Carly Fiorina began her career as a secretary for a nine-person real estate firm. She climbed the corporate ladder at AT&T and Lucent Technologies through a willingness to tackle tough problems, a relentless focus on producing results and accepting accountability, and a passion for leveraging the talents of others and building high-performance teams.

She was recruited to Hewlett-Packard with a mission to transform the company from a laggard to a leader, becoming the first woman to lead a Fortune 50 company. During her tenure as chair and CEO, Hewlett-Packard became the largest technology company in the world, innovation tripled, cash flow quadrupled, and revenue and profit growth accelerated.

Fiorina has advised the Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency, the State Department, and the Department of Homeland Security. She founded Carly Fiorina Enterprises to bring her expertise to private sector teams, and the Unlocking Potential Foundation to allow those in the social sector to benefit from her experience. She is the author of three best-selling books on leadership for general audiences, as well as a weekly LinkedIn newsletter with over 500,000 subscribers. She is also the founder and chair of Pathway to Promise, an organization that works with justice-involved youth so they can change their world.

Judge J. Michael Luttig is the Karsh Institute of Democracy's inaugural Distinguished Fellow in Law and Democracy, a position sponsored in partnership with the UVA School of Law, and is co-chair of the American Bar Association's Task Force for American Democracy. Luttig served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit for 15 years, from 1991 to 2006, having been appointed by former President George H. W. Bush. Luttig is currently counselor and special advisor to the Coca-Cola Company and the board of directors of the Coca-Cola Company. He was executive vice president and general counsel of the Boeing Company from 2006 to 2020. Before that, he served as assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice and as counselor to the attorney general of the United States. Luttig was assistant counsel to the president at the White House from 1981 to 1982 under former President Ronald Reagan. From 1982 to 1983, he was a law clerk to then-Judge Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. From 1983 to 1985, he served as a law clerk and then special assistant to Chief Justice of the United States Warren E. Burger. Luttig earned his bachelor’s degree from Washington and Lee University and his law degree from the University of Virginia.

John Hardin Young has held senior positions in private practice, industry, and government. He is the current chair of the American Bar Association Senior Lawyer Division and its 65,000 members. He has represented major corporations and associations in complex litigation throughout the United States, in both the state and federal courts. He has held corporate management positions with responsibility for corporate governance, dispute resolution, and litigation.

Hardin Young was also a participant in the White House Conference on Aging (held in 2015 and every 10 years). He served as special counsel to the National Democratic Committee in 1998 and from 2000 to 2004, where he developed the first election day monitoring program and was involved in the investigation of campaign finance. He was the general counsel for the Virginia State Board of Election (1976–1978) and general counsel of the State Democratic Party of Virginia under Mark Warner. He also is an adjunct professor of law at William & Mary Law School where he received the 2017 Election Law Educator of the Year and has been an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School (election law) and George Mason University School of Law (alternative dispute resolution and appellate advocacy). Hardin Young received a B.C.L from Oxford University (1976), a J.D. degree from the University of Virginia (1973), and an A.B. from Colgate University (1970).

Ian H. Solomon is dean of the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Trained as a lawyer, Solomon is a devoted student and teacher of both negotiation and conflict resolution. He served in the U.S. Senate as legislative counsel to then-Senator Barack Obama. He was confirmed unanimously by Congress as the U.S. executive director for the World Bank Group, where he championed private-sector development in Africa and negotiated a range of multi-stakeholder agreements. Solomon also has been a consultant with Mckinsey & Company, an associate dean and visiting lecturer at Yale Law School, and a vice president and lecturer in law at the University of Chicago. Before joining the Batten School, he led his own international consulting practice focused on conflict and collaboration.

Originally from New York City, Solomon earned his AB from Harvard University and his JD from Yale Law School. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has traveled and worked extensively in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.