Aspen Ideas Conference 2016

Stephanie Addenbrooke - Editor in Chief, Yale Daily News
David Aguilar - director, Center for Astrophysics
Enola Aird - Founder and President, Community Healing Network
Sonita Alizadeh - Artist and Activist
Mike Allen - Chief White House Correspondent, Politico, and Creator, Playbook and Morning Money.
Thad Allen - Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton (Festival Underwriter)
Ross Andersen - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Kristen Soltis Anderson - Author and Columnist at "The Washington Examiner"
Julia Angwin - Senior Reporter, ProPublica; Author, Dragnet Nation
Raney Aronson-Rath - Senior producer, Frontline
Caroline Atkinson - Head of Global Policy, Google
Don Baer - Worldwide Chairman and CEO, Burson-Marsteller; Chairman, Penn Schoen Berland; Co-Founder and Chairman, Palisades Media Ventures
Zoë Baird - President Markle Foundation.
Amar Bakshi - Artist and Founder, Shared_Studios
Molly Ball - Staff writer covering U.S. politics at The Atlantic
Bryn Banuelos - Marketing Director, Safeway
Melody Barnes - Former Domestic Policy Advisor, Obama White House; Chair, Forum for Community Solutions, The Aspen Institute
Matt Barreto - Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Latino Decisions; Professor of Political Science and Chicano Studies, UCLA
Emily Bazelon - Speaker on Bullying and Author of "Sticks and Stones"
Seth Berkley - CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; Medical Doctor Specializing in Infectious DiseaseEpidemiology and Global Health
Eric Berkowitz - Human Rights Attorney; Author, The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities
Reginald Dwayne Betts - Poet, Author, Memoirist, Teacher
Mike Bezos - co-founded the Bezos Family Foundation in 2000 with his wife
Jill Biden - Second Lady of the United States
Susan Black - Chief Kaizen Promotion Officer, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Fernanda Bombardi - Executive Manager, Institute of Entrepreneurial Citizenship
James Bonini - Vice President, Toyota Production System Support Center, Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America (TEMA) (Festival Underwriter)
Cory A. Booker - US Senator from New Jersey and Author of "United"
Deborah Borda - President and CEO, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Tucker Bounds - President, Sidewire
Jennifer Finney Boylan - Professor, Celebrated LGBT Activist & Author
Tim Bozik - President, Global Product, Pearson
Jennifer Bradley - Fellow and Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
Stewart Brand - Author, Futurist, Activist, and Visionary
Shirley Brandman - Executive Director, National Commission of Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, The Aspen Institute
Rosalind Brewer - President and CEO of Sam's Club
Xavier Briggs - Vice President, Economic Opportunity and Markets, Ford Foundation
Stephen Bright - President and Senior Counsel, Southern Center for Human Rights; Harvey Karp Visiting Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
Steven Brill - Award-Winning Journalist and Author
Joshua Brody - Director, Lymphoma Immunotherapy Program, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter)
Arthur Brooks - President, American Enterprise Institute
David Brooks - Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Author of NY Times Bestseller "The Road to Character"
Ethan Brown - Co-Founder and CEO, Beyond Meat
Patrick Brown - Founder and CEO, Impossible Foods; Founder, Lyrical Foods; Co-Founder and Board Member, Public Library of Science
Ron Brownstein - Editorial Director for Strategic Partnerships, Atlantic Media; Columnist, National Journal
Scott Budnick - President, Green Hat Films
Marcus Bullock - CEO and Founder, Flikshop; CEO, Perspectives Premier Contractors
Steven Burakoff - Director, The Tisch Cancer Institute; Lilian and Henry M. Stratton Professor of Cancer Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter)
Nicholas Burns - Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard University
Ursula Burns - CEO, Xerox
Sylvia Mathews Burwell - Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget
Antoinette Bush - Executive Vice President and Global Head, Government Affairs, News Corporation
Laura Bush - First Lady of the United States (2001-2009)
Dwight Bush, Sr. - U.S. Ambassador to Morocco
Paula Caballero - Senior Director, Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice, World Bank
Ross Cagan - Professor, Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology and Director, Center for Personalized Cancer Therapeutics, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter)
Nancy Cantor - Chancellor, Rutgers University
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.
