Foreign Min. Khurshid Kasuri

Political Leader

Pakistan

Minister Khurshid Kasuri joined the political and strategy committee for Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf after leaving his position as chairman of the steering committee of the Pakistan Muslim League in 2011. He served as foreign minister of Pakistan from 2002 to 2007. Prior to his appointment as foreign minister, he was chairman of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on media. Between 1988 and 2000, Kasuri served as the prime minister’s special envoy to Russia, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and the European Union and represented Pakistan as a member of Pakistan parliamentary delegations. Throughout his career, Kasuri has taken an active interest in various political movements for the restoration of democracy in Pakistan.

Foreign Min. Yoriko Kawaguchi

Political Leader

Japan

Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi is a distinguished fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute and professor at the Meiki Institute for Global Affairs in Tokyo. Previously, she was a member of the House of Councillors of Japan where she chaired the Standing Committee on Environment. From 2002 to 2004, she served as the minister for foreign affairs of Japan. She has also held the positions of special advisor to the prime minister of foreign affairs and minister of the environment. From 2008 to 2010, she served as co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. She is currently a member of the Asia Pacific Leadership Network, executive advisor of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation and distinguished fellow at the Tokyo Foundation.

Hon. Naoki Kazama

Political Leader

Japan

The Honorable Naoki Kazama is a member of the House of Councillors of Japan. Within his party, Kazama is the director of the Committee on Financial Affairs. He previously held positions as party secretary and was elected as a member of the Niigata Prefecture Assembly. Kazama has also participated in international voluntary activities in Mali in 1997 following the civil war, and in training sponsored by the U.S. State Department on security issues and diplomatic realities of democratic institutions.

Mr. Peter Kellner

Civic Leader

United States

Peter Kellner is a founder and managing partner at Richmond Global Ventures and co-founder of Endeavor Global, Inc., an organization that seeks to catalyze long-term economic growth by mentoring and accelerating the best high-impact entrepreneurs around the world. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Pacific Council on International Policy and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Kellner was a Fulbright Scholar in Hungary where he established Hungary’s Environmental Management & Law Association. He is also a crown fellow at The Aspen Institute and a young global leader at the World Economic Forum.

Mr. Don Kendall

Civic Leader

United States

Don Kendall was the co-founder of PepsiCo, Inc. where he served as chairman of the board and chief executive officer. He was the former director of BUY.com, the Institute for Environmental and Natural Resources at the University of Wyoming and the Wildlife Heritage Foundation of Wyoming. Before joining Pepsi-Cola Company as a fountain-syrup sales representative, Kendall was a distinguished World War II naval aviator. Throughout his career, he was active in various cultural, economic and political organizations including the Chamber of Commerce, the National Center for Resource Recovery, the American Ballet Theatre Foundation and the US-USSR Trade and Economic Council. Kendall was inducted into the National Business Hall of Fame in 1987 by Fortune magazine.

Kendall passed away on September 19, 2020.

Sen. J. Robert Kerrey

Political Leader

United States

Former Governor and U.S. Senator from Nebraska Bob Kerrey is a lobbyist with the Carmen Group in Washington, D.C. He previously served as president of The New School, a university in New York, N.Y., founded on strong democratic ideals and innovative educational practices until 2010. Kerrey served on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and was a member of the 9/11 Commission. He served for three years in the United States Navy SEAL special forces unit and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1970.

Amb. Shaharyar M. Khan

Diplomat

Pakistan

Ambassador Shaharyar M. Khan is an accomplished former Pakistani diplomat. After serving as Pakistan’s ambassador to Jordan, the United Kingdom and France, he became Pakistan’s foreign secretary, holding the post between 1990 and 1994. Khan was then appointed the UN secretary-general’s special representative to Rwanda where he remained for two years overseeing UN activities in the country. In his retirement, Khan has written a number of books on history and contemporary affairs, including an account of the events in Rwanda.

Khan is a member of the Global Zero Commission.

Mr. Alan Khazei

Civic Leader

United States

Alan Khazei is the founder and CEO of Be the Change, Inc., a nonprofit that seeks to enact legislative change in social policy through organizing coalitions of nonprofits, policymakers, private sector leaders, academics and citizens. For more than twenty years, he was the co-founder and CEO of City Year, an organization that coordinates young adults’ participation in a full year of community service and served as the model for President Clinton’s AmeriCorps program. From 1990 to 1992, he served as vice-chair of the Commission on National and Community Service. Recognized by TIME Magazine as one of America’s top 50 leaders under 40, Khazei has received numerous awards, including the Reebok Human Rights Award and the Jefferson Award for Public Service.