Aspen Ideas Festival
Aspen Ideas Conference 2011
- Feisal Abdul Rauf - Devoted to peaceful relations between Muslim-Americans and their neighbors
- 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.
- Kenneth Adelman - Vice President, Movers and Shakespeares
- Stephen Adler - Editor-in-Chief, Reuters News
- Priya Agrawal - Senior Advisor, Patients for Patient Safety, World Health Organization
- David B. Agus - Professor of Medicine and Engineering, University of Southern California; Co-Founder, Navigenics; Author, "The End of Illness"
- Liaquat Ahamed - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Investment Manager
- Mike Allen - Chief White House Correspondent, Politico, and Creator, Playbook and Morning Money.
- Michael W. Allman - President and CEO, Southern California Gas Company
- Paola Antonelli - Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design, Museum of Modern Art, New York
- Michael Arad - Architect
- Lance Armstrong - World Champion Cyclist, Olympian and Cancer Survivor
- Mara G. Aspinall - Founder, Director, and Former CEO, On-Q-Ity
- David Axelrod - Senior Strategist, 2012 Obama Re-election Campaign; Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama (2009-2011); Director, University of Chicago, Institute of Politics and NBC News/MSNBC Senior Political Analyst
- Donald Baer - Worldwide Chairman and CEO, Burson-Marsteller; Chairman, Penn Schoen Berland; Co-Founder and Chairman, Palisades Media Ventures
- Keith Banks - President, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
- Haley Barbour - Former Governor of Mississippi
- Rye Barcott - Social Entrepreneur & Veteran
- Melody Barnes - Former Domestic Policy Advisor, Obama White House; Chair, Forum for Community Solutions, The Aspen Institute
- Richard Barth - President and CEO, KIPP Foundation
- Maria Bartiromo - Financial Journalist on Fox Business News; Former Anchor of CNBC's "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo"
- Jamie Bechtel - Founder, President, and CEO, New Course
- Gina Belafonte - Producer, Sing Your Song
- Eythor Bender - Eythor Bender is the CEO of Berkeley Bionics, which augments humans with wearable, powered and artificially intelligent devices called exoskeletons or "wearable robots."
- James Bennet - Editor in Chief, The Atlantic
- Jared Bernstein - Renowned Economist and Author
- Kent Berridge - James Olds Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
- Richard Besser - ABC News Senior Health & Medical Editor
- Eddie Bocanegra - Violence Interrupter, The Interrupters
- Derek Bok - 300th Anniversary University Research Professor, University President Emeritus, Harvard University; Chair, The Spencer Foundation
- Sissela Bok - Senior Visiting Fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
- Andrea Booher - Photojournalist, Documentary Producer
- Cory Booker - US Senator from New Jersey
- Graeme Boone - Professor, School of Music, Ohio State University
- Deborah Borda - President and CEO, Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Amanda Boxtel - Paraplegic Woman Who Now Uses Bionic Exoskeleton Technology to Walk
- Dondeena Bradley - Vice President of Global Design and Development for Nutrition Ventures, PepsiCo
- David G. Bradley - Chairman and Owner, Atlantic Media Company
- Melissa L. Bradley - CEO, Tides
- Ambassador L. Paul Bremer - Ambassador Bremer is one of the world’s leading experts on crisis management, terrorism and homeland security.
- Stephen Breyer - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Steven Brill - Award-winning Journalist and Author
- 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"
- Ronald Brownstein - Editorial Director for Strategic Partnerships, Atlantic Media Company
- Robert Bryce - Energy Expert, Veteran Journalist & Acclaimed Author
- Nicholas Burns - Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard University
- James C. Calaway - Chair, Lifetime Trustees, The Aspen Institute
- Donna Callejon - CBO, GlobalGiving
- Stephen Cannon - President and CEO, Mercedes-Benz USA
- David Carr - New York Times Media & Culture Columnist
- Gary Carter - Chief Operating Officer, FremantleMedia
- Pete Cashmore - CEO and Founder of Mashable and one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People 2012
- Rajiv Chandrasekaran - Senior Correspondent and Associate Editor for the Washington Post
- Amit Chatterjee - CEO of Hara Software
- Michael Chertoff - Second Secretary of Homeland Security
- Steven Chu - Former United States Secretary of Energy
- Peggy Clark - Managing Director, Aspen Global Health and Development
- Jay Coakley - Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
- Ta-Nehisi Coates - Senior Editor, The Atlantic, Bestselling Author of "Between the World and Me"
- Neal Conan - Former Host, NPR's "Talk of the Nation"
- James Schine Crown - Board of Trustees
- Susan Crown - Founder and Chairman, SCE
- Leslie Dach - Leslie Dach is executive vice president of corporate affairs and government relations for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- Joseph Daniels - President and CEO, National September 11 Memorial & Museum
- John Danner - Co-Founder and CEO, Rocketship Education
- William Davidow - High-tech industry executive and venture investor for over thirty years
- Richie Davidson - William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Karl Deisseroth - Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
- Eames Demetrios - Eames Demetrios is the creator of Kymaerica and the Kcymaerxthaere, an alternate history of the world. He is the grandson of the legendary husband-and-wife design team Charles and Ray Eames.
