Aspen Ideas Conference 2013

Saad Abdul-Latif - CEO of PepsiCo Asia, Middle East, and Africa
Stephen Adler - Editor-in-Chief, Reuters News
Anant Agarwal - President of edX
Waleed Al Mokarrab Al Muhairi - Chief Operating Officer, Mubadala Development Company
Ehab Al Shihabi - Executive Director for International Operations, Al Jazeera America
Nadia Al-Sakkaf - Nadia Al-Sakkaf is the editor-in-chief of the Yemen Times, the most widely read English-language newspaper in Yemen
Madeleine Albright - First Woman to Become a United States Secretary of State
Charles Alcock - Director, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
David Alpert - Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Greater Greater Washington
Kurt Andersen - Host, "Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC"; Author
Chris Anderson - Former Editor-in-chief of Wired; Author and Founder, 3D Robotics
Anousheh Ansari - Iranian-American Engineer and Co-founder and Chairwoman of Prodea Systems
Paola Antonelli - Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Paula Apsell - Senior executive producer of "NOVA," the PBS science series
Jeffrey Ashby - Chief of Mission Assurance, Blue Origin; Former Astronaut, NASA
Stephen Attenborough - Commercial Director, Virgin Galactic
Donald Baer - Worldwide Chairman and CEO, Burson-Marsteller; Chairman, Penn Schoen Berland; Co-Founder and Chairman, Palisades Media Ventures
Maria Banks - Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Keith Banks - President, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Melody Barnes - Former Domestic Policy Advisor, Obama White House; Chair, Forum for Community Solutions, The Aspen Institute
Robert Barnett - Partner, Williams and Connolly LLP
Maria Bartiromo - Financial Journalist on Fox Business News; Former Anchor of CNBC's "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo"
Shabana Basij-Rasikh - Co-Founder and Managing Director, School of Leadership, Afghanistan
Brian Bedol - Founder and CEO, Bedrocket Media Ventures
Yves Behar - Founder of fuseproject; Chief Creative Officer of Jawbone; Known for his TED Talk, "Designing Objects That Tell Stories"
Frances Beinecke - President Natural Resources Defense Council.
Jeremy Ben-Ami - Founder and President, J Street
James Bennet - Editor in Chief, The Atlantic
Jeremy Bentham - Vice President, Global Business Environment, Royal Dutch Shell
Nicolas Berggruen - Chairman, Berggruen Holdings; Chairman, Berggruen Institute on Governance
Julie Bergman Sender - Director; Producer, Harmony; Co-Owner, Balcony Films
Richard Besser - ABC News Senior Health & Medical Editor
Mitchell Besser - Founder and Medical Director, mothers2mothers
Charles Best - Founder and CEO, DonorsChoose.org
Kiran Sethi - The founder of the Riverside School in Ahmedabad, Kiran Sethi has launched an initiative to make our cities more child-friendly.
Lloyd C. Blankfein - CEO and Chairman, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Barbara Bloemink - Former Executive Director, Anderson Ranch Arts Center
Arthur Bloom - Founder and Director, Renovation In Music Education (RIME)
David Boies - Founder and the chairman of the law firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner
Jennifer Bradley - Fellow and Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
David G. Bradley - Chairman and Owner, Atlantic Media Company
Rita Braver - National Correspondent, "CBS Sunday Morning"
Stephen Breyer - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
John Bridgeland - President and CEO, Civic Enterprises
Eli Broad - Eli Broad is founder of The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation,
Beth Brooke-Marciniak - Global Vice Chair, Public Policy, EY; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
David Brooks - Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Author of NY Times Bestseller "The Road to Character"
James L. Brooks - Screenwriter, Director, Producer, Gracie Films
Ronald Brownstein - Editorial Director for Strategic Partnerships, Atlantic Media Company
Nicholas Burns - Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard University
LeVar Burton - Actor & Literacy Advocate
Thomas P. Campbell - Director and Chief Executive Officer, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
Pamela Cantor - Founder, President, and CEO, Turnaround for Children
Eric Cantor - Majority Leader, US House of Representatives (R-VA)
Lea Carpenter - Author, "Eleven Days"
Jean Case - CEO, Case Foundation
Steve Case - Former CEO of America Online (AOL); Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution
Elaine L. Chao - Distinguished Fellow, The Heritage Foundation; 24th US Secretary of Labor (2001-2009)
