Aspen Ideas Conference 2012 Speakers

Mike Abramowitz - Director of the Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Donald Abrams - Chief of Hematology Oncology San Francisco General Hospital; Professor Clinical Medicine at University of California San Francisco
Joel Achenbach - Joel Achenbach is an American staff writer for The Washington Post and the author of six books, including The Grand Idea, Captured by Aliens, and three compilations of his syndicated newspaper column "Why Things Are" (now defunct).
David B. Agus - Professor of Medicine and Engineering, University of Southern California; Co-Founder, Navigenics; Author, "The End of Illness"
Blaise Aguera y Arcas - Works at Google on Machine Intelligence; Former Architect of Bing Maps and MSN, Microsoft
Noura Al Kaabi - Noura Al Kaabi is CEO of twofour54, an initiative by the Abu Dhabi government to foster the growth of the Arabic media entertainment industry.
Ellen Alberding - President, Joyce Foundation
Mike Allen - Chief White House Correspondent, Politico, and Creator, Playbook and Morning Money.
Laura Alonso - National Representative, Argentina
Kurt Andersen - Host, "Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC"; Author
Marco Annunziata - Chief Economist and Executive Director, Global Market Insights, General Electric Co.
Gustavo Arellano - Editor, OC Weekly; Syndicated Columnist, "Ask the Mexican!"; Author, "Taco USA"
Donald Baer - Worldwide Chairman and CEO, Burson-Marsteller; Chairman, Penn Schoen Berland; Co-Founder and Chairman, Palisades Media Ventures
Molly Ball - Staff writer covering U.S. politics at The Atlantic
James Balog - Acclaimed Photographer Featured in Chasing Ice , Adventurer, and Founder of the Extreme Ice Survey
Keith Banks - President, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Ehud Barak - Former Minister of Defense and Prime Minister of Israel; Most Decorated Soldier in Israel's History
Melody Barnes - Former Domestic Policy Advisor, Obama White House; Chair, Forum for Community Solutions, The Aspen Institute
Maria Bartiromo - Financial Journalist on Fox Business News; Former Anchor of CNBC's "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo"
James Bennet - Editor in Chief, The Atlantic
Berl Bernhard - Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute Partner, DLA Piper US LLP
Jackie Bezos - Co-Director, Bezos Family Foundation
David G. Bradley - Chairman and Owner, Atlantic Media Company
Taylor Branch - Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, America in the King Years
David Breashears - Everest Adventurer And Filmmaker & Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Leadership
Christine Brennan - USA Today Sports Columnist, Television Analyst and Best-selling Author
Eli Broad - Eli Broad is founder of The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.
Paula Broadwell - Author, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus; Research Associate, Harvard University
Beth Brooke-Marciniak - Global Vice Chair, Public Policy, EY; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Arthur C. Brooks - President, American Enterprise Institute
David Brooks - Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Author of NY Times Bestseller "The Road to Character"
Jim Brown - Jim Brown is to running backs what Superman is to cartoon heroes. Standing 6-foot-2 and packing 230 hard pounds on his square-shouldered frame, he was an explosive fullback, combining outstanding speed with awesome power.
Tim Brown - Tim Brown is the CEO of IDEO, a Global Design and Innovation Consulting Firm
Ronald Brownstein - Editorial Director for Strategic Partnerships, Atlantic Media Company
Tory Burch - Designer and CEO, Tory Burch LLC; Founder, The Tory Burch Foundation
Nicholas Burns - Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard University
Lauren Bush-Lauren - Founder and CEO of FEED Projects
Allison Carruth - Associate Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Stanford University
Stephen L. Carter - Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University.
Merle Chambers - Founder, Chambers Family Fund
Elaine Chang - Founder, Social Teeth; Graduate Student, Stanford University
Kevin Chi - Co-Founder, CombatIV; Graduate Student, Stanford School of Medicine
Stacey Childress - CEO at NewSchools Venture Fund; Former Deputy Director, US Program, Education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Ann-Ping Chin - Senior Lecturer, History Department, Yale University
Melissa Chiu - Museum Director, Asia Society
Myung Sun Choi - Co-Founder, CompactCath; Graduate Student, Stanford Mechanical Engineering
Erika Christakis - Lecturer, Yale Child Study Center
Nicholas Christakis - Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science, Director, Human Nature Lab, and Co-Director, Yale Institute for Network Science, Yale University
Jason Chua - Co-Founder, SparkTruck
Prof. Dr. Amy Chua - Author of "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother;" The 2011 TIME 100; The Atlantic's 2011 Brave Thinker.
