The Elders
- Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Kofi Annan (Chair), former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Ela Bhatt, founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India
- Lakhdar Brahimi, former Foreign Minister of Algeria and United Nations envoy
- Gro Harlem Brundtland (Deputy Chair), former Prime Minister of Norway and former Director-General of the World Health Organization
- Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former President of Brazil
- Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Graça Machel, former Education Minister of Mozambique, President of the Foundation for Community Development and wife of Nelson Mandela
- Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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“If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new.”
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