Amartya Sen is Lamont University Professor at Harvard University and was until 2004 the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. He has served as President of the Econometric Society, the Indian Economic Association, the American Economic Association and the International Economic Association.

William Blaine "Bill" Richardson III (born November 15, 1947) is the current Governor of New Mexico and a candidate for the Democratic Party's nomination to run for the President of the United States in 2008. He has previously served as a U.S. Representative, Ambassador to the United Nations, and as the U.S. Secretary of Energy.

Kumi Naidoo is Secretary General and CEO of CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citizen Participation since 2000. He was recently appointed by the UN Secretary General to the Eminent Persons Group on United Nations Civil Society Relations.Born in South Africa, he was active in the anti-apartheid movement.

Nicholas Negroponte is the Wiesner Professor of Media Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the founding Chairman of MIT's Media Lab. Professor Negroponte also serves as Chairman of Media Lab Europe, the Lab's sister institution in Ireland.

Maria Livanos - Cattaui was appointed Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) from 1996 to July 2005. As chief executive of the world business organization, she is responsible for overseeing global policy formulation and representing the interests of world business to governments and organizations.

Lawrence Lessig is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society. Prior to joining the Stanford faculty, he was the Berkman Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and a Professor at the University of Chicago. He clerked for Judge Richard Posner on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals.