JASON BERG: Ex-US Marine
Jason Berg is a former Marine and Marshall Scholar with degrees from the United States Naval Academy and the London School of Economics. Berg was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and Afghanistan in 2004. In addition to his military service, Berg has worked as an arms control inspector monitoring treaty compliance in Russia; he is currently completing his final year at Stanford Law School.

ROBERT FOX: UK Journalist
Robert Fox has worked as a journalist, author and broadcaster since 1967, and is the defense correspondent for the Evening Standard newspaper in London. As a foreign and defense correspondent he has covered Afghanistan, the 1991 Gulf war, the Balkans, and the Middle East. He also works as a commentator for the BBC and Sky News and is senior associate fellow at the Centre for Defence Studies at King's College, London.  He has several works in progress including War and Truth: Reporting and History.

HOWARD LAFRANCHI: US Journalist
Journalist Howard LaFranchi is a diplomatic affairs writer for The Christian Science Monitor in Washington DC, where he has covered US foreign policy (with occasional travel to Iraq, the Middle East, Europe, and South America) since August 2001. Before his Washington assignment, LaFranchi was the Monitor's Mexico City bureau chief; his first foreign assignment for the Monitor was in Paris, from where he covered the European Union and the Maghreb.

JOHN TIFFANY: Director, Black Watch
John Tiffany is Associate Director (New Work) for the National Theatre of Scotland, and previously was Associate Director at Paines Plough Theatre Company and Literary Director at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. Awards for his acclaimed contributions to contemporary UK theatre include the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Director and a South Bank Show Award for Black Watch, Fringe Firsts for Black Watch, Las Chicas del Tres y Media Floppies, Gagarin Way and Perfect Days and a Herald Angels for The Straits and Black Watch.