To date, 137 public figures–from economists to entertainers–and many more concerned citizens like you have signed the RDI Values Statement. With this statement, we have pledged to uphold the values necessary to protect and defend democracy at home and across the world. Add your signature today!
Anne Applebaum
Author, Washington Post columnist, and Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics
Michael Abramowitz
President of Freedom House
Floyd Abrams
Constitutional litigator in cases including the Pentagon Papers and Citizens United, and author of The Soul of the First Amendment
Elliot Ackerman
Novelist
Mimi Alemayehou
Managing Director of Black Rhino, a Blackstone Portfolio Company
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Author, Founder of the AHA Foundation, and Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
Anders Aslund
Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council
John Avlon
Former Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Beast and CNN contributor
José María Aznar
Former Prime Minister of Spain
Diana Barrett
Founder and President, The Fledgling Fund
Antony Beevor
Historian
Jagdish N. Bhagwati
University Professor, Columbia University
Philip Bobbitt
Herbert Wechsler Professor of Federal Jurisprudence and Director for the Center for National Security at Columbia Law School
Marianne Boesky
Founder, Marianne Boesky Gallery
Max Boot
Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Hal Brands
Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins University
Ian Bremmer
President, the Eurasia Group
Paul Cartledge
A.G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture emeritus, Cambridge University
Linda Chavez
Senior Fellow at the National Immigration Forum, syndicated columnist, and author
Derek Chollet
Executive Vice President and Senior Advisor for Security and Defense Policy, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Nicholas Christakis
Goldman Professor of Social and Nature Science, Yale University
Nancy Clair
Educator
Elizabeth Cobbs
Melbern G. Glasscock Professor of American History, Texas A&M University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Eliot Cohen
Robert E. Osgood Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Steven A. Cook
Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Geoffrey Cowan
Professor, University of Southern California
Tyler Cowen
Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Heidi Crebo-Rediker
Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, and CEO, International Capital Strategies
Robert M. Danin
Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
Larry David
Actor, writer, and comedian
Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University
Kai Diekmann
Former publisher and editor in chief of the BILD group
Nicholas Eberstadt
Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute
Eric Edelman
Former U.S. Ambassador to Finland and Turkey, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Mickey Edwards
Former U.S. Congressman and Founding Trustee of the Heritage Foundation
Evelyn Farkas
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia/Ukraine/Eurasia
Jeffrey Flier
Former Dean of Harvard Medical School and current Professor of Medicine at Harvard
Michele Flournoy
Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy
Jamie Fly
Senior Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States; former Senate foreign policy advisor and Bush administration official
Lady Elena Foster
Thames Bank, publisher and curator
Lord Norman Foster
Thames Bank, OM, architect
Stephen Fry
Actor and author
Francis Fukuyama
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
William A. Galston
Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
Jeffrey Gedmin
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council, and former President and CEO, RFE/RL
Nancy Gertner
U.S. District Court Judge (ret.); Senior Lecturer, Harvard Law School
Daniel Gilbert
Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Jonathan Granoff
President of the Global Security Institute
Jeff Greenfield
Author, journalist and television political analyst
Matthew Greenfield
Managing Director, ReThink Education
Mig Greengard
Author, researcher, senior advisor to Garry Kasparov
Betsy Gotbaum
Former New York City Public Advocate
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
Chairman, Spitzberg Partners; former German Minister of Economics and Technology, and former Minister of Defense
Jonathan Haidt
Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University Stern School of Business
Mark Hertling
Lieutenant General, U.S. Army (ret.), former Commanding General, U.S. Army
James Hoge
Former Editor, Foreign Affairs magazine
Tom Holland
Historian and author
Richard Hurowitz
Publisher of Octavian Report & CEO of Octavian Media and Octavian Group Holdings LLC
Michael J. Horvitz
Arts trustee and retired attorney
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Former President of Estonia, Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Erica Jong
Novelist, poet and commentator
Molly Jong-Fast
Novelist
Colin H. Kahl
Associate Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Joseph Kanon
Author
Robert D. Kaplan
Senior Fellow, Center for the New American Century
Zachary Karabell
Author and Investor
Evan Katz
Managing Director, Crawford Ventures, Inc.
