Jason Beaubien is an award-winning journalist who spent more than two decades with National Public Radio, primarily covering global affairs in lower-income nations. He has filed stories from more than 60 countries and in 2022, served temporarily as NPR’s Middle East correspondent based in Iraq. In early 2023, he was one of the first reporters NPR sent to Turkey to cover the massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria. During the Arab Spring he reported from Cairo and Libya, covering the fall of Muammar Gaddafi. Currently based in Maryland, Beaubien was NPR’s Africa correspondent from 2002-2008. After a Knight-Wallace Fellowship he took over as the network’s chief correspondent in Mexico City.

Yael Lavie is an American-Israeli Journalist, broadcaster and independent filmmaker who has worked around the world with a particular focus on the Middle East and Europe. A former senior producer and editor for ABC News, Lavie reported on the aftermath of 9/11 from New York City, Afghanistan, and Iraq. She relocated to the Middle East in 2006 as senior editorial producer for Sky News’ Jerusalem/Middle East bureau. Lavie was managing editor and anchor of "The Morning Edition" and later "The Daily Dose" on I24news, an international news channel broadcasting from Jaffa, Israel. She directed several documentaries, authored the book "War Producer,” and served as showrunner and co-executive producer on "Vaxxed Nation," a Smithsonian channel documentary about Israel's vaccination campaign at the onset of the covid-19 pandemic. Lavie lectures on Media ethics in the digital age with a particular focus on conflict zone reporting at Reichman University.

Maggie Michael is an investigative journalist with Reuters. She has more than 20 years of experience covering conflicts across the Middle East, gaining deep knowledge of its political, social, and cultural dynamics. In 2019, she was part of an Associated Press team that won numerous international awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for groundbreaking investigations of war crimes in Yemen. Michael was an investigative reporter with The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), where she worked on investigations related to financial crimes for two years before joining Reuters in February 2023.

Sudarsan Raghavan is a correspondent at large for The Washington Post and also serves as a MIMEF board member. He has spent the past three decades mostly as a foreign correspondent posted in Baghdad, Cairo, Johannesburg, Kabul, Madrid and Nairobi. Raghavan has covered Islamist movements, global terrorism, the Taliban’s repeated rise and fall and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has also extensively reported on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the 2011 Arab Spring revolutions and their fallout, as well as the 2004 Darfur genocide. As Baghdad bureau chief, Raghavan ran The Post's largest overseas operation during the Iraq War's most violent years. He began his career freelancing from the Afghan-Pakistan border and later post-apartheid South Africa and has received numerous awards for his work.

Missy Ryan is a national security reporter with The Washington Post where she covers the Pentagon and the State Department. She has reported from Ukraine, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Mexico, Peru, Argentina and other countries. Ryan holds a Bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University. In 2012, she was honored with the New York Press Club Award for political reporting. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a White House Fellow, and speaks Spanish and Arabic.