Hayne Hipp is a private investor and former CEO of Liberty Corporation, an insurance and broadcasting holding company in Greenville, SC. He is a Trustee of the Aspen Institute and former trustee of the Palmetto Business Forum, Greenville County School District, the National Urban League, Washington and Lee University, and the South Carolina Research Authority, as well as the former chair of the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce and the Peace Center for Performing Arts. Hipp is a former director of SCANA Corporation, Dan River Inc., Liberty Corporation and Wachovia Corporation. A graduate of Washington and Lee, he earned an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business and completed additional studies at Harvard University.

Benjamin Bernard Dunlap, President of Wofford College, was instrumental in the establishment of Liberty Fellowship and has moderated its seminars since its inception. Dunlap attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1967. He has held academic appointments at Harvard, the University of South Carolina and Wofford College and in 2006 received an honorary degree from his alma mater, the University of the South (Sewanee). He serves as a frequent moderator for the Aspen Institute and for its Global Leadership Network in this country and abroad. A prominent lecturer, Dunlap has taught and lectured widely in Europe, India, Thailand and Japan, serving twice as Senior Fulbright Lecturer. He has published numerous poems, essays, anthologies, guides and opera libretti and written and produced award-winning programs for public television. He lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of The Aspen Institute, is the former chairman and CEO of the CNN News Group. CNN won four Emmy Awards for news and documentaries under Isaacson’s leadership. A former Rhodes Scholar, he has served as editorial director of Time, Inc. and managing editor of Time magazine. A graduate of Harvard College and Pembroke College of Oxford University, Isaacson is the co-author of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made, and the author of both Kissinger: A Biography and Benjamin Franklin: An American Life.

Philip Lader, a partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, is Chairman of WPP Group, one of the world's largest advertising and communications companies. He is a senior adviser to Morgan Stanley and serves on the boards of four global corporations, the Smithsonian Museum of American History, RAND Corporation and the Atlantic Council. Confirmed by the U.S. Senate three times without dissent, Lader was U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James, a member of the President's Cabinet and White House Deputy Chief of Staff. Lader is the former president of Sea Pines Company and Winthrop University and also founded Renaissance Weekends, the family retreats for innovative leaders. He received his J.D. from Harvard, M.A. from the University of Michigan, B.A. from Duke University, and completed graduate studies in law at Oxford University.

Anne Graham Masters, former Medical Director and owner of The Perinatal Center in West Palm Beach, FL, is a Board Member of The Greenville March of Dimes and on the Board of Trustees of Warren Wilson College. She was also appointed by the Governor of South Carolina to the Task Force for the MAP Commission. A 1973 graduate of Warren Wilson College, Graham Masters received her MD from Tulane University and her MBA from the University of London. She has lectured and written extensively on high risk pregnancies and perinatal care.

Francis P. (Frank) Mood, Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Assistant Secretary of SCANA Corporation, was previously a partner at Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, P.A., and the firm’s lead attorney in its regulated utilities and administrative law practice. He has served as chairman of The Citadel’s governing board, president of The Citadel Foundation, chairman of the South Carolina Board of Bar Examiners, and has recently completed a term as Interim Dean of the University of South Carolina School of Law. He is a member of the South Carolina Bar and the American Bar Association and a permanent member of the Judicial Conference of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Mood is a graduate of The Citadel and the University of Virginia School of Law.

William (Billy) Webster IV, who currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Advance America Board of Directors, is the former chief of staff to the U.S. Secretary of Education and a former White House Fellow. In addition, he served as Assistant to the President and Director of Scheduling and Advance in the White House. Webster was a representative to the South Carolina Commission on Government Restructuring, a member of the board of directors of the Palmetto Project and the Alliance for Quality Education, and co-chairman of the South Carolina Voter Registration Drive. A 1979 summa cum laude graduate of Washington and Lee University and a Fulbright scholar, Webster is also a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law.

David H. Wilkins served as the 21st United States Ambassador to Canada. He previously served for 25 years in the South Carolina House of Representatives, 11 as speaker of the House. Wilkins began his legislative career in 1980 and quickly rose through the ranks in the House of Representatives, serving six years as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and two years as speaker pro tem before his election as speaker. He served as state chairman of the Bush-Cheney ‘04 campaign and as co-chair of the South Carolina Bush for President campaign and was appointed by President Bush to the Board of Visitors to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 2002. Wilkins is chairman of the Clemson University Board of Trustees, past president of the National Speakers’ Association and former chair of the Southern Legislative Conference. He holds a B.A. from Clemson University and earned his J.D. cum laude from the University of South Carolina.  He practiced law for 34 years with Wilkins & Madden in Greenville.