- Joan Dempsey - Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
- John Dickerson - Host of "Face the Nation" & CBS News Political Director
- James Dobbins - Director, RAND International Security and Defense Policy Center
- Thomas Duesterberg - Senior Advisor and Former President and CEO, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI Inc.
- Esther Duflo - Takes Economics Out of the Lab and Into the Field to Discover the Causes of Poverty and Means to Eradicate It
- Secretary Arne Duncan - Secretary of the US Department of Education
- Fred Dust - Partner, IDEO
- Aaron Dworkin - Founder and President, Sphinx Organization
- Marcia Dyson - Political Strategist, Social Activist & Writer
- Marius de Vos - Educator
- Jonah Edelman - Children's Advocate & Founder of Stand for Children
- Mickey Edwards - Former US Congressman/Professor
- Robert Egger - Founder and President, DC Central Kitchen & Campus Kitchens Project
- Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins - CEO, Green for All
- Mona Eltahawy - Journalist; Egyptian Peace Activist
- Ezekiel J. Emanuel - Leading Practitioners Shaping the Future of Healthcare; Expertise in Policy
- Nabil Fahmy - Founding Dean, School of Public Affairs, Chair of James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies’ Middle East Project, American University in Cairo; Ambassador at Large, Egyptian Foreign Ministry
- Gene Falk - Co-Founder and President, mothers2mothers
- James Fallows - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
- Chris Farina - Director, World Peace and Other Fourth Grade Achievements
- Tom Farrey - Correspondent; Director, ESPN; Director, Sports and Society, The Aspen Institute
- Greg Farrington - Executive director and William R. and Gretchen B. Kimball Chair of the California Academy of Sciences.
- David Finckel - Artistic Director, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
- Betsy Fischer - Executive Producer, “Meet the Press,” MSNBC
- Eric Fischl - Painter and Sculptor; Founder, President, and Lead Curator, America Now and Here
- Benita Fitzgerald Mosley - Chief of Sport Performance, USA Track & Field
- Matt Flannery - Co-Founder and CEO, Kiva
- Alan Fletcher - President and CEO, Aspen Music Festival and School; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- Sam Fouad - Americas Emerging Markets Leader, Ernst & Young
- Robert H. Frank - New York Times columnist; Professor of Management and of Economics, Cornell University; Author of "The Darwin Economy"
- Chrystia Freeland - Editor of Thomson Reuters Digital; Previously the U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times
- Thomas Friedman - Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Winning Commentator, New York Times Columnist and Author of "The World Is Flat"
- Jeff Gasser - Executive Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer, Southern Nuclear Operating Company
- Frank Gehry - Frank Gehry is Design Principal for the Firm of Frank O. Gehry and Associates, Inc.
- Elliot Gerson - Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute
- Daniel Gilbert - Psychologist, Happiness Expert and Harvard Professor
- Thomas Goetz - Former Executive Editor at 'Wired'; Author of "The Decision Tree" and "The Remedy"
- Jeffrey Goldberg - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
- Ron Gonen - Co-Founder and Director, RecycleBank
- Austan Goolsbee - Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisers (2010-2011) and Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Carol Graham - Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Global Economy, and Development, and Charles Robinson Chair in Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution
- Michael Graves - World-renowned architect Michael Graves' career has been one of the most remarkably creative and successful of any American architect practicing today.
