Director of Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Graham Allison has for three decades been a leading analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy with a special interest in terrorism. As Assistant Secretary of Defense in the first Clinton Administration, Dr. Allison received the Defense Department's highest civilian award, the Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, for "reshaping relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan to

(Special Feature on DVD) Joel Hamilton serves the United States army as lieutenant colonel commander 1st battalion, 41st field artillery. He graduated from Creighton University (1989) in Omaha as a Distinguished Military Graduate with a degree in Political Science. He was commissioned a 2LT in the Field Artillery and following the Cannon Artillery Basic Course LTC Hamilton was assigned as a Battery Executive Officer in 1-19 FA, Fort Sill, OK.

Robert Gallucci became president of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on July 1, 2009.

Previously, he served as Dean of Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, for 13 years. He completed 21 years of government service, serving since August 1994 with the U.S. Department of State as Ambassador at Large. In March 1998, the Department of State announced his appointment as Special Envoy to deal with the threat posed by the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons

Dr. Osterholm is director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), director of the NIH-supported Minnesota Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance (MCEIRS) within CIDRAP, a professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School, University of Minnesota. He is also a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Grant Peterson is nationally recognized for his expertise in the field of emergency management. He has been a major contributor to the planning, assessment, operational systems development, training and exercises on behalf of such organizations as FEMA, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), and the Department of Justice (DOJ). Prior to his current work in the private sector, Mr. Peterson was appointed by President Reagan to FEMA as Associate Director of State and Local Programs and Support.

William F. Raub currently is the science advisor to Mike Leavitt, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services of the United States Government.  Dr. Raub has also served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) within the Office of the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). From December 2001 through February 2003, he served concurrently as Principal Deputy ASPE and Deputy Director of the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness, also within the Office of the Secretary.

Dr. Jonathan B. Tucker is a Senior Fellow specializing in chemical and biological weapons issues in the Washington, D.C. office of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute of International Studies. He joined the Monterey office of CNS in March 1996 as the founding director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program (CBWNP). Before coming to CNS, he worked at the Department of State, the congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

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