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Daniel J. Levitin, is the James McGill Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at McGill University; Director of the Laboratory for Music Perfection, Cognition, and Expertise; and author of *This is Your Brain on Music and The World in Six Songs*.

Daniel Levy is a senior fellow and director of the Prospects for Peace Initiative at The Century Foundation and a Senior Fellow and director of the Middle East Initiative at the New America Foundation. During the Barak Government, he worked in the Prime Minister's Office as special adviser and head of the Jerusalem Affairs unit under Minister Haim Ramon. He also worked as senior policy adviser to former Israeli Minister of Justice, Yossi Beilin. He was a member of the official Israeli delegation to the Taba negotiations with the Palestinians in January 2001, and previously served on the negotiating team to the Oslo B Agreement from May to September 1995, under Prime Minister Rabin. In 2003, he worked as an analyst for the International Crisis Group Middle East Program. Daniel was the lead Israeli drafter of the Geneva Initiative and prior to joining The Century Foundation and New America Foundation was directing policy planning and international relations at the Geneva Campaign Headquarters in Tel Aviv. Levy received a Bachelors and Masters with Honors from Kings College, Cambridge; he was awarded prizes in Social and Political Science and was Scholar of the College. He served as World Chairman of the World Union of Jewish Students in Jerusalem from 1991 to 1994 and as Projects Director for the Economic Co-operation Foundation, a policy planning think-tank in Tel Aviv.

Daniel Mendelsohn is a cultural critic whose reviews and essays on literary and cultural subjects appear regularly in numerous publications, including *The New Yorker* and *The New York Review of Books*. His previous books include the collection of critical essays How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken, the memoir *The Elusive Embrace*, a *New York Times* Notable Book of the Year and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, and the international bestseller *The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million*, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Prix Médicis, and many other honors. Mr. Mendelsohn is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He teaches at Bard College.

A tropical forest ecologist, Nepstad has studied tropical forests and strategies for their conservation for the last 24 years. His research includes the Amazon forest tipping point, the analysis of public policies to conserve the Amazons natural resources, the prediction of future trends of Amazon forests and people, the taming of agroindustry, and the development of carbon markets to reduce deforestation within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Based in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, he leads the Centers Amazon program and coordinates the program on REDD (Reductions in Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation). In 1995, he co-founded the Amazon Institute of Environmental Studies (Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amaznia), which is now the largest independent research institution in the Amazon region. He also helped to found Aliana da Terra, a non-governmental organization comprised of cattle ranchers and soy farmers devoted to sound land stewardship, and was a founding board member of the Roundtable for Responsible Soy. He has published more than 100 scientific articles and books on the Amazon and tropical forests generally.

Daniel Okrent was the first public editor of *The New York Times*, editor-at-large of *Time, Inc.*, and managing editor of *Life* magazine. He worked in book publishing as an editor at Knopf and Viking, and was editor-in-chief of general books at Harcourt Brace. He was also a featured commentator on Ken Burns’s PBS series, *Baseball*, and is author of four books, one of which, *Great Fortune*, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in history. Okrent was also a fellow at the Shorenstein Center at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, where he remains an Associate.

Daniel Pink has written widely on business and technology for publications including *The New York Times*, *Harvard Business Review*, *Fast Company* and *Wired*, where he serves as a contributing editor, and he lends his expertise to broadcast journalism on CNN, NPR, CNBC, ABC, and numerous other networks nationally and internationally. From 1995 to 1997 he served as chief speech writer for US Vice President Al Gore, and has also worked as an aide to US Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. His previous books include the bestseller *A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future* and the graphic novel-career guide *The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You'll Ever Need*.

Daniel Pipes is director of the Middle East Forum and is Taube distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University. His column appears regularly in The Jerusalem Post and other newspapers around the globe. As a student Pipes spent six years studying abroad, including three years in Egypt. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, the US Naval War College, and Pepperdine University. Pipes has published in such magazines as The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, National Review, Time, and The Weekly Standard, among others. More than a hundred American newspapers have carried his articles, including The Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

Daniel Evans Pritchard is the Marketing and Publicity Director for Boston Review. He is also a poet and critic, as well as the founding editor of The Critical Flame.

The author of *Lawyers and Fundamental Moral Responsibility*, *The Anglo-American Legal Heritage*,* Francis Bacon*, and *The Civilian Jurists of Doctor's Commons *and editor of *Law in Colonial Massachusetts* and* Moore's Federal Practice*, J. Donald Monan Professor of Law Daniel R. Coquillette teaches and writes in the areas of legal history and professional responsibility. Professor Coquillette was a law clerk for justice Robert Braucher of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the Supreme Court of the United States. He taught legal ethics on the faculty of the Boston University Law School, taught as a Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School and Harvard Law School, and became a partner for six years at the Boston law firm of Palmer & Dodge, where he specialized in complex litigation. He served as Dean of Boston College Law School from 1985-1993, and was named J. Donald Monan, S.J. University Professor in 1996. For five years, he was Chairman of the Massachusetts Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics and Chairman of the Task Force on Unauthorized Practice of Law. He also served on the American Bar Association Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, the Board of the American Society of Legal History, the Massachusetts Task Force on Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the Massachusetts Task Force on Professionalism. He was also a member of the Special Committee on Model Rules of Attorney Conduct of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

Daniel Ramirez obtained his PhD in American Religious History from Duke University in 2005. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies. His areas of research and teaching include religions of the Southwest borderlands and migration, with a special interest in the history of religious contact, conflict, and conversion in the Americas and in the transnational and cultural dimensions of religious practice.

Daniel Rasmussen graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University in 2009, winning the Kathryn Ann Huggins Prize, the Perry Miller Prize, and the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize.