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