Koji Watanabe
Koji Watanabe is a senior fellow at the Japan Center for International Exchange and was Japanese ambassador to Russia and to Italy.
Roderic Lyne
Sir Roderic Lyne is special adviser to the BP Group and HSBC Bank and former British ambassador to Russia.
Strobe Talbott is president of the Brookings Institution. Talbott, whose career spans journalism, government service, and academe, is an expert on U.S. foreign policy, with specialties on Europe, Russia, South Asia, and nuclear arms control. As deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration, Talbott was deeply involved in both the conduct of U.S. policy abroad and the management of executive branch relations with Congress. In 2009, he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.