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Rachel Mackey
Fellow and Executive Director, Hudson Institute Political Studies
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
David W. Murray
Senior Fellow
Erin O’Toole
Distinguished Fellow
Steven Quay
Senior Fellow
