Authors
Michelle Gavin
Senior Fellow for Africa Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
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Charles Wald
Former Deputy Commander, U.S. European Command
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Strobe Talbott
President, the Brookings Institution, and former Deputy Secretary of State
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James Stavridis
NATO Former Supreme Allied Commander Europe
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Thomas Pickering
Vice Chairman, Hills and Company
Carl Hausmann
Former CEO, Bunge North America
Gebisa Ejeta
Professor and Director, Center for Global Food Security, Purdue University
John Carlin
Former Governor, Kansas
Neil Munshi
West Africa Correspondent, Financial Times
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Judd Devermont
Africa Program Director, Center for Strategic and International Studies
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