John Carlin - Assistant Attorney General for National Security, U.S. Department of Justice
Stephen L. Carter - Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University.
Jean Case - CEO, Case Foundation
Steve Case - Chairman and CEO, Revolution LLC; Co-Founder, America Online
Aquil Charlton - Teaching Artist , Urban Gateways; Founder, ALT-City, Chicago Public Schools
Gerald Chertavian - Founder & CEO, Year Up
Henry Cisneros - Executive Chairman, CityView; Former U.S. Secretary, Housing and Urban Development; Former Mayor of San Antonio
Donte Clark - Poet, Playwright; Creative Coordinator, RYSE Center
Steve Clemons - Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
Jay Coen Gilbert - B Corporation
Bonni Cohen - Co-Founder and Filmmaker, Actual Films
David Cohen - Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Comcast Corporation (Festival Underwriter)
Alan Cohn - Of Counsel, Steptoe and Johnson LLP; Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
Daisy Coleman - Co-Founder, SafeBAE; Junior Board Member, PAVE; Student; Subject, Audrie & Daisy
Maureen Conway - Executive Director Economic Opportunities Program
Ann Cooper - Children and Family Advocate; Best Selling Author; Celebrated Chef
Bob Costas - Award-Winning Sportscaster, Broadcaster and Best-Selling Author
Tom Cotton - Arkansas Rep in U.S. Senate
Chris Cox - VP, Product at Facebook
Maria Cuomo Cole - Filmmaker; Producer, Newtown
Stephanie Cutter - Founding Partner, Precision Strategies
David Daniels - Managing Director and President, North American of Services, Higher Education, Pearson (Festival Underwriter)
Mitch Daniels - President of Purdue University, Governor of Indiana (2005-2013) and Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2001-2003)
Ronald Daniels - President, Johns Hopkins University
Chris Davenport - Big Mountain Skier; Mountaineer
Ken Davis - President and CEO, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Fiona Dawson - Global President, Mars Food, Drinks, and Multisales, MARS, Inc.
Sean Decatur - President, Kenyon College
Kevin Delaney - Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder, Quartz
Nikhil Deogun - Editor in Chief and Senior Vice President, CNBC Business News
Sasha Dichter - Chief Innovation Officer; Blogger, Philanthropist
John Dickerson - Host of "Face the Nation" & CBS News Political Director
Michael Dimock - President, Pew Research Center
E. J. Dionne, Jr. - Syndicated Washington Post Columnist; Political Analyst for National Public Radio
Carla Dirlikov Canales - Mezzo-Soprano; Founder and CEO, The Canales Project
Colman Domingo - Palywright & Actor Known for his Role in "Fear the Walking Dead"
Pete Dominick - Host, Sirius XM's "Stand Up! With Pete Dominick"
Charles Duhigg - New York Times Investigative Reporter & Bestselling Author of "The Power of Habit"
Jeff Dunn - President, Packaged Fresh, Campbell Soup Co.; Chief Carrot Officer, Bolthouse Farms
Michael Eric Dyson - MSNBC Political Analyst and Former Host of NPR’s The Michael Eric Dyson Show; Best selling Author
Martin Eakes - CEO, Self-Help Credit Union
Josh Earnest - White House Press Secretary Under the Obama Administration
Richard Edelman - President and CEO, Edelman
Mickey Edwards - Former US Congressman/Professor
Kassem Eid -
Michael Eisner - Former CEO of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until 2005.
Ezekiel Emanuel - Leading Practitioners Shaping the Future of Healthcare; Expertise in Policy
Kelly Evans - On-air correspondent CNBC
Jenny Everett - Deputy Director, ANDE, Aspen Institute
Helena Bottemiller Evich - Senior Reporter, POLITICO
Mohammed Fairouz - Composer
John Fallon - CEO, Pearson
James Fallows - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
Tom Fanning - Chairman, President, and CEO, Southern Company
Drew Gilpin Faust - President, Harvard University
John Feinblatt - President, Everytown for Gun Safety
Teresita Fernández - Artist
Leah Fessler - Modern Sexuality Freelance Writer; Author, "Can She Really 'Play That Game, Too'?"
