Bradley Abrams
, Associate Director, Harriman Institute and Associate Professor, History Department
Columbia University
Edward Albee
, Playwright
Lee C. Bollinger
, President, Columbia University
George H.W. Bush
, Forty-first President of the United States
Edward Einhorn
, Artistic Director
Untitled Theater #61, and presenter of the Havel Festival
Milos Forman
, Filmmaker
Chris Harwood
, Lecturer in Czech
Slavic Languages, Columbia University
William and Wendy Luers
, Former President of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and former Ambassador to Czechoslovakia; Founder and President of the Foundation for a Civil Society.
Jan Novak
, Writer, Translator of Havel's plays and Documentary Filmmaker
Martin Puchner
, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University
Lou Reed
, Artist, Musician
Amy Trompetter
, Senior Lecturer
Department of Theatre, Barnard College