Mei-Ann Chen - Conductor and Music Director, Memphis Symphony Orchestra
Perry Chen - Co-Founder and CEO of Kickstarter
Jaycie Chitwood - Future Fuels and Environmental Strategy Manager, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
Clayton Christensen - Harvard Business School Professor
Peggy Clark - Managing Director, Aspen Global Health and Development
Steve Clemons - Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Senior Editor, The Atlantic, Bestselling Author of "Between the World and Me"
Anthony Coles - President and CEO, Onyx Pharmaceuticals
Cesar Conde - EVP at NBCUniversal & Former President of Univision
Catharine Conley - Deputy Chair, Planetary Protection Panel, International Council for Science Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), International Council for Science
Luis Cortes, Jr. - Reverend; Founder, President, and CEO, Esperanza
Dick Costolo - Former CEO of Twitter and Co-Founder of Feedburner
James G. Coulter - Founding Partner, TPG Group; Co-Chair, LEAD Commission
Katie Couric - Global Anchor of Yahoo News
Lester Crown - Chairman, Henry Crown and Company
Scott Dadich - Editor-in-Chief, WIRED
Kenneth L. Davis - President and CEO, Mount Sinai Health System; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Tracy Day - Co-Founder and CEO, World Science Festival
John E. Deasy - Superintendent-in-Residence of The Broad Center for the Management of School Systems
Kevin Delaney - Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder, Quartz
Joan Dempsey - Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Ronald DePinho - President, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
Robert Dingemanse - Co-Founder and CEO, PAL-V Europe NV
Timothy Donley - Lance Corporal, United States Marine Corps
R. Luke DuBois - Director, Brooklyn Experimental Media Center, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Pierre Dulaine - Pierre Dulaine, Founder, Dancing Classrooms
Fred Dust - Partner, IDEO
Carol Dweck - Leading Researcher in the Field of Motivation, Professor of Psychology at Stanford University, Author of "Mindset"
Nicholas Eberstadt - Nicholas Eberstadt is a leading economist focusing on demography, international development and East Asian security.
Mickey Edwards - Former US Congressman/Professor
Michael D. Eisner - President and CEO, The Tornante Company; Former CEO and Chairman of The Walt Disney Company
Adam Ellick - New York Times Correspondent & Filmmaker Behind “Class Dismissed: Malala’s Story”
Mona Eltahawy - Journalist; Egyptian Peace Activist
cc - Leading Practitioners Shaping the Future of Healthcare; Expertise in Policy
Susan Engel - Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The Class of 1959 Director of Program in Teaching, Williams College
David Ensor - Director, Voice of America
Tony Fadell - Founder and CEO, Nest
James Fallows - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
Tom Fanning - Chairman, President, and CEO, Southern Company
Noah Feldman - Noah Feldman studies the intersection of religion, politics and law -- with a focus on how Islam meshes with modern democracy.
Howard Fillit - Executive Director and Chief Science Officer, Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation; Executive Director and Chief Science Officer, Institute for the Study of Aging
Howard Fineman - News Analyst, NBC News/MSNBC; Editorial Director, Huffington Post Media Group; Best-selling Author
Elliott S. Fisher - Professor of Medicine, Dartmouth College; Solving healthcare's greatest riddle: improving quality while managing costs
Michele Fluornoy - Senior Advisor, Boston Consultant Group; Former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, US Department of Defense
Ben Fountain - Author, "Billy Lynns' Long Halftime Walk"
Adam Frankel - Founder and Executive Director, Digital Promise
Chrystia Freeland - Editor of Thomson Reuters Digital; Previously the U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times
Tom Freston - Principal, Firefly3; Former CEO, Viacom Inc.
Thomas Frieden - Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Thomas Friedman - Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Winning Commentator, New York Times Columnist and Author of "The World Is Flat"
David Frum - Senior Editor at the Atlantic; Chairman of The Policy Exchange; Former Speech Writer for George W. Bush
Michael D. Gallagher - President and CEO, ESA
David Gallo - Director of Special Projects, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
William A. Galston - Senior Fellow, Governance Studies The Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in Governance Studies The Brookings Institution.
Ned Gardiner - Visualization Manager, Climate Program Office, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Howard Gardner - Renowned Developmental & Cognitive Psychologist; Father of Multiple Intelligences Theory; Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Julius Genachowski - Federal Communications Commission Chairman (2009-2013) and Respected Internet and Media Executive
David Gergen - Senior Political Analyst, CNN
Sean Gerrity - President, American Prairie Reserve
Michael Gerson - Michael Gerson worked closely with President George W. Bush to express in memorable speeches the Nation's response to the events of 9/11/2001, and then to define and explain the unfolding War on Terror.
Elliot Gerson - Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute
Fadi Ghandour - Founder, Vice Chairman, and Former CEO, Aramex
Martha Gilmer - Vice President, Artistic Planning and Audience Development, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Anand Giridharadas - New York Times Columnist & Author
Jeffrey Goldberg - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
Thelma Golden - Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem
Niel Golightly - Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute
Bianna Golodryga - Business Correspondent, Co-Anchor, ABC News's "Good Morning America Weekend"
Austan Goolsbee - Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisers (2010-2011) and Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Solly Granatstein - Co-Executive Producer, The Years Project
Brian Grazer - Academy Award-Winning Producer; Chairman and Co-Founder, Imagine Entertainment; Author of "A Curious Mind"
Brian Greene - Quantum Gravity and String Theory Physicist; Founder of World Science U
Joseph Grima - Editor, Domus
Dan Gross - President, Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
Jason Grumet - Founder and President, Bipartisan Policy Center
Richard Haass - President, Council on Foreign Relations
Jim Halpert - Partner, DLA Piper
Margaret A. Hamburg - Former Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration
Mona Hammami - Senior Manager, Office of Strategic Affairs, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court
Husain Haqqani - Pakistan's Former Ambassador to the United States
Jay Harman - President and CEO, PAX Scientific, Inc.
Jane Harman - President, CEO, and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Former US Representative (D-CA); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Hal Harvey - CEO, Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology LLC
Kendall Haven - Master Storyteller; Story Consultant; Author, Story Proof
Chris Heilmann - Chief Fiduciary Executive, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Sarah Heyward - Executive Story Editor, HBO's "Girls"
John Hickenlooper - Governor of Colorado
Ryan Hill - Founder and Executive Director, TEAM Academy Charter Schools
Peter Hirshberg - Pioneering Entrepreneur and Voice on Disruptive Culture and Technology
Craig Hogan - Director, Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics; Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago
Richard Hollingham - Journalist; Presenter, "Space Boffins"
Doug Holtz-Eakin - President, American Action Forum
Dan Hooper - Staff Scientist, Theoretical Astrophysics Group, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Associate Professor, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago
Tony Hsieh - CEO of Zappos
Arianna Huffington - President & Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group & New York Times Bestselling Author of Thrive
Erik Huggers - Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Digital Home Group, Intel Corporation
Asa Hutchinson - 46th Governor of Arkansas
Christopher M. Hyzy - Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
David Ignatius - Bestselling Author and Washington Post Columnist
Steve Inskeep - Host, “Morning Edition,” NPR
Robert Irion - Director, Science Communication Program, University of California, Santa Cruz
Eric Isaacs - Director, Argonne National Laboratory; President, UChicago Argonne, LLC
Walter Isaacson - President and C.E.O. of the Aspen Institute
Hiroshi Ishii - Associate Director and Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Farahnaz Ispahani - Media Advisor to President Asif Ali Zardari; Politician, Pakistan Peoples Party
Shirley Ann Jackson - President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Dr. Meg Jay - Author, "The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter — And How to Make the Most of Them Now"
Saru Jayaraman - Co-Founder and Co-Director, Restaurant Opportunities Centers United; Director, Food Labor Research Center, University of California, Berkeley
Cristina Jimenez - Co-Founder, United We Dream
Lindley Johnson - Executive, Near Earth Object Observation Program, NASA
Kristina Johnson - Chairman and CEO, Enduring Hydro; Former Under Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy
Elena Kagan - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Atul Kapadia - Chairman and CEO, Envia Systems
Robert D. Kaplan - Best-Selling Author & Atlantic Monthly Correspondent
Justin Kasper - Astrophysicist, High Energy Astrophysics Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Bruce Katz - Vice President and Founding Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
David Keene - President of National Rifle Association, former Chairman of the American Conservative Union, Managing Associate at Carmen Group Lobbying
Captain Mark Kelly - Commander of the Space Shuttle Endeavour's Final Mission
Bridget Kendall - Host, BBC World Service's "The Forum"
Philip Kennicott - Art and Architecture Critic, The Washington Post
Paula Kerger - President and CEO, PBS
Alan Khazei - Founder and CEO, The Action Tank; Co-Chair, Franklin Project, The Aspen Institute
Chris Kibarian - President, Intellectual Property and Science, Thomson Reuters
Danny Kim - Founder, President, Chief Technical Officer, Lit Motors
Gabe Klein - Commissioner, Department of Transportation, City of Chicago; Director, Washington D.C. Department of Transportation; Former Vice President, Zipcar; Entrepreneur
Joel Klein - CEO, Amplify; Executive Vice President, Office of the Chairman, News Corporation
Ezra Klein - Editor-In-Chief, Vox.Com; Columnist, Bloomberg News and Policy Analyst/Contributor, MSNBC
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
David Laibson - Professor of Finance at Harvard University, renowned speaker on behavioral economics.
Eric Lander - President and Founding Director, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Mitch Landrieu - Mayor, City of New Orleans
Daniel Leithinger - Doctoral Candidate, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Annie Lennox - Eurythmics Singer Known for "Sweet Dreams," Political Activist and Humanitarian
David Leonhardt - Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Allan Levey - Betty Gage Holand Chair, Department of Neurology, Emory University
Kate D. Levin - Principal, Bloomberg Associates; Former Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City
Madeline Levine - Educator & Author of The Price of Privilege
Daniel Limonadi - Senior Flight Systems Engineer, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Eric Liu - Inspirational Civic Leader, Author & Educator
Jeffrey Logan - Senior Energy Analyst, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Rich Lowry - Journalist
Ed Lu - Chairman and CEO, B612 Foundation
Robert H. Lustig - Bestselling Author of Fat Chance
Michael Lynton - CEO, Sony Entertainment Inc.; Chairman and CEO, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Yo-Yo Ma - Grammy Award-Winning Cellist; Founder and Artistic Director for the Silk Road Project
Tod Machover - Tod Machover is head of the MIT Media Lab's Hyperinstruments/Opera of the Future group.
Alexis Madrigal - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Ruth Marcus - Columnist, The Washington Post
Karl Marlantes - Author, "Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War"
Jonathan Martin - National Political Correspondent, New York Times
Michel Martin - Former Host, NPR's "Tell Me More"
Richard Massey - Astronomer, Royal Observatory Edinburgh
Sommer Mathis - Editor, The Atlantic Cities
Ingrid Mattson - London and Windsor Community Chair of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Theology, Huron University College
William E. Mayer - Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute; Partner, Park Avenue Equity Partners
Andrew McAfee - Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management; Co-Author of "The Second Machine Age"
General Stanley McChrystal - Former Commander of U.S. and International Forces in Afghanistan; Known for his TED Talk "The Military Case for Sharing Knowledge"
Scott McCleskey - Global Head of Regulatory Intelligence, Thomson Reuters
Mike McConnell - Vice Chairman, Booz Allen Hamilton
David McConville - President, Buckminster Fuller Institute
Mike McCue - Co-founder and CEO, Flipboard
Robert McDuffie - Violinist; Founder, Robert McDuffie Center for Strings, Townsend School of Music, Mercer University
Lee McIntire - Chairman and CEO, CH2MHill
Mickey McManus - President, CEO, and principal of MAYA Design
Mark Meckler - Co-founder of Tea Party Patriots
Andrew N. Meltzoff - Co-Director and Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Chair, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences; Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Washington
David Allen Miller - Music Director, Albany Symphony Orchestra
George J. Mitchell - Former US Senator / Author / Lawyer
Andrea Mitchell - Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC
Saad Mohseni - Chariman and CEO, MOBY Group
Heidi Moore - New York Bureau Chief, "Marketplace," American Public Media
Dror Moreh - Director, "The Gatekeepers"
Murray Moss - Founder, Moss Design Gallery
Zanele Muholi - Photographer; Filmmaker, "Difficult Love"
Sendhil Mullainathan - Professor of Economics at Harvard University; Founder of ideas42, a Non-Profit Organization Devoted to Taking Insights About People from Behavioral Economics and Using it to Create Novel Policies, Interventions, and Products.