David Festa - Vice President, Ecosystems, Environmental Defense Fund (Festival Underwriter)
Alissa Figueroa - Investigative Reporter and Producer, Fusion
Alex Filippenko - Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Larry Fink - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock
Helen Fisher - Expert on Romantic Love
Ira Flatow - NPR Science Correspondent
Renée Fleming - Soprano; Trustee, Carnegie Hall Corporation; Aspen Institute Arts Program Harman-Eisner Artist-in-Residence
Rana Foroohar - Assistant Managing Editor, TIME Magazine
Adam Foss - Assistant District Attorney at Suffolk County District Attorney's Office
Robert Fraley - Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Monsanto
Mike Frank - Chief Commercial Officer, Monsanto (Festival Underwriter Presenter)
Travon Free - Writer for "The Daily Show" and Stand-Up Comedian
Thomas L. Friedman - Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Winning Commentator, New York Times Columnist and Author of "The World Is Flat"
Michael Froman - US Trade Representative
Matthew Galsky - Director of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter)
Theaster Gates - Director of Arts and Public Life, University of Chicago; Founder and President, Rebuild Foundation
Julie Gehrki - Senior Director, Walmart Foundation
David Gergen - Senior Political Analyst, CNN
Elliot Gerson - Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute
Nancy Gertner - Senior Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami - Film Director, Sonita
Mohammed Alaa Ghanem - Senior Political Adviser, Government Relations Director, and Strategist, Syrian American Council
Adam Ghetti - Founder - Ionic Security
Matty Gilliland - Head of Process Analysis, New Belgium Brewing Company
Newt Gingrich - Gingrich Productions; Former Speaker of the House of Representatives
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
Thelma Golden - Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem
Allan Golston - Mr. Allan C. Golston has been President of U.S. Program at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation since 2006.
Michael Govan - CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Adam Grant - Class of 1965 Wharton Professor of Management, Psychology Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Jeremy Grantham - Co-founder and Chief Investment Strategist GMO LLC
Stanley Greenberg - World-Renowned Pollster and New York Times Best-Selling Author, Elects and Advises National Leaders with a Deep Knowledge of Social and Economic Currents
Jonathan Greenblatt - Leading Social Entrepreneur; Thought-leader on CSR, Ethical Branding and Founder of ETHOS Water
Robert Griffin - Executive Director, Renewable Energy Program Office, United States Navy
Paul Grimwood - Chairman and CEO, Nestlé USA
Gideon Grinstein - President and Founder, Reut Institute; Author, Flexigidity: The Secret of Jewish Adaptability and the Challenge and Opportunity Facing Israel
John Grunsfeld - Associate Administrator Science Mission Directorate, NASA
Janine Guillot - Director, Capital Markets Policy and Outreach, Sustainable Accounting Standards Board
Richard Haass - President, Council on Foreign Relations
Shadi Hamid - Fellow, US Relations with the Islamic World Project, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
Katherine Hammack - Assistant Secretary, Installations, Energy, and Environment, United States Army
Jane Harman - President, CEO, and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Former US Representative (D-CA); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Caleb Harper - MIT Media Lab Principal Investigator and Director of the Open Agriculture Initiative
Dianne Harrison - President, California State University, Northridge
Sasha Havlicek - Co-Founder and CEO, Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Christie Hefner - Former Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of Playboy Enterprises
John Hickenlooper - Governor of Colorado
Maria Hinojosa - Emmy-Winning Journalist
Nicole Hockley - Managing Director, Sandy Hook Promise
Frederic Hof - Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, Atlantic Council
Jonathan Holloway - Dean, Yale College and Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies, Yale University
Anna Holmes - Founder and Editor of Online Women's Magazine, Jezebel. Editor, writer (Glamour, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, New Yorker.com, many others.)
