The Globalist

Author Peter Robb has divided his time among Brazil, southern Italy and Australia for the last quarter century. He is the author of “Midnight in Sicily,” a New York Public Library Best Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year; and “M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio,” which was a New York Times […]

Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies Program, Brookings Institution Peter W. Singer is National Security Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution and Director of the Brookings Project on U.S. Policy towards the Islamic World. Previously, he served as Action Officer in the Balkans Task Force in the Office of the U.S. […]

Chairman of Goldman Sachs International and BP Peter D. Sutherland is Chairman of BP — as well as of Goldman Sachs International. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Sutherland served as Director General of the World Trade Organisation. And from 1989 to 1993, he was Chairman of Allied Irish Banks Prior to that, he served as […]

President, PKVerleger LLC Dr. Philip K. Verleger, Jr. is president of PKVerleger LLC and a Senior Advisor to The Brattle Group, a Cambridge, Massachusetts economics consulting firm, Dr. Verleger specializes in the study of energy commodity markets. The author of over 100 articles and books on energy economics, Dr. Verleger has testified frequently as an […]

Associate Editor of The New York Times R.W. Apple, Jr. became an Associate Editor of “The New York Times” in February 2002. Before that, Mr. Apple had been the Chief Correspondent of the newspaper since May 1997. He was the Chief Washington Correspondent for “The New York Times” from September 1985 until May 1997, and […]

Co-author of “What Time and Sadness Spared” Roma Roma Nutkiewicz Ben-Atar is co-author of “What Time and Sadness Spared: Mother and Son Confront the Holocaust” (University of Virginia Press, 2006). She is a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and numerous Nazi labor and death camps, including Majadnek and Auschwitz.

Investment banker and financial advisor Rudolfo Bogni is a former Chief Executive of the Private Banking unit at UBS AG and a former member of the Group Executive Board of both UBS AG and its predecessor Swiss Bank Corporation. He also spent two years at the Centre for Quantitative Finance of the Imperial College in […]

Author Ronald Bruce St John is the author of more than three dozen books and articles on Libya. His books include, “Historical Dictionary of Libya,” “Qaddafi’s World Design: Libyan Foreign Policy, 1969-1987” — and most recently, “Libya and the United States: Two Centuries of Strife.” Mr. St. John also serves on the Internatonal Advisory Board […]

Professor of History, Columbia University Richard W. Bulliet is a professor of history at Columbia University. Formerly, he was the director of the Middle East Institute and executive secretary of the Middle East Studies Association. He is also the author of “Islam: The View from the Edge,” “The Camel and The Wheel” and editor of […]

Diplomat-in-residence at the Council of Foreign Relations Richard Butler, former head of the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) to disarm Iraq is an expert in arms control, international security issues, the United Nations and the Middle East. He served as Australian Ambassador to the United Nations from 1992 to 1997, before serving as the head […]