The InterDependent

Linda Tarr-Whelan is a Demos distinguished senior fellow and author of Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World (2009, 2011). She is the former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women and deputy assistant to President Jimmy Carter for women’s concerns.

Haley Sweetland Edwards is a freelance writer living and working in the Caucasus and the Middle East.

Sameer Padania is lead author and researcher on WITNESS' Cameras Everywhere report. Sameer consults on how the Internet impacts human rights, activism, journalism and philanthropy. He is on the board of the New York-based archaeology foundation Archaeos, and is a Fellow of the RSA.

Herve Couturier (hkcouturier@yahoo.com) has 38 years of reporting, editing and bureau management experience with Agence France-Presse (AFP), a major international news agency.

Karen Freeman is a freelance journalist and educator who teaches journalism in Eastern Europe. She was an editor and occasional writer at The New York Times on the National, Technology, Science and Business desks before joining its Editorial Department, which she left in 2007 to move to Ireland.

Mark Turner was the Africa correspondent and the UN correspondent for the Financial Times. After leaving the paper, he moved into advocacy and communications; most recently, he ran outreach and communications for the International Organization for Migration after the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Turner lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., with his wife, Anna, and their two children.

Suh-Yong Chung is an associate professor of international law in Korea University's Division of International Studies. He has advised the Korean government on the environment and green growth, among other matters, and is active in international environmental organizations.

Stephen Schlesinger is an adjunct fellow at the Century Foundation in New York and the former director of the World Policy Institute at the New School University (1997-2006). Schlesinger received his B.A. from Harvard University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. In the early 70s, he edited and published The New Democrat Magazine.

Evelyn Leopold, a freelance writer and regular contributor to the Huffington Post, is based at the United Nations, where she was bureau chief for Reuters for 17 years. At Reuters, she was also a news editor for North America, the editor for the Africa region and associate editor worldwide and a reporter in London and in Bonn as well as in New York and in Washington.

Timothy B. Reid has been involved in peacekeeping for more than 15 years, both as a military officer (Bosnia, Ethiopia-Eritrea) and as a civilian (Rwanda, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Lebanon). In 1997-1998, he served as a justice and investigations officer for the UN Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda.

Jayantha Dhanapala is a former ambassador of Sri Lanka who presided over the 1995 NPT review and extension conference and was UN under secretary-general for disarmament affairs from 1998-2003.

John L. Washburn has had an extensive career in diplomacy and international governmental and nongovernmental organizations. He was a director in the executive office of the secretary-general of the UN from January 1988 to April 1993. Thereafter, he was a director in the Department of Political Affairs at the UN until March 1994.

David L. Phillips is the director of the Program on Peacebuilding and Rights at Columbia University's Institute for the Study of Human Rights and a fellow at the Future of Diplomacy Project at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Warren Hoge is the senior adviser for external relations at the International Peace Institute. Previously, he worked for more than three decades as an editor and foreign correspondent at The New York Times, serving as bureau chief in Rio de Janeiro, London and the United Nations as well as deputy metropolitan editor, foreign editor, editor of The New York Times Magazine, chief newsroom manager and assistant managing editor in charge of the paper's culture, book review, style, travel and sports sections. He also directed the recruitment of writers. As a foreign correspondent, he reported from more than 80 countries -- covering political turmoil and guerrilla warfare in Central America, the passage of countries from dictatorship to elective government in South America, the politics and culture of Britain and Scandinavia, the peace Before joining The Times, he was the Washington bureau chief and metropolitan editor of The New York Post. He began his reporting career at The Evening Star in Washington. Hoge graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in English, served in the United States Army and did graduate work in literature and political science at George Washington University.

Thomas G. Weiss is professor and director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The City University of New York’s Graduate Center and the author of "What’s Wrong With the United Nations and How to Fix It."

Fred Eckhard was editor of The InterDependent from its founding in 1973 until he joined the UN in 1985. He was Secretary-General Kofi Annan's spokesman from 1997 until his retirement in 2005.

Matthew D. Heaphy has served as deputy convener of the American Non-Governmental Organizations Coalition for the International Criminal Court (AMICC) since July 2006.

Atossa works as a researcher at Thomson Reuters in New York. Her writing has appeared in Dissent, New York Magazine, n+1, and The Guardian.

Mark Leon Goldberg is a writer, blogger and consultant to several prominent national and international non-profit organizations. He is the editor of the United Nations and global affairs blog UN Dispatch and editor of the global health and international development website PSI Healthy Lives. In 2011, he co-founded the DAWNS Digest.

Emily Ross is a program associate for UN relations at the United Nations Foundation, where she researches UN policy and relations among countries. Ross holds a master's in international relations from King’s College London and a B.A. in political science from Providence College.

Joe Penney was on assignment as a photojournalist for Reuters in Nigeria, covering the 2011 elections this spring. He covered the 2010 presidential election in Guinea for CNN and for Reuters.

Alex Woodson is a graduate student in the Global Communication master's program at George Washington University. He is the managing editor of GW's International Affairs Review Web journal and his writing has also appeared in Monday Developments. He previously wrote about digital media and entertainment business for The Hollywood Reporter.

Catherine is a multimedia journalist based in the Washington, D.C. area. She has has worked as a web producer and staff writer for POLITICO and has written for publications including the Washington Post, The Huffington Post, and Der Spiegel, where she spent two months as an Arthur F. Burns Fellow.

Pamela Kraft is the executive director of the Tribal Link Foundation, a nongovernmental organization that was founded in 1993 and aims to link indigenous people to networks that can help their causes, with a special focus on the United Nations system.