Ron Huberman - Co-Founder and Executive Chair, TeacherMatch
Sherrilyn Ifill - President and Director-Counsel , NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
David Ignatius - Bestselling Author and Washington Post Columnist
Julia Ioffe - Contributing Writer, Politico; Contributing Writer, Highline, Huffington Post
Walter Isaacson - Best-selling Author, "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution" (2014) and "Steve Jobs" (2011), Acclaimed Historian and Journalist; President and CEO of the Aspen Institute
Wolfgang Ischinger - Chairman, Munich Security Conference
Sasha Issenberg - Political Columnist and Author
Chris Jackson - Executive Editor, Spiegel & Grau, Penguin-Random House
Malek Jandali - Composer and Pianist
Natalie Jaresko - Chair, Aspen Institute Kyiv; Former Finance Minister, Government of Ukraine
Brett Jenks - President and CEO, Rare Conservation
Gayle Jennings-O'Byrne - CEO, The Prometheus Exchange; Principal, Maya Ventures Partners
Maz Jobrani - A founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour.
Peggy Johnson - EVP, Business Development at Microsoft
Stephen Jones - Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences and Director, The Bread Lab, Washington State University
Lisa Kaltenegger - Director, Carl Sagan Institute, Cornell University
Erika Karp - Founder and CEO, Cornerstone Capital Group
Sam Kass - Senior Food Analyst, NBC News; Former Senior White House Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy
Neal Katyal - Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law, Georgetown Law; Partner, Hogan Lovells
Melissa Kearney - Professor, Department of Economics, University of Maryland; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Chris Kelly - Chief Privacy Officer, Facebook
Max Kenner - Founder and Executive Director, Bard Prison Initiative
Paula Kerger - President and CEO, PBS
Piper Kerman - Author, "Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman's Prison"
Asma Khalid - Campaign Reporter, NPR
Zia Khan - Vice President for Strategy & Evaluation at the Rockefeller Foundation.
Navina Khanna - Director, HEAL Food Alliance; Co-Founder and Field Director, Live Real
Parag Khanna - The World's Leading Geo-Strategist; Author of Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the 21st Century
Matt Kibbe - President and CEO FreedomWorks Foundation
Sam Killermann - Comedian; Director of Creativity, Hues; Author, The Social Justice Advocate's Handbook: A Guide to Gender
Marty Klein - Sex Therapist & Social Scientist Bringing Sexual Sanity to a Confused World
Kilian Kleinschmidt - Chairman, SwitXBoard; Founder, Innovation and Planning Agency (IPA)
Eric Klinenberg - Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, Editor of the Journal "Public Culture", Author
Amy Klobuchar - Senator (D-Minnesota) U.S. Senate
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
Sallie Krawcheck - Chair of Ellevate Network and Ellevate Asset
Corby Kummer - Senior editor at The Atlantic
Sedar Labarre - Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton (Festival Underwriter)
Elise Labott - Global Affairs Correspondent, CNN
Paige Ladisic - Editor in Chief 2015-2016, The Daily Tar Heel, University of North Carolina
Christine Lagarde - Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund; Former French Finance Minister
Mitch Landrieu - Mayor, City of New Orleans
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey - Healthcare Expert and President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Jae Rhim Lee - Artist and TED Fellow Jae Rhim Lee Re-Imagines the Relationships Between the Body and the World
Franklin Leonard - Founder, CEO, The Black List.
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
Marsha Levick - Deputy Director and Chief Counsel, Juvenile Law Center
Janna Levin - Cosmologist and Author
Kate Levin - Principal, Bloomberg Associates; Former Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City
Marc Levin - Policy Director, Right on Crime; Director, Center for Effective Justice, Texas Public Policy Foundation
Jody Lewen - Executive Director, Prison University Project
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"
Ann Limberg - Head of Philanthropic Solutions and the Family Office, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management (Festival Underwriter)
David Litt - Head Writer and Producer, Washington DC Chapter, "Funny or Die"
Eric Liu - Inspirational Civic Leader, Author & Educator
Christopher Livaccari - Elementary School Principal and Chinese Program Director, International School of the Peninsula; Senior Advisor for China Learning Intiatives, Asia Society
Maggie Loughran - Editor in Chief, The Chicago Maroon; Student, The University of Chicago
Glenn Loury - GLENN C. LOURY: Professor Loury is currently Director of the Institute on Race and Social Diversity with Boston University.
Adam Lowry - Co-Founder & Chief Greenskeeper, Method Products, Inc.
Monica Lozano - Chair of the Board, US Hispanic Media Inc.
Greg Lukianoff - President and CEO, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
Jane Holl Lute - Special Coordinator, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General, United Nations
Melvin Mar - Producer; Executive Producer, "Fresh Off The Boat"
Gloria Mark - Professor, Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine
John Markoff - Senior Writer, The New York Times Company
Morgan Marquis-Boire - Director of Security, First Look; Senior Researcher, Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
Zach Maurin - Executive Director, Service Year Alliance
Nergis Mavalvala - Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics and Associate Department Head, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Staff Scientist, LIGO Laboratory
Dan McAdams - Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and Director, Foley Center for the Study of Lives, Northwestern University
David McCormick - David H. McCormick was appointed by President Bush as Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs in August 2006.
Jane McGonigal - Game Designer, Inventor of SuperBetter and Author of "Reality Is Broken"
https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/ - Black Lives Matter Activist
Jamie Merisotis - President and CEO, Lumina Foundation
Rouba Mhaissen - Founder and Director, Sawa Foundation
Michael Middleton - Interim President, University of Missouri; Professor Emeritus, MU School of Law
Michelle Miller - Award-Winning CBS News Correspondent Based in New York
Yuri Milner - Founder DST Global
Wendy Mitchell - Founder and Cheese Maker, Avalanche Cheese Company, Meat and Cheese Restaurant and Farm Shop, and Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar
Renee Montagne - Co-host of NPR's Morning Edition
Marc Morial - President of National Urban League
Anne Mosle - Executive Director, Ascend, The Aspen Institute
Loubna Mrie - Photojournalist; Fellow, Magnum Foundation
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.
Mike Murphy - A rapid-fire talker and hilarious storyteller known for his charm, quick wit, and biting television ads, Mike Murphy is one of the nation's most widely known and successful political media consultants.
Alan Murray - President, Pew Research Center
Amy Myrdal Miller - Founder and President, Founder's Daughter Consulting
Satya Nadella - CEO of Microsoft
Sarbjit Nahal - Managing Director and Head of Thematic Investing, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Festival Underwriter)
Priyamvada Natarajan - Departments of Astronomy and Physics, Yale University
Nicholas Negroponte - Visionary on Technology and Its Impact on Business and Society; Founding Chairman, MIT Media Lab; Founder, One Laptop per Child
Marie Nelson - Vice President, News and Public Affairs, PBS (Festival Underwriter)
Latondra Newton - Group Vice President.
Vivian Nixon - Executive Director, College and Community Fellowship
Michele Norris - Host and Special Correspondent, NPR
Victoria Nuland - Victoria Nuland was ambassador of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization until Kurt Volker was sworn in as U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO on July 2, 2008.
Jennifer O'Malley Dillon - Founding Partner, Precision Strategies
Sally Osberg - President and CEO, Skoll Foundation
Susan Page - Washington Bureau Chief, USA Today
Jon Palmer - Associate General Counsel- Litigation, Microsoft Corporation
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.
