Sir Arthur Alexander Foulkes GCMG (born 11 May 1928) was the Governor-General of the Bahamas from 2011 to 2014. Foulkes was elected to the House of Assembly in 1967 and served in the government of Lynden Pindling as Minister of Communications and Minister of Tourism. In 1971, he was a founder of the Free National Movement, and he was appointed to the Senate in 1972 and 1977 before returning to the House of Assembly in 1982. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (KCMG) in 2001. He was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (GCMG) in 2010.
Honourable A. Loftus Roker
The Hon. A Loftus Roker was born on the island Acklins, located in the southern region of the Bahamas. After realizing that the Teaching Profession was not his calling, Mr. Roker decided to return to school aboard to study Law.
As a former Minister of National Security, Mr. Roker became itched in Bahamian history because of his tough stance on the Haitian Immigration issues plaguing the Bahamas under the Pindling Government in the 1980’s.
Mr. Roker is currently retired from Politics and has returned to live in his birth place; Acklins.
Dr. Myles Monroe
Myles Munroe, OBE (20 April 1954 – 9 November 2014) was a Bahamian Evangelical Christian evangelist and ordained Pentecostal minister, author, speaker and leadership consultant who founded and led the Bahamas Faith Ministries International (BFMI) and Myles Munroe International (MMI). He was chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the International Third World Leaders Association and president of the International Leadership Training Institute as well as the author of numerous books.
Jonathan Marshall
Jonathan Marshall is an award-winning journalist and researcher who’s work has published in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and many other newspapers, popular magazines and scholarly journals. He is author or co-author of five books on international relations and modern history, including The Lebanese Connection: Corruption, Civil War, the International Drug Traffic, & Cocaine Politics.
Thomas W. Zeiler Ph.D., University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Professor of history at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he teaches American diplomatic history, modern U.S. history, World War II, and American history through baseball. His works include Free Trade, Free World: America and the Advent of GATT, Globalization and the American Century, Annihilation: A Global Military History of World War II, and Ambassadors in Pinstripes: The Spalding World Baseball Tour and the Birth of the American Empire. He is editor of the journal Diplomatic History and a past president of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.