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 Palou&scaron, 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
David Remnick, Editor, The New Yorker
George Soros, Founder and Chairman
Open Society Institute and the Soros Foundations Network