Lu Chuan - Director, Writer, City of Life and Death
Peggy Clark - Managing Director, Aspen Global Health and Development
Steve Clemons - Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
Lawrence J Cohen - Psychologist; Author, Playful Parenting
Anthony Coles - President and CEO, Onyx Pharmaceuticals
Neal Conan - Former Host, NPR's "Talk of the Nation"
David Cote - Chairman and CEO, Honeywell
Katie Couric - Global Anchor of Yahoo News
Tyler Cowen - Professor of Economics, George Mason University; Bestselling Author of "The Great Stagnation"
Roger Cressey - NBC Counter-terrorism Analyst & Former Presidential Advisor
Clive Crook - Columnist and member of the editorial board at Bloomberg View; Senior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly.
Mitch Daniels - President of Purdue University, Governor of Indiana (2005-2013) and Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2001-2003)
John Danner - Co-Founder and CEO, Rocketship Education
Thomas Daschle - Senior Policy Advisor, DLA Piper; Former US Senator (D-SD)
Kevin Delaney - Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder, Quartz
Vishakha N. Desai - President and CEO of Asia Society
Elizabeth Diller - Elizabeth diller and husband, ricardo scofidio,create an alternative form of architecture practice that unites design, performance and electronic media with cultural and itectural theory and criticism.
Dennis Dimick - Executive Editor, Environment, National Geographic
E.J. Dionne, Jr. - Syndicated Washington Post Columnist; Political Analyst for National Public Radio
Thomas Donaldson - Mark O. Winkelman Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
John Donvan - Moderator, "Intelligence Squared US"; Correspondent, ABC News
Pierre Dulaine - Pierre Dulaine, Founder, Dancing Classrooms
Diana L. Eck - Professor of Comparative Religion & Indian Studies
Micah Eckhardt - Doctoral Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peter Edelman - Law Professor & Author
Mickey Edwards - Former US Congressman/Professor
Michael D. Eisner - President and CEO, The Tornante Company; Former CEO and Chairman of The Walt Disney Company
Christopher Elias - President, Global Development Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Rehema Ellis - Education Correspondent, NBC News
Ezekiel J. Emanuel - Leading Practitioners Shaping the Future of Healthcare; Expertise in Policy
Oskar Eustis - Artistic Director, Public Theater
Heidi Ewing - Co-Director, Detropia
James Fallows - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
Thomas A. Fanning - CEO, President, and Chairman, Southern Company
Todd Farrell - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tom Farrey - Correspondent; Director, ESPN; Director, Sports and Society, The Aspen Institute
Kenneth Feinberg - Founder and Managing Partner, Feinberg Rozen; Special Master for Executive Compensation, Obama Administration
Eric Feng - Founder and CEO, Erly
Charlie Firestone - executive director of the Communications and Society Program at the Aspen Institute
Richard Fisher - President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Brian Fiske - Vice President, Research Programs, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
Alan Fletcher - President and CEO, Aspen Music Festival and School; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Richard Florida - Best-Selling Author & Urbanist
Russ Ford - Executive vice president onshore for Shell Upstream Americas.
