Shashi Tharoor, Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information and author, most recently of the forthcoming Bookless in Baghdad: And Other Writings about Reading (Arcade Publishing July 2005

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Vishakha N. Desai, President of the Asia Society
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Philip P. Pan, Beijing Bureau Chief at the Washington Post and winner of the Bob Considine Award from the Overseas Press Club and the Asia Society's Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Asian Journalism
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Sherle R. Schwenninger, Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute at the New School University and the Director of the Global Economic Policy Program at the New America Foundation and author with Walter Mead of, A Financial Architecture for Middle Class Oriented Development (Council on Foreign Relations Publication 2000)
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on the effects of the middle class in India, China and the United States on trade and the environment