Aspen Ideas Festival
Aspen Ideas Conference 2016
- Stephanie Addenbrooke - Editor in Chief, Yale Daily News
- David Aguilar - director, Center for Astrophysics
- Enola Aird - Founder and President, Community Healing Network
- Sonita Alizadeh - Artist and Activist
- Mike Allen - Chief White House Correspondent, Politico, and Creator, Playbook and Morning Money.
- Thad Allen - Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton (Festival Underwriter)
- Ross Andersen - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
- Kristen Soltis Anderson - Author and Columnist at "The Washington Examiner"
- Julia Angwin - Senior Reporter, ProPublica; Author, Dragnet Nation
- Raney Aronson-Rath - Senior producer, Frontline
- Caroline Atkinson - Head of Global Policy, Google
- Don Baer - Worldwide Chairman and CEO, Burson-Marsteller; Chairman, Penn Schoen Berland; Co-Founder and Chairman, Palisades Media Ventures
- Zoë Baird - President Markle Foundation.
- Amar Bakshi - Artist and Founder, Shared_Studios
- Molly Ball - Staff writer covering U.S. politics at The Atlantic
- Bryn Banuelos - Marketing Director, Safeway
- Melody Barnes - Former Domestic Policy Advisor, Obama White House; Chair, Forum for Community Solutions, The Aspen Institute
- Matt Barreto - Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Latino Decisions; Professor of Political Science and Chicano Studies, UCLA
- Emily Bazelon - Speaker on Bullying and Author of "Sticks and Stones"
- Seth Berkley - CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance; Medical Doctor Specializing in Infectious DiseaseEpidemiology and Global Health
- Eric Berkowitz - Human Rights Attorney; Author, The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities
- Reginald Dwayne Betts - Poet, Author, Memoirist, Teacher
- Mike Bezos - co-founded the Bezos Family Foundation in 2000 with his wife
- Jill Biden - Second Lady of the United States
- Susan Black - Chief Kaizen Promotion Officer, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
- Fernanda Bombardi - Executive Manager, Institute of Entrepreneurial Citizenship
- James Bonini - Vice President, Toyota Production System Support Center, Toyota Motor Engineering and Manufacturing North America (TEMA) (Festival Underwriter)
- Cory A. Booker - US Senator from New Jersey and Author of "United"
- Deborah Borda - President and CEO, Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Tucker Bounds - President, Sidewire
- Jennifer Finney Boylan - Professor, Celebrated LGBT Activist & Author
- Tim Bozik - President, Global Product, Pearson
- Jennifer Bradley - Fellow and Senior Advisor, Metropolitan Policy Program, Brookings Institution
- Stewart Brand - Author, Futurist, Activist, and Visionary
- Shirley Brandman - Executive Director, National Commission of Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, The Aspen Institute
- Rosalind Brewer - President and CEO of Sam's Club
- Xavier Briggs - Vice President, Economic Opportunity and Markets, Ford Foundation
- Stephen Bright - President and Senior Counsel, Southern Center for Human Rights; Harvey Karp Visiting Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
- Steven Brill - Award-Winning Journalist and Author
- Joshua Brody - Director, Lymphoma Immunotherapy Program, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter)
- Arthur Brooks - President, American Enterprise Institute
- David Brooks - Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Author of NY Times Bestseller "The Road to Character"
- Ethan Brown - Co-Founder and CEO, Beyond Meat
- Patrick Brown - Founder and CEO, Impossible Foods; Founder, Lyrical Foods; Co-Founder and Board Member, Public Library of Science
- Ron Brownstein - Editorial Director for Strategic Partnerships, Atlantic Media; Columnist, National Journal
- Scott Budnick - President, Green Hat Films
- Marcus Bullock - CEO and Founder, Flikshop; CEO, Perspectives Premier Contractors
- Steven Burakoff - Director, The Tisch Cancer Institute; Lilian and Henry M. Stratton Professor of Cancer Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter)
- Nicholas Burns - Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Politics, Harvard University
- Ursula Burns - CEO, Xerox
- Sylvia Mathews Burwell - Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget
- Antoinette Bush - Executive Vice President and Global Head, Government Affairs, News Corporation
- Laura Bush - First Lady of the United States (2001-2009)
- Dwight Bush, Sr. - U.S. Ambassador to Morocco
- Paula Caballero - Senior Director, Environment and Natural Resources Global Practice, World Bank
- Ross Cagan - Professor, Department of Developmental and Regenerative Biology and Director, Center for Personalized Cancer Therapeutics, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter)
- Nancy Cantor - Chancellor, Rutgers University
- Pamela Cantor - Founder, President, and CEO, Turnaround for Children
- Jonathan Capehart - Jonathan Capehart is an editorial writer for The Washington Post, specializing in national politics and environmental issues.
