Aspen Ideas Conference 2014

Stephen Adler - Editor-in-Chief, Reuters News
David B. Agus - Professor of Medicine and Engineering, University of Southern California; Co-Founder, Navigenics; Author, "The End of Illness"
Maria Aiolova - Co-Founder, Terreform ONE
Adm. Thad Allen, USCG - Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Jay Allison - Broadcast Journalist
Nicole Alston - Vice President, Legal, YouTube, Google
Christopher Altchek - Co-Founder and CEO, PolicyMic
Jonathan Alter - Columnist, Bloomberg View; Correspondent, NBC
Kurt Andersen - Host, "Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC"; Author
Nancy Andreasen - Neuroscientist; Andrew H. Woods Chair of Psychiatry and Director, Iowa Neuroimaging Consortium, University of Iowa
Julia Angwin - Senior Reporter, ProPublica; Author, Dragnet Nation
Paola Antonelli - Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Kwame Anthony Appiah - Professor, Departments of Philosophy and Law, New York University; Author, Honor Code
Don Bacigalupi - President, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Paola Antonelli - Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Kwame Anthony Appiah - Professor, Departments of Philosophy and Law, New York University; Author, Honor Code
Don Bacigalupi - President, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Donald Baer - Worldwide Chairman and CEO, Burson-Marsteller; Chairman, Penn Schoen Berland; Co-Founder and Chairman, Palisades Media Ventures
Drake Baer - Reporter, Business Insider; Co-Author, Everything Connects
Neal Baer - Harvard-Trained Physician, Television Writer & Producer
Ted Bailey - CEO, Dataminr
Spencer Baim - Chief Strategic Officer, VICE Media, Inc.
Zoe Baird - President Markle Foundation.
Stewart Baker - First Assistant Secretary for Policy at the United States Department of Homeland Security Under the Presidency of George W. Bush
Guruduth Banavar - Vice President, Industry Solutions, IBM
Jim Bankoff - CEO, Vox Media
Keith Banks - President, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Brian Bannon - Commissioner, Chicago Public Library
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"
Jonathan Batiste - Pianist and Bandleader; Artistic Director at Large, National Jazz Museum in Harlem
Sandy Baum - Senior Fellow, Urban Institute; Research Professor, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University
Mark Beeman - Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Northwestern University
Keith Banks - President, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Brian Bannon - Commissioner, Chicago Public Library
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"
Jonathan Batiste - Pianist and Bandleader; Artistic Director at Large, National Jazz Museum in Harlem
Sandy Baum - Senior Fellow, Urban Institute; Research Professor, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, George Washington University
Mark Beeman - Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Northwestern University
Peter Beinart - Contributing Editor, The Atlantic; Associate Professor, The City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism
Eric Beinhocker - Executive Director, INET@Oxford, University of Oxford
James Bennet - Editor in Chief, The Atlantic
Jamie Bennett - Executive Director, ArtPlace America
Theodore W. Berger - Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California
Jonathan Berman - Consultant; Investor; Author, Success in Africa
Carrie Besnette Hauser - President and CEO, Colorado Mountain College
Luís Bettencourt - Professor of Complex Systems, Santa Fe Institute
Deepak Bhargava - Executive Director, Center for Community Change
Monika Bickert - Head of Global Policy Management, Facebook
Assaf Biderman - Founder and CEO, Superpedestrian; Associate Director, SENSEable City Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Matthew Bishop - US Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief, The Economist
Tony Blair - Former Prime Minister, Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Yoni Bloch - Co-Founder and CEO, Interlude
Sally Blount - Dean of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Myrna Blyth - Senior Vice President and Editorial Director, AARP Media
Danah Boyd - Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; Founder, Data and Society Research Institute; Author, "It's Complicated"
Mike Bracken - Executive Director of Digital, Cabinet Office, Government of the United Kingdom
David G. Bradley - Chairman and Owner, Atlantic Media Company
Jennifer Bradley - Fellow and Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
Cynthia Breazeal - Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab -- Founder & Chief Scientist of Jibo, Inc.
Julie Brill -Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission
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"
Margaret Brown -Documentary Filmmaker; Director, The Great Invisible
Ronald Brownstein - Editorial Director for Strategic Partnerships, Atlantic Media Company
Catherine Burns - Artistic Director, The Moth
Nicholas Burns -Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard University
Steve Burns - Host, The Moth; Actor; Musician
William Bynum -CEO, Hope Enterprise Corporation; Henry Crown Fellow, The Aspen Institute
Ryan Calo -Assistant Law Professor and Founding Director, Tech Policy Lab, University of Washington
Anthony P. Carnevale -Director, Center on Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University
James C. Calaway - Chair, Lifetime Trustees, The Aspen Institute
Robert L. Cavnar - Investor and Advisor, Oil and Gas Industry; Author, Disaster on the Horizon
Erika Christakis -Lecturer, Yale Child Study Center
Dennis Charney - Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; President for Academic Affairs, Mount Sinai Health System
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
Steve Clemons -Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
Jeffrey Cole -Research Professor and Director, Center for the Digital Future, USC Annenberg School of Communication
David Coleman -President and CEO, The College Board
Ben Cotner -Co-Director, The Case Against 8
Joseph Coughlin - Director, AgeLab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Katie Couric - Global Anchor of Yahoo News
Diana Cox-Foster - Professor of Entomology, College of Agricultural Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
David Crane - President and CEO NRG Energy, Inc.
Mary (Missy) Cummings - Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University
Coral Davenport - Energy and Environment Policy Reporter, The New York Times
Kenneth L. Davis - President and CEO, Mount Sinai Health System; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Robert De Niro - Actor; Co-Founder, Tribeca Productions
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
Dave Dillon - Chairman of the Board of Directors & Former CEO, The Kroger Co.
Nicholas Dirks - Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley
Stephan Dolezalek - Managing Director, Vantage Point Capital Partners
Pete Dominick - Host, Sirius XM's "Stand Up! With Pete Dominick"
John Donahoe - President and CEO, eBay
Arne Duncan - US Secretary of Education
Fred Dust -Partner,IDEO
Janet Echelman -Artist Who Explores The Cutting Edge of Sculpture, Public Art & Urban Transformation
Richard W. Edelman - President and CEO, Edelman
Mickey Edwards - Former US Congressman/Professor
Michael Eisner - Former CEO of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until 2005.
Brian Enquist - Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona
Henry Evans - Robotics Activist
Rose Eveleth - Writer, Producer, Designer; Contributor, BBC Future
Tony Fadell - Founder and CEO, Nest
John Fallon - CEO, Pearson
Deborah Fallows - Writer and Linguist; Correspondent, The Atlantic
James Fallows - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
Tom Fanning - Chairman, President, and CEO, Southern Company
Nita Farahany - Professor of Law and Philosophy, Director of Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, Duke University; Member, Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
Drew Gilpin Faust - President, Harvard University
Anne Finucane - Global Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Bank of America Corporation
Alan Fletcher - President and CEO, Aspen Music Festival and School; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Robert Fraley - Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Monsanto
David Friedberg - Founder and CEO, The Climate Corporation
Ping Fu - Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, 3D Systems; Author, "Bend, Not Break"
Jason Furman - Chairman, Council of Economic Advisors
Marjorie Garber - William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies Harvard University
Megan Garber - Staff Writer, The Atlantic
Angelica Garcia - Performer and Spokesperson, Storycatchers Theatre
Howard Gardner - Renowned Developmental & Cognitive Psychologist; Father of Multiple Intelligences Theory; Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Timothy Geithner - Former United States Secretary of the Treasury
Julius Genachowski - Federal Communications Commission Chairman (2009-2013) and Respected Internet and Media Executive
Eric Genden - Professor and Chair, Department of Otolaryngology, Mount Sinai Medical Health Center
David Gergen - Senior Political Analyst, CNN
Elliot Gerson - Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute
Newt Gingrich - Gingrich Productions; Former Speaker of the House of Representatives
Anand Giridharadas - New York Times Columnist & Author
Dan Glickman - Executive Director, Congressional Program, The Aspen Institute; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center; Former Secretary, US Department of Agriculture
Jeffrey Goldberg - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
Ken Goldberg - Professor of New Media and Director, Automation Sciences Research Lab, University of California, Berkeley
Thelma Golden - Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem
Al Gore - Former US Vice President; Co-Founder, Generation Investment Management; Senior Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers
Lori Gottlieb - Psychotherapist; Author, Marry Him
Michael Govan - CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Rachel Greenwald - Author, Find a Husband After 35
David Grubin - Documentary Filmmaker, David Grubin Productions
Tessie Guillermo - President and CEO, ZeroDivide
Abhinav Gupta - Assistant Research Professor, The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Richard Haass - President, Council on Foreign Relations
Margaret A. Hamburg - Former Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration
Shadi Hamid - Fellow, US Relations with the Islamic World Project, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
Lee Hamilton - Member, President's Homeland Security Advisory Council; Director, Center on Congress, Indiana University
Kristian Hammond - Chief Scientist, Narrative Science
Jane Harman - President, CEO, and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Former US Representative (D-CA); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Jonathan Harris - Artist and Computer Scientist
Hal Harvey - CEO, Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology LLC
Kendall Haven - Master Storyteller; Story Consultant; Author, Story Proof
Michael Hayden - Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Former Director of the National Security Agency
Jerry Hayes - Beeologics Commercial Director, Monsanto
Angelica Hernandez - Master of Science, Atmosphere and Energy, Stanford University; Dreamer
Carrie Hessler-Radelet - Acting Director, US Peace Corps
John Hickenlooper - Governor of Colorado
Fiona Hill - Director, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution
Danny Hillis - Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, Applied Minds; Judge Widney Professor of Engineering and Medicine, University of Southern California
Arianna Huffington - President & Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group & New York Times Bestselling Author of Thrive
Louis Hyman - Assistant Professor, ILR School, Cornell University
Kay Hymowitz - William E. Simon Fellow, The Manhattan Institute; Author, Manning Up
Gwen Ifill - Moderator and Managing Editor, PBS’s "Washington Week"; Co-Anchor and Managing Editor, “PBS NewsHour"
Sherrilyn Ifill - President and Director-Counsel , NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Arsalan Iftikhar - Founder, TheMuslimGuy.com; Senior Editor, The Islamic Monthly
Walter Isaacson - President and C.E.O. of the Aspen Institute
Kathleen Hall Jamieson - Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication, Annenberg School for Communication, Walter and Leonore Annenberg Director, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania
Henry Jenkins - Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalist, and Cinematic Arts, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California
Mitchell Joachim - Co-Founder and Director of Research, Terreform ONE
Rex Jung - Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, University of New Mexico
Rosabeth Moss Kanter - Author & Harvard University Professor Who Specializes in Strategy, Innovation and Leadership for Change
Robert D. Kaplan - Best-Selling Author & Atlantic Monthly Correspondent
Neal Katyal - Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law, Georgetown Law; Partner, Hogan Lovells
Bruce Katz - Vice President and Founding Director, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
Scott Barry Kaufman - Psychologist and Author, "Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined"
Tom Kelley - Partner, IDEO; Author, "Creative Confidence"
Philip Kennicott - Art and Architecture Critic, The Washington Post
Paula Kerger - President and CEO, PBS
Cho-Oon Khong - Chief Political Analyst, Shell Strategy and Scenarios Team, Shell Oil Company
Scott Kinney - President, Capella University
David Kirkpatrick - Best-Selling Author of The Facebook Effect; Senior Editor at Fortune Magazine for Internet and Technology
Brian Knappenberger - Director, The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
Hari Kondabolu - One of the Most Exciting Political Comics in Stand-Up Comedy
Jules Kortenhorst - CEO, Rocky Mountain Institute
Sallie Krawcheck - ‎Chair of Ellevate Network and Ellevate Asset
Fred Krupp - President of Environmental Defense Fund
Corby Kummer - Senior editor at The Atlantic
Mitch Landrieu - Mayor, City of New Orleans
Mike Leavitt - Founder and Chairman,LeavittPartners; Former Governor of Utah (R)
Doug Lederman - Co-Founder and Co-Editor, Inside Higher Ed
Isaac Lee - CEO, Fusion; President of News, Univision
Ludo Lefebvre - James Beard Award-Winning Chef, Judge on ABC's "The Taste" & Star of Sundance's "Ludo Bites America"
David Leonhardt - Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Lawrence Lessig - Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University; Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Janna Levin - Cosmologist and Author
Kate D. Levin - Principal, Bloomberg Associates; Former Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City
Congressman John Lewis - Congressman, Georgia's 5th District, US House of Representatives, Civil Rights Activist
Sarah Lewis - Cultural Historian and a Du Bois Fellow at Harvard University. Author of "The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery"
Amanda Lindhout - Founder and Executive Director, The Global Enrichment Foundation; Author, "A House in the Sky"
Greg Lindsay - Expert on Globalization, Cities and Innovation
Joanna Lipper - Director, The Supreme Price; Lecturer, Harvard University
Eric Liu - Inspirational Civic Leader, Author & Educator
Tony Long - Director, Ending Illegal Fishing Project, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Brian Lott - Executive Director, Group Communications, Mubadala Development Company
Glenn Lowry - Director, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Monica Lozano - Chair of the Board, US Hispanic Media Inc.
Alexis Madrigal - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
John Maeda - Design Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers; Known for his TED Talk, "How Art, Technology and Design Inform Creative Leaders"
Joe Manchin - US Senator, West Virginia
Charles C. Mann - Correspondent, The Atlantic; Correspondent, Wired
Roger Martin - Premier’s Research Chair in Productivity and Competitiveness, Academic Director, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Sommer Mathis - Editor, The Atlantic Cities
Mary Mazzio - President, 50 Eggs Films; Director, Underwater Dreams
Andrew McAfee - Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management; Co-Author of "The Second Machine Age"
Pete McBride - Photographer; Filmmaker
Stanley A. McChrystal - Former Commander of U.S. and International Forces in Afghanistan, Author of Bestseller "Team of Teams" and "My Share of the Task", and Co-Founder of the McChrystal Group
Mike McConnell - Vice Chairman, Booz Allen Hamilton
Robert McDuffie - Violinist; Founder, Robert McDuffie Center for Strings, Townsend School of Music, Mercer University
Michael McFaul - U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014); Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russia and Eurasian Affairs, National Security Council (2009-2011); and NBC News Analyst
Michael McPherson - President, Spencer Foundation
Charles Melcher - Founder and CEO, Melcher Media
Jamie P. Merisotis - President and CEO, Lumina Foundation
Dick Metcalf - Journalist; Historian; Former Columnist, Guns & Ammo
Basil Moftah - President, Intellectual Property and Science, Thomson Reuters
Dalia Mogahed - President and CEO, Mogahed Consulting, LLC
David Monsma - Executive Director of Energy and Environment Program, The Aspen Institute
Anne Mosle - Executive Director, Ascend, The Aspen Institute
Marwan al-Muasher - Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Chunka Mui - Managing Director, Devil's Advocate Group; Author, The New Killer Apps
Mike Mullen - Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (2007-2011)
Craig Mundie - Senior Advisor to the CEO, Microsoft Corporation
Morgan Neville - Director, 20 Feet from Stardom
Elisa New - Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University
Grover Norquist - Founder and President, Americans for Tax Reform
Michele Norris - Host and Special Correspondent, NPR
Tim O'Reilly - Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media
Meghan L. O’Sullivan - Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Kennedy Odede - Co-Founder, President, and CEO, Shining Hope for Communities
Marvin Odum - President, Shell Oil Company
Richard Olcott - Founding Partner and Design Principal, Ennead Architects
Theodore B. Olson - Attorney, Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP; Former US Solicitor General
Mark Oppenheimer - Religion Journalist for The New York Times & Parenting Columnist
Michael B. Oren - Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. From 2009-2013 and Author of New York Times Best Seller "Ally"
Jennifer Pahlka - Deputy Chief Technology Officer, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Founder, Code for America
John Palfrey - Chair, Digital Public Library of America; Head of School, Phillips Academy; Chair, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Meade Palidofsky - Founder and Artistic Director, Storycatchers Theatre
Christine Paxson - President, Brown University
Perri Peltz - Director, Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.; Host, "Dr. Radio Reports," Sirius XM
Mark Penn - Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
Lisa Phillips - Toby Devan Lewis Director, New Museum
Vicki Phillips - Director of Education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Ashlea Powell - Location Director, IDEO
Penny Pritzker - US Secretary of Commerce
Ron Prosor - Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel
Carol Quillen - President, Davidson College
Joseph Quinlan - Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Chris Rainier - Documentary Photographer; Fellow, National Geographic Society
R. Scott Ralls - President, North Carolina Community Colleges
Don Michael Randel - Musicologist; Chair of the Board, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Rip Rapson - President and CEO, The Kresge Foundation
Steven Rattner - Chairman, Willett Advisors LLC
Alexander Reben - Kinetic Engineer and Interactive Artist
Kasim Reed - Mayor, City of Atlanta
Pamela Reeves - Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Robert Reich - Economic Analyst, CNBC Contributor, Professor, Author, Advisor to Presidents and Former Secretary of Labor
Charles "Lil Buck" Riley - Founder, Choreographer, and Dancer, New Styles Krew; Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence, The Aspen Institute
Judith Rodin - President, Rockefeller Foundation
Anthony Romero - Executive Director of the ACLU
Jeffrey Rosen - President and CEO, The National Constitution Center; Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School; Legal Affairs Editor, The New Republic
Jane Rosenthal - Film Producer and CEO,Tribeca Enterprises
Hanna Rosin - Senior Editor, The Atlantic; Author, "The End of Men"
Andrew Rossi - Director and Producer, Ivory Tower
David M. Rubenstein - Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Barbara Ryan - Secretariat Director, Group on Earth Observations
Kai Ryssdal - Host, Senior Editor, American Public Media's "Marketplace"
Janette Sadik-Khan - Principal, Bloomberg Associates
M. Sanjayan - Executive Vice President and Senior Scientist, Conservation International
Shirish Sankhe - Director, Mumbai Office, McKinsey and Company
Roger Sant - Co-Founder and Chairman Emeritus, AES Corporation
Keith Sawyer - Morgan Distinguished Professor in Educational Innovations, University of North Carolina
Bob Schieffer - Former Moderator of “Face The Nation,” Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
Vivian Schiller - Head of News, Twitter
Mark Schlageter - Managing Director, Americas, Thomson Reuters
Dennis Scholl - Vice President, Arts Program, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Robert Schukai - Head of Advanced Product Innovation, Thomson Reuters
Dan Schulman - President and CEO Designee, PayPal
John Seely Brown - Visiting Scholar, Advisor to the Provost, University of Southern California; Independent Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge
Carla Shatz - Director, Bio-X, Sapp Family Provostial Professor, Stanford University
Curtis Sittenfeld - Author of "Sisterland" and "Prep"
Viktoria Siumar - Deputy Secretary, National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
Anne-Marie Slaughter - President and CEO, New America Foundation
Matthew Slaughter - Former Member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers and Dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Anna Deavere Smith - Award-Winning Actress, Playwright, Social Commentator
Aaron Sorkin - Screenwriter, Producer, and Playwright
Andrew Ross Sorkin - Financial Columnist for The New York Times & Co-Anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box
Jeff Speck - City Planner & Urban Designer; Advocates for Smart Growth & Sustainable Design; Author of "Walkable City"
Sandy Speicher - Education Lead, IDEO
Hari Sreenivasan - Anchor, Senior Correspondent, and Director of Digital Partnerships, “PBS NewsHour” and "PBS NewsHour Weekend"
James Steinberg - Dean, Maxwell School of Syracuse University; Former Deputy Secretary of State
Jon Steinberg - CEO Daily Mail, North America, Advisor, Lerer Ventures; Former President and COO, BuzzFeed
Angela Stent - Director, CERES, Georgetown University
Darnell Strom - Agent, Creative Artist Agency
Lawrence Summers - Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Weil Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard University; Former US Secretary of the Treasury
Vitaliy Sych - Journalist, Novoye Vremya; Ukrainian Activist
Strobe Talbott - Former Deputy Secretary of State
Don Tapscott - Senior Adviser, World Economic Forum; Author, "The Digital Economy"; Co-author, "Macrowikinomics" and "Wikinomics"
Kate Tellers - Senior Producer, Corporate Trainer, and Storyteller, The Moth
Gillian Tett - Columnist, Financial Times
Candace Thille - Founding Director, Open Learning Initiative, Stanford Graduate School of Education and Carnegie Mellon University
Derek Thompson - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Sebastian Thrun - CEO, Udacity
Zeynep Ton - Adjunct Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
Martina Vandenberg - Founder and President, The Human Trafficking Pro Bono Legal Center
Bina Venkataraman - Senior Advisor for Climate Change Innovation, Obama Administration
Monique Villa - CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Alice Walton - Founder and Chairwoman, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
David Weinberger - Technology Expert & Marketing Guru
Randi Weingarten - President, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
Geoffrey West - Distinguished Professor and Past President, Santa Fe Institute; Studies the Behavior & Development of Cities
Ryan White - Director, The Case Against 8
Leon Wieseltier - Former Literary Editor, The New Republic
Jane Williams - Host and Producer, Bloomberg EDU
Beau Willimon - Creator & Screenwriter, "House of Cards"
Thomas J. Wilson - Chairman, President, and CEO, The Allstate Corporation
Alfre Woodard - Emmy Award-Winning Actress
Molly Worthen - Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina; Author, Apostles of Reason
Jocelyn Wyatt - Co-Lead and Executive Director, IDEO.org
Laura Zabel - Executive Director, Springboard for the Arts
Paul Zak - Professor of Economics, Psychology, and Management; Founding Director, Center for Neuroeconomics Studies, Claremont Graduate University
Philip Zelikow - Professor of History, UVA & Fmr. Counselor, Dept. of State
Zein Abdalla - President, PepsiCo
Byron Auguste - Deputy Director, National Economic Council
Mitch Barns - CEO, Nielsen
Brett Begemann - President and Chief Operating Officer, Monsanto
Teresa Carlson - Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector, Amazon Web Services
Merry Clayton - Vocalist;Actress
Brian Cornell - CEO of Target
Marcy Darnovsky - Executive Director, Center for Genetics and Society
Umamaheswar Duvvuri - Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Ezekiel J. Emanuel - Leading Practitioners Shaping the Future of Healthcare; Expertise in Policy
Candice Faktor - General Manager, Wattpad
Salam Fayyad - Founder, Future for Palestine; Former Prime Minister, Palestinian National Authority
Thomas Friedman - Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Winning Commentator, New York Times Columnist and Author of "The World Is Flat"
Elliot Goldenthal - Composer
Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn - Art Advisor and Collector
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders - Photographer; Filmmaker
Chris Hostetter - Group Vice President of Strategic Planning, Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc.
Hugh F. Johnston - Executive Vice President and CFO, PepsiCo
Gina McCarthy - Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency
Marilyn Minter - Artist, Painter, Photographer
Andrea Mitchell - Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC
Osamu Nagata - President and CEO, Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America
Walter Niedermayr - Fine Art Photographer; Instructor, Free University of Bozen–Bolzano
Indra Nooyi - Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo
Stephen Patrick - Senior Program Officer, Postsecondary Success Team, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Norman B. Rice - President and CEO, The Seattle Foundation
Jerry Saltz - Senior Art Critic, New York
Jim Shelton - Acting Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement, US Department of Education
Ray Suarez - Host, Al Jazeera America's "Inside Story"
Julie Taymor - Film, Opera, & Academy Award-Nominated Theater Director
Ken Thompson - Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Táta Vega - Vocalist
Emily Verellen - Director, The Fledgling Fund
Strauss Zelnick - As one of the only executives to have managed every type of major entertainment company including music, entertainment software, film and television, Strauss Zelnick is a leading expert in the media industry.
Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson - CEO and Director, Aspen Art Museum
Paul Taylor - Executive Vice President, Special Projects, Pew Research Center; Author, The Next America
Brian Chesky - CEO and Co-Founder Airbnb

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