Thomas Graham

Thomas Graham is a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a cofounder of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies program at Yale University and sits on its faculty steering committee. Graham was special assistant to the president and senior director for Russia on the National Security Council staff from 2004 to 2007.

Miriam Pemberton

Miriam Pemberton is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, with a principal focus on U.S. spending priorities and the U.S. military economy. With Lawrence Korb, she led the task force that produced the annual "Unified Security Budget of the United States" (2004-2012.) With William Hartung she co-edited Lessons From Iraq: Avoiding the Next War (Paradigm, 2008).

Anatol Lieven

Anatol Lieven is director of the Eurasia Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He was formerly a professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and in the War Studies Department of King’s College London. Lieven worked as a British journalist in South Asia, the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and is author of several books on Russia and its neighbors.

Jeffrey Sachs

Professor Jeffrey Sachs is director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and President of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network. He has been closely involved in the search for peace in Ukraine, and in June 2022 chaired an international conference on this question at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in the Vatican.

George Beebe (Moderator)

George Beebe is Director of Grand Strategy at the Quincy Institute. He spent more than two decades in government as an intelligence analyst, diplomat, and policy advisor, including as director of the CIA’s Russia analysis and as a staff advisor on Russia matters to Vice President Cheney. He is author of "The Russia Trap: How Our Shadow War with Russia Could Spiral into Nuclear Catastrophe."