- John Carlin - Assistant Attorney General for National Security, U.S. Department of Justice
- Stephen L. Carter - Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University.
- Jean Case - CEO, Case Foundation
- Steve Case - Chairman and CEO, Revolution LLC; Co-Founder, America Online
- Aquil Charlton - Teaching Artist , Urban Gateways; Founder, ALT-City, Chicago Public Schools
- Gerald Chertavian - Founder & CEO, Year Up
- Henry Cisneros - Executive Chairman, CityView; Former U.S. Secretary, Housing and Urban Development; Former Mayor of San Antonio
- Donte Clark - Poet, Playwright; Creative Coordinator, RYSE Center
- Steve Clemons - Washington Editor at Large, The Atlantic
- Jay Coen Gilbert - B Corporation
- Bonni Cohen - Co-Founder and Filmmaker, Actual Films
- David Cohen - Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Comcast Corporation (Festival Underwriter)
- Alan Cohn - Of Counsel, Steptoe and Johnson LLP; Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
- Daisy Coleman - Co-Founder, SafeBAE; Junior Board Member, PAVE; Student; Subject, Audrie & Daisy
- Maureen Conway - Executive Director Economic Opportunities Program
- Ann Cooper - Children and Family Advocate; Best Selling Author; Celebrated Chef
- Bob Costas - Award-Winning Sportscaster, Broadcaster and Best-Selling Author
- Tom Cotton - Arkansas Rep in U.S. Senate
- Chris Cox - VP, Product at Facebook
- Maria Cuomo Cole - Filmmaker; Producer, Newtown
- Stephanie Cutter - Founding Partner, Precision Strategies
- David Daniels - Managing Director and President, North American of Services, Higher Education, Pearson (Festival Underwriter)
- Mitch Daniels - President of Purdue University, Governor of Indiana (2005-2013) and Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2001-2003)
- Ronald Daniels - President, Johns Hopkins University
- Chris Davenport - Big Mountain Skier; Mountaineer
- Ken Davis - President and CEO, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- Fiona Dawson - Global President, Mars Food, Drinks, and Multisales, MARS, Inc.
- Sean Decatur - President, Kenyon College
- Kevin Delaney - Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder, Quartz
- Nikhil Deogun - Editor in Chief and Senior Vice President, CNBC Business News
- Sasha Dichter - Chief Innovation Officer; Blogger, Philanthropist
- John Dickerson - Host of "Face the Nation" & CBS News Political Director
- Michael Dimock - President, Pew Research Center
- E. J. Dionne, Jr. - Syndicated Washington Post Columnist; Political Analyst for National Public Radio
- Carla Dirlikov Canales - Mezzo-Soprano; Founder and CEO, The Canales Project
- Colman Domingo - Palywright & Actor Known for his Role in "Fear the Walking Dead"
- Pete Dominick - Host, Sirius XM's "Stand Up! With Pete Dominick"
- Charles Duhigg - New York Times Investigative Reporter & Bestselling Author of "The Power of Habit"
- Jeff Dunn - President, Packaged Fresh, Campbell Soup Co.; Chief Carrot Officer, Bolthouse Farms
- Michael Eric Dyson - MSNBC Political Analyst and Former Host of NPR’s The Michael Eric Dyson Show; Best selling Author
- Martin Eakes - CEO, Self-Help Credit Union
- Josh Earnest - White House Press Secretary Under the Obama Administration
- Richard Edelman - President and CEO, Edelman
- Mickey Edwards - Former US Congressman/Professor
- Kassem Eid -
- Michael Eisner - Former CEO of The Walt Disney Company from 1984 until 2005.
- Ezekiel Emanuel - Leading Practitioners Shaping the Future of Healthcare; Expertise in Policy
- Kelly Evans - On-air correspondent CNBC
- Jenny Everett - Deputy Director, ANDE, Aspen Institute
- Helena Bottemiller Evich - Senior Reporter, POLITICO
- Mohammed Fairouz - Composer
- John Fallon - CEO, Pearson
- James Fallows - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
- Tom Fanning - Chairman, President, and CEO, Southern Company
- Drew Gilpin Faust - President, Harvard University
- John Feinblatt - President, Everytown for Gun Safety
- Teresita Fernández - Artist
- Leah Fessler - Modern Sexuality Freelance Writer; Author, "Can She Really 'Play That Game, Too'?"
- David Festa - Vice President, Ecosystems, Environmental Defense Fund (Festival Underwriter)
- Alissa Figueroa - Investigative Reporter and Producer, Fusion
- Alex Filippenko - Professor of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
- Larry Fink - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, BlackRock
- Helen Fisher - Expert on Romantic Love
- Ira Flatow - NPR Science Correspondent
- Renée Fleming - Soprano; Trustee, Carnegie Hall Corporation; Aspen Institute Arts Program Harman-Eisner Artist-in-Residence
- Rana Foroohar - Assistant Managing Editor, TIME Magazine
- Adam Foss - Assistant District Attorney at Suffolk County District Attorney's Office
- Robert Fraley - Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Monsanto
- Mike Frank - Chief Commercial Officer, Monsanto (Festival Underwriter Presenter)
- Travon Free - Writer for "The Daily Show" and Stand-Up Comedian
- Thomas L. Friedman - Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Winning Commentator, New York Times Columnist and Author of "The World Is Flat"
- Michael Froman - US Trade Representative
- Matthew Galsky - Director of Genitourinary Medical Oncology, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter)
- Theaster Gates - Director of Arts and Public Life, University of Chicago; Founder and President, Rebuild Foundation
- Julie Gehrki - Senior Director, Walmart Foundation
- David Gergen - Senior Political Analyst, CNN
- Elliot Gerson - Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute
- Nancy Gertner - Senior Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
- Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami - Film Director, Sonita
- Mohammed Alaa Ghanem - Senior Political Adviser, Government Relations Director, and Strategist, Syrian American Council
- Adam Ghetti - Founder - Ionic Security
- Matty Gilliland - Head of Process Analysis, New Belgium Brewing Company
- Newt Gingrich - Gingrich Productions; Former Speaker of the House of Representatives
- Dan Glickman - Executive Director, Congressional Program, The Aspen Institute; Senior Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center; Former Secretary, US Department of Agriculture
- Jeffrey Goldberg - National Correspondent, The Atlantic
- Thelma Golden - Director and Chief Curator, The Studio Museum in Harlem
- Allan Golston - Mr. Allan C. Golston has been President of U.S. Program at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation since 2006.
