Jim Arkedis is the director of the Progressive Policy Institute's National Security Project, where his work has focused on national security planning and budgeting; intelligence; and international politics. Prior to joining PPI, he was a counterterrorism analyst at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, specializing in terrorism trends, tactics, and strategies in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. He writes for the PPI security blog AllOurMight.com.

Loranne Ausley currently serves as chair of the Florida Health Kids Corporation and senior policy advisor for the Lawton Chiles Foundation. She was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008, where she sponsored key pieces of legislation focused on improving educational and growth opportunities for Florida's children.

Evan Bayh, U.S. Senator from Indiana, was elected to his second term in November 2004. Senator Bayh, a Democrat, currently serves on five Senate committees, including Armed Services and the Select Committee on Intelligence. Prior to his Senate service, Bayh served two terms as governor of Indiana. He is a former chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council (DL C).

Joel Berg is the author of the new book, All You Can Eat: How Hungry Is America?, published in 2008 by Seven Stories Press. He is also executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger. Before joining the Coalition in 2001, Berg served for eight years in the Clinton administration in senior executive service positions at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, helping launch the AmeriCorps national-service program and public-private partnerships to fight hunger.

Katie McMinn Campbell serves as a policy analyst for the Democratic Leadership Council and Progressive Policy Institute, working on a variety of domestic- policy issues. She is the creator and primary author of MovingUpUSA.Org, a blog focused on social mobility and poverty reduction. Previously, she worked as a fellow for Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.), assisting with education, housing, budget, and rural-poverty issues.

Dave Edwards is a partner at VantagePoint Venture Partners in Silicon Valley. Previously, he was an equity-research analyst at Morgan Stanley, with a portfolio that spanned the solar, wind, efficiency, storage, and bioproducts markets. Prior to that, he was a partner at ThinkEquity Partners and founder of that firm's cleantech practice. Edwards also served as a buy-side analyst for a hedge fund and as a partner for Charles River Ventures; worked in project finance at Kenetech Windpower; and was a product manager at Apple Computer and Macromedia.

Tom Freedman is a PPI senior fellow and president of the strategic consulting firm Freedman Consulting, LLC. He has served in government as senior adviser to the president in the Clinton White House, and as legislative director to then- Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y. ). Freedman has published opinion articles in a variety of newspapers including The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Washington Post.

Edward Gresser has been director of PPI's Trade and Global Markets Project since 2001, after serving as a senior staffer for Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) from 1993 to 1998, and as policy adviser to the U.S. Trade Representative from 1998 to 2001. He is the author of Freedom From Want: American Liberalism and the Global Economy (2007) and numerous internationally cited articles on such topics as economic relations with the Muslim world; relations with China; and Asian economic integration.

David B. Kendall is the director of PPI's Health Priorities Project. His work has explored issues ranging from health-information technology to medical-malpractice reform. Prior to joining PPI in 1994, Kendall worked on Capitol Hill for Reps. Michael A. Andrews (D-Texas) and James R. Jones (D-Okla.). In 1993, he served on the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform.

Ed Kilgore is a PPI senior fellow, as well as managing editor of The Democratic Strategist, an online forum. He was previously vice president for policy at the Democratic Leadership Council; communications director for former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.); and a federal-state liaison for three governors of his home state of Georgia.

Sam Krasnow is an attorney at Environment Northeast (ENE ). He is also an appointee to the Governor's Efficiency Advisory Council in Massachusetts and the Energy Efficiency and Resources Management Council in Rhode Island. He also serves on the board of directors of the New England Clean Energy Council.

Eugene A. Ludwig is chairman and chief executive officer of Promontory Financial Group and its affiliate, Promontory Interfinancial Network. Ludwig is the former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency. In that post, he alleviated the credit crunch in 1993; modernized bank regulation and supervision with standards that have been copied internationally; brought bank failures from hundreds a year to zero; greatly expanded the Community Reinvestment Act and lending to low- and moderate-income Americans; brought lending discrimination suits against banks (involving dozens of suits and tens of millions of dollars in fines) for the first time in American history; and spearheaded efforts to modernize the banking industry.

