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Growing Young author Sergey Young has been an investor and venture capitalist for twenty years, with a multi-billion portfolio under management. Founder of the Longevity Vision Fund, he is an Advisory Board Member at UK's Parliamentary Group on Longevity, a member of the Forbes Technology Council and Development Sponsor of the Age Reversal XPRIZE.

Alora Young is a college student, an actor, and the 2021 Youth Poet Laureate of the Southern United States. Her poetry has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and she has performed her poetry on CNN, CBS, and the TEDx stage. Originally from Tennessee, Young currently attends Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.

Kelly Young Chang is a graduate of Emerson College. She is a member of the Women of Words workshop group and the Writers Studio at the Center for Fiction. Kelly is drawn to stories about isolated and morally gray characters, the juxtaposition of humor and sadness, redemptive arcs amidst darkness, and characters who grapple with issues of faith and doubt.

Howard Yu is a professor of strategic management and innovation at the prestigious IMD Business School in Switzerland, as well as the director of IMD’s signature program, the Advanced Strategic Management executive education course. He also develops customized training programs for large companies, and his clients include Mars, Maersk, Proctor & Gamble, Nestle, Sanofi, Novartis, and Lego, among many others. He writes regularly for Forbes, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and the South China Morning Post.

Jung Yun’s work has appeared in Tin House (the “Emerging Voices” issue); The Best of Tin House: Stories; and The Massachusetts Review. She has an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Yun received an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize and was awarded an Artist’s Fellowship in fiction from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Her debut novel, Shelter, was published in 2016 by Picador.

Anya Yurchyshyn’s fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming from Noon, The Adirondack Review, Guernica, and Elimae. Her memoir, My Dead Parents, is out now from Crown.

A Washington Post reporter since 2005, Zak has covered subjects ranging from from the Vanity Fair Oscar party to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to the military drawdown in Iraq. He’s previously written for Entertainment Weekly and for the Buffalo News in his hometown of Buffalo, New York.

Susan Zalkind is an independent journalist and writer based in Boston, MA. She covers courts and crime, breaks news and writes investigative features for The Guardian, The Daily Beast, and VICE and has appeared on CNN, NBC, MSNBC, BBC, and is a regular guest on NECN’s The Take. Her reporting has also been featured on This American Life and Boston magazine and was listed as one of the best stories of the year by Longform.org and Longreads.

Born in Iran and raised as a member of the Baha’i faith, Payam Zamani is the founder, chairman, and CEO of One Planet, a socially responsible hybrid tech firm that owns and operates a suite of online technology and media businesses and is an early stage investor. He is also the Founder and the Editor-in-Chief of BahaiTeachings.org.

Dan Zehr is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times; he is currently covering the economy for the Austin-American Statesman.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine, a position he has held since 2019. He was named the Financial Times' and Time's Person of the Year for 2022, and amongst many international honours was most recently awarded the 2023 Chatham House Prize.

Previously, he studied law at the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics and went on to pursue a career in entertainment, creating the production company Kvartal 95 and portraying a fictional Ukrainian president in the series Servant of the People.

Writer and social commentator, Zhang lives in Beijing and focuses on human stories set in China. She is a regular speaker on BBC Radio and NPR, and is the author of the memoir SOCIALISM IS GREAT!

Angel Di Zhang was born in China and raised in China, England, Canada, and the USA. She was educated in the joint BA-MIA program at Columbia University and was a Pitch Wars class of 2019 mentee. She is an internationally exhibited fine-art photographer. Her first novel is The Light of Eternal Spring, excerpts of which have been awarded ten writing grants, including one from the Canada Council for the Arts. Angel lives in a secret garden on a cloud that floats above Toronto.

Katie Zhao is the author of the middle grade book The Dragon Warrior and the young adult novel How We Fall Apart (Bloomsbury).

A writer and filmmaker in New York, von Ziegesar has contributed to the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Art in America, Outside, and Out, among other publications.

Pat Zietlow Miller has published more than 20 picture books and has more on the way. Her first book, SOPHIE’S SQUASH, won the Golden Kite Award, an Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Honor, and a Charlotte Zolotow Honor. BE KIND was on the New York Times bestseller list for 10 weeks, and IN OUR GARDEN is a two-time Dolly Parton Imagination Library selