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FORMER AMBASSADOR RON PROSOR

His Excellency Ron Prosor served as Israel's Representative to the United Nations from 2011-2015. He has previously served as Israel's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Director-General of Israel's Foreign Ministry, and political consul at the Israeli embassy in Washington. Currently, Former Ambassador Prosor is the Head of the Abba Eban Institute for International Diplomacy in IDC Herzliya Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy.

LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS

Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus of Harvard University. He is one of the most renowned economists in the world and served as the 71st Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton, Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama and Chief Economist of the World Bank. He and his wife Elisa New, a professor of English at Harvard, reside in Brookline with their six children.

Sivan Ya’ari is the Founder and CEO of Innovation: Africa, a NY-based nonprofit that brings
Israeli solar, agricultural and water technologies to African villages. Through her work, over 1,000,000 lives in Africa have been impacted. Sivan has been recognized as one of the “40 Under 40 Most Promising Israelis” by Globes magazine and one of the “50 Most Influential Women in Israel" by Forbes Israel, and she has received many awards inlcuding the Innovation Award from the United Nations. Sivan was born in Israel, raised in France, educated in the United States, and today, she lives in Tel Aviv with her husband and 3 children.

PROVOST ALAN GARBER

Alan M. Garber is the Provost of Harvard University, a role he has held since 2011. He is also the Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School, a Professor of Economics in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Public Policy in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. A summa cum laude graduate of Harvard College, Dr. Garber received a PhD in Economics from Harvard and an MD with research honors from Stanford.

Chloe Valdary, a leading new-voice in the pro-Israel movement, is changing the conversation about Israel. Having been heavily involved in pro-Israel activity in college, Chloe most recently served as Tikvah Fellow at the Wall Street Journal where she conducted in-depth research about pro-Israel organizations and trends on campus. She has published dozens of articles across various media channels, and has been named one of Algemeiner's top 100 people positively affecting Jewish life today. Today, Chloe serves as Shillman Fellow and Director of Partnerships and Outreach at Jerusalem U.

MOHAMMAD DARAWSHE

Mohammad Darawshe is considered a leading expert on Jewish-Arab relations and has presented lectures and papers at the European parliament, NATO Defense College, World Economic Forum, and Club de Madrid, US Congress, Herzliya Conference and Israel's Presidential Conference. He is the Academic Director of the Shalom Hartman Institute Jewish-Arab Research Team and Director of Planning, Equality and Shared Society at Givat Haviva Educational Center, one of the leading coexistence organizations in Israel. Mr. Darawshe is Arab with an Israeli passport — a Muslim Palestinian citizen of the Jewish state. Like 20 percent of Israel’s population, he is, as he puts it, a child of both identities. He lives in Iksal with his wife and four children.

Gidi Grinstein is the Founder and President of The Reut Institute, a Tel-Aviv based non-partisan, non-profit policy-group established in 2004 that has been labeled Israel's leading policy group. Gidi is one of the foremost thinkers about Israel and Judaism in the 21st Century, and he is often featured as a commentator and an analyst by the Israeli and international media such as the Economist, New York Times, LA Times, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal or Al Jazeera, as well as Haaretz, The Marker, Ma'ariv, Yediot Aharonot, NRG and Ynet. He was one of the founding members of Birthright and one of the youngest participators in the Camp David Summit of 2000. He resides in New York and hold a second grade black belt in Karate.

David Gergen had a distinguished career in public service and served as a White House advisor to four U.S. presidents of both parties: Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. He now serves as a senior political analyst for CNN and works actively with a rising generation of new leaders. David is also a professor of public service and director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, positions he has held for over a decade. David and his wife Anne have two children and five grand-children.