Aspen Ideas Conference 2015

Carol Adelman - Carol Adelman is a senior fellow and director of Hudson's Center for Science in Public Policy, specializing in international development, foreign aid, trade and global health.
Ken Adelman - Ambassador and Former Arms Control Director for President Ronald Reagan
Jordan Alam - Writer, Founder and Editor of Project As[I]Am
Elizabeth Alexander - Renown Poet; Race, Gender and Politics; Infamous for Inauguration Poem "Praise Song for the Day"
John Allen - Special Presidential Envoy, Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, U.S. Department of State; Senior Advisor, Middle East Security, Department of Defense; Retired General, United States Marine Corps
Michael Anti - Michael Anti (Zhao Jing), a key figure in China's new journalism, explores the growing power of the Chinese internet.
Paula Apsell - Senior executive producer of "NOVA," the PBS science series
Karen Armstrong - Author and Thinker on the Role of Religion in the Modern World
Raney Aronson-Rath - Senior producer, Frontline
Maurice Ashley - First African-American Chess Grandmaster; Author, Puzzle Inventor & Motivational Speaker
Reza Aslan - No. 1 Bestselling Author of "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth"
Donald Baer - Worldwide Chairman and CEO, Burson-Marsteller; Chairman, Penn Schoen Berland; Co-Founder and Chairman, Palisades Media Ventures
Ramón Baez - Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Hewlett Packard (Festival Underwriter)
Zoe Baird - President Markle Foundation.
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
Joe Louis Barrow - Spokesperson, Southern Company (Festival Underwriter)
Angela Bassett - Award-Winning Actress
Jon Batiste - Thrilling Jazz Pianist and Frontman for the Band Stay Human
James Bennet - Editor in Chief, The Atlantic
Michael F Bennet - US Senator, State of Colorado
Suman Bery - Chief Economist, Shell Oil Company (Festival Underwriter)
Jackie Bezos - Co-Director, Bezos Family Foundation
Deepak Bhargava - Executive Director, Center for Community Change
Gretchen Bleiler - Professional Halfpipe Snowboarder
Gene Block - Chancellor, University of California, Los Angeles
Paul Bloom - Professor of Psychology, Yale University
Charles Blow - Visual Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times, CNN Contributor & NY Times Best-selling Author, "Fire Shut Up in My Bones"
Allen Blue - VP Product Strategy and Co-Founder at LinkedIn
Rebecca Blumenstein - Deputy Editor-in-Chief The Wall Street Journal
Jo Boaler - Professor, Mathematics Education and Teacher Education, Stanford University
David Boies - Founder and the chairman of the law firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner
Cory Booker - US Senator from New Jersey
Beth Ann Bovino - U.S. Chief Economist, Global Economics and Research, Standard & Poors Ratings Services
Tom Bradicich - Vice President of Server Engineering, Enterprise Group, Hewlett Packard (Festival Underwriter)
David G. Bradley - Chairman and Owner, Atlantic Media Company
Jennifer Bradley - Fellow and Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
Frédéric Brenner - Artist, This Place
John Bridgeland - President and CEO, Civic Enterprises
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"
William Browder - CEO and Co-Founder of Hermitage Capital Management; Author of "Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice"
Tim Brown - Tim Brown is the CEO of IDEO, a Global Design and Innovation Consulting Firm
Carrie Brownstein - Seafood Quality Standards Coordinator, Whole Foods Market
Ronald Brownstein - Editorial Director for Strategic Partnerships, Atlantic Media Company
Paul Bunje - Senior Director, Oceans XPRIZE
Nicholas Burns - Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard University
Peter Byck - Professor, Arizona State University Global Institute of Sustainability; Director, "Carbon Nation"
Pamela Cantor - Founder, President, and CEO, Turnaround for Children
Jonathan Capehart - Jonathan Capehart is an editorial writer for The Washington Post, specializing in national politics and environmental issues.
Kevin Carey - Author & Journalist and Director of the Education Policy Program
Cameron Carpenter - Organist
Robin Chase - Founder and Former CEO, Zipcar, Buzzcar and GoLoco; Executive Chairman, Veniam Works and Author
Deborah Clark - Vice President and Executive Producer, "Marketplace", American Public Media
Alexa Clay - Writer, Economic Historian, Futurist, Social Entrepreneur, Dreamer of New Economics
Steve Clemons - Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
Ta-Nehisi Coates - Senior Editor, The Atlantic, Bestselling Author of "Between the World and Me"
John Colborn - Director, Skills for America's Future
David Coleman - President and CEO, The College Board
Maureen Conway - Executive Director Economic Opportunities Program
Alan Cooperman - Director of Religion Research, Pew Research Center
Katie Couric - Global Anchor of Yahoo News
Philippe Cousteau - Explorer, Social Entrepreneur & Environmental Advocate; Grandson of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Kate Crawford - Principal Researcher, New York City, Microsoft Research; Visiting Professor, MIT Center for Civic Media; Senior Fellow, NYU Information Law Institute
Ed Crooks - U.S. Industry and Energy Editor, Financial Times
Michael M. Crow - 16th President of Arizona State University
Amy Cuddy - Associate Professor, Harvard Business School; Behavioral Scientist and Expert on Nonverbal Behavior, Power and Leadership
Erin Currier - Director, Projects on Family Financial Security and Mobility, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Chris Davenport - Big Mountain Skier; Mountaineer
Richard J. Davidson - William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin
Ron Davis - President and CEO, The Jordan Davis Foundation
Eric Dawson - President and Co-Founder, Peace First
Joel Dawson - Chief Technology Officer, Eta Devices, Inc.; Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kevin Delaney - Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder, Quartz
William Deresiewicz - Author of "A Jane Austen Education"
Susan Desmond-Hellmann - CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Kirby Dick - Academy- and Emmy Award-Nominated Documentary Director; Best Known for "The Invisible War" & "The Hunting Ground"
John Dickerson - Host of "Face the Nation" & CBS News Political Director
Dave Dillon - Chairman of the Board of Directors & Former CEO, The Kroger Co.
Vicky Dinges - Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility, The Allstate Insurance Company (Festival Underwriter)
Pete Dominick - Host, Sirius XM's "Stand Up! With Pete Dominick"
Thomas Duesterberg - Senior Advisor and Former President and CEO, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI Inc.
Charles Duhigg - New York Times Investigative Reporter & Bestselling Author of "The Power of Habit"
Fred Dust - Partner, IDEO
Sonya Dyhrman - Oceanographer, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
Sylvia Earle - Oceanographer, National Geographic Explorer-In-Residence, 2009 TED Prize Winner
Rebecca Eaton - Television and Film Producer; Executive Producer, Masterpiece Theatre, PBS (Festival Underwriter)
Joe Echevarria - Former Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte
Elizabeth Economy - Elizabeth Economy is the C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
Karl Eikenberry - Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General & Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
Ophira Eisenberg - Host of NPR's "Ask Me Another"
Michael Eisner - Former CEO of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until 2005.
Jordan Ellenberg - Internationally Renowned Mathematician; Author of "How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking"
Rahm Emanuel - First Jewish Mayor of Chicago; Former White House Chief of Staff
Kelly Evans - On-air correspondent CNBC
John Fallon - CEO, Pearson
James Fallows - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
James Famiglietti - Senior Water Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Professor of Earth System Science and Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine
Tom Fanning - Chairman, President, and CEO, Southern Company
Jose Ferreira - Founder and CEO of Knewton; Focused on Education Innovation, Tech and Entrepreneurship
Bran Ferren - Expert on Leveraging Curiosity & Creativity for Innovation; Designer, Technologist, Inventor; Co-Founder of Applied Minds; Former Disney Imagineering Executive
David Festa - Vice President, Ecosystems, Environmental Defense Fund (Festival Underwriter)
Sally Field - Two-time Academy Award-winning Actress, Director and Producer
Caitlin Flanagan - Contributing Editor, The Atlantic; Author, Girl Land
Ira Flatow - NPR Science Correspondent
Brian Forde - Senior Advisor for Mobile and Data Innovation at The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Pamela Fox - Computing Curriculum Engineer, Khan Academy
Anthony Foxx - U.S. Secretary of Transportation
Andrew Freedman - Director of Marijuana Coordination, Office of the Governor, State of Colorado
Edward Frenkel - Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley
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
Steven Gaines - Dean, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barbara
David Gallo - Director of Special Projects, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Kim Gandy - President and CEO, National Network to End Domestic Violence
Joe Garcia - Lieutenant Governor of Colorado
Ned Gardiner - Visualization Manager, Climate Program Office, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Julius Genachowski - Federal Communications Commission Chairman (2009-2013) and Respected Internet and Media Executive
Elliot Gerson - Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute
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.
Nancy Gibbs - Deputy Managing Editor TIME Magazine
Daniel Gilbert - Psychologist, Happiness Expert and Harvard Professor
Angela Glover Blackwell - Founder and Chief Executive Officer, founded PolicyLink
Barry Gold - Director, Environment Focus Area, Walton Family Foundation (Festival Underwriter)
Jeffrey Goldberg - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
Suzanne Goldenberg - Environment Correspondent, Washington Bureau, The Guardian
Lindsey Graham - U.S. Senator
Brian Grazer - Academy Award-Winning Producer; Chairman and Co-Founder, Imagine Entertainment; Author of "A Curious Mind"
Elizabeth Green - Co-Founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief, Chalkbeat; Author, Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone)
Paul Greenberg - James Beard Award-Winning Author of the New York Times Bestseller "Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food"
Brian Greene - Quantum Gravity and String Theory Physicist; Founder of World Science U
David Greene - Host, "Morning Edition," NPR
Susan Greenfield - Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE, is a British pioneering scientist, writer, entrepreneur, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords.
Gideon Grinstein - President and Founder, Reut Institute; Author, Flexigidity: The Secret of Jewish Adaptability and the Challenge and Opportunity Facing Israel
Chuck Gulash - Senior Executive Engineer, Toyota Technical Center, Toyota Motor Corporation (Festival Underwriter)
Alan Gura - Partner, Gura and Possessky
Richard Haass - President, Council on Foreign Relations
Jonathan Haidt - Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University-Stern School of Business and Author of New York Times Best Seller The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Shadi Hamid - Fellow, US Relations with the Islamic World Project, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
Hal Harvey - CEO, Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology LLC
Goldie Hawn - Academy Award-Winning Actress, Founder of the Hawn Foundation
Stefan Heck - Co-Founder and CEO at NAUTO; Former Senior Partner, McKinsey Cleantech and Sustainability Transformation
Mary-Pat Hector - National Youth Director, National Action Network; Youth Leader, New Look Foundation; Founder, Youth in Action
Matthew Heineman - Documentary Filmmaker; Director and Producer, Cartel Land
Isaac Herzog - Chairman, Zionist Union Party; Member and Leader of the Opposition, Knesset, Government of Israel
Fiona Hill - Director, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution
Peter Hirshberg - Pioneering Entrepreneur and Voice on Disruptive Culture and Technology
Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Renowned Political Leader; Human Rights Activist; Best-selling Author
Jeff Hobbs - Novelist, "The Tourists" & "The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace"
Arianna Huffington - President & Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group & New York Times Bestselling Author of Thrive
Gwen Ifill - Moderator and Managing Editor, PBS’s "Washington Week"; Co-Anchor and Managing Editor, “PBS NewsHour"
Arsalan Iftikhar - Founder, TheMuslimGuy.com; Senior Editor, The Islamic Monthly
Walter Isaacson - President and C.E.O. of the Aspen Institute
Jessica Jackley - Co-Founder of Kiva, the Revolutionary Microlending Website
Leila Janah - Social Entreprenuer; Founder and CEO of Samasource - A Global Workforce Initiative
Nick Seneca Jankel - Creator, Breakthrough Biodynamics; Founder, Ripe & Ready; Founder, WECREATE Worldwide
Valerie B. Jarrett - Senior Advisor to President Obama
Cristina Jimenez - Co-Founder, United We Dream
Broderick Johnson - Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary, The White House; Chair, Task Force, My Brother's Keeper
Hannah Jones - Vice President, Sustainable Business and Innovation Nike, Inc.
JR - Street Artist
Shiva Kalaiselvan - Actress; Producer
Andrea Kates - CEO, LaunchPad Central
Neal Katyal - Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law, Georgetown Law; Partner, Hogan Lovells
Josh Kaufman - Author, The Personal MBA; Author, The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything... Fast!
