Sedaca is the Executive Vice President of Freedom House, where she oversees the organization's strategy and programs. She served for ten years in the Department of State where she worked on democracy promotion, human rights, human trafficking, religious freedom, refugees, and counterterrorism. Her positions included: the Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs and Senior Director for Strategic Planning and External Affairs in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor.

Recently named Director of Democratic Resilience at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), Greene brings expertise on how authoritarian regimes wield media and digital technology to maintain power. Previously, he worked in Moscow for 13 years as Director of the Centre for the Study of New Media and Society at the New Economic School and as Deputy Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center and has published several books on Russian politics and foreign policy.

Dr. Thomas Karako is a senior fellow with the International Security Program and the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he arrived in 2014. His research focuses on national security, missile defense, nuclear deterrence, and public law. In 2010–2011, he was an American Political Science Association congressional fellow, working with the professional staff of the House Armed Services Committee and the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces on U.S. strategic forces policy, nonproliferation, and NATO.

Dr. Thomas G. Mahnken is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. He is also a Senior Research Professor at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies at The Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) while currently serving as a member of the Congressionally-mandated 2022 National Defense Strategy Commission and as a member of the Army Science Board.