteran communications strategist.
• Lindsey M. Marcus is an attorney based in Chicago, Illinois.
• Judy Rainey is a former staffer to Senators John Rockefeller, Bob Kerrey, Tom Carper, Frank Lautenberg, Doug Jones, and Jon Ossoff.
• Tejas Shah is an attorney based in Chicago, Illinois.

National Security

• Steve Abbot is a retired admiral, former commander of the Sixth Fleet, and deputy commander of the European Command.
• J. Brian Atwood is a former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development and the undersecretary of state; longtime president of the National Democratic Institute; dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota; and senior fellow at Brown University.
• John Emerson is a former U.S. ambassador to Germany.
• David Kanin is a retired CIA senior analyst and member of the Senior Intelligence Service.
• Kevin Nealer is a former State Department officer, staff for the Senate majority leader, and member of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board.
• Joe Reeder is a former deputy secretary of the Army and chair of the Panama Canal Commission.
• Peter Romero is a career diplomat, former assistant secretary of state, and former ambassador to Ecuador.
• John Roos is a former ambassador to Japan.
• David Weiss is the former CEO of Global Communities, a leading international relief organization; former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative; and former Foreign Service officer.

Government, Civil Liberties, and the Rule of Law

• Kenneth D. Ackerman is a former Senate committee counsel, administration official, private attorney, and author of historical biographies.
• Nick Allard is dean at Jacksonville University College of Law, former dean at Brooklyn Law School, a former senior staffer for Senators Ted Kennedy and Pat Moynihan, and a former senior to Vice President Al Gore's presidential campaign.
• Alan Bennett is a retired partner at Ropes and Gray, former Senate committee counsel, pharmaceutical lawyer, and longtime gun control advocate.
• Peter Connolly is a former Senate staffer and retired communications lawyer.
• Margaret Crenshaw is a former Senate staff director and longtime senior executive at the U.S. Postal Service.
• Kenneth Feinberg was Special Master of the U.S. government's September 11th Victim Compensation Fund and other major mass torts and chief of staff to Senator Ted Kennedy.
• Bruce Freed is president of the Center for Political Accountability, former House and Senate staffer, and reporter at The Wall Street Journal.
• Jeff Kehne is a former lawyer at the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel.
• Mamie Kresses is a former senior attorney at the Federal Trade Commission.
• Jeffrey Lang is a former deputy U.S. trade representative with the rank of ambassador and a former chief international trade counsel to the Senate Finance Committee.
• Mike Pettit is a former administrative assistant and chief of staff in Senator Bob Dole’s office.
• Mark L. Shaffer is a former senior attorney in the Department of Justice and the House of Representatives as well as a former GWU adjunct professor for trial advocacy.
• David O. Stewart is a retired lawyer and a historian and author of both nonfiction and fiction, with particular focus on the period of the American Revolution.
• Tom Susman is a former Senate Judiciary Committee general counsel and longtime Washington lawyer and lobbyist.
• Bruce Wolpe is an author and former staffer for Representative Henry Waxman and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Economy

• Josh Gotbaum is a former partner at Lazard, former assistant secretary of treasury and defense, and comptroller in the Office of Management and Budget. He has served on White House economic staffs and in other federal positions and is now a corporate director and consultant.
• Kent Hughes is a longtime House and Senate staffer, president of the private-sector Council on Competitiveness, former associate deputy secretary of commerce, and scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center.
• Michael Mitchell is a former Senate Oversight Committee staffer and vice president of Lockheed Martin.
• Rob Romasco is a former senior vice president of the American Century Investments, former executive vice president of Cigna, former CEO of JCPenney Insurance, and former president and chief national volunteer spokesperson for AARP.
• Paula Stern is a former chair of the U.S. International Trade Commission, chair of the Advisory Committee of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, cochair of the International Competition Policy Advisory Committee for the attorney general, and senior legislative assistant to Senator Gaylord Nelson.

Health, Science, and Education

• Larry Atkins is a former counsel to the Senate Aging Committee and a leading expert on public and private health insurance, long-term care, and other health issues.
• Eugene Bardach was professor emeritus in public policy at the University of California, Berkeley.
• Richard J. Boxer is a clinical professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine and was twice a presidential appointee to the National Cancer Advisory Board.
• William Kirwan is a former president of the University of Maryland College Park and Ohio State University, and former chancellor of the University System of Maryland.
• Alan Leshner is a former director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Mental Health, and former CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Andy Schneider is a former health counsel to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Research Professor of the Practice at the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University.
• Susan Shaffer is a cofounder, chair, and former president of the Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium, and cofounder and chair of the National Association of Family, School, and Community Engagement.
• Nancy Shapiro is a former associate vice chancellor of the University System of Maryland and senior adviser to the Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement Coalition.
• Patrick H. Windham is a lecturer at Stanford University and former senior professional staff member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation.

Climate

• Ken Berlin is a former head of the environmental practice at Skadden Arps, former president of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project, and cofounder of the Coalition for Green Capital. He is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council.
• Jennifer Haverkamp is a former U.S. special representative on climate and environmental issues and former assistant U.S. trade representative for environment and natural resources. She is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School.
• Peter Knight is a retired founding partner of the Generation Investment Management and campaign manager of the 1996 Bill Clinton/Al Gore campaign.
• Jeff Seabright is a former executive director of the White House Task Force on Climate Change, former executive at Coca-Cola and Unilever, and partner at Starshot Capital.

The views expressed in this book are solely those of the contributors and do not reflect the views of any organization, institution, or employer with which any individual contributor may be affiliated. Views of contributing signatories to specific topics are theirs alone, and not those of any other person or organization

Acknowledgments

We also offer grateful thanks to Amy Stackhouse for her eagle-eyed copyediting; Amy Swan, for art and graphic design, including the cover design for this book; and Adam Shapiro, for marketing and communications.

Dedication

Eugene Bardach, one of our contributors, died on April 24 after a short illness. Gene was emeritus professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. A brilliant scholar and a wonderful teacher, Gene brought his characteristic wisdom, passion, principles, and humor to our work. He will be deeply missed.

 

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