Aspen Ideas Festival 2012
Aspen Ideas Conference 2012
- Mike Abramowitz - Director of the Committee on Conscience, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Donald Abrams - Chief of Hematology Oncology San Francisco General Hospital; Professor Clinical Medicine at University of California San Francisco
- Joel Achenbach - Joel Achenbach is an American staff writer for The Washington Post and the author of six books, including The Grand Idea, Captured by Aliens, and three compilations of his syndicated newspaper column "Why Things Are" (now defunct).
- David B. Agus - Professor of Medicine and Engineering, University of Southern California; Co-Founder, Navigenics; Author, "The End of Illness"
- Blaise Aguera y Arcas - Works at Google on Machine Intelligence; Former Architect of Bing Maps and MSN, Microsoft
- Noura Al Kaabi - Noura Al Kaabi is CEO of twofour54, an initiative by the Abu Dhabi government to foster the growth of the Arabic media entertainment industry.
- Ellen Alberding - President, Joyce Foundation
- Mike Allen - Chief White House Correspondent, Politico, and Creator, Playbook and Morning Money.
- Laura Alonso - National Representative, Argentina
- Kurt Andersen - Host, "Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC"; Author
- Marco Annunziata - Chief Economist and Executive Director, Global Market Insights, General Electric Co.
- Gustavo Arellano - Editor, OC Weekly; Syndicated Columnist, "Ask the Mexican!"; Author, "Taco USA"
- Donald Baer - Worldwide Chairman and CEO, Burson-Marsteller; Chairman, Penn Schoen Berland; Co-Founder and Chairman, Palisades Media Ventures
- Molly Ball - Staff writer covering U.S. politics at The Atlantic
- James Balog - Acclaimed Photographer Featured in Chasing Ice , Adventurer, and Founder of the Extreme Ice Survey
- Keith Banks - President, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
- Ehud Barak - Former Minister of Defense and Prime Minister of Israel; Most Decorated Soldier in Israel's History
- 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"
- James Bennet - Editor in Chief, The Atlantic
- Berl Bernhard - Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute Partner, DLA Piper US LLP
- Jackie Bezos - Co-Director, Bezos Family Foundation
- David G. Bradley - Chairman and Owner, Atlantic Media Company
- Taylor Branch - Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, America in the King Years
- David Breashears - Everest Adventurer And Filmmaker & Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Leadership
- Christine Brennan - USA Today Sports Columnist, Television Analyst and Best-selling Author
- Eli Broad - Eli Broad is founder of The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation.
- Paula Broadwell - Author, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus; Research Associate, Harvard University
- 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"
- Jim Brown - Jim Brown is to running backs what Superman is to cartoon heroes. Standing 6-foot-2 and packing 230 hard pounds on his square-shouldered frame, he was an explosive fullback, combining outstanding speed with awesome power.
- Tim Brown - Tim Brown is the CEO of IDEO, a Global Design and Innovation Consulting Firm
- Ronald Brownstein - Editorial Director for Strategic Partnerships, Atlantic Media Company
- Tory Burch - Designer and CEO, Tory Burch LLC; Founder, The Tory Burch Foundation
- Nicholas Burns - Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard University
- Lauren Bush-Lauren - Founder and CEO of FEED Projects
- Allison Carruth - Associate Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Stanford University
- Stephen L. Carter - Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University.
- Merle Chambers - Founder, Chambers Family Fund
- Elaine Chang - Founder, Social Teeth; Graduate Student, Stanford University
- Kevin Chi - Co-Founder, CombatIV; Graduate Student, Stanford School of Medicine
- Stacey Childress - CEO at NewSchools Venture Fund; Former Deputy Director, US Program, Education, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Ann-Ping Chin - Senior Lecturer, History Department, Yale University
- Melissa Chiu - Museum Director, Asia Society
- Myung Sun Choi - Co-Founder, CompactCath; Graduate Student, Stanford Mechanical Engineering
- Erika Christakis - Lecturer, Yale Child Study Center
- 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
- Jason Chua - Co-Founder, SparkTruck
- Prof. Dr. Amy Chua - Author of "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother;" The 2011 TIME 100; The Atlantic's 2011 Brave Thinker.
- Lu Chuan - Director, Writer, City of Life and Death
- Peggy Clark - Managing Director, Aspen Global Health and Development
- Steve Clemons - Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
- Lawrence J Cohen - Psychologist; Author, Playful Parenting
- Anthony Coles - President and CEO, Onyx Pharmaceuticals
- Neal Conan - Former Host, NPR's "Talk of the Nation"
- David Cote - Chairman and CEO, Honeywell
- Katie Couric - Global Anchor of Yahoo News
- Tyler Cowen - Professor of Economics, George Mason University; Bestselling Author of "The Great Stagnation"
- Roger Cressey - NBC Counter-terrorism Analyst & Former Presidential Advisor
- Clive Crook - Columnist and member of the editorial board at Bloomberg View; Senior Editor at The Atlantic Monthly.
- Mitch Daniels - President of Purdue University, Governor of Indiana (2005-2013) and Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2001-2003)
- John Danner - Co-Founder and CEO, Rocketship Education
- Thomas Daschle - Senior Policy Advisor, DLA Piper; Former US Senator (D-SD)
- Kevin Delaney - Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder, Quartz
- Vishakha N. Desai - President and CEO of Asia Society
- Elizabeth Diller - Elizabeth diller and husband, ricardo scofidio,create an alternative form of architecture practice that unites design, performance and electronic media with cultural and itectural theory and criticism.
- Dennis Dimick - Executive Editor, Environment, National Geographic
- E.J. Dionne, Jr. - Syndicated Washington Post Columnist; Political Analyst for National Public Radio
- Thomas Donaldson - Mark O. Winkelman Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
- John Donvan - Moderator, "Intelligence Squared US"; Correspondent, ABC News
- Pierre Dulaine - Pierre Dulaine, Founder, Dancing Classrooms
- Diana L. Eck - Professor of Comparative Religion & Indian Studies
- Micah Eckhardt - Doctoral Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Peter Edelman - Law Professor & Author
- Mickey Edwards - Former US Congressman/Professor
- Michael D. Eisner - President and CEO, The Tornante Company; Former CEO and Chairman of The Walt Disney Company
- Christopher Elias - President, Global Development Program, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Rehema Ellis - Education Correspondent, NBC News
- Ezekiel J. Emanuel - Leading Practitioners Shaping the Future of Healthcare; Expertise in Policy
- Oskar Eustis - Artistic Director, Public Theater
- Heidi Ewing - Co-Director, Detropia
- James Fallows - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
- Thomas A. Fanning - CEO, President, and Chairman, Southern Company
- Todd Farrell - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Tom Farrey - Correspondent; Director, ESPN; Director, Sports and Society, The Aspen Institute
- Kenneth Feinberg - Founder and Managing Partner, Feinberg Rozen; Special Master for Executive Compensation, Obama Administration
- Eric Feng - Founder and CEO, Erly
- Charlie Firestone - executive director of the Communications and Society Program at the Aspen Institute
- Richard Fisher - President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
- Brian Fiske - Vice President, Research Programs, The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research
- Alan Fletcher - President and CEO, Aspen Music Festival and School; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- Richard Florida - Best-Selling Author & Urbanist
- Russ Ford - Executive vice president onshore for Shell Upstream Americas.
- Jon Frankel - Correspondent, "Real Sports with Bryan Gumbel," HBO
- Chrystia Freeland - Editor of Thomson Reuters Digital; Previously the U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times
- Jacob Frenz - co-founder of CombatIV
- Ann B. Friedman - Board of Trustees
- Thomas Friedman - Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Winning Commentator, New York Times Columnist and Author of "The World Is Flat"
- Ellen Galinsky - Leading Authority on Work-Family Issues
- Howard Gardner - Renowned Developmental & Cognitive Psychologist; Father of Multiple Intelligences Theory; Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Daniel Garza - Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery / Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Theaster Gates - Director of Arts and Public Life, University of Chicago; Founder and President, Rebuild Foundation
- Helene Gayle - President and CEO of CARE USA
- Martin Gaynor - E.J. Barone Professor of Economics and Health Policy, Carnegie Mellon University; Chair of the Board, Health Care Cost Institute
- David Gergen - Senior Political Analyst, CNN
- Elliot Gerson - Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute
- Miles Gilburne - Founder and CEO, ePals
- Dan Glickman - Executive Director, Congressional Program, The Aspen Institute; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center; Former Secretary, US Department of Agriculture
- Deborah Goldberg - Managing Attorney, Earthjustice
- Jeffrey Goldberg - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
- Elliot Goldenthal - Composer
- Hala Gorani - Anchor and Correspondent, CNN
- Lori Gottlieb - Psychotherapist; Author, Marry Him
- Rachel Grady - Co-Director, Detropia
- Brian Greene - Quantum Gravity and String Theory Physicist; Founder of World Science U
- Alan Greenspan - Chairman, Federal Reserve System (1987-2006)
- Richard Haass - President, Council on Foreign Relations
- Leigh Hafrey - Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Rayonna Hall - Graduate, Gateway to College
- Margaret A. Hamburg - Former Commissioner, US Food and Drug Administration
- Jon Hamilton - Correspondent, Science Desk, NPR
- Jane Harman - President, CEO, and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Former US Representative (D-CA); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- Bob Harper - Fitness Expert and Author; currently appearing on "The Biggest Loser"
- Cheryl G. Healton - President and CEO, American Legacy Foundation
- Chris Heilmann - Chief Fiduciary Executive, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
- Francis J. Henry Jr. - Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Fred P. Hochberg - Chairman and President, Export-Import Bank of the United States
- Reid Hoffman - Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of LinkedIn & Partner at Greylock
- Tracie Holder - Co-Director and Producer, Joe Papp in Five Acts
- Daniel Wei-Chen Hong - Co-Founder, CompactCath; Visiting Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine
- Chris Howard - President, Hampden-Sydney College
- Katherine Hudson - Watershed Program Director, Riverkeeper
- Arianna Huffington - President & Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group & New York Times Bestselling Author of Thrive
- 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"
- Steve Inskeep - Host, “Morning Edition,” NPR
- Walter Isaacson - President and C.E.O. of the Aspen Institute
- Lisa P. Jackson - Vice President of Environment, Policy & Social Initiatives at Apple
- Kristi Jacobson - Co-Director, Finding North
- Leila Janah - Social Entreprenuer; Founder and CEO of Samasource - A Global Workforce Initiative
- David Janka - Co-Founder, CompactCath
- Valerie B. Jarrett - Senior Advisor to President Obama
- Xavier Jennings - MHYC's YouthBuild program as Program Specialist facilitating leadership classes and leading service projects
- Simon Johnson - Coauthor, 13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown, New York Times Best-seller for 5 weeks.
- Robert Kagan - Senior Fellow of Foreign Policy, Center for United States and Europe; Brookings Institution Author, "The World America Made"
- Gregory Kallenberg - Director and Producer, Rational Middle Energy Series
- Musimbi Kanyoro - President and CEO, Global Fund for Women
- Pamela S. Karlan - Professor of law at Stanford Law School and a leading liberal legal scholar on voting rights and the political process
- Alexis Karolides - Principal, Rocky Mountain Institute
- Bridget Kendall - Host, BBC World Service's "The Forum"
- David M. Kennedy - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
- Philip Kennicott - Art and Architecture Critic, The Washington Post
- Kellee Khalil - Founder & CEO of Lover.ly
- Chris Kibarian - President, Intellectual Property and Science, Thomson Reuters
- Michael Kimmel - The Nation's Leading Scholar on Men and Masculinity
- Ross D. King - Professor, University of Manchester
- Joe Klein - Joe Klein writes Time "In the Arena," a weekly column in TIME Magazine which covers national and international affairs.
