2021-2022 Steven Simon, diplomat and policymaker, former NSC senior director
2019-2020 Hala Aldosari, Saudi scholar and activist in women’s rights in Arab societies
2018-2019 Admiral Scott H Swift, Former commander of the US Pacific Fleet
2017-2018 Judge James E Baker, Former chief judge of the US Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
2016-2017 Lourdes Melgar, Mexico’s former deputy secretary of energy for hydrocarbons
October-November 2016 Mona Makram-Ebeid, a former member of parliament and senator in Egypt
2015-2016 Paul Heer, Former national intelligence officer for East Asia
February 2015 Shivshankar Menon, Former national security advisor of India
2014-2016 Joel Brenner, Former inspector general and senior counsel at the National Security Agency (NSA)
April 2014 Ranil Wickremesinghe, Former prime minister of Sri Lanka
2012-2020 Yukio Okamoto, Former special advisor to the prime minister of Japan
2011-2012 Abbas Maleki, Iran’s deputy foreign minister (1980-1997)
2011-2012 Hans-Georg Eichler, MD, Senior medical officer of European Medicines Agency
April 2011 Rt Hon David Miliband MP, Former foreign secretary for the United Kingdom from 2007 to 2010
2008-2009 Admiral William J Fallon, Former commander of US Central Command and US Pacific Command
2006-2007 Barbara Bodine, Career state department official and former US ambassador to Yemen
2006-2007 Francis Mading Deng, Former minister of Sudan, former deputy secretary general of the United Nations
2004-2005 Naomi Chazan, Former deputy speaker of the Knesset