Aspen Ideas Festival
Aspen Ideas Conference 2015
- Carol Adelman - Carol Adelman is a senior fellow and director of Hudson's Center for Science in Public Policy, specializing in international development, foreign aid, trade and global health.
- Ken Adelman - Ambassador and Former Arms Control Director for President Ronald Reagan
- Jordan Alam - Writer, Founder and Editor of Project As[I]Am
- Elizabeth Alexander - Renown Poet; Race, Gender and Politics; Infamous for Inauguration Poem "Praise Song for the Day"
- John Allen - Special Presidential Envoy, Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, U.S. Department of State; Senior Advisor, Middle East Security, Department of Defense; Retired General, United States Marine Corps
- Michael Anti - Michael Anti (Zhao Jing), a key figure in China's new journalism, explores the growing power of the Chinese internet.
- Paula Apsell - Senior executive producer of "NOVA," the PBS science series
- Karen Armstrong - Author and Thinker on the Role of Religion in the Modern World
- Raney Aronson-Rath - Senior producer, Frontline
- Maurice Ashley - First African-American Chess Grandmaster; Author, Puzzle Inventor & Motivational Speaker
- Reza Aslan - No. 1 Bestselling Author of "Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth"
- Donald Baer - Worldwide Chairman and CEO, Burson-Marsteller; Chairman, Penn Schoen Berland; Co-Founder and Chairman, Palisades Media Ventures
- Ramón Baez - Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Hewlett Packard (Festival Underwriter)
- Zoe Baird - President Markle Foundation.
- Keith Banks - President, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
- Melody Barnes - Former Domestic Policy Advisor, Obama White House; Chair, Forum for Community Solutions, The Aspen Institute
- Joe Louis Barrow - Spokesperson, Southern Company (Festival Underwriter)
- Angela Bassett - Award-Winning Actress
- Jon Batiste - Thrilling Jazz Pianist and Frontman for the Band Stay Human
- James Bennet - Editor in Chief, The Atlantic
- Michael F Bennet - US Senator, State of Colorado
- Suman Bery - Chief Economist, Shell Oil Company (Festival Underwriter)
- Jackie Bezos - Co-Director, Bezos Family Foundation
- Deepak Bhargava - Executive Director, Center for Community Change
- Gretchen Bleiler - Professional Halfpipe Snowboarder
- Gene Block - Chancellor, University of California, Los Angeles
- Paul Bloom - Professor of Psychology, Yale University
- Charles Blow - Visual Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times, CNN Contributor & NY Times Best-selling Author, "Fire Shut Up in My Bones"
- Allen Blue - VP Product Strategy and Co-Founder at LinkedIn
- Rebecca Blumenstein - Deputy Editor-in-Chief The Wall Street Journal
- Jo Boaler - Professor, Mathematics Education and Teacher Education, Stanford University
- David Boies - Founder and the chairman of the law firm, Boies, Schiller & Flexner
- Cory Booker - US Senator from New Jersey
- Beth Ann Bovino - U.S. Chief Economist, Global Economics and Research, Standard & Poors Ratings Services
- Tom Bradicich - Vice President of Server Engineering, Enterprise Group, Hewlett Packard (Festival Underwriter)
- David G. Bradley - Chairman and Owner, Atlantic Media Company
- Jennifer Bradley - Fellow and Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
- Frédéric Brenner - Artist, This Place
- John Bridgeland - President and CEO, Civic Enterprises
- Arthur C. Brooks - President, American Enterprise Institute
- David Brooks - Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Author of NY Times Bestseller "The Road to Character"
- William Browder - CEO and Co-Founder of Hermitage Capital Management; Author of "Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice"
- Tim Brown - Tim Brown is the CEO of IDEO, a Global Design and Innovation Consulting Firm
- Carrie Brownstein - Seafood Quality Standards Coordinator, Whole Foods Market
- Ronald Brownstein - Editorial Director for Strategic Partnerships, Atlantic Media Company
- Paul Bunje - Senior Director, Oceans XPRIZE
- Nicholas Burns - Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard University
- Peter Byck - Professor, Arizona State University Global Institute of Sustainability; Director, "Carbon Nation"
- Pamela Cantor - Founder, President, and CEO, Turnaround for Children
- Jonathan Capehart - Jonathan Capehart is an editorial writer for The Washington Post, specializing in national politics and environmental issues.
- Kevin Carey - Author & Journalist and Director of the Education Policy Program
- Cameron Carpenter - Organist
- Robin Chase - Founder and Former CEO, Zipcar, Buzzcar and GoLoco; Executive Chairman, Veniam Works and Author
- Deborah Clark - Vice President and Executive Producer, "Marketplace", American Public Media
- Alexa Clay - Writer, Economic Historian, Futurist, Social Entrepreneur, Dreamer of New Economics
- Steve Clemons - Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
- Ta-Nehisi Coates - Senior Editor, The Atlantic, Bestselling Author of "Between the World and Me"
- John Colborn - Director, Skills for America's Future
- David Coleman - President and CEO, The College Board
- Maureen Conway - Executive Director Economic Opportunities Program
- Alan Cooperman - Director of Religion Research, Pew Research Center
- Katie Couric - Global Anchor of Yahoo News
- Philippe Cousteau - Explorer, Social Entrepreneur & Environmental Advocate; Grandson of Captain Jacques-Yves Cousteau
- Kate Crawford - Principal Researcher, New York City, Microsoft Research; Visiting Professor, MIT Center for Civic Media; Senior Fellow, NYU Information Law Institute
- Ed Crooks - U.S. Industry and Energy Editor, Financial Times
- Michael M. Crow - 16th President of Arizona State University
- Amy Cuddy - Associate Professor, Harvard Business School; Behavioral Scientist and Expert on Nonverbal Behavior, Power and Leadership
- Erin Currier - Director, Projects on Family Financial Security and Mobility, The Pew Charitable Trusts
- Chris Davenport - Big Mountain Skier; Mountaineer
- Richard J. Davidson - William James and Vilas Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin
- Ron Davis - President and CEO, The Jordan Davis Foundation
- Eric Dawson - President and Co-Founder, Peace First
- Joel Dawson - Chief Technology Officer, Eta Devices, Inc.; Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Kevin Delaney - Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder, Quartz
- William Deresiewicz - Author of "A Jane Austen Education"
- Susan Desmond-Hellmann - CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Kirby Dick - Academy- and Emmy Award-Nominated Documentary Director; Best Known for "The Invisible War" & "The Hunting Ground"
- John Dickerson - Host of "Face the Nation" & CBS News Political Director
- Dave Dillon - Chairman of the Board of Directors & Former CEO, The Kroger Co.
- Vicky Dinges - Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility, The Allstate Insurance Company (Festival Underwriter)
- Pete Dominick - Host, Sirius XM's "Stand Up! With Pete Dominick"
- Thomas Duesterberg - Senior Advisor and Former President and CEO, Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI Inc.
- Charles Duhigg - New York Times Investigative Reporter & Bestselling Author of "The Power of Habit"
- Fred Dust - Partner, IDEO
- Sonya Dyhrman - Oceanographer, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University
- Sylvia Earle - Oceanographer, National Geographic Explorer-In-Residence, 2009 TED Prize Winner
- Rebecca Eaton - Television and Film Producer; Executive Producer, Masterpiece Theatre, PBS (Festival Underwriter)
- Joe Echevarria - Former Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte
- Elizabeth Economy - Elizabeth Economy is the C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
- Karl Eikenberry - Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General & Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
- Ophira Eisenberg - Host of NPR's "Ask Me Another"
- Michael Eisner - Former CEO of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until 2005.
- Jordan Ellenberg - Internationally Renowned Mathematician; Author of "How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking"
- Rahm Emanuel - First Jewish Mayor of Chicago; Former White House Chief of Staff
- Kelly Evans - On-air correspondent CNBC
- John Fallon - CEO, Pearson
- James Fallows - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
- James Famiglietti - Senior Water Scientist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Professor of Earth System Science and Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine
- Tom Fanning - Chairman, President, and CEO, Southern Company
- Jose Ferreira - Founder and CEO of Knewton; Focused on Education Innovation, Tech and Entrepreneurship
- Bran Ferren - Expert on Leveraging Curiosity & Creativity for Innovation; Designer, Technologist, Inventor; Co-Founder of Applied Minds; Former Disney Imagineering Executive
- David Festa - Vice President, Ecosystems, Environmental Defense Fund (Festival Underwriter)
- Sally Field - Two-time Academy Award-winning Actress, Director and Producer
- Caitlin Flanagan - Contributing Editor, The Atlantic; Author, Girl Land
- Ira Flatow - NPR Science Correspondent
- Brian Forde - Senior Advisor for Mobile and Data Innovation at The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Pamela Fox - Computing Curriculum Engineer, Khan Academy
- Anthony Foxx - U.S. Secretary of Transportation
- Andrew Freedman - Director of Marijuana Coordination, Office of the Governor, State of Colorado
- Edward Frenkel - Professor of Mathematics at UC Berkeley
- Thomas Friedman - Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Winning Commentator, New York Times Columnist and Author of "The World Is Flat"
- David Frum - Senior Editor at the Atlantic; Chairman of The Policy Exchange; Former Speech Writer for George W. Bush
- Steven Gaines - Dean, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barbara
- David Gallo - Director of Special Projects, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Kim Gandy - President and CEO, National Network to End Domestic Violence
- Joe Garcia - Lieutenant Governor of Colorado
- Ned Gardiner - Visualization Manager, Climate Program Office, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Julius Genachowski - Federal Communications Commission Chairman (2009-2013) and Respected Internet and Media Executive
- Elliot Gerson - Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute
- Michael Gerson - Michael Gerson worked closely with President George W. Bush to express in memorable speeches the Nation's response to the events of 9/11/2001, and then to define and explain the unfolding War on Terror.
- Nancy Gibbs - Deputy Managing Editor TIME Magazine
- Daniel Gilbert - Psychologist, Happiness Expert and Harvard Professor
- Angela Glover Blackwell - Founder and Chief Executive Officer, founded PolicyLink
- Barry Gold - Director, Environment Focus Area, Walton Family Foundation (Festival Underwriter)
- Jeffrey Goldberg - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
- Suzanne Goldenberg - Environment Correspondent, Washington Bureau, The Guardian
- Lindsey Graham - U.S. Senator
- Brian Grazer - Academy Award-Winning Producer; Chairman and Co-Founder, Imagine Entertainment; Author of "A Curious Mind"
- Elizabeth Green - Co-Founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief, Chalkbeat; Author, Building a Better Teacher: How Teaching Works (and How to Teach It to Everyone)
- Paul Greenberg - James Beard Award-Winning Author of the New York Times Bestseller "Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food"
- Brian Greene - Quantum Gravity and String Theory Physicist; Founder of World Science U
- David Greene - Host, "Morning Edition," NPR
- Susan Greenfield - Baroness Susan Greenfield CBE, is a British pioneering scientist, writer, entrepreneur, broadcaster and member of the House of Lords.
