Bradley Abrams
, Associate Director, Harriman Institute and Associate Professor, History Department
Columbia University
Lisa Anderson
, Dean
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Edward Albee
, Playwright
Lee C. Bollinger
, President, Columbia University
George H.W. Bush
, Forty-first President of the United States
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.
Gregory Mosher
, Director University Arts Initiative
Columbia University
Ambassador Martin Palouš
, Czech Ambassador to the United Nations, former Czech Ambassador to the United States and former spokesperson of Charter 77
Martin Puchner
, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Columbia University
Lou Reed
, Artist, Musician
David Remnick
, Editor,
The New Yorker
George Soros
, Founder and Chairman
Open Society Institute and the Soros Foundations Network