Andrew Miller is a senior fellow focused on the Middle East in the National Security and International Policy department at American Progress. He most recently served as the deputy assistant secretary of state for Israeli-Palestinian affairs in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the U.S. Department of State from 2022 to 2024. Prior to this, he served as a senior policy adviser to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, covering the Middle East and North Africa, counterterrorism, political-military affairs, and intelligence. From 2017 to 2020, Miller was the deputy director for policy at the Project on Middle East Democracy and a nonresident scholar in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East program. His previous government assignments included serving as the director for Egypt and Israel military issues on President Barack Obama’s National Security Council from 2014 to 2017, where he was involved in deliberations regarding U.S. security assistance to Egypt and Israel and regarding Middle East peace, among other issues. He also worked at the U.S. Department of State in a variety of intelligence and policy roles, including in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s policy planning staff, and at the U.S. embassies in Cairo and in Doha, Qatar. Miller earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Dickinson College and a Master of Arts in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia.

Farah Pandith is an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, foreign policy strategist, and former diplomat. She is a pioneer in the field of countering violent extremism (CVE), has been a political appointee in the Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and George H.W. Bush administrations. She left government in early 2014 for Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where she maintains an affiliation. She served on the secretary of homeland security’s Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) from 2015 to 2017, where she also chaired the HSAC subcommittee on countering violent extremism and delivered a report in June 2016. Her book, How We Win: How Cutting-Edge Entrepreneurs, Political Visionaries, Enlightened Business Leaders, and Social Media Mavens Can Defeat the Extremist Threat, was published in 2019. Pandith is also a public speaker and global advisor, driving efforts to counter extremism through new programs and initiatives. She was a senior advisor and commissioner on the Center for Strategic and International Studies' CVE Commission Report and is a senior advisor at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). The Muhammad Ali Center named Pandith the first-ever Muhammad Ali Global Peace Laureate for her proven track record of and commitment to promoting diversity, cohesion, and respect.