James Kirchick
Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution, and author of The End of Europe
Igor Kirman
Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
William Kristol
Editor at large, The Weekly Standard
Linda LeSourd Lader
Co-founder, Renaissance Weekend
Mark Lasswell
Visiting Assistant Research Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Bernard-Henri Levy
Philosopher, author and documentary filmmaker
Joseph Lieberman
Senior counsel at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, former U.S. Senator from Connecticut
Charles Lipson
Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
Mario Vargas Llosa
Author, columnist, and 2010 Nobel Laureate in Literature
Wendy Luers
President, The Foundation for a Civil Society
Princeton Lyman
Former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa and Nigeria
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey
Distinguished Professor of Economics and of History, and Professor of English and Communication, University of Illinois at Chicago, Emerita
Michael McFaul
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia; and Director, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Evan McMullin
Founder, Stand Up Republic
Jon Meacham
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt University
Lenny Mendonca
Chair, New America Foundation and Senior Partner Emeritus, McKinsey and Co.
Judith Miller
Journalist and commentator
Rana Mitter
Director of the University China Centre, Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford
Dambisa Moyo
Global economist and author
Sam Munson
Editorial Director, The Octavian Report
Moises Naim
Distinguished Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chief international columnist for El País and La Repubblica; Contributing editor to the Atlantic
Maajid Nawaz
Author, broadcaster, and founder of counter-extremism organization Quilliam
Nicholas Negroponte
Professor and founder of MIT Media Lab
Tom Nichols
Author of The Death of Expertise
Chris Patten
Chancellor, University of Oxford
Richard North Patterson
Author, columnist for The Boston Globe and Huffington Post, former Chairman of Common Cause
Minxin Pei
Professor of Government and Director, Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, Claremont McKenna College
Jim Pensiero
Former Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Wall Street Journal
William Perry
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Thomas R. Pickering
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Ronald Radosh
Professor Emeritus of History, City University of New York
Jonathan Rauch
Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Douglas Rediker
Founder, International Capital Strategies; Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Julian Reichelt
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of BILD
Rob Reiner
Film director, actor, and activist
Andrew Roberts
Lehrman Institute Distinguished Fellow at the New-York Historical Society
Thane Rosenbaum
Novelist, essayist, law professor, and Director of the Forum on Law, Culture & Society
Dennis Ross
Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Nouriel Roubini
Chairman, Roubini Macro Associates
Andrés Rozental
President of Mexican Council on Foreign Relations and former Ambassador of Mexico to the United Kingdom
Jennifer Rubin
Opinion writer, Washington Post
Lady Jill Shaw Ruddock
Author and philanthropist
Sir Paul Ruddock
Founder, Lansdowne Partners, Chair of Oxford University Endowment
Asterios Satrazemis
CEO, BlueLine Rental
Gabriel Schoenfeld
Opinion columnist, USA Today
Wayne A. Schroeder
Adjunct Professor, The Institute of World Politics and Marymount University; Former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Resource Planning/Management)
Dan Senor
Co-author, Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle, and former senior advisor, the Honorable Paul Ryan
Beppe Severgnini
Editor-in-chief of Corriere della Sera Sette; op-ed contributing writer with The New York Times; Author (“La Bella Figura, A Field Guide to the Italian Mind”, 2006 – “Mamma Mia! Berlusconi Explained for Posterity and Friends Abroad”, 2011)
Natan Sharansky
Author, former Soviet dissident, and Israeli political leader
Bill Shireman
President and CEO of Future 500
Michael Signer
Former Mayor, Charlottesville, VA
Radek Sikorski
Former Foreign Minister and Defense Minister of Poland; Distinguished Statesman at the Center for Strategic and International Studies
Guy Sorman
Economist and author; publisher of France-Amérique Magazine
Ali Soufan
Former FBI special agent and chairman of the Soufan Group
Ilan Stavans
Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities and Latin American and Latino Culture, Amherst College
Benn Steil
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Bret Stephens
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist
Alice Stollmeyer
Executive Director, Defending Democracy
Rose Styron
Poet and human-rights activist
Jim Swartz
Founder of Accel Partners
Charles J. Sykes
Author of How the Right Lost Its Mind
Jerry Taylor
President, Niskanen Center
Laurence Tribe
Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard University
Scott Turow
Author and attorney
Fay Vincent
Former executive of Columbia Pictures and Coca-Cola, eighth Commissioner of Major League Baseball
Mary C. Waters
John L. Loeb Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
Peter Wehner
Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center, contributing opinion writer for the New York Times
Christopher Whipple
Historian and Documentary Film Maker
Dominik Wichmann
Former editor in chief of Stern; Managing Director of Looping Studios; Author of numerous books
Benjamin Wittes
Senior Fellow and Research Director in Public Law, Brookings Institution
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