Russian Federation:
- General of the Army (ret) Anatoliy S. Kulikov, former Minister of Interior and former Deputy Prime Minister
- General of the Army (ret) Valentin V. Korabelnikov, former Head, Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff
- General of the Army Aleksandr V. Starovoytov, former Head of the Federal Agency of Government Communications and Information of the Russian Federation;
- General Colonel (ret) Anatoliy E. Safonov, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and former Deputy Head of Federal Security Service
- General Colonel (ret) Viktor I. Esin, former Chief of Staff, Strategic Rocket Forces
- General Colonel (ret) Fedor I. Ladygin, former Head, Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff,
- General Colonel (ret) Vladimir N. Verkhovtsev, former Head, 12th Main Directorate of Ministry of Defense
- General Colonel Vladislav Putilin, former Head Mobilization
- General Major (ret) Vladimir Z. Dvorkin, former Director, Fourth Central Research Institute of Ministry of Defense
- General Major (ret) Pavel S. Zolotarev, former deputy chief of staff, Security Council
- Colonel Vladimir Y. Goltsov, former officer of the Internal Troops of the RF Ministry of Interior and former employee of the RF Minatom
- Mr. Victor Kulikov, Executive Director Russian Elbe Group
United States of America:
- General Eugene Habiger USAF (ret), former Commander in Chief, Strategic Command
- General John Abizaid USA (ret), former Commander Central Command
- General John W. Nicholson USA (ret), former Commander US Forces Afghanistan
- Lieutenant General Franklin Hagenbeck USA (ret), former Superintendent U.S. Military Academy and former Commander 10th Mountain Division
- Lieutenant General Michael Maples USA (ret), former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency
- Lieutenant General Douglas Lute USA (ret), former US Ambassador to NATO
- Mr. Robert Dannenberg, former Chief of Operations for Counterterrorism, Central Intelligence Agency
- Mr. Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, former Director, Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Department of Energy
- Brigadier General Kevin Ryan USA (ret), former Defense Attache, Moscow
- Mr. Paul Kolbe, former Chief of Central Eurasia Division, Central Intelligence Agency
- Ms. Natalia Angel, Program Coordinator for National Security Fellows, Elbe Group, and the Defense Project
- Ms. Maria Robson Morrow, Program Coordinator for the Intelligence Project, Recanati-Kaplan Fellows, and Elbe Group