Jon Frankel - Correspondent, "Real Sports with Bryan Gumbel," HBO
Chrystia Freeland - Editor of Thomson Reuters Digital; Previously the U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times
Jacob Frenz - co-founder of CombatIV
Ann B. Friedman - Board of Trustees
Thomas Friedman - Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Winning Commentator, New York Times Columnist and Author of "The World Is Flat"
Ellen Galinsky - Leading Authority on Work-Family Issues
Howard Gardner - Renowned Developmental & Cognitive Psychologist; Father of Multiple Intelligences Theory; Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Daniel Garza - Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery / Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine
Theaster Gates - Director of Arts and Public Life, University of Chicago; Founder and President, Rebuild Foundation
Helene Gayle - President and CEO of CARE USA
Martin Gaynor - E.J. Barone Professor of Economics and Health Policy, Carnegie Mellon University; Chair of the Board, Health Care Cost Institute
David Gergen - Senior Political Analyst, CNN
Elliot Gerson - Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute
Miles Gilburne - Founder and CEO, ePals
Dan Glickman - Executive Director, Congressional Program, The Aspen Institute; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center; Former Secretary, US Department of Agriculture
Deborah Goldberg - Managing Attorney, Earthjustice
Jeffrey Goldberg - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
Elliot Goldenthal - Composer
Hala Gorani - Anchor and Correspondent, CNN
Lori Gottlieb - Psychotherapist; Author, Marry Him
Rachel Grady - Co-Director, Detropia
Brian Greene - Quantum Gravity and String Theory Physicist; Founder of World Science U
Alan Greenspan - Chairman, Federal Reserve System (1987-2006)
Richard Haass - President, Council on Foreign Relations
Leigh Hafrey - Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Rayonna Hall - Graduate, Gateway to College
Margaret A. Hamburg - Former Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration
Jon Hamilton - Correspondent, Science Desk, NPR
Jane Harman - President, CEO, and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Former US Representative (D-CA); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Bob Harper - Fitness Expert and Author; currently appearing on "The Biggest Loser"
Cheryl G. Healton - President and CEO, American Legacy Foundation
Chris Heilmann - Chief Fiduciary Executive, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Francis J. Henry Jr. - Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Fred P. Hochberg - Chairman and President, Export-Import Bank of the United States
Reid Hoffman - Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of LinkedIn & Partner at Greylock
Tracie Holder - Co-Director and Producer, Joe Papp in Five Acts
Daniel Wei-Chen Hong - Co-Founder, CompactCath; Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
Chris Howard - President, Hampden-Sydney College
Katherine Hudson - Watershed Program Director, Riverkeeper
Arianna Huffington - President & Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group & New York Times Bestselling Author of Thrive
Christopher M. Hyzy - Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Gwen Ifill - Moderator and Managing Editor, PBS’s "Washington Week"; Co-Anchor and Managing Editor, “PBS NewsHour"
Steve Inskeep - Host, “Morning Edition,” NPR
Walter Isaacson - President and C.E.O. of the Aspen Institute
Lisa P. Jackson - Vice President of Environment, Policy & Social Initiatives at Apple
Kristi Jacobson - Co-Director, Finding North
Leila Janah - Social Entreprenuer; Founder and CEO of Samasource - A Global Workforce Initiative
David Janka - Co-Founder, CompactCath
Valerie B. Jarrett - Senior Advisor to President Obama
Xavier Jennings - MHYC's YouthBuild program as Program Specialist facilitating leadership classes and leading service projects
Simon Johnson - Coauthor, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown, New York Times Best-seller for 5 weeks.
Robert Kagan - Senior Fellow of Foreign Policy, Center for United States and Europe; Brookings Institution Author, "The World America Made"
Gregory Kallenberg - Director and Producer, Rational Middle Energy Series
Musimbi Kanyoro - President and CEO, Global Fund for Women
Pamela S. Karlan - Professor of law at Stanford Law School and a leading liberal legal scholar on voting rights and the political process
Alexis Karolides - Principal, Rocky Mountain Institute
Bridget Kendall - Host, BBC World Service's "The Forum"
David M. Kennedy - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
Philip Kennicott - Art and Architecture Critic, The Washington Post
Kellee Khalil - Founder & CEO of Lover.ly
Chris Kibarian - President, Intellectual Property and Science, Thomson Reuters
Michael Kimmel - The Nation's Leading Scholar on Men and Masculinity
Ross D. King - Professor, University of Manchester
Joe Klein - Joe Klein writes Time "In the Arena," a weekly column in TIME Magazine which covers national and international affairs.