- Gideon Grinstein - President and Founder, Reut Institute; Author, Flexigidity: The Secret of Jewish Adaptability and the Challenge and Opportunity Facing Israel
- Chuck Gulash - Senior Executive Engineer, Toyota Technical Center, Toyota Motor Corporation (Festival Underwriter)
- Alan Gura - Partner, Gura and Possessky
- Richard Haass - President, Council on Foreign Relations
- Jonathan Haidt - Professor of Ethical Leadership, New York University-Stern School of Business and Author of New York Times Best Seller The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
- Shadi Hamid - Fellow, US Relations with the Islamic World Project, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
- Hal Harvey - CEO, Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology LLC
- Goldie Hawn - Academy Award-Winning Actress, Founder of the Hawn Foundation
- Stefan Heck - Co-Founder and CEO at NAUTO; Former Senior Partner, McKinsey Cleantech and Sustainability Transformation
- Mary-Pat Hector - National Youth Director, National Action Network; Youth Leader, New Look Foundation; Founder, Youth in Action
- Matthew Heineman - Documentary Filmmaker; Director and Producer, Cartel Land
- Isaac Herzog - Chairman, Zionist Union Party; Member and Leader of the Opposition, Knesset, Government of Israel
- Fiona Hill - Director, Center on the United States and Europe, Brookings Institution
- Peter Hirshberg - Pioneering Entrepreneur and Voice on Disruptive Culture and Technology
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali - Renowned Political Leader; Human Rights Activist; Best-selling Author
- Jeff Hobbs - Novelist, "The Tourists" & "The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace"
- Arianna Huffington - President & Editor-in-Chief of The Huffington Post Media Group & New York Times Bestselling Author of Thrive
- Gwen Ifill - Moderator and Managing Editor, PBS’s "Washington Week"; Co-Anchor and Managing Editor, “PBS NewsHour"
- Arsalan Iftikhar - Founder, TheMuslimGuy.com; Senior Editor, The Islamic Monthly
- Walter Isaacson - President and C.E.O. of the Aspen Institute
- Jessica Jackley - Co-Founder of Kiva, the Revolutionary Microlending Website
- Leila Janah - Social Entreprenuer; Founder and CEO of Samasource - A Global Workforce Initiative
- Nick Seneca Jankel - Creator, Breakthrough Biodynamics; Founder, Ripe & Ready; Founder, WECREATE Worldwide
- Valerie B. Jarrett - Senior Advisor to President Obama
- Cristina Jimenez - Co-Founder, United We Dream
- Broderick Johnson - Assistant to the President and Cabinet Secretary, The White House; Chair, Task Force, My Brother's Keeper
- Hannah Jones - Vice President, Sustainable Business and Innovation Nike, Inc.
- JR - Street Artist
- Shiva Kalaiselvan - Actress; Producer
- Andrea Kates - CEO, LaunchPad Central
- Neal Katyal - Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law, Georgetown Law; Partner, Hogan Lovells
- Josh Kaufman - Author, The Personal MBA; Author, The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything... Fast!
- Sam Kean - Popular Science Historian
- Andrew Keen - Technology Futurist; "TechCrunch Show" Host; Author; CNN Contributing Journalist
- Mary Louise Kelly - Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
- Randall Kempner - Executive Director
- David Kennedy - Director, Center for Crime Prevention and Control, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; Co-Chair, National Network for Safe Communities
- David M. Kennedy - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
- Philip Kennicott - Art and Architecture Critic, The Washington Post
- Samar Khan - Founder, Ethnomedia; Documentary Filmmaker
- Nina Khrushcheva - Associate Dean and Associate Professor of International Affairs, Milano School of International Affairs, The New School
- Craig Kielburger - Co-Founder, Free The Children and Me to We
- Clifton Kinnie - Student Activist; Founder, Our Destiny STL
- David Kirkpatrick - Best-Selling Author of The Facebook Effect; Senior Editor at Fortune Magazine for Internet and Technology
- Alison Klayman - A freelance journalist and documentary filmmaker
- Mark A.R. Kleiman - Professor of Public Policy, Luskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles
- Amy Klobuchar - Senator (D-Minnesota) U.S. Senate
- Timothy Knowles - Director of the Urban Education Institute
- William Kristol - Founder and Editor, The Weekly Standard and Political Analyst, ABC News
- Fred Krupp - President of Environmental Defense Fund
- Corby Kummer - Senior editor at The Atlantic
- Mitch Landrieu - Mayor, City of New Orleans
- Chris Lane - CEO, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies
- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon - Journalist and Best-Selling Author
- Jim Lentz - CEO, Toyota North America (Festival Underwriter); Senior Managing Officer, Toyota Motor Corporation (Festival Underwriter)
- Kelly Leonard - Author and President of Start-up
- David Leonhardt - Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Richard C. Levin - CEO of Coursera & Former President of Yale
- Jordan Lewis - Founder and CEO, Silver Peak Apothecary and High Valley Farms
- Gideon Lichfield - Deputy Editor of The Economist online
- Ann Limberg - Head of Philanthropic Solutions and the Family Office, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management (Festival Underwriter)
- Eric Liu - Inspirational Civic Leader, Author & Educator
- Kristofer Lofgren - Founder and CEO, Sustainable Restaurant Group; CEO, Redefine Ventures
- Rick Lowe - Artist; Founder, Project Row Houses
- Jane Lubchenco - First Woman to be Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Daniel Lubetzky - Founder and CEO of KIND Healthy Snacks; Author of "Do the KIND Thing"
- Jens Ludwig - Professor of social service administration, law, and public policy
- Abrahm Lustgarten - Senior Reporter, ProPublica; Author, Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster
- Janice Luvera - Global Brand Leader, Genworth Financial, Inc. (Festival Underwriter)
- Alexis Madrigal - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
- Roger Martin - Premier’s Research Chair in Productivity and Competitiveness, Academic Director, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
- Anthony W. Marx - President & CEO of New York Public Library
- William E. Mayer - Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute; Partner, Park Avenue Equity Partners
- Lucia McBath - National Spokeswoman and Faith and Outreach Community Organizer, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America
- Pete McBride - Photographer; Filmmaker
- David McCandless - Author of "Information Is Beautiful" & Infographics Expert
- Heather McGhee - President, Demos
- Tom McInerney - President and CEO, Genworth Financial, Inc. (Festival Underwriter)
- Mike McNamara - CEO, Flextronics
- Jon Meacham - Executive Editor and EVP of Random House; Author
- Tracey Meares - Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law, Yale Law School
- Andrew N. Meltzoff - Co-Director and Job and Gertrud Tamaki Endowed Chair, Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences; Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Washington
- Jamie P. Merisotis - President and CEO, Lumina Foundation
- Ruth Messinger - President, American Jewish World Service
- Delia Milliron - Associate Professor and Fellow, Henry Beckman Professorship, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
- Dalia Mogahed - President and CEO, Mogahed Consulting, LLC
- David Monsma - Executive Director of Energy and Environment Program, The Aspen Institute
- Gregory Mosher - Director, Producer
- Anne Mosle - Executive Director, Ascend, The Aspen Institute
- Mu Sochua - Minister of Women Affairs
- Patricia Mulroy - Oversees the operations of the Southern Nevada Water Authority and the Las Vegas Valley Water District
- Leilani Munter - Indycar Driver, Model and Conservationist
- Charles Murray - Author of "Coming Apart" & W. H. Brady Scholar at American Enterprise Institute
- Vali Nasr - American Academic and Author Specializing in the Middle East and the Islamic World
- Diana Natalicio - President, University of Texas at El Paso
- Maajid Nawaz - Counter-Extremism Activist
- Alyse Nelson - Co-founder, President, and CEO Vital Voices Global Partnership
- Marie Nelson - Vice President, News and Public Affairs, PBS (Festival Underwriter)
- LaTondra Newton - Group Vice President.
- Joe Nocera - Opinion-Editorial Columnist, The New York Times
- Grover Norquist - Founder and President, Americans for Tax Reform
- Michele Norris - Host and Special Correspondent, NPR
- Jacqueline Novogratz - Founder & CEO, Acumen Fund
- Mary O’Doherty - Assistant Director, Kentucky Coalition Against Domestic Violence
- Theodore B. Olson - Attorney, Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP; Former US Solicitor General
- Mark Oppenheimer - Religion Journalist for The New York Times & Parenting Columnist
- Peter Orszag - Peter R. Orszag is the seventh Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).
- Evan Osnos - China Correspondent at The New Yorker
- Farah Pandith - Special Representative to Muslim Communities US State Department
- Emily Parker - Author of "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are"
- Richard T. Pascale - Associate Fellow, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
- Anne Pasternak - President and Artistic Director, Creative Time
- Stephen Patrick - Senior Program Officer, Postsecondary Success Team, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- John Allen Paulos - Professor of Mathematics, Temple University; Author, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper
- Perri Peltz - Director, Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.; Host, "Dr. Radio Reports," Sirius XM
- Mark Penn - Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation
- Jason Pontin - Innovation Expert; Renowned Journalist; Influential Editor and Publisher of MIT Technology Review
- Ai-jen Poo - Director, National Domestic Workers Alliance
- Dan Price - Founder and CEO of Gravity Payments, Entrepreneur Magazine’s “Entrepreneur of 2014″
- Penny Pritzker - US Secretary of Commerce
- Ron Prosor - Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel
- Louie Psihoyos - Executive Director of the Oceanic Preservation Society, Director of the 2009 Academy Award-winning documentary "The Cove."
- John Pudner - Executive Director, Take Back Our Republic
- Robert Putnam - Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Author of "Our Kids"
- Joseph Quinlan - Managing Director and Chief Market Strategist, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management
- Ida Rademacher - Executive Director, Initiative on Financial Security, The Aspen Institute
- Sue Rahr - Executive Director, Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission
- Claudia Rankine - Award-Winning Poet & National Book Award Finalist
- Rip Rapson - President and CEO, The Kresge Foundation
- Steven Rattner - Chairman, Willett Advisors LLC
- Ben Rattray - Founder and CEO of Change.org
- Pamela Reeves - Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Andrew Revkin - Prize-Winning Journalist and Author, Expert on Climate Change and Global Warming
- James Reynolds, Jr. - Chairman and CEO Loop Capital Markets
- Ben Rhodes - Foreign Policy Speechwriter & Current Deputy National Security Adviser at the White House
- Connie Rice - Public Policy & Diversity Activist
- Dara Richardson-Heron - CEO, YWCA USA
- Charles "Lil Buck" Riley - Founder, Choreographer, and Dancer, New Styles Krew; Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence, The Aspen Institute
- Amanda Ripley - Investigative journalist who writes about human behavior and public policy
- Julia Roberson - Director, Strategic Communications and Ocean Acidification, Ocean Conservancy
- Luiz Rocha - Associate Curator and Follett Chair of Ichthyology, Biology, California Academy of Sciences
- L. Todd Rose - President, Center for Individual Opportunity; Lecturer on Educational Neuroscience, Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Jeffrey Rosen - President and CEO, The National Constitution Center; Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School; Legal Affairs Editor, The New Republic
- Hanna Rosin - Senior Editor, The Atlantic; Author, "The End of Men"
- Robert Roth - Executive Director, David Lynch Foundation; Meditation Teacher
- Horacio Rozanski - President and COO, Booz Allen Hamilton
- David M. Rubenstein - Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
- Karla Ruiz Cofiño - Interactive Communication & Social Media Strategist, Entrepreneur, Speaker, Artist, Social Activist & Woman Advocate!
- Deborah Rutter - The president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- Paul Ryan - US Congressman from Wisconsin
- Kai Ryssdal - Host, Senior Editor, American Public Media's "Marketplace"
- Karim Sadjadpour - Associate at the Carnegie Endowment
- Ricardo Salinas - President and CEO, Salinas Group
- Dr. Gary Samore - Former White House Coordinator for Arms Control and WMD Terrorism; Executive Director of Research Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
- M. Sanjayan - Executive Vice President and Senior Scientist, Conservation International
- Ted Sarandos - Chief Content Officer, Netflix, Inc.; Henry Crown Fellow, The Aspen Institute
- Shaka Senghor - Author
- Jennifer Senior - Journalist & Best-Selling Author of All Joy and No Fun
- Danielle Sered - Founder and Director, Common Justice, Vera Institute of Justice
- Shiza Shahid - Co-Founder & Global Ambassador, The Malala Fund
- Howard Shapiro - Global Director of Plant Science and External Research, Mars, Inc.
- Daniel Shoy - President, East Lake Foundation; Spokesperson, Southern Company (Festival Underwriter)
- Seth Siegel - Entrepreneur; Co-Founder, Sixpoint Partners; Author, Let There Be Water
- Anne-Marie Slaughter - President and CEO, New America Foundation
- Gary Small - Brain Science Expert.
- Jeffrey Smisek - Chairman, President, and CEO, United Continental Holdings, Inc.
- Ashkan Soltani - I am an independent researcher and consultant focused on privacy, security, and behavioral economics.