Perri Peltz - Director, Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.; Host, "Dr. Radio Reports," Sirius XM
Susan Penfield - EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
Carrie Walton Penner - Board Chair, Walton Family Foundation (Festival Underwriter)
Esther Perel - Relationship & Communications Expert; Master Trainer & Emotional Literacy Advisor; Award-Winning Author & International Columnist
David Petraeus - Partner & Chairman, KKR Global Institute; Visiting Professor, CUNY; Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Lonnie Phillips - Co-Founder, Jessi's Message
Sandy Phillips - Co-Founder, Jessi's Message
Chellie Pingree - US Representative (D-ME)
Jean Pitzo - CEO, Ace Metal Crafts
Elizabeth Plank - Senior Editor at Mic, Activist & Creator of Viral Campaigns Like #AllMenCan and #WithoutTheWageGapIWould
Andrew D. Plepler - Global Chair and Corporate Social Responsibility and Consumer Policy Executive, Bank of America (Festival Underwriter)
David Plotz - CEO, Atlas Obscura
Chris Plutte - Founder and Executive Director, Global Nomads Group
Dan Porterfield - President, Franklin and Marshall College
Sheila Pott - Co-Founder, Audrie Pott Foundation
Kirsten Powers - USA Today Columnist, Daily Beast Columnist & Fox News Contributor
Gill Pratt - Executive Technical Advisor and CEO, Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Motor Corporation (Festival Underwriter)
Mark Preston - Executive Editor, CNN Politics
Penny Pritzker - US Secretary of Commerce
Ida Rademacher - Executive Director, Initiative on Financial Security, The Aspen Institute
Lisa Randall - Award-Winning Physicist and One of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World," Author, "Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs"
Urvashi Rangan - Director, Consumer Safety and Sustainability, Consumer Reports (Festival Underwriter)
Steven Rattner - Chairman, Willett Advisors LLC
Bob Raynolds - Research Associate, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Molly Pershin Raynor - Performing Arts Program Coordinator, RYSE Center
Pamela Reeves - Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Jason Rezaian - Tehran Bureau Chief, Correspondent, The Washington Post
Katie Rich - Writer, "Weekend Update," Saturday Night Live
Walter Robb - Co-CEO, Whole Foods Market
Brian Roberts - Chairman & CEO, Comcast
Jim Rogers - Chairman of the Board and Former CEO of Duke Energy
Jeffrey Rosen - President and CEO, National Constitution Center; Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School; Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
David Rosenberg - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer AeroFarms
Jessica Rosenworcel - Commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission
Hanna Rosin - Senior Editor, The Atlantic; Author, "The End of Men"
Alec Ross - Author of "The Industries of the Future," and Recent Senior Advisor for Innovation to Hilary Clinton
Michael Roth - President of Wesleyan University & Author of "Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters"
David Rothkopf - Former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce; CEO and Editor of the Foreign Policy Group
Horacio Rozanski - President and COO, Booz Allen Hamilton
David Rubenstein - Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Robert 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"
Malika Saada Saar - Senior Counsel, Civil and Human Rights, Google
Ricardo Salinas - President and CEO, Salinas Group
Ricardo Salvador - Senior Scientist and Director, Food and Environment Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
Judith Samuelson - Executive Director
M. Sanjayan - Executive Vice President and Senior Scientist, Conservation International
Dan Savage - Author, Activist and Sex Advice Columnist, "Savage Love"
Orville Schell - Arthur Ross Director, Center on US China Relations, Asia Society
Laura Secor - Journalist; Author, Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
Tina Seelig - Executive Director, Stanford University Technology Ventures Program
Adam Segal - Senior Fellow for China Studies and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations
Lina Sergie Attar - Co-Founder and CEO, Karam Foundation
Mariela Shaker - Violinist
Jim Shelton - Acting Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement, US Department of Education
Jon Shenk - Co-Founder and Filmmaker, Actual Films
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall - Deputy Secretary of Energy, Department of Energy
Mina Sherzoy - Director, USAID Promote Women in Government (WIG) Program
Tim Shriver - Chairman, Special Olympics; Co-Founder and Chair, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
Forrest Sill - Student, The University of Chicago; Editor in Chief, The Chicago Maroon
Paul Singer - Principal, Elliott Management, USA
David Skorton - Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
Anne-Marie Slaughter - CEO New America Foundation; Foreign Policy Expert; Feminist Author
Anna Deavere Smith - Award-Winning Actress, Playwright, Social Commentator
Clint Smith - Poet and Educator Whose Work Blends Art and Activism
Jason Smith - Director, Rock Bottom Ranch, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies
Kim Snyder - Filmmaker; Director, Newtown
Mercy Sombilla - Director of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, National Development Office of Planning, National Economic and Development Authority, Philippines
Michael Sorrell - President, Paul Quinn College
Pamela Starr - Director, US-Mexico Network; Associate Professor, School of International Relations and in Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California
Michael Steele - Former Chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC); Political Analyst, MSNBC; Author, Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda
James Steinberg - Dean, Maxwell School of Syracuse University; Former Deputy Secretary of State
Laurence Steinberg - Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D., is the Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University.
Richard Stengel - Richard Stengel has been named Managing Editor of Time it was announced today by John Huey, Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc.
Alan Stern - American engineer and planetary scientist, the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Chief Scientist at Moon Express
Andy Stern - Andy Stern is the president emeritus of the 2.2 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the fastest-growing union in North America.
Jessica Stern - Jessica Stern is the foremost U.S. expert on terrorism and author of Terror In The Name of God.
Olivia Sterns - Business and Tech Correspondent, NBC News
Bryan Stevenson - Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, Bestselling Author of "Just Mercy"
Geoffrey Stone - Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Scott Stossel - Editor, The Atlantic
Tristram Stuart - Environmental Campaigner and Author; "Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal"
Cass Sunstein - Professor of Law at Harvard; Expert on Behavioral Economics
Michael Taylor - Former Deputy Commissioner, Foods and Veterinary Medicine, US Food and Drug Administration; Senior Fellow, Freedman Consulting, LLC
Mark Tercek - President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy
Gillian Tett - Columnist, Financial Times
Evan Thomas - Assistant Managing Editor Newsweek, Author
Derek Thompson - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
Matt Thompson - Editorial Product Manager, NPR
Nina Totenberg - NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent
Rebecca Traister - Political & Cultural Journalist; Author of "Big Girls Don't Cry" & "All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation"
Sydney Trattner - Senior Producer, "Years of Living Dangerously"
Sol Trujillo - Chief Executive Officer Telstra Corp. Ltd.
Nicholas Turner - President, Vera Institute of Justice
Roberta Uno - Director, Arts in a Changing America, California Institute of the Arts
Jason van Genderen - Filmmaker; Founder, Pocket Film Academy
Cyrus Vance, Jr. - District Attorney, New York County (Manhattan)
Arturo Vargas - Executive Director, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials and NALEO Educational Fund
Jose Antonio Vargas - Journalist, Filmmaker & Immigration Activist
Lynn Vavreck - Professor, Political Science and Communication Studies, UCLA
Roberto Villaseñor - Principal Consultant, 21CP Solutions; Retired Chief, Tuscon Police Department
Rajiv Vinnakota - Executive Vice President, Youth & Engagement, The Aspen Institute
Alex Wagner - Host NOW WITH ALEX WAGNER ON MSNBC
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
Steuart Walton - CEO, Game Composites, Ltd.; Board Member, Walton Family Foundation (Festival Underwriter)
Mark Warner - US Senator, State of Virginia (D)
Heather Watts - Educator, Arts Advocate
Vin Weber - Co-Chairman and Partner, Clark & Weinstock; Former US Representative (R-MN); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Kari Weil - University Professor and Director, College of Letters, Wesleyan University
Mark Weinberger - Global Chairman and CEO Ernst & Young
Randi Weingarten - President, American Federation of Teachers
Lucas Welch - Executive Director, Pluribus Project
Roxane White - President and CEO, Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP)
Leon Wieseltier - Former Literary Editor, The New Republic
Thomas J. Wilson - Chairman, President, and CEO, The Allstate Corporation
Peter Wittig - Ambassador of Germany to the US
Damian Woetzel - Director, Arts Program, The Aspen Institute; Artistic Director, Vail International Dance Festival
Josephine Wolff - Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology; Faculty Associate, Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Chris Womack - President, External Affairs, Southern Company
Doug Wood - Program Officer, Youth Opportunity and Learning, The Ford Foundation
Ryan Wyatt - Director, Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization, California Academy of Sciences
Joshua Wyner - Executive Director, College Excellence Program, The Aspen Institute
Emily Yoffe - Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
Connie Yowell - Director of Education at the MacArthur Foundation
Ka Chun Yu - Curator of Space Science, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Micah Zenko - Senior Fellow at CFR; Author
Manoush Zomorodi - Host and Managing Editor, "Note to Self," WNYC

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