Ann Curry, NBC News

Ann Curry is the news anchor at the "Today" show and co-anchor of "Dateline NBC". In the past year, she has traveled three times to Sudan to report on the violence in Darfur and Chad. Her coverage has included in-depth reports on the plight of victims of the conflict and exclusive interviews with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Chadian President Idriss Deby.

Ms. Curry traveled to Africa with First Lady Laura Bush in 2005 on a trip that focused on issues including HIV/AIDS, women's rights and education. She was the first network news anchor to report from inside the tsunami zone in Southeast Asia and also reported from Albania and Macedonia during the Kosovo conflict.

Her many accolades include two Emmys, four Golden Mikes and awards from the NAACP, the Anti-Defamation League and the Asian American Journalists Association.

Ms. Curry graduated from the University of Oregon School of Journalism in 1978.

Mia Farrow, Actress & UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

Mia Farrow has devoted much of her time to humanitarian causes, particularly those supporting children, and was appointed as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations children's fund, UNICEF, in 2000. She has traveled widely in Africa to draw attention to the continent's forgotten crises and conflicts.

Ms. Farrow has called for U.N. peacekeeping forces to be sent to Darfur, where she toured the conflict area for a second time last year. She is an active campaigner for divestment from Sudan, including via her Web site, miafarrow.org.

Born in Los Angeles, Ms. Farrow made her stage debut in 1963 in an off-Broadway production of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. She has appeared in more than 40 films including The Great Gatsby, Death on the Nile, Rosemary's Baby, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Hannah and Her Sisters and Alice, for which she received a Golden Globe award.

Hedi Annabi, Assistant-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, U.N.

Lauren Landis, Senior Representative to Sudan, U.S. Department of State

Lauren Landis has served as Senior Representative to Sudan in the U.S. Department of State African Affairs bureau (Sudan Programs Group) since August last year. She is active in promoting implementation of an accord that ended Sudan's north-south civil war and is a frequent visitor to Khartoum.

Ms. Landis was previously Director of the Office of Food for Peace at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), where she developed new methods to address food insecurity around the world, including establishing an overseas pre-positioning facility. During her tenure, FFP focused much of its resources on averting famine in Ethiopia, southern Africa, and Darfur.

From 1995 to 2001, Ms. Landis served as the Director of Emergency Response and Food Security at Save the Children and has also worked at USAID as Emergency Operations Coordinator in Somalia. She is an alumna of Mount Holyoke College, where she majored in International Relations.

Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad, Sudanese Ambassador to the United Nations

Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad began his career with the Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1975. He has served in the Sudan Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and was Dean of the African and Arab group of Ambassadors and High Commissioners to India.

As Ambassador and Deputy Head of Mission at Sudan's Embassy in Ethiopia from 1990 to 1995, he worked on bilateral relations, conflict resolution and economic cooperation with the Organization of African Unity. He was a presidential envoy to Somalia in 1994 and was Sudan's Special Envoy to Afghanistan in May 2003.

A lecturer and author, Mr. Mohamad received his Bachelor of Science degree in Political Science from the University of Khartoum in Sudan and his master's degree in international relations from Ohio University in the United States in 1978. He holds a doctorate for research into regional cooperation and integration.

John Prendergast, Senior Adviser, International Crisis Group

John Prendergast is Senior Advisor to the International Crisis Group and one of the leaders of the ENOUGH campaign against the perpetration of atrocities in several parts of Africa, including Darfur.

He worked at the White House and the State Department during the Clinton administration from 1996 to 2001, when he was involved in peace processes in a number of African countries. He has also worked for members of Congress, the United Nations, human rights groups and think tanks and has authored eight books on Africa, the latest with actor/activist Don Cheadle entitled "Not on Our Watch."

Mr. Prendergast travels regularly to Africa's war zones, including with news teams, celebrities and politicians. His areas of expertise include African affairs, conflict prevention and resolution, counter-terrorism and Sub-Saharan Africa.