Gary Knell - President and CEO, NPRkm'
Eugene Korsunskiy - Co-Founder, SparkTruck
Michael Kranish - Washington Bureau Deputy Chief, Boston Globe
Lawrence Krauss - Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department, and Director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University
Alan Krueger - Former Chairman, President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers
Coco Krumme - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Patricia K. Kuhl - Co-Director, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences; Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington; Endowed Chair, Bezos Family Foundation for Early Childhood Learning
Corby Kummer - Senior editor at The Atlantic
Ray LaHood - Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation
Rocco Landesman - Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
Mitch Landrieu - Mayor, City of New Orleans
Shelly Lazarus - Chairman, Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide
Steven Leder - Senior Rabbi, Wilshire Boulevard Temple
Sylvia Lee - Manager, Water, Skoll Global Threats Fund
Debra L. Lee - Chairman and CEO BET Networks
Mary A. Legere - Lieutenant General, U.S. Army; Senior Army Intelligence Officer, Pentagon
Jonah Lehrer - Neuroscientist, New York Times bestselling author of "Imagine: How Creativity Works"
David Leonhardt - Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Adam Lerner - Director, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art
David Levin - David Levin is the author of, Don't Just Talk, Be Heard! Closing the Gap Between What You Say and What People Hear.
Madeline Levine - Educator & Author of The Price of Privilege
Amir Levine - Principle Investigator, Columbia University
Sanford Levinson - W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair Professor of Government, The University of Texas School of Law
Eric X. Li - Founder and Managing Director, Chengwei Capital
Xiaolin Li - President, Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries
Robert Lipsyte - Author, An Accidental Sportswriter
Fan Lixin - Documentary Filmmaker, Yuan Fang Media; Director, Last Train Home
Shane Lopez - Senior Scientist-in-Residence, Gallup
Michael Lopp - Director, Planitir Technologies
Alexis Madrigal - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Suzanne Malveaux - Anchor, CNN
Geoff Manaugh - Co-Director, Studio-X NYC, Adjunct Professor, Columbia GSAPP
Marissa Mayer - President and CEO of Yahoo
William E. Mayer - Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute; Partner, Park Avenue Equity Partners
Kathleen McCartney - Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Annie McChrystal - Lecturer, McChrystal Group
General Stanley McChrystal - Former Commander of U.S. and International Forces in Afghanistan; Known for his TED Talk "The Military Case for Sharing Knowledge"
Mike McConnell - Vice Chairman, Booz Allen Hamilton
David McConville - President, Buckminster Fuller Institute
Steven J. McCormick - President and CEO, The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Daniel McDuff - Principal Research Scientist, Affectiva, PhD., MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts
Charles Thomas "Tom" McMillen - Former NBA Basketball Player; Former US Congressman (D-MD)
Douglas McMillon - President and CEO of Walmart International
Jamie P. Merisotis - President and CEO, Lumina Foundation
Angela Messer - Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Amanda Michel - Open Editor, The Guardian
George J. Mitchell - Former US Senator / Author / Lawyer
Andrea Mitchell - Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC
Ted Mitchell - President and CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund
Moby - Musician, DJ, Photographer
Heidi Moore - New York Bureau Chief, "Marketplace," American Public Media
Gregory Mosher - Director, Producer
Anne Mosle - Executive Director, Ascend, The Aspen Institute
Ralph W. Moss - Director, The Moss Reports
Russell Muirhead - Robert Clements Associate Professor of Democracy and Politics, Dartmouth College
Mike Mullen - Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (2007-2011)
Jerry Murdock - Managing Director and Co-founder, Insight Venture Partners
Charles Murray - Author of "Coming Apart" & W. H. Brady Scholar at American Enterprise Institute
Pervez Musharraf - Former President of Pakistan
Elizabeth Nabel - First NFL Chief Health and Medical Advisor; President, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Niven Narain - President and Chief Technology Officer, Berg Diagnostics
Alyse Nelson - Co-founder, President, and CEO Vital Voices Global Partnership
Andrew Ng - Founder, Coursera
Ou Ning - Artist, Curator, Publisher; Chief Editor, Chutzpah! Magazine
Craig Nixon - Principal, Leadership Development and Education, McChrystal Group
Joe Nocera - Opinion-Editorial Columnist, The New York Times
Seth Norman - Member, CombatIV Team
Michele Norris - Host and Special Correspondent, NPR
Chris Nowinski - Co-Founder & Executive Director of Sports Legacy Institute: Dedicated to Solving the Concussion Crisis
Michael O'Hanlon - Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Tim O'Reilly - Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media
Marvin Odum - President, Shell Oil Company
Dele Olojede - Publisher and Chairman, Timbuktu Media
Norman Ornstein - Journalist
Peter Orszag - Peter R. Orszag is the seventh Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Meghan L. O’Sullivan - Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Eduardo Padron - President, Miami-Dade Community Colleges
Elaine Pagels - Religion Scholar, Author and Professor at Princeton
Jennifer Pahlka - Deputy Chief Technology Officer, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Founder, Code for America
Billy Parish - Renowned Social Entrepreneur & Youth Organizer
Annise Parker - Mayor, City of Houston
Ed Parsons - Geospatial Technologist, Google
Stephen Patrick - Senior Program Officer, Postsecondary Success Team, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Aaron Peck - Co-Founder, SparkTruck
Nadya Peek - Graduate Student, Media Arts and Sciences School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Minxin Pei - Minxin Pei is a director of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he has also been a senior associate since 1999.
Mark Penn - Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
Susan Peters - Vice President, Executive Development & Chief Learning Officer, General Electric Company
Richard A. Pildes - Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law; Co-Director, New York University Center on Law and Security
James T. Powell - Chief Technology Officer, Thomson Reuters
Mark Preston - Executive Editor, CNN Politics
Louie Psihoyos - Executive Director of the Oceanic Preservation Society, Director of the 2009 Academy Award-winning documentary "The Cove."
John Quackenbush - Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Harvard School of Public Health
Dominic Randolph - Head of School, Riverdale Country School
Wallace Renfro - Vice President and Chief Policy Advisor, NCAA
Lynda Resnick - Vice Chairman, Roll Global; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Paul Rieckhoff - Founder and Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA); Author, "Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq"
Craig Robinson - Men's Basketball Head Coach, Oregon State University
Charlie Rose - Host, PBS's The Charlie Rose Show and Charlie Rose - The Week; Co-Anchor, CBS This Morning
Eric Rosenbaum - Doctoral Student, Lifelong Kindergarten Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew Ross Sorkin - Financial Columnist for The New York Times & Co-Anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box
David Rothkopf - Former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce
Jed Rubenfeld - Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law, Yale Law School
David M. Rubenstein - Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Kai Ryssdal - Host, Senior Editor, American Public Media's "Marketplace"
Ricardo Salinas - President and CEO, Salinas Group
Beth Sauerhaft - Director of global environmental sustainability in PepsiCo’s global health and agriculture division
Jeremy Schapp - Reporter and Host, ESPN
Orville Schell - Arthur Ross Director, Center on US China Relations, Asia Society
Bob Schieffer - Former Moderator of “Face The Nation,” Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
Edwin Schlossberg - President and Principal Designer, ESI Design
Eric Schmidt - Executive Chairman & Former CEO, Google
Dennis Scholl - Vice President, Arts Program, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Howard Schultz - Chairman, President CEO of Starbucks
John Seely Brown - Visiting Scholar, Advisor to the Provost, University of Southern California; Independent Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge
Beppe Severgnini - Journalist, Columnist; Author, La Bella Figura
Russell Shaw - Head of School Georgetown Day School
Harry Shearer - Actor and Comedian; Known for "The Simpsons" and "Spinal Tap"
Hu Shuli - Editor-in-Chief, Caixin
David Silverman - Animation Director, The Simpsons
John Skipper - President, ESPN
Shimon Slavin - Professor of Medicine and Scientific and Medical Director, The International Center for Cell Therapy and Cancer Immunotherapy
Mario Small - Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Anna Deavere Smith - Award-Winning Actress, Playwright, Social Commentator
Alix Spiegel - Correspondent, Science Desk, NPR
Constance Squire - Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House
Bonnie St. John - Paralympic Ski Medalist, Fortune 500 Business Consultant, Rhodes Scholar, Former White House Official and Best-selling Author
Deirdre Stanley - executive vice president and general counsel
Naama Stauber - Co-Founder, CompactCath; Graduate Student, Stanford University
Kat M. Steele - PhD Candidate, Stanford Mechanical Engineering
James Steinberg - Dean, Maxwell School of Syracuse University; Former Deputy Secretary of State
Bret Stephens - The Wall Street Journal's Deputy Editorial Page Editor & Principal Columnist on Foreign Affairs
Betsey Stevenson - Professor, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
James Steyer - CEO, Common Sense Media; Author, "Talking Back to Facebook"
Scott Stossel - Editor, The Atlantic
Lynn Stout - Lynn A. Stout is the Paul Hastings Professor of Corporate and Securities Law at UCLA, where she specializes in corporate governance, securities regulation and law and economics.
Lawrence Summers - Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Weil Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard University; Former US Secretary of the Treasury
Neera Tanden - President, Center for American Progress
Julie Taymor - Film, Opera, & Academy Award-Nominated Theater Director
Dina Temple-Raston - NPR National Security and Counterterrorism Correspondent
Gillian Tett - Columnist, Financial Times
Michael Thompson - Child & Family Psychologist
Matt Thompson - Editorial Product Manager, NPR
Susan Tierney - Managing Principal, Analysis Group
Matt Tilleard - Co-Founder, CombatIV; MBA Candidate, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Laurie M. Tisch - President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
Linda Tischler - Senior Editor, Fast Company
Wu Tong - Member, Silk Road Ensemble; Musician, Composer, Vocalist
Paul Tough - Contributing Writer to the New York Times Magazine, Author of "Whatever It Takes" & "How Children Succeed"
Peter Trick - Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Stanley Tucci - Actor, Writer, Film Producer, and Film Director
Kevin Turner - Kevin Turner, as Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, Kevin Turner is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of Microsoft's worldwide sales, marketing and services organization.
Michael S. Turner - Michael S. Turner is the Rauner Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago, the Chief Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and Staff Scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
Merlijn Twaalfhoven - Composer; Director, La Vie Sur Terre
Nicola Twilley - Author, Edible Geography; Co-Founder, Foodprint Project; Co-Director, Studio-X NYC
Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran - Global Correspondant for The Economist; Writer on Workforce, Innovation and Health
Shankar Vedantam - Science Correspondent, NPR
Toni G. Verstandig - Senior Vice President, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace; Chairman, Middle East Programs, The Aspen Institute
Monique Villa - CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Antonio Villaraigosa - 41st Mayor of Los Angeles
Nora D. Volkow - Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
Ben Waber - President and CEO, Sociometric Solutions; Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Senior Researcher, Harvard Business School
Darren Walker - President of the Ford Foundation
Kah Walla - President, Cameroon’s People’s Party
John Walsh - Executive Vice President and Executive Editor, ESPN
Vin Weber - Co-Chairman and Partner, Clark & Weinstock; Former US Representative (R-MN); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
David Weinberger - Technology Expert & Marketing Guru
Randi Weingarten - President, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
Joanne Weiss - Chief of Staff to the Secretary, US Department of Education
Karl Wendt - Doctoral Student, Harvard University
Gary White - Executive Director & Co-Founder of Water.org with Matt Damon
Mark Wigley - Dean, Columbia University School of Architecture
Richard Wilhelm - Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Kenji Williams - Founder and Director, Bella Gaia
Thomas J. Wilson - Chairman, President, and CEO, The Allstate Corporation
Timothy E. Wirth - Timothy Wirth is the President of the United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund.
Damian Woetzel - Director, Arts Program, The Aspen Institute; Artistic Director, Vail International Dance Festival
Justin Wolfers - Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Jocelyn Wyatt - Co-Lead and Executive Director, IDEO.org
Liu Xin - Founder and Director, Enlight Foundation, Xinping Foundation; Photojournalist
Gregory Yep - Global Vice President R&D, Long-Term Research, PepsiCo
Polly Young-Eisendrath - Author, The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance
Laura Zabel - Executive Director, Springboard for the Arts
Mortimer B. Zuckerman - Owner, U.S. News & World Report; Owner, New York Daily News
Andrew McAfee - Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management; Co-Author of "The Second Machine Age"

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