Sam Kean - Popular Science Historian
Andrew Keen - Technology Futurist; "TechCrunch Show" Host; Author; CNN Contributing Journalist
Mary Louise Kelly - Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
Randall Kempner - Executive Director
David Kennedy - Director, Center for Crime Prevention and Control, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Co-Chair, National Network for Safe Communities
David M. Kennedy - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
Philip Kennicott - Art and Architecture Critic, The Washington Post
Samar Khan - Founder, Ethnomedia; Documentary Filmmaker
Nina Khrushcheva - Associate Dean and Associate Professor of International Affairs, Milano School of International Affairs, The New School
Craig Kielburger - Co-Founder, Free The Children and Me to We
Clifton Kinnie - Student Activist; Founder, Our Destiny STL
David Kirkpatrick - Best-Selling Author of The Facebook Effect; Senior Editor at Fortune Magazine for Internet and Technology
Alison Klayman - A freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker
Mark A.R. Kleiman - Professor of Public Policy, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles
Amy Klobuchar - Senator (D-Minnesota) U.S. Senate
Timothy Knowles - Director of the Urban Education Institute
William Kristol - Founder and Editor, The Weekly Standard and Political Analyst, ABC News
Fred Krupp - President of Environmental Defense Fund
Corby Kummer - Senior editor at The Atlantic
Mitch Landrieu - Mayor, City of New Orleans
Chris Lane - CEO, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon - Journalist and Best-Selling Author
Jim Lentz - CEO, Toyota North America (Festival Underwriter); Senior Managing Officer, Toyota Motor Corporation (Festival Underwriter)
Kelly Leonard - Author and President of Start-up
David Leonhardt - Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Richard C. Levin - CEO of Coursera & Former President of Yale
Jordan Lewis - Founder and CEO, Silver Peak Apothecary and High Valley Farms
Gideon Lichfield - Deputy Editor of The Economist online
Ann Limberg - Head of Philanthropic Solutions and the Family Office, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management (Festival Underwriter)
Eric Liu - Inspirational Civic Leader, Author & Educator
Kristofer Lofgren - Founder and CEO, Sustainable Restaurant Group; CEO, Redefine Ventures
Rick Lowe - Artist; Founder, Project Row Houses
Jane Lubchenco - First Woman to be Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Daniel Lubetzky - Founder and CEO of KIND Healthy Snacks; Author of "Do the KIND Thing"
Jens Ludwig - Professor of social service administration, law, and public policy
Abrahm Lustgarten - Senior Reporter, ProPublica; Author, Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
Janice Luvera - Global Brand Leader, Genworth Financial, Inc. (Festival Underwriter)
Alexis Madrigal - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Roger Martin - Premier’s Research Chair in Productivity and Competitiveness, Academic Director, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Anthony W. Marx - President & CEO of New York Public Library
William E. Mayer - Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute; Partner, Park Avenue Equity Partners
Lucia McBath - National Spokeswoman and Faith and Outreach Community Organizer, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America
Pete McBride - Photographer; Filmmaker
David McCandless - Author of "Information Is Beautiful" & Infographics Expert
Heather McGhee - President, Demos
Tom McInerney - President and CEO, Genworth Financial, Inc. (Festival Underwriter)
Mike McNamara - CEO, Flextronics
Jon Meacham - Executive Editor and EVP of Random House; Author
Tracey Meares - Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law, Yale Law School
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
Jamie P. Merisotis - President and CEO, Lumina Foundation
Ruth Messinger - President, American Jewish World Service
Delia Milliron - Associate Professor and Fellow, Henry Beckman Professorship, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
Dalia Mogahed - President and CEO, Mogahed Consulting, LLC
David Monsma - Executive Director of Energy and Environment Program, The Aspen Institute
Gregory Mosher - Director, Producer
Anne Mosle - Executive Director, Ascend, The Aspen Institute
Mu Sochua - Minister of Women Affairs
Patricia Mulroy - Oversees the operations of the Southern Nevada Water Authority and the Las Vegas Valley Water District
Leilani Munter - Indycar Driver, Model and Conservationist
Charles Murray - Author of "Coming Apart" & W. H. Brady Scholar at American Enterprise Institute
Vali Nasr - American Academic and Author Specializing in the Middle East and the Islamic World
Diana Natalicio - President, University of Texas at El Paso
Maajid Nawaz - Counter-Extremism Activist
Alyse Nelson - Co-founder, President, and CEO Vital Voices Global Partnership
Marie Nelson - Vice President, News and Public Affairs, PBS (Festival Underwriter)
LaTondra Newton - Group Vice President.
Joe Nocera - Opinion-Editorial Columnist, The New York Times
Grover Norquist - Founder and President, Americans for Tax Reform
Michele Norris - Host and Special Correspondent, NPR
Jacqueline Novogratz - Founder & CEO, Acumen Fund
Mary O’Doherty - Assistant Director, Kentucky Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Theodore B. Olson - Attorney, Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP; Former US Solicitor General
Mark Oppenheimer - Religion Journalist for The New York Times & Parenting Columnist
Peter Orszag - Peter R. Orszag is the seventh Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
Evan Osnos - China Correspondent at The New Yorker
Farah Pandith - Special Representative to Muslim Communities US State Department
Emily Parker - Author of "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are"
Richard T. Pascale - Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Anne Pasternak - President and Artistic Director, Creative Time
Stephen Patrick - Senior Program Officer, Postsecondary Success Team, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
John Allen Paulos - Professor of Mathematics, Temple University; Author, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
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
Jason Pontin - Innovation Expert; Renowned Journalist; Influential Editor and Publisher of MIT Technology Review
Ai-jen Poo - Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance
Dan Price - Founder and CEO of Gravity Payments, Entrepreneur Magazine’s “Entrepreneur of 2014″
Penny Pritzker - US Secretary of Commerce
Ron Prosor - Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel
Louie Psihoyos - Executive Director of the Oceanic Preservation Society, Director of the 2009 Academy Award-winning documentary "The Cove."
John Pudner - Executive Director, Take Back Our Republic
Robert Putnam - Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Author of "Our Kids"
Joseph Quinlan - Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
Ida Rademacher - Executive Director, Initiative on Financial Security, The Aspen Institute
Sue Rahr - Executive Director, Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission
Claudia Rankine - Award-Winning Poet & National Book Award Finalist
Rip Rapson - President and CEO, The Kresge Foundation
Steven Rattner - Chairman, Willett Advisors LLC
Ben Rattray - Founder and CEO of Change.org
Pamela Reeves - Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Andrew Revkin - Prize-Winning Journalist and Author, Expert on Climate Change and Global Warming
James Reynolds, Jr. - Chairman and CEO Loop Capital Markets
Ben Rhodes - Foreign Policy Speechwriter & Current Deputy National Security Adviser at the White House
Connie Rice - Public Policy & Diversity Activist
Dara Richardson-Heron - CEO, YWCA USA
Charles "Lil Buck" Riley - Founder, Choreographer, and Dancer, New Styles Krew; Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence, The Aspen Institute
Amanda Ripley - Investigative journalist who writes about human behavior and public policy
Julia Roberson - Director, Strategic Communications and Ocean Acidification, Ocean Conservancy
Luiz Rocha - Associate Curator and Follett Chair of Ichthyology, Biology, California Academy of Sciences
L. Todd Rose - President, Center for Individual Opportunity; Lecturer on Educational Neuroscience, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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"
Robert Roth - Executive Director, David Lynch Foundation; Meditation Teacher
Horacio Rozanski - President and COO, Booz Allen Hamilton
David M. Rubenstein - Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Karla Ruiz Cofiño - Interactive Communication & Social Media Strategist, Entrepreneur, Speaker, Artist, Social Activist & Woman Advocate!
Deborah Rutter - The president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Paul Ryan - US Congressman from Wisconsin
Kai Ryssdal - Host, Senior Editor, American Public Media's "Marketplace"
Karim Sadjadpour - Associate at the Carnegie Endowment
Ricardo Salinas - President and CEO, Salinas Group
Dr. Gary Samore - Former White House Coordinator for Arms Control and WMD Terrorism; Executive Director of Research Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
M. Sanjayan - Executive Vice President and Senior Scientist, Conservation International
Ted Sarandos - Chief Content Officer, Netflix, Inc.; Henry Crown Fellow, The Aspen Institute
Shaka Senghor - Author
Jennifer Senior - Journalist & Best-Selling Author of All Joy and No Fun
Danielle Sered - Founder and Director, Common Justice, Vera Institute of Justice
Shiza Shahid - Co-Founder & Global Ambassador, The Malala Fund
Howard Shapiro - Global Director of Plant Science and External Research, Mars, Inc.
Daniel Shoy - President, East Lake Foundation; Spokesperson, Southern Company (Festival Underwriter)
Seth Siegel - Entrepreneur; Co-Founder, Sixpoint Partners; Author, Let There Be Water
Anne-Marie Slaughter - President and CEO, New America Foundation
Gary Small - Brain Science Expert.
