Carla Sands was appointed to serve as Ambassador to Denmark in the first Trump Administration after serving on the Council of Economic Advisors.

Sands proposed and helped establish the U.S. Consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, and assisted with resolving the Thule Base Maintenance Contract dispute. She facilitated partnership agreements between the U.S. and the people of Greenland and the people of the Faroe Islands and expanded the U.S. mission in the Kingdom of Denmark to include the Coast Guard.

In January 2021, Sands received the Department of Defense’s highest civilian honor, the Medal for Distinguished Public Service, for her work to increase security in the high north while countering Russia and China.

Dr. Sumantra Maitra is the Director of research and outreach at the American Ideas Institute, a senior fellow at the Center for Renewing America, and a Fellow at the Royal Historical Society, London.

He coined the doctrine of “Dormant NATO”. His latest book is titled The Sources of Russian Aggression (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024).

He has extensively written about the diplomatic posture needed to integrate Greenland to the US security interests.

Reid Smith is vice president of foreign policy at Stand Together. Reid oversees the organization’s philanthropic strategy and policy advocacy relating to U.S. defense and foreign policies. Reid is an expert on the domestic politics of American foreign policy, constitutional war powers, and US grand strategy.

His previous affiliations include the Cato Institute, the Foreign Policy Association, and the Foreign Policy Research Institute. Reid attended the University of Virginia as an undergraduate before earning graduate degrees at American University’s School of International Service and the University of Delaware.