Andrea Viski founded the Strategic Trade Review in 2015 and the Strategic Trade Research Institute in 2017.

Peter “Pete” Tseronis is the founder and CEO of Dots and Bridges LLC.

Charles Schmitz is professor of Geography at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland where he has taught since 1999. Schmitz is a specialist on the Middle East and Yemen.

CISSM will host a group of students from Moscow's School for International Security and World Politics at the Institute of USA and Canada Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN).

Catherine Worsnop is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland-College Park. She is also a Research Associate at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM).

Carol Graham is Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a College Park Professor at the University of Maryland and a senior scientist at Gallup.