- Michael Govan - CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Adam Grant - Class of 1965 Wharton Professor of Management, Psychology Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- Jeremy Grantham - Co-founder and Chief Investment Strategist GMO LLC
- Stanley Greenberg - World-Renowned Pollster and New York Times Best-Selling Author, Elects and Advises National Leaders with a Deep Knowledge of Social and Economic Currents
- Jonathan Greenblatt - Leading Social Entrepreneur; Thought-leader on CSR, Ethical Branding and Founder of ETHOS Water
- Robert Griffin - Executive Director, Renewable Energy Program Office, United States Navy
- Paul Grimwood - Chairman and CEO, Nestlé USA
- Gideon Grinstein - President and Founder, Reut Institute; Author, Flexigidity: The Secret of Jewish Adaptability and the Challenge and Opportunity Facing Israel
- John Grunsfeld - Associate Administrator Science Mission Directorate, NASA
- Janine Guillot - Director, Capital Markets Policy and Outreach, Sustainable Accounting Standards Board
- Richard Haass - President, Council on Foreign Relations
- Shadi Hamid - Fellow, US Relations with the Islamic World Project, Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution
- Katherine Hammack - Assistant Secretary, Installations, Energy, and Environment, United States Army
- Jane Harman - President, CEO, and Director, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Former US Representative (D-CA); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- Caleb Harper - MIT Media Lab Principal Investigator and Director of the Open Agriculture Initiative
- Dianne Harrison - President, California State University, Northridge
- Sasha Havlicek - Co-Founder and CEO, Institute for Strategic Dialogue
- Christie Hefner - Former Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer of Playboy Enterprises
- John Hickenlooper - Governor of Colorado
- Maria Hinojosa - Emmy-Winning Journalist
- Nicole Hockley - Managing Director, Sandy Hook Promise
- Frederic Hof - Director, Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, Atlantic Council
- Jonathan Holloway - Dean, Yale College and Edmund S. Morgan Professor of African American Studies, History, and American Studies, Yale University
- Anna Holmes - Founder and Editor of Online Women's Magazine, Jezebel. Editor, writer (Glamour, NY Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, New Yorker.com, many others.)
- Ron Huberman - Co-Founder and Executive Chair, TeacherMatch
- Sherrilyn Ifill - President and Director-Counsel , NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- David Ignatius - Bestselling Author and Washington Post Columnist
- Julia Ioffe - Contributing Writer, Politico; Contributing Writer, Highline, Huffington Post
- Walter Isaacson - Best-selling Author, "The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution" (2014) and "Steve Jobs" (2011), Acclaimed Historian and Journalist; President and CEO of the Aspen Institute
- Wolfgang Ischinger - Chairman, Munich Security Conference
- Sasha Issenberg - Political Columnist and Author
- Chris Jackson - Executive Editor, Spiegel & Grau, Penguin-Random House
- Malek Jandali - Composer and Pianist
- Natalie Jaresko - Chair, Aspen Institute Kyiv; Former Finance Minister, Government of Ukraine
- Brett Jenks - President and CEO, Rare Conservation
- Gayle Jennings-O'Byrne - CEO, The Prometheus Exchange; Principal, Maya Ventures Partners
- Maz Jobrani - A founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour.
- Peggy Johnson - EVP, Business Development at Microsoft
- Stephen Jones - Professor, Department of Crop and Soil Sciences and Director, The Bread Lab, Washington State University
- Lisa Kaltenegger - Director, Carl Sagan Institute, Cornell University
- Erika Karp - Founder and CEO, Cornerstone Capital Group
- Sam Kass - Senior Food Analyst, NBC News; Former Senior White House Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy
- Neal Katyal - Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law, Georgetown Law; Partner, Hogan Lovells
- Melissa Kearney - Professor, Department of Economics, University of Maryland; Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
- Chris Kelly - Chief Privacy Officer, Facebook
- Max Kenner - Founder and Executive Director, Bard Prison Initiative
- Paula Kerger - President and CEO, PBS
- Piper Kerman - Author, "Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Woman's Prison"
- Asma Khalid - Campaign Reporter, NPR
- Zia Khan - Vice President for Strategy & Evaluation at the Rockefeller Foundation.
- Navina Khanna - Director, HEAL Food Alliance; Co-Founder and Field Director, Live Real
- Parag Khanna - The World's Leading Geo-Strategist; Author of Second World: How Emerging Powers Are Redefining Global Competition in the 21st Century
- Matt Kibbe - President and CEO FreedomWorks Foundation
- Sam Killermann - Comedian; Director of Creativity, Hues; Author, The Social Justice Advocate's Handbook: A Guide to Gender
- Marty Klein - Sex Therapist & Social Scientist Bringing Sexual Sanity to a Confused World
- Kilian Kleinschmidt - Chairman, SwitXBoard; Founder, Innovation and Planning Agency (IPA)
- Eric Klinenberg - Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University, Editor of the Journal "Public Culture", Author
- Amy Klobuchar - Senator (D-Minnesota) U.S. Senate
- Lawrence Krauss - Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department, and Director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University
- Sallie Krawcheck - Chair of Ellevate Network and Ellevate Asset
- Corby Kummer - Senior editor at The Atlantic
- Sedar Labarre - Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton (Festival Underwriter)
- Elise Labott - Global Affairs Correspondent, CNN
- Paige Ladisic - Editor in Chief 2015-2016, The Daily Tar Heel, University of North Carolina
- Christine Lagarde - Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund; Former French Finance Minister
- Mitch Landrieu - Mayor, City of New Orleans
- Risa Lavizzo-Mourey - Healthcare Expert and President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Jae Rhim Lee - Artist and TED Fellow Jae Rhim Lee Re-Imagines the Relationships Between the Body and the World
- Franklin Leonard - Founder, CEO, The Black List.
- David Leonhardt - Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Lawrence Lessig - Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University; Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
- Marsha Levick - Deputy Director and Chief Counsel, Juvenile Law Center
- Janna Levin - Cosmologist and Author
- Kate Levin - Principal, Bloomberg Associates; Former Commissioner, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York City
- Marc Levin - Policy Director, Right on Crime; Director, Center for Effective Justice, Texas Public Policy Foundation
- Jody Lewen - Executive Director, Prison University Project
- Sarah Lewis - Cultural Historian and a Du Bois Fellow at Harvard University. Author of "The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery"
- Ann Limberg - Head of Philanthropic Solutions and the Family Office, U.S. Trust, Bank of America Private Wealth Management (Festival Underwriter)
- David Litt - Head Writer and Producer, Washington DC Chapter, "Funny or Die"
- Eric Liu - Inspirational Civic Leader, Author & Educator
- Christopher Livaccari - Elementary School Principal and Chinese Program Director, International School of the Peninsula; Senior Advisor for China Learning Intiatives, Asia Society
- Maggie Loughran - Editor in Chief, The Chicago Maroon; Student, The University of Chicago
- Glenn Loury - GLENN C. LOURY: Professor Loury is currently Director of the Institute on Race and Social Diversity with Boston University.
- Adam Lowry - Co-Founder & Chief Greenskeeper, Method Products, Inc.
- Monica Lozano - Chair of the Board, US Hispanic Media Inc.
- Greg Lukianoff - President and CEO, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education
- Jane Holl Lute - Special Coordinator, Special Advisor to the Secretary-General, United Nations
- Melvin Mar - Producer; Executive Producer, "Fresh Off The Boat"
- Gloria Mark - Professor, Department of Informatics, University of California, Irvine
- John Markoff - Senior Writer, The New York Times Company
- Morgan Marquis-Boire - Director of Security, First Look; Senior Researcher, Citizen Lab, University of Toronto
- Zach Maurin - Executive Director, Service Year Alliance
- Nergis Mavalvala - Curtis and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics and Associate Department Head, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Staff Scientist, LIGO Laboratory
- Dan McAdams - Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and Director, Foley Center for the Study of Lives, Northwestern University
- David McCormick - David H. McCormick was appointed by President Bush as Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs in August 2006.
- Jane McGonigal - Game Designer, Inventor of SuperBetter and Author of "Reality Is Broken"
- https://www.allamericanspeakers.com/ - Black Lives Matter Activist
- Jamie Merisotis - President and CEO, Lumina Foundation
- Rouba Mhaissen - Founder and Director, Sawa Foundation
- Michael Middleton - Interim President, University of Missouri; Professor Emeritus, MU School of Law
- Michelle Miller - Award-Winning CBS News Correspondent Based in New York
- Yuri Milner - Founder DST Global
- Wendy Mitchell - Founder and Cheese Maker, Avalanche Cheese Company, Meat and Cheese Restaurant and Farm Shop, and Hooch Craft Cocktail Bar
- Renee Montagne - Co-host of NPR's Morning Edition
- Marc Morial - President of National Urban League
- Anne Mosle - Executive Director, Ascend, The Aspen Institute
- Loubna Mrie - Photojournalist; Fellow, Magnum Foundation
- Sendhil Mullainathan - Professor of Economics at Harvard University; Founder of ideas42, a Non-Profit Organization Devoted to Taking Insights About People from Behavioral Economics and Using it to Create Novel Policies, Interventions, and Products.
- Mike Murphy - A rapid-fire talker and hilarious storyteller known for his charm, quick wit, and biting television ads, Mike Murphy is one of the nation's most widely known and successful political media consultants.
- Alan Murray - President, Pew Research Center
- Amy Myrdal Miller - Founder and President, Founder's Daughter Consulting
- Satya Nadella - CEO of Microsoft
- Sarbjit Nahal - Managing Director and Head of Thematic Investing, Bank of America Merrill Lynch (Festival Underwriter)
- Priyamvada Natarajan - Departments of Astronomy and Physics, Yale University
- Nicholas Negroponte - Visionary on Technology and Its Impact on Business and Society; Founding Chairman, MIT Media Lab; Founder, One Laptop per Child
- Marie Nelson - Vice President, News and Public Affairs, PBS (Festival Underwriter)
- Latondra Newton - Group Vice President.
- Vivian Nixon - Executive Director, College and Community Fellowship
- Michele Norris - Host and Special Correspondent, NPR
- Victoria Nuland - Victoria Nuland was ambassador of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization until Kurt Volker was sworn in as U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO on July 2, 2008.
- Jennifer O'Malley Dillon - Founding Partner, Precision Strategies
- Sally Osberg - President and CEO, Skoll Foundation
- Susan Page - Washington Bureau Chief, USA Today
- Jon Palmer - Associate General Counsel- Litigation, Microsoft Corporation
- Minxin Pei - Minxin Pei is a director of the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he has also been a senior associate since 1999.
- Perri Peltz - Director, Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr.; Host, "Dr. Radio Reports," Sirius XM
- Susan Penfield - EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT
- Carrie Walton Penner - Board Chair, Walton Family Foundation (Festival Underwriter)
- Esther Perel - Relationship & Communications Expert; Master Trainer & Emotional Literacy Advisor; Award-Winning Author & International Columnist
- David Petraeus - Partner & Chairman, KKR Global Institute; Visiting Professor, CUNY; Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
- Lonnie Phillips - Co-Founder, Jessi's Message
- Sandy Phillips - Co-Founder, Jessi's Message
- Chellie Pingree - US Representative (D-ME)
- Jean Pitzo - CEO, Ace Metal Crafts
- Elizabeth Plank - Senior Editor at Mic, Activist & Creator of Viral Campaigns Like #AllMenCan and #WithoutTheWageGapIWould
- Andrew D. Plepler - Global Chair and Corporate Social Responsibility and Consumer Policy Executive, Bank of America (Festival Underwriter)
- David Plotz - CEO, Atlas Obscura
- Chris Plutte - Founder and Executive Director, Global Nomads Group
- Dan Porterfield - President, Franklin and Marshall College
- Sheila Pott - Co-Founder, Audrie Pott Foundation
- Kirsten Powers - USA Today Columnist, Daily Beast Columnist & Fox News Contributor
- Gill Pratt - Executive Technical Advisor and CEO, Toyota Research Institute, Toyota Motor Corporation (Festival Underwriter)
- Mark Preston - Executive Editor, CNN Politics
- Penny Pritzker - US Secretary of Commerce
- Ida Rademacher - Executive Director, Initiative on Financial Security, The Aspen Institute
- Lisa Randall - Award-Winning Physicist and One of Time Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in the World," Author, "Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs"
- Urvashi Rangan - Director, Consumer Safety and Sustainability, Consumer Reports (Festival Underwriter)
- Steven Rattner - Chairman, Willett Advisors LLC
- Bob Raynolds - Research Associate, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
- Molly Pershin Raynor - Performing Arts Program Coordinator, RYSE Center
- Pamela Reeves - Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- Jason Rezaian - Tehran Bureau Chief, Correspondent, The Washington Post
- Katie Rich - Writer, "Weekend Update," Saturday Night Live
- Walter Robb - Co-CEO, Whole Foods Market
- Brian Roberts - Chairman & CEO, Comcast
- Jim Rogers - Chairman of the Board and Former CEO of Duke Energy
- Jeffrey Rosen - President and CEO, National Constitution Center; Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School; Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
- David Rosenberg - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer AeroFarms
- Jessica Rosenworcel - Commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission
- Hanna Rosin - Senior Editor, The Atlantic; Author, "The End of Men"
- Alec Ross - Author of "The Industries of the Future," and Recent Senior Advisor for Innovation to Hilary Clinton
- Michael Roth - President of Wesleyan University & Author of "Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters"
- David Rothkopf - Former U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce; CEO and Editor of the Foreign Policy Group
- Horacio Rozanski - President and COO, Booz Allen Hamilton
- David Rubenstein - Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
- Robert Rubin - Co-chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and a counselor at Centerview Partners.