Bill Magwood is a principal with the Washington, D. C., consultancy Advanced Energy Strategies. For seven years, he served as head of the U.S. government's civilian nuclear-energy technology program. First appointed by the Clinton administration and then maintained for a full term of the Bush administration, his was the longest tenure of anyone chosen for that position. During this time, he served as chairman for both the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Steering Committee on Nuclear Energy and the Generation IV International Forum. He previously managed nuclear programs at the Edison Electric Institute and worked as a scientist with Westinghouse Electric Corporation.

Will Marshall is president of PPI. After working on Capitol Hill and in U.S. Senate campaigns, he helped to launch the Democratic Leadership Council, where he served as policy director. He was an editor of the books With All Our Might, Mandate for Change and Building the Bridge: Ten Big Ideas to Transform America, in addition to other offerings. Marshall serves as a member of the D. C. Public Charter School Board.

Jan Mazurek has directed PPI's energy and climate work since 2001. Mazurek is an expert in greenhouse-gas market design and clean-energy technologies. She has published one book with the MIT Press (2003) and co-authored a second with Johns Hopkins/RFF (1998).

Jessica Milano is a PPI fellow and an economic and financial consultant in Washington, D. C. She holds a master's degree in applied economics from The Johns Hopkins University and a degree in government from the London School of Economics.

Derek K. Murrow is director of policy analysis at Environment Northeast, where he directs ENE 's federal and Northeast energy work. He also serves on the board of Stone Environmental, where he had previously served as a director and group manager.

David Osborne is a senior partner of The Public Strategies Group. He previously served as a senior adviser to Vice President Al Gore, helping to run the National Performance Review (NPR). He was the chief author of the NPR report, called by Time "the most readable federal document in memory." Osborne is the author or co-author of five books, including Reinventing Government, a New York Times bestseller.

Robert C. Pozen has served as chairman of MFS Investment Management since 2004. He is also an independent director of Medtronics and BCE (Bell Canada Enterprises). Pozen previously served on President Bush's Commission to Strengthen Social Security, developing two models for closing the system's long-term deficit, as explored in the articles "Retiring on a Budget," New York Times (Feb 2004), and "Arm Yourself for the Coming Battle over Social Security," Harvard Business Review (Nov 2002).

Mark Ribbing has served as the director of policy development at PPI since June 2007. Previously, he worked as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun and as an aide to the mayors of New York and St. Louis. His articles on politics and policy have appeared in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, and U.S. News and World Report.

Harvey Rishikof is professor of law and national security studies and former chair of the Department of National Security Strategy at the National War College in Washington, D. C. He previously served as legal counsel to the deputy director of the FB I, focusing on policies concerning national security and terrorism and acting as liaison to the Office of the Attorney General. As dean of the Roger Williams University School of Law, Rishikof introduced courses on national security and the Constitution in association with the Naval War College in Newport, R. I. He is a former federal law clerk for the Hon. Leonard I. Garth of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Doug Ross is CEO of the University Prep schools in Detroit. He served previously as a Michigan state senator, commerce director of Michigan, and assistant secretary of labor in the Clinton administration.

Daniel L. Sosland is executive director at Environment Northeast, a nonprofit research and advocacy organization that he co-founded in 1999. He serves on the boards of directors of the Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships and the U.S. Climate Action Network.

Jordan Tama is the co-author, with Lee Hamilton, of A Creative Tension: The Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress, and has published articles in Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, Asian Survey, International Affairs Review, and the LBJ Journal of Public Affairs. Jordan has served as a writer and editor for the Princeton Project on National Security, a special assistant to the president of the Woodrow Wilson Center, and a junior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is a fellow of the Truman National Security Project.

Paul Weinstein Jr. is PPI's chief operating officer and Visiting Fellow at The Johns Hopkins University. He is a former senior White House policy advisor to President Clinton.