Jeffrey Smisek - Chairman, President, and CEO, United Continental Holdings, Inc.
Ashkan Soltani - I am an independent researcher and consultant focused on privacy, security, and behavioral economics.
Aaron Sorkin - Screenwriter, Producer, and Playwright
Hilary Sparrow - Senior Supervising Producer, Vulcan Productions
Margaret Spring - Chief Conservation Officer and Vice President, Conservation & Science, Monterey Bay Aquarium
Laurence Steinberg - Professor of Psychology, Temple University
Michèle Stephenson - Co-Founder, Rada Film Group; Filmmaker; Author; Artist
James Steyer - CEO, Common Sense Media; Author, "Talking Back to Facebook"
Tom Steyer - Hedge Fund Manager, Philanthropist, and Environmentalist
Biz Stone - Co-Founder of Twitter
Steven Strogatz - Mathematician, Writer, Cornell Professor and NY Times & Radiolab Contributor
Kathryn Sullivan - Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Lawrence Summers - Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Weil Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard University; Former US Secretary of the Treasury
Kevin Surace - Innovator of the Decade (CNBC) and Inc. Entrepreneur of the Year
Sam Tanenhaus - Sam Tanenhaus started work Monday. If this milestone somehow escaped your notice, if the sun seemed to rise and set with its usual indifference, then you probably don't toil in the vineyards of the publishing industry.
Jonathan Taplin - Jonathan Taplin is a Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and Director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab.
Blair Taylor - Chief Community Officer at Starbucks Corporation
Casper ter Kuile - Co-Founder,UK Youth Climate Coalition
Mark Tercek - President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy
Gillian Tett - Columnist, Financial Times
Peter Thiel - Former CEO and Co-founder of PayPal; Technology Entrepreneur, Investor and Philanthropist
Buzz Thompson - Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and Perry L. McCarty Director, Woods Institute for the Environment; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Derek Thompson - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Zeynep Ton - Adjunct Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
Sherry Turkle - Acclaimed Author and Expert on Technology and Its Role in Transforming Relationships in a Digital Society; Sociologist and Professor, MIT
Merlijn Twaalfhoven - Composer; Director, La Vie Sur Terre
Matt Tyrnauer - Special Correspondent at Vanity Fair; Director of "Valentino: The Last Emperor"
Jackie Vanderbrug - Senior Vice President and Investment Strategist, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management (Festival Underwriter)
Bina Venkataraman - Senior Advisor for Climate Change Innovation, Obama Administration
Michael Waldman - Former White House Chief Speechwriter & Presidential Scholar
Jane Wales - Vice President of Philanthropy and Society at the Aspen Institute; Co-Founder of the Global Philanthropy Forum; President & CEO of the World Affairs Council of Northern California
Jim Wallis - Christian Writer and Political Activist
Martin Walsh - Mayor, City of Boston
Mark Warner - U.S. Senator
Mark Weinberger - Global Chairman and CEO Ernst & Young
Randi Weingarten - President, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
Leon Wieseltier - Former Literary Editor, The New Republic
Jessica Williamson - Comedian; Storyteller, "The Moth"
Kamilah Willingham - Program Associate, Just Detention International
Garry Wills - Pulitzer Prize-Winning American Author, Journalist, and Historian; Specializes in American History, Politics, and Religion -- Especially the History of the Roman Catholic Church
Thomas J. Wilson - Chairman, President, and CEO, The Allstate Corporation
Dalila Wilson-Scott - Managing Director, Global Philanthropy, JP Morgan Chase
Damian Woetzel - Director, Arts Program, The Aspen Institute; Artistic Director, Vail International Dance Festival
Chris Womack - President, External Affairs, Southern Company
Graeme Wood - Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
Joshua Wyner - Executive Director, College Excellence Program, The Aspen Institute
Karen Wynn - Professor, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yale University
Tom Yellin - Co-Founder and President, The Documentary Group; Executive Producer, Girl Rising
Monica Yunus - Operatic Soprano, Co-Founder, Sing for Hope
Camille Zamora - Soprano; Co-Founder, Sing for Hope
Amy Ziering - Producer & Documentary Filmmaker; Known for "The Invisible War" and "The Hunting Ground"
Jonathan Zittrain - Renowned Authority on Future of the Internet; Harvard Computer Science & Law Professor; Co-Founder & Chairman, Berkman Center for Internet & Society

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