- Aaron Sorkin - Screenwriter, Producer, and Playwright
- Hilary Sparrow - Senior Supervising Producer, Vulcan Productions
- Margaret Spring - Chief Conservation Officer and Vice President, Conservation & Science, Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Laurence Steinberg - Professor of Psychology, Temple University
- Michèle Stephenson - Co-Founder, Rada Film Group; Filmmaker; Author; Artist
- James Steyer - CEO, Common Sense Media; Author, "Talking Back to Facebook"
- Tom Steyer - Hedge Fund Manager, Philanthropist, and Environmentalist
- Biz Stone - Co-Founder of Twitter
- Steven Strogatz - Mathematician, Writer, Cornell Professor and NY Times & Radiolab Contributor
- Kathryn Sullivan - Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Lawrence Summers - Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Weil Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard University; Former US Secretary of the Treasury
- Kevin Surace - Innovator of the Decade (CNBC) and Inc. Entrepreneur of the Year
- Sam Tanenhaus - Sam Tanenhaus started work Monday. If this milestone somehow escaped your notice, if the sun seemed to rise and set with its usual indifference, then you probably don't toil in the vineyards of the publishing industry.
- Jonathan Taplin - Jonathan Taplin is a Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and Director of the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab.
- Blair Taylor - Chief Community Officer at Starbucks Corporation
- Casper ter Kuile - Co-Founder,UK Youth Climate Coalition
- Mark Tercek - President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy
- Gillian Tett - Columnist, Financial Times
- Peter Thiel - Former CEO and Co-founder of PayPal; Technology Entrepreneur, Investor and Philanthropist
- Buzz Thompson - Robert E. Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and Perry L. McCarty Director, Woods Institute for the Environment; Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
- Derek Thompson - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
- Zeynep Ton - Adjunct Associate Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Sherry Turkle - Acclaimed Author and Expert on Technology and Its Role in Transforming Relationships in a Digital Society; Sociologist and Professor, MIT
- Merlijn Twaalfhoven - Composer; Director, La Vie Sur Terre
- Matt Tyrnauer - Special Correspondent at Vanity Fair; Director of "Valentino: The Last Emperor"
- Jackie Vanderbrug - Senior Vice President and Investment Strategist, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management (Festival Underwriter)
- Bina Venkataraman - Senior Advisor for Climate Change Innovation, Obama Administration
- Michael Waldman - Former White House Chief Speechwriter & Presidential Scholar
- Jane Wales - Vice President of Philanthropy and Society at the Aspen Institute; Co-Founder of the Global Philanthropy Forum; President & CEO of the World Affairs Council of Northern California
- Jim Wallis - Christian Writer and Political Activist
- Martin Walsh - Mayor, City of Boston
- Mark Warner - U.S. Senator
- Mark Weinberger - Global Chairman and CEO Ernst & Young
- Randi Weingarten - President, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
- Leon Wieseltier - Former Literary Editor, The New Republic
- Jessica Williamson - Comedian; Storyteller, "The Moth"
- Kamilah Willingham - Program Associate, Just Detention International
- Garry Wills - Pulitzer Prize-Winning American Author, Journalist, and Historian; Specializes in American History, Politics, and Religion -- Especially the History of the Roman Catholic Church
- Thomas J. Wilson - Chairman, President, and CEO, The Allstate Corporation
- Dalila Wilson-Scott - Managing Director, Global Philanthropy, JP Morgan Chase
- Damian Woetzel - Director, Arts Program, The Aspen Institute; Artistic Director, Vail International Dance Festival
- Chris Womack - President, External Affairs, Southern Company
- Graeme Wood - Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
- Joshua Wyner - Executive Director, College Excellence Program, The Aspen Institute
- Karen Wynn - Professor, Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yale University
- Tom Yellin - Co-Founder and President, The Documentary Group; Executive Producer, Girl Rising
- Monica Yunus - Operatic Soprano, Co-Founder, Sing for Hope
- Camille Zamora - Soprano; Co-Founder, Sing for Hope
- Amy Ziering - Producer & Documentary Filmmaker; Known for "The Invisible War" and "The Hunting Ground"
- Jonathan Zittrain - Renowned Authority on Future of the Internet; Harvard Computer Science & Law Professor; Co-Founder & Chairman, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