- Gary Knell - President and CEO, NPRkm'
- Eugene Korsunskiy - Co-Founder, SparkTruck
- Michael Kranish - Washington Bureau Deputy Chief, Boston Globe
- 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
- Alan Krueger - Former Chairman, President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers
- Coco Krumme - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Patricia K. Kuhl - Co-Director, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences; Professor of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington; Endowed Chair, Bezos Family Foundation for Early Childhood Learning
- Corby Kummer - Senior editor at The Atlantic
- Ray LaHood - Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation
- Rocco Landesman - Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts
- Mitch Landrieu - Mayor, City of New Orleans
- Shelly Lazarus - Chairman, Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide
- Steven Leder - Senior Rabbi, Wilshire Boulevard Temple
- Sylvia Lee - Manager, Water, Skoll Global Threats Fund
- Debra L. Lee - Chairman and CEO BET Networks
- Mary A. Legere - Lieutenant General, U.S. Army; Senior Army Intelligence Officer, Pentagon
- Jonah Lehrer - Neuroscientist, New York Times bestselling author of "Imagine: How Creativity Works"
- David Leonhardt - Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Adam Lerner - Director, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art
- David Levin - David Levin is the author of, Don't Just Talk, Be Heard! Closing the Gap Between What You Say and What People Hear.
- Madeline Levine - Educator & Author of The Price of Privilege
- Amir Levine - Principle Investigator, Columbia University
- Sanford Levinson - W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair Professor of Government, The University of Texas School of Law
- Eric X. Li - Founder and Managing Director, Chengwei Capital
- Xiaolin Li - President, Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries
- Robert Lipsyte - Author, An Accidental Sportswriter
- Fan Lixin - Documentary Filmmaker, Yuan Fang Media; Director, Last Train Home
- Shane Lopez - Senior Scientist-in-Residence, Gallup
- Michael Lopp - Director, Planitir Technologies
- Alexis Madrigal - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
- Suzanne Malveaux - Anchor, CNN
- Geoff Manaugh - Co-Director, Studio-X NYC, Adjunct Professor, Columbia GSAPP
- Marissa Mayer - President and CEO of Yahoo
- William E. Mayer - Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute; Partner, Park Avenue Equity Partners
- Kathleen McCartney - Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Annie McChrystal - Lecturer, McChrystal Group
- General Stanley McChrystal - Former Commander of U.S. and International Forces in Afghanistan; Known for his TED Talk "The Military Case for Sharing Knowledge"
- Mike McConnell - Vice Chairman, Booz Allen Hamilton
- David McConville - President, Buckminster Fuller Institute
- Steven J. McCormick - President and CEO, The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
- Daniel McDuff - Principal Research Scientist, Affectiva, PhD., MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts
- Charles Thomas "Tom" McMillen - Former NBA Basketball Player; Former US Congressman (D-MD)
- Douglas McMillon - President and CEO of Walmart International
- Jamie P. Merisotis - President and CEO, Lumina Foundation
- Angela Messer - Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Amanda Michel - Open Editor, The Guardian
- George J. Mitchell - Former US Senator / Author / Lawyer
- Andrea Mitchell - Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC
- Ted Mitchell - President and CEO, NewSchools Venture Fund
- Moby - Musician, DJ, Photographer
- Heidi Moore - New York Bureau Chief, "Marketplace," American Public Media
- Gregory Mosher - Director, Producer
- Anne Mosle - Executive Director, Ascend, The Aspen Institute
- Ralph W. Moss - Director, The Moss Reports
- Russell Muirhead - Robert Clements Associate Professor of Democracy and Politics, Dartmouth College
- Mike Mullen - Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (2007-2011)
- Jerry Murdock - Managing Director and Co-founder, Insight Venture Partners
- Charles Murray - Author of "Coming Apart" & W. H. Brady Scholar at American Enterprise Institute
- Pervez Musharraf - Former President of Pakistan
- Elizabeth Nabel - First NFL Chief Health and Medical Advisor; President, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
- Niven Narain - President and Chief Technology Officer, Berg Diagnostics
- Alyse Nelson - Co-founder, President, and CEO Vital Voices Global Partnership
- Andrew Ng - Founder, Coursera
- Ou Ning - Artist, Curator, Publisher; Chief Editor, Chutzpah! Magazine
- Craig Nixon - Principal, Leadership Development and Education, McChrystal Group
- Joe Nocera - Opinion-Editorial Columnist, The New York Times
- Seth Norman - Member, CombatIV Team
- Michele Norris - Host and Special Correspondent, NPR
- Chris Nowinski - Co-Founder & Executive Director of Sports Legacy Institute: Dedicated to Solving the Concussion Crisis
- Michael O'Hanlon - Director of Research and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
- Tim O'Reilly - Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media
- Marvin Odum - President, Shell Oil Company
- Dele Olojede - Publisher and Chairman, Timbuktu Media
- Norman Ornstein - Journalist
- Peter Orszag - Peter R. Orszag is the seventh Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
- Meghan L. O’Sullivan - Jeane Kirkpatrick Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Eduardo Padron - President, Miami-Dade Community Colleges
- Elaine Pagels - Religion Scholar, Author and Professor at Princeton
- Jennifer Pahlka - Deputy Chief Technology Officer, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Founder, Code for America
- Billy Parish - Renowned Social Entrepreneur & Youth Organizer
- Annise Parker - Mayor, City of Houston
- Ed Parsons - Geospatial Technologist, Google
- Stephen Patrick - Senior Program Officer, Postsecondary Success Team, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Aaron Peck - Co-Founder, SparkTruck
- Nadya Peek - Graduate Student, Media Arts and Sciences School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 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.
- Mark Penn - Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
- Susan Peters - Vice President, Executive Development & Chief Learning Officer, General Electric Company
- Richard A. Pildes - Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law; Co-Director, New York University Center on Law and Security
- James T. Powell - Chief Technology Officer, Thomson Reuters
- Mark Preston - Executive Editor, CNN Politics
- Louie Psihoyos - Executive Director of the Oceanic Preservation Society, Director of the 2009 Academy Award-winning documentary "The Cove."
- John Quackenbush - Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Harvard School of Public Health
- Dominic Randolph - Head of School, Riverdale Country School
- Wallace Renfro - Vice President and Chief Policy Advisor, NCAA
- Lynda Resnick - Vice Chairman, Roll Global; Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- Paul Rieckhoff - Founder and Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA); Author, "Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq"
- Craig Robinson - Men's Basketball Head Coach, Oregon State University
- Charlie Rose - Host, PBS's The Charlie Rose Show and Charlie Rose - The Week; Co-Anchor, CBS This Morning
- Eric Rosenbaum - Doctoral Student, Lifelong Kindergarten Group, MIT Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Andrew Ross Sorkin - Financial Columnist for The New York Times & Co-Anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box
- David Rothkopf - Former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce
- Jed Rubenfeld - Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law, Yale Law School
- David M. Rubenstein - Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
- Kai Ryssdal - Host, Senior Editor, American Public Media's "Marketplace"
- Ricardo Salinas - President and CEO, Salinas Group
- Beth Sauerhaft - Director of global environmental sustainability in PepsiCo’s global health and agriculture division
- Jeremy Schapp - Reporter and Host, ESPN
- Orville Schell - Arthur Ross Director, Center on US China Relations, Asia Society
- Bob Schieffer - Former Moderator of “Face The Nation,” Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News
- Edwin Schlossberg - President and Principal Designer, ESI Design
- Eric Schmidt - Executive Chairman & Former CEO, Google
- Dennis Scholl - Vice President, Arts Program, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
- Howard Schultz - Chairman, President CEO of Starbucks
- John Seely Brown - Visiting Scholar, Advisor to the Provost, University of Southern California; Independent Co-Chairman, Deloitte Center for the Edge
- Beppe Severgnini - Journalist, Columnist; Author, La Bella Figura
- Russell Shaw - Head of School Georgetown Day School
- Harry Shearer - Actor and Comedian; Known for "The Simpsons" and "Spinal Tap"
- Hu Shuli - Editor-in-Chief, Caixin
- David Silverman - Animation Director, The Simpsons
- John Skipper - President, ESPN
- Shimon Slavin - Professor of Medicine and Scientific and Medical Director, The International Center for Cell Therapy and Cancer Immunotherapy
- Mario Small - Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
- Anna Deavere Smith - Award-Winning Actress, Playwright, Social Commentator
- Alix Spiegel - Correspondent, Science Desk, NPR
- Constance Squire - Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House
- Bonnie St. John - Paralympic Ski Medalist, Fortune 500 Business Consultant, Rhodes Scholar, Former White House Official and Best-selling Author
- Deirdre Stanley - executive vice president and general counsel
- Naama Stauber - Co-Founder, CompactCath; Graduate Student, Stanford University
- Kat M. Steele - PhD Candidate, Stanford Mechanical Engineering
- James Steinberg - Dean, Maxwell School of Syracuse University; Former Deputy Secretary of State
- Bret Stephens - The Wall Street Journal's Deputy Editorial Page Editor & Principal Columnist on Foreign Affairs
- Betsey Stevenson - Professor, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania
- James Steyer - CEO, Common Sense Media; Author, "Talking Back to Facebook"
- Scott Stossel - Editor, The Atlantic
- Lynn Stout - Lynn A. Stout is the Paul Hastings Professor of Corporate and Securities Law at UCLA, where she specializes in corporate governance, securities regulation and law and economics.
- Lawrence Summers - Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Weil Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard University; Former US Secretary of the Treasury
- Neera Tanden - President, Center for American Progress
- Julie Taymor - Film, Opera, & Academy Award-Nominated Theater Director
- Dina Temple-Raston - NPR National Security and Counterterrorism Correspondent
- Gillian Tett - Columnist, Financial Times
- Michael Thompson - Child & Family Psychologist
- Matt Thompson - Editorial Product Manager, NPR
- Susan Tierney - Managing Principal, Analysis Group
- Matt Tilleard - Co-Founder, CombatIV; MBA Candidate, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Laurie M. Tisch - President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
- Linda Tischler - Senior Editor, Fast Company
- Wu Tong - Member, Silk Road Ensemble; Musician, Composer, Vocalist
- Paul Tough - Contributing Writer to the New York Times Magazine, Author of "Whatever It Takes" & "How Children Succeed"
- Peter Trick - Senior Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Stanley Tucci - Actor, Writer, Film Producer, and Film Director
- Kevin Turner - Kevin Turner, as Microsoft's Chief Operating Officer, Kevin Turner is responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of Microsoft's worldwide sales, marketing and services organization.
- Michael S. Turner - Michael S. Turner is the Rauner Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago, the Chief Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and Staff Scientist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
- Merlijn Twaalfhoven - Composer; Director, La Vie Sur Terre
- Nicola Twilley - Author, Edible Geography; Co-Founder, Foodprint Project; Co-Director, Studio-X NYC
- Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran - Global Correspondant for The Economist; Writer on Workforce, Innovation and Health
- Shankar Vedantam - Science Correspondent, NPR
- Toni G. Verstandig - Senior Vice President, S. Daniel Abraham Center for Middle East Peace; Chairman, Middle East Programs, The Aspen Institute
- Monique Villa - CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation
- Antonio Villaraigosa - 41st Mayor of Los Angeles
- Nora D. Volkow - Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
- Ben Waber - President and CEO, Sociometric Solutions; Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Senior Researcher, Harvard Business School
- Darren Walker - President of the Ford Foundation
- Kah Walla - President, Cameroon’s People’s Party
- John Walsh - Executive Vice President and Executive Editor, ESPN
- Vin Weber - Co-Chairman and Partner, Clark & Weinstock; Former US Representative (R-MN); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- David Weinberger - Technology Expert & Marketing Guru
- Randi Weingarten - President, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
- Joanne Weiss - Chief of Staff to the Secretary, US Department of Education
- Karl Wendt - Doctoral Student, Harvard University
- Gary White - Executive Director & Co-Founder of Water.org with Matt Damon
- Mark Wigley - Dean, Columbia University School of Architecture
- Richard Wilhelm - Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
- Kenji Williams - Founder and Director, Bella Gaia
- Thomas J. Wilson - Chairman, President, and CEO, The Allstate Corporation
- Timothy E. Wirth - Timothy Wirth is the President of the United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund.
- 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
- Jocelyn Wyatt - Co-Lead and Executive Director, IDEO.org
- Liu Xin - Founder and Director, Enlight Foundation, Xinping Foundation; Photojournalist
- Gregory Yep - Global Vice President R&D, Long-Term Research, PepsiCo
- Polly Young-Eisendrath - Author, The Self-Esteem Trap: Raising Confident and Compassionate Kids in an Age of Self-Importance
- Laura Zabel - Executive Director, Springboard for the Arts
- Mortimer B. Zuckerman - Owner, U.S. News & World Report; Owner, New York Daily News
- Andrew McAfee - Associate Director and Principal Research Scientist, Center for Digital Business, MIT Sloan School of Management; Co-Author of "The Second Machine Age"
