Mr. Jaramillo served as Vice-Minister of Defense for Colombia from 2006 to 2009. Before this, he previously served as an adviser to the Colombian Defense Minister between 2002-2004 when he was responsible for the development and coordination of the Colombian Government’s Defense and Democratic Security Policy. He has also worked in the Colombian Foreign Ministry, including a posting as political officer to the Colombian Embassy in Paris. Mr. Jaramillo has also headed the Ideas for Peace Foundation in Bogota. Mr. Jaramillo studied Philosophy and Greek at the University of Toronto, holds a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge and has studied at the University of Heidelberg in Germany.

Dr. Kilmer is co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. He is currently the principal investigator or co-principal investigator on three projects at RAND: Improving data on illegal drug markets and drug-related crime in Europe; identifying the community-level effects of drug treatment; and conducting a cost-effectiveness analysis of a brief voluntary alcohol and drug intervention for middle school youth. He is an assistant editor for Addiction, the co-editor of the new Journal of Drug Policy Analysis, and his recent work was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Policy. Before earning his Ph.D., Kilmer received a Judicial Administration Fellowship that supported his work with the San Francisco Drug Court.

Professor Miron is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. Before coming to Harvard, he served as the chairman of the Department of Economics at Boston University from 1992 to 1998. Professor Miron’s papers have been published in such respected journals as the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics and his editorials can be found in a variety of newspapers, from the Boston Herald to The London Observer. Among his many other projects, Professor Miron is currently in the midst of writing a book titled Libertarianism, from A to Z. He also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute.

RADM Nimmich serves as Commander of the First Coast Guard District since July 2009, overseeing all Coast Guard missions across eight states in the Northeast and 2,000 miles of coastline from the U.S.-Canadian border to northern New Jersey. Before this, RADM Nimmich was Director of Joint Interagency Task Force South which is charged with enforcing US drug policy in the Caribbean. In addition to graduating from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy with a Bachelor of Science in History and Government, he has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the Stern School of Business as well as a Masters Degree in Strategic Studies from the Army War College. In his many years of service, RADM Nimmich has earned many awards, including the Legion of Merit (with 3 Gold Stars), the Coast Guard Achievement Medal (with two stars and operational ‘O’ device), the Commandant’s Letter of Commendation (with star and operational ‘O’ device) and the Department of Transportation 9-11 Medal.