America at a Crossroads
Advisory Board
At the October 26, 2004 meeting of the Crossroads Advisory Board, the Honorable Frank Loy (center) and Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick (right) discuss the initiative with Michael Pack (left), CPB Senior Vice President for Television Programming.
Max Boot
Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times.
Dr. Esther Brimmer
Former State Department Policy Planning Staff, Clinton Administration. Presently Deputy Director and Director of Research at the Center for Transatlantic Relations at SAIS, The Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Michael Haltzel
Former Democratic Staff Director for European Affairs, Senate Foreign Relations Committee; former Chief of the European Division, Library of Congress. Professor; author. Currently Principal in the law firm DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP.
Dr. Deborah Harding
Formerly Senior Program Officer at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and Vice President of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation).
Christopher Hitchens
Vanity Fair columnist, The Atlantic Monthly book critic, visiting professor of Liberal Studies at the New School in New York, author of forthcoming Thomas Jefferson study.
Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in Reagan Administration, Georgetown University professor, internationally known author and commentator. Presently Senior Fellow, Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
Mara Liasson
National Political Correspondent and commentator for National Public Radio and The FOX News Network.
The Honorable Frank Loy
Former President, German Marshall Fund of the United States, and Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs in the Clinton Administration.
Ambassador Michael Novak
U.S. Ambassador to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe; twice Ambassador, UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva. Currently Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy and Public Policy at American Enterprise Institute.
John O'Sullivan
Formerly Special Advisor to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Editor of National Review, Associate Editor of The London Times. Currently Editor of The National Interest, Editor-at-Large of National Review.
Clarence Page
Nationally syndicated columnist and member of Chicago Tribune's editorial board since 1984, regular essay contributor to The News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
Mira R. Ricardel
Vice President, International Markets, Teachscape; former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy; former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Eurasia; former Vice President for Programs, Freedom House; and former Defense and Foreign Policy Adviser to Senate Majority Leader and Presidential Candidate Bob Dole.
Ambassador Dennis Ross
Special Middle East Coordinator during Clinton administration, Director of State Department's Policy Planning Staff in first Bush administration. Currently Counselor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow at Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
The Honorable John Train
Investment advisor; has received part-time appointments from Presidents Reagan, Bush (Sr.) and Clinton, dealing with Africa, the Pacific and Central Europe respectively. He has written over 20 books and 400 columns.
Eric Weissmann
Practices entertainment law, representing actors, writers, directors, producers and financiers; frequent film and law school teacher, lecturer and symposium participant.
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