- Kai Ryssdal - Host, Senior Editor, American Public Media's "Marketplace"
- Malika Saada Saar - Senior Counsel, Civil and Human Rights, Google
- Ricardo Salinas - President and CEO, Salinas Group
- Ricardo Salvador - Senior Scientist and Director, Food and Environment Program, Union of Concerned Scientists
- Judith Samuelson - Executive Director
- M. Sanjayan - Executive Vice President and Senior Scientist, Conservation International
- Dan Savage - Author, Activist and Sex Advice Columnist, "Savage Love"
- Orville Schell - Arthur Ross Director, Center on US China Relations, Asia Society
- Laura Secor - Journalist; Author, Children of Paradise: The Struggle for the Soul of Iran
- Tina Seelig - Executive Director, Stanford University Technology Ventures Program
- Adam Segal - Senior Fellow for China Studies and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations
- Lina Sergie Attar - Co-Founder and CEO, Karam Foundation
- Mariela Shaker - Violinist
- Jim Shelton - Acting Deputy Secretary for Innovation and Improvement, US Department of Education
- Jon Shenk - Co-Founder and Filmmaker, Actual Films
- Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall - Deputy Secretary of Energy, Department of Energy
- Mina Sherzoy - Director, USAID Promote Women in Government (WIG) Program
- Tim Shriver - Chairman, Special Olympics; Co-Founder and Chair, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
- Forrest Sill - Student, The University of Chicago; Editor in Chief, The Chicago Maroon
- Paul Singer - Principal, Elliott Management, USA
- David Skorton - Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
- Anne-Marie Slaughter - CEO New America Foundation; Foreign Policy Expert; Feminist Author
- Anna Deavere Smith - Award-Winning Actress, Playwright, Social Commentator
- Clint Smith - Poet and Educator Whose Work Blends Art and Activism
- Jason Smith - Director, Rock Bottom Ranch, Aspen Center for Environmental Studies
- Kim Snyder - Filmmaker; Director, Newtown
- Mercy Sombilla - Director of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment, National Development Office of Planning, National Economic and Development Authority, Philippines
- Michael Sorrell - President, Paul Quinn College
- Pamela Starr - Director, US-Mexico Network; Associate Professor, School of International Relations and in Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California
- Michael Steele - Former Chairman of the Republican National Committee (RNC); Political Analyst, MSNBC; Author, Right Now: A 12-Step Program for Defeating the Obama Agenda
- James Steinberg - Dean, Maxwell School of Syracuse University; Former Deputy Secretary of State
- Laurence Steinberg - Laurence Steinberg, Ph.D., is the Distinguished University Professor and Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology at Temple University.
- Richard Stengel - Richard Stengel has been named Managing Editor of Time it was announced today by John Huey, Editor-in-Chief of Time Inc.
- Alan Stern - American engineer and planetary scientist, the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Chief Scientist at Moon Express
- Andy Stern - Andy Stern is the president emeritus of the 2.2 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the fastest-growing union in North America.
- Jessica Stern - Jessica Stern is the foremost U.S. expert on terrorism and author of Terror In The Name of God.
- Olivia Sterns - Business and Tech Correspondent, NBC News
- Bryan Stevenson - Founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, Bestselling Author of "Just Mercy"
- Geoffrey Stone - Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago Law School
- Scott Stossel - Editor, The Atlantic
- Tristram Stuart - Environmental Campaigner and Author; "Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal"
- Cass Sunstein - Professor of Law at Harvard; Expert on Behavioral Economics
- Michael Taylor - Former Deputy Commissioner, Foods and Veterinary Medicine, US Food and Drug Administration; Senior Fellow, Freedman Consulting, LLC
- Mark Tercek - President and CEO, The Nature Conservancy
- Gillian Tett - Columnist, Financial Times
- Evan Thomas - Assistant Managing Editor Newsweek, Author
- Derek Thompson - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
- Matt Thompson - Editorial Product Manager, NPR
- Nina Totenberg - NPR Legal Affairs Correspondent
- Rebecca Traister - Political & Cultural Journalist; Author of "Big Girls Don't Cry" & "All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation"
- Sydney Trattner - Senior Producer, "Years of Living Dangerously"
- Sol Trujillo - Chief Executive Officer Telstra Corp. Ltd.
- Nicholas Turner - President, Vera Institute of Justice
- Roberta Uno - Director, Arts in a Changing America, California Institute of the Arts
- Jason van Genderen - Filmmaker; Founder, Pocket Film Academy
- Cyrus Vance, Jr. - District Attorney, New York County (Manhattan)
- Arturo Vargas - Executive Director, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials and NALEO Educational Fund
- Jose Antonio Vargas - Journalist, Filmmaker & Immigration Activist
- Lynn Vavreck - Professor, Political Science and Communication Studies, UCLA
- Roberto Villaseñor - Principal Consultant, 21CP Solutions; Retired Chief, Tuscon Police Department
- Rajiv Vinnakota - Executive Vice President, Youth & Engagement, The Aspen Institute
- Alex Wagner - Host NOW WITH ALEX WAGNER ON MSNBC
- Jane Wales - Vice President of Philanthropy and Society at the Aspen Institute; Co-Founder of the Global Philanthropy Forum; President & CEO of the World Affairs Council of Northern California
- Jim Wallis - Christian Writer and Political Activist
- Steuart Walton - CEO, Game Composites, Ltd.; Board Member, Walton Family Foundation (Festival Underwriter)
- Mark Warner - US Senator, State of Virginia (D)
- Heather Watts - Educator, Arts Advocate
- Vin Weber - Co-Chairman and Partner, Clark & Weinstock; Former US Representative (R-MN); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
- Kari Weil - University Professor and Director, College of Letters, Wesleyan University
- Mark Weinberger - Global Chairman and CEO Ernst & Young
- Randi Weingarten - President, American Federation of Teachers
- Lucas Welch - Executive Director, Pluribus Project
- Roxane White - President and CEO, Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP)
- Leon Wieseltier - Former Literary Editor, The New Republic
- Thomas J. Wilson - Chairman, President, and CEO, The Allstate Corporation
- Peter Wittig - Ambassador of Germany to the US
- Damian Woetzel - Director, Arts Program, The Aspen Institute; Artistic Director, Vail International Dance Festival
- Josephine Wolff - Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology; Faculty Associate, Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society
- Chris Womack - President, External Affairs, Southern Company
- Doug Wood - Program Officer, Youth Opportunity and Learning, The Ford Foundation
- Ryan Wyatt - Director, Morrison Planetarium and Science Visualization, California Academy of Sciences
- Joshua Wyner - Executive Director, College Excellence Program, The Aspen Institute
- Emily Yoffe - Contributing Editor, The Atlantic
- Connie Yowell - Director of Education at the MacArthur Foundation
- Ka Chun Yu - Curator of Space Science, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
- Micah Zenko - Senior Fellow at CFR; Author
- Manoush Zomorodi - Host and Managing Editor, "Note to Self," WNYC