- Alan Greenspan - Chairman, Federal Reserve System (1987-2006)
- Kristin Groos Richmond - Co-Founder and CEO, Revolution Foods
- Arjun Gupta - Founder and Managing Partner, TeleSoft Partners Trustee, the Aspen Institute
- 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
- Wu Han - Artistic Director, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
- Tio Hardiman - Executive Director, CeaseFire Illinois
- Jane Harman - President, CEO, and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Former US Representative (D-CA); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- Francis J. Henry Jr. - Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Fred Hiatt - Editorial Page Editor, The Washington Post
- Christopher Hill - Dean, Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver; former US Ambassador to Iraq
- Jennifer Homans - Author, Apollo’s Angels; Dance Critic, The New Republic; Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, New York University
- Robert Hormats - Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates Inc.
- James Horowitz - Founder, President, and CEO, Jazz Aspen Snowmass
- Al Hubbard - Co-Founder and CEO, E&A Industries
- Bernardo Huberman - HP Senior Fellow and Director, Social Computing Research Lab, HP Laboratories
- Arianna Huffington - President & Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group & New York Times Bestselling Author of Thrive
- Chris Hughes - Co-founder, Facebook and Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, The New Republic
- John Hunter - Teacher and musician John Hunter is the inventor of the World Peace Game.
- Cheryl L. Hyman - Chancellor, City Colleges of Chicago
- Christopher M. Hyzy - Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
- Gwen Ifill - Moderator and Managing Editor, PBS’s "Washington Week"; Co-Anchor and Managing Editor, “PBS NewsHour"
- Walter Isaacson - President and C.E.O. of the Aspen Institute
- Peter Jackson - Director Known for the "Lord of the Rings Series" and "King Kong"
- Lisa P. Jackson - Vice President of Environment, Policy & Social Initiatives at Apple
- Emily Jacobi - Co-Founder and Executive Director, Digital Democracy
- Steve James - Director, The Interrupters
- Brett Jenks - President and CEO, Rare Conservation
- Kristina Johnson - Chairman and CEO, Enduring Hydro; Former Under Secretary of Energy, US Department of Energy
- Nasir “Nas” bin Olu Dara Jones - Rapper, Actor
- Lynn Jurich - CEO, SunRun
- Jay Keasling - CEO, Joint BioEnergy Institute; Hubbard Howe Distinguished Professor of Biochemical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley; Director, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Hans Keirstead - Associate Professor of Anatomy and Neurobiology and Co-Director, Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine
- David Kelley - Founder of IDEO
- Kevin Kelly - Founding Executive Editor of Wired Magazine
- Charles Kenny - Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development; Author, "Getting Better"
- David Kirchhoff - CEO, Weight Watchers International
- Joe Klein - Joe Klein writes Time "In the Arena," a weekly column in TIME Magazine which covers national and international affairs.
- Wendy Kopp - CEO and Founder of Teach For America
- Alex Kotlowitz - Alex Kotlowitz is perhaps best known for the bestselling There Are No Children Here:
- Larry Kramer - Dean of Stanford Law School
- Corby Kummer - Senior editor at The Atlantic
- Mark Kurlansky - Author & Historian
- 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
- Jacob Lew - Director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget
- Tzipi Livni - Head, Kadima; Leader of the Opposition, Israel
- Richard Lobo - Director, International Broadcast Bureau
- Chris Luebkeman - Director, Global Foresight + Innovation, Arup
- Daniel Lurie - CEO and Founder, Tipping Point Community
- 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"
- Wynton Marsalis - Musician; Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center
- Michel Martin - Former Host, NPR's "Tell Me More"
- Jonathan Martin - National Political Correspondent, New York Times
- Kristin Anderson - Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Chris Matthews - Host, Hardball with Chris Matthews, MSNBC
- William E. Mayer - Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute; Partner, Park Avenue Equity Partners
- Michele Mayes - Michele Coleman Mayes assumed the position of Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Pitney Bowes in February 2003.
- 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"
- Mike McConnell - Vice Chairman, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Robert McDonald - Vanguard Scientist, The Nature Conservancy
- Lee McIntire - Chairman and CEO, CH2MHill
- Mark McKinnon - Chief Media Advisor, George W. Bush; Co-Founder, No Labels
- Darrin McMahon - Ben Weider Professor of History, Florida State University
- Thomas J. Miller - CEO of Customer Solutions, Siemens Healthcare
- Andrea Mitchell - Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC
- Ted Mitchell - President and CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund
- Dalia Mogahed - President and CEO, Mogahed Consulting, LLC
- David Monsma - Executive Director of Energy and Environment Program, The Aspen Institute
- Wes Moore - Bestselling Author of "The Other Wes Moore" and Youth Advocate
- Gail Morrison - Senior Vice Dean for Education and Director of the Office of Academic Programs, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
- Anne Mosle - Executive Director, Ascend, The Aspen Institute
- Marwan al-Muasher - Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Siddhartha Mukherjee - Oncologist, Cancer Researcher and Award-Winning Science Writer
- Kristen Mulvihill - Co-Author, A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides
- Jerry Murdock - Managing Director and Co-founder, Insight Venture Partners
- Marc Nathanson - Chairman, Mapleton Investments
- John D. Negroponte - British-Born American Diplomat
- Josh Nesbit - Co-founded Medic Mobile
- Gavin Newsom - 49th Lieutenant Governor of the State of California
- Joe Nocera - Opinion-Editorial Columnist, The New York Times
- Michele Norris - Host and Special Correspondent, NPR
- Joseph Nye - Deputy to the Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology (1977-1979)
- Sandra Day O'Connor - Retired American Jurist on the United States Supreme Court
- Marvin Odum - President, Shell Oil Company
- Richard Olcott - Founding Partner and Design Principal, Ennead Architects
- Dr. Dean Ornish - Directed Ground-Breaking Research for Heart Disease Reversal
- David Owen - Staff Writer, The New Yorker
- Fiona O’Carroll - Executive Vice President and General Manager of Innovation and New Ventures Group, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Chandrakant D. Patel - Senior Fellow and Director, Sustainable Ecosystems Research Lab, HP Laboratories
- Stephen Patrick - Senior Program Officer, Postsecondary Success Team, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Henry Paulson - Former Secretary, US Treasury Department
- Wendy Paulson - Chair Emerita, Rare Conservation; Lifetime Trustee, The Nature Conservancy
- Mark Penn - Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
- James Braxton Peterson - Public Intellectual
- Jason Pollock - Founder, Boom Content
- Eric Pooley - Journalist, Climate Change Expert
- William Powers - Best-Selling Author of Hamlet's BlackBerry
- Balaji Prabhakar - Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Stanford University
- Penny Pritzker - US Secretary of Commerce
- Robert Putnam - Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Author of "Our Kids"
- Thomas A. Rando - Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine; Deputy Director, Stanford Center on Longevity
- Diane Ravitch - Research Professor & Historian of Education
- Edward Reilly - Global CEO, FD
- Lynda Resnick - Vice Chairman, Roll Global; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- Stewart Resnick - Chairman, Roll Global
- Matthieu Ricard - French Buddhist Monk, Author, Photographer, and Sometimes Called the "Happiest Man in the World"
- Paul Rieckhoff - Founder and Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA); Author, "Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq"
- Amanda Ripley - Investigative journalist who writes about human behavior and public policy
- Lyndon Rive - Founder and CEO, SolarCity
- James Rogers - Jim Rogers is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Duke Energy.
- Nicolas Rohatyn - Partner, CEO, and Chief Investment Officer, The Rohatyn Group
- David Rohde - Investigative Journalist, The New York Times; Co-Author, A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping From Two Sides
- Paul Romer - Professor of Economics, Stern School of Business; Founder, NYU Stern Urbanization Project
- Joel Rose - Former CEO, School of One, New York City Department 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"
- Andrew Ross Sorkin - Financial Columnist for The New York Times & Co-Anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box
- Andrew Rossi - Director and Producer, Ivory Tower
- Nouriel Roubini - World Renowned Economist
- 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.
- Witold Rybczynski - Martin and Margy Meyerson Professor of Urbanism and Professor of Real Estate, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Kai Ryssdal - Host, Senior Editor, American Public Media's "Marketplace"
- Eva Sage-Gavin - Executive Vice President, Global Human Resources and Corporate Affairs, Gap, Inc.
- Judith A. Salerno - Leonard D. Schaeffer Executive Officer, Institute of Medicine
- Orville Schell - Arthur Ross Director, Center on US China Relations, Asia Society
- Robin Schepper - Former Executive Director, Let’s Move Initiative, Office of the First Lady of the United States
- Vivian Schiller - Head of News, Twitter
- David Schlesinger - Chairman, Thomson Reuters China
- Bob Schukai - Global Head of Mobile Technology, Thomson Reuters
- John Seely Brown - Visiting Scholar, Advisor to the Provost, University of Southern California; Independent Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge
- Dr. Martin Seligman - Founder of Positive Psychology and Chairman of the Positive Psychology Center at at the University of Pennsylvania
- Eldar Shafir - William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
- Gil Shaham - Violinist
- Thom Shanker - Pentagon Correspondent, The New York Times
- Russell Shaw - Head of School Georgetown Day School
- Nigel Sheinwald - British Ambassador to the United States
- Tiffany Shlain - Filmmaker & Founder of the Webby Awards
- Alan Simpson - Co-founder, the Campaign to Fix the Debt; Former Co-chair, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform (2010) and Respected Republican Leader
- Gillian Sorensen - Senior Advisor, UN Foundation
- Robert Spano - Music Director, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; 2011 Harman-Eisner Artist-in-Residence
- Sandy Speicher - Education Lead, IDEO
- Eric Spiegel - President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens Corporation and CEO of the U.S. Region
- Morgan Spurlock - Film Director and Screenwriter, Most Known for the Documentary "Super Size Me"
- Laura Stachel - Co-Founder, WE CARE Solar
- Robert K. Steel - Chairman
- James Steinberg - Dean, Maxwell School of Syracuse University; Former Deputy Secretary of State
- Richard Stengel - Richard Stengel has been named Managing Editor of Time it was announced today by John Huey, Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc.
- Linda Stone - Generalist
- Biz Stone - Co-Founder of Twitter
- Tom Sturges - Executive Vice President, Head of Creative, Universal Music Publishing Group
- Ray Suarez - Host, Al Jazeera America's "Inside Story"
- Don Tapscott - Senior Adviser, World Economic Forum; Author, "The Digital Economy"; Co-author, "Macrowikinomics" and "Wikinomics"
- Gary Taubes - Nutrition Expert; Author of "Good Calories, Bad Calories" and "Why We Get Fat"
- Gillian Tett - Columnist, Financial Times
- Shashi Tharoor - Diplomat and Author; Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General
- Laura Thielen - Artistic Director, aspenFilm
- Douglas Thomas - Douglas Thomas is Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.
- Linda Tischler - Senior Editor, Fast Company
- Yasuhisa Toyota - President, Nagata Acoustics America Inc.
- Mark Jude Tramo - Director, Institute for Music and Brain Science, Professor, David Geffen School of Medicine and Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA
- Peter Trick - Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Sherry Turkle - Acclaimed Author and Expert on Technology and Its Role in Transforming Relationships in a Digital Society; Sociologist and Professor, MIT
- Josh Tyrangiel - Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek
- Doug Ulman - Doug Ulman is a three-time cancer survivor and nationally recognized cancer advocate.
- Orlando “Maraca” Valle - Musician, Composer; Bandleader, Maraca
- Josh Viertel - President, Slow Food USA
- Antonio Villaraigosa - 41st Mayor of Los Angeles
- Thomas Vilsack - Secretary, US Department of Agriculture
- Peter Walker - Founder and Partner, PWP Landscape Architecture; Landscape Architect, National September 11 Memorial & Museum
- Lauren Walters - Co-Founder and CEO, Two Degrees Food
- Carlos Watson - A CNN contributor since 2003, Carlos Watson regularly offers commentary and analysis on the current events of the day to all CNN networks.
- Vin Weber - Co-Chairman and Partner, Clark & Weinstock; Former US Representative (R-MN); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- Eric Weiner - Author, The Geography of Bliss
- 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
- Evan Williams - Co-founder and Former CEO of Twitter
- Thomas J. Wilson - Chairman, President, and CEO, The Allstate Corporation
- Damian Woetzel - Director, Arts Program, The Aspen Institute; Artistic Director, Vail International Dance Festival
- Justin Wolfers - Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
- James O. Woolliscroft - Dean, University of Michigan Medical School
- Robin Wright - Award-Winning Journalist & Author
- Graham Wyatt - Partner, Robert A. M. Stern Architects
- Philip Zelikow - Professor of History, UVA & Fmr. Counselor, Dept. of State
- Jonathan Zittrain - Renowned Authority on Future of the Internet; Harvard Computer Science & Law Professor; Co-Founder & Chairman, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- Salman (Sal) Khan - Founder/Director Khan Academy