Jerry Murdock - Managing Director and Co-founder, Insight Venture Partners
Diane Nabatoff - Producer, "Dancing in Jaffa"
Ethan Nadelmann - Founder and Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance
Andrew Ng - Founder, Coursera
Indra Nooyi - Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo
Jacqueline Novogratz - Founder & CEO, Acumen Fund
Joseph S. Nye, Jr. - University Distinguished Service Professor and Dean Emeritus, Harvard Kennedy School
Lawrence O'Donnell - Host, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell on MSNBC, Political Analyst, Author
Meghan O'Sullivan - Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Harvard University
Marvin Odum - President, Shell Oil Company
Alexis Ohanian - Co-Founder of reddit, Entrepreneur, Investor, Activist & Bestselling Author of "Without Their Permission"
Peter Orszag - Peter R. Orszag is the seventh Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Joseph Parkes - Chairman, Board of Directors, Cristo Rey Network
Cristina Pato - Galician Bagpipe Master; Member, Silk Road Ensemble
Henry Paulson - Former Secretary, US Treasury Department
Tim Pawlenty - Former Governor of Minnesota; Former Republican Presidential Candidate; Political Commentator
Ann Pendleton-Jullian - Distinguished Visiting Professor of Architecture, Georgetown University; Professor, Architecture Section, Ohio State University
Mark Penn - Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
Jim Pisz - Corporate Manager, North American Business Strategy, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
Ramesh Ponnuru - Opinion journalist and a senior editor for National Review magazine.
Mauro Porcini - Chief Design Officer, PepsiCo
Donald Pressley - Senior Vice President, General Manager, and Market Lead, Middle East and North Africa, Booz Allen Hamilton
Phloeun Prim - CEO, Season of Cambodia; Executive Director, Cambodian Living Arts
Chris Rainier - Documentary Photographer; Fellow, National Geographic Society
A. Barry Rand - CEO of AARP
Lisa Randall - Award-Winning Physicist and One of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World," Author, "Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs"
Pamela Reeves - Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Lynda Resnick - Vice Chairman, Roll Global; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Andrew Revkin - Prize-Winning Journalist and Author, Expert on Climate Change and Global Warming
Cecile Richards - President of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Charles "Lil Buck" Riley - Founder, Choreographer, and Dancer, New Styles Krew; Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence, The Aspen Institute
Richard E. Robbins - Director, "Girl Rising"; Co-Founder, The Documentary Group
James E. Rogers - Chairman, President, and CEO, Duke Energy Corporation; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Joel Rose - Former CEO, School of One, New York City Department of Education
Gary Rosen - "Weekend Review" Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Jeffrey Rosen - President and CEO, The National Constitution Center; Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School; Legal Affairs Editor, The New Republic
Hanna Rosin - Senior Editor, The Atlantic; Author, "The End of Men"
Ambassador Dennis Ross - Ambassador Dennis Ross
Andrew Ross Sorkin - Financial Columnist for The New York Times & Co-Anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box
Karl Rove - Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush (2000-2007)
David M. Rubenstein - Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Robert E. Rubin - Co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and a counselor at Centerview Partners.
Kai Ryssdal - Host, Senior Editor, American Public Media's "Marketplace"
Steven Sacks - Founder and Director, Bitforms Gallery
Barham Salih - Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq
Marcus Samuelsson - Owner, Red Rooster & James Beard Award-Winning Chef
Ted Sarandos - Chief Content Officer, Netflix, Inc.; Henry Crown Fellow, The Aspen Institute
Dimitar Sasselov - Dimitar Sasselov works on uniting the physical and life sciences in the hunt for answers to the question of how life began.
Mick Sawka - Director of Business Development, Office of Technology Development, Harvard University
Cynthia Schneider - Cynthia Schneider studies culture and politics -- watching how novels, TV shows and cultural engagement around the globe (and especially within the Muslim world) might lead to political change. She was the US ambassador to the Netherlands from 1998 to 200
Dennis Scholl - Vice President, Arts Program, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Tom Schuler - President and CEO, Solidia Technologies, Inc
Larry Scripp - Chair, Music Education Department, New England Conservatory
John Seely Brown - Visiting Scholar, Advisor to the Provost, University of Southern California; Independent Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge
Stuart Sender - Producer, Writer, Director, "Harmony"; Co-Owner, Balcony Films
Eldar Shafir - William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Shiza Shahid - Co-Founder & Global Ambassador, The Malala Fund
Nate Silver - Founder, FiveThirtyEight.com; Author, "The Signal And The Noise"
John Skipper - President, ESPN
Moncef Slaoui - Chairman of Global R&D and Vaccines, GlaxoSmithKline
Jeffrey Smisek - Chairman, President, and CEO, United Continental Holdings, Inc.
Anna Deavere Smith - Award-Winning Actress, Playwright, Social Commentator
Robert Spano - Music Director, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; 2011 Harman-Eisner Artist-in-Residence
Scott Speck - Conductor and Music Director, Mobile Symphony Orchestra
Sandy Speicher - Education Lead, IDEO
Margaret Spellings - President, George W. Bush Presidential Center; Former United States Secretary of Eduction
Daniel Sperling - Professor and Founding Director, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis
Hari Sreenivasan - Anchor, Senior Correspondent, and Director of Digital Partnerships, “PBS NewsHour” and "PBS NewsHour Weekend"
Michael Stern - Conductor and Music Director, Kansas City Symphony
James Steyer - CEO, Common Sense Media; Author, "Talking Back to Facebook"
J.B. Straubel - Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Tesla
Tracy Straus - Founder and Artistic Director, Celebrate the Beat
Rod Stryker - Founder and Instructor, ParaYoga
Gillian Tett - Columnist, Financial Times
Derek Thompson - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Jer Thorp - Co-Founder of 'The Office for Creative Research' & Former Data Artist in Residence at "The New York Times"
Linda Tischler - Senior Editor, Fast Company
Scott Tong - Correspondent, Sustainability Desk, Marketplace
Paul Tough - Contributing Writer to the New York Times Magazine, Author of "Whatever It Takes" & "How Children Succeed"
Toni G. Verstandig - Senior Vice President, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace; Chairman, Middle East Programs, The Aspen Institute
Kevin Vigilante - Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Monique Villa - CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Leo Villareal - Artist
Darren Walker - President of the Ford Foundation
Jim Wallis - Christian Writer and Political Activist
Laysha Ward - President, Community Relations, Target Corporation
Vin Weber - Co-Chairman and Partner, Clark & Weinstock; Former US Representative (R-MN); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
David Weigel - Senior Political Correspondent, Slate Magazine
Randi Weingarten - President, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
H. Gilbert Welch - Professor of Medicine and Public Policy, Dartmouth College; General Internist, White River Junction VA Medical Center
Jay F. Whitacre - CTO, Aquion Energy; Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University
Ross Wiener - Executive Director, Education and Society Program, The Aspen Institute
Leon Wieseltier - Former Literary Editor, The New Republic
Richard Wilhelm - Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Alastair Willis - Conductor and Music Director, Illinois Symphony Orchestra
Thomas J. Wilson - Chairman, President, and CEO, The Allstate Corporation
Damian Woetzel - Director, Arts Program, The Aspen Institute; Artistic Director, Vail International Dance Festival
Evan Wolfson - Founder and President, Freedom to Marry
Jessie Woolley-Wilson - CEO, DreamBox Learning
Wendy Woon - Edward John Noble Foundation Deputy Director for Education, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tim Wu - Internet Advocate; Professor at Columbia Law School; Author of "The Master Switch"
Jocelyn Wyatt - Co-Lead and Executive Director, IDEO.org
Xiao Xiao - Doctoral Candidate, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Amos Yadlin - Director, Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University
Lining Yao - Doctoral Candidate, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tom Yellin - Co-Founder and President, The Documentary Group; Executive Producer, Girl Rising
Monica Yunus - Operatic Soprano, Co-Founder, Sing for Hope
Zia Yusuf - President and CEO, Streetline, Inc.
Camille Zamora - Soprano; Co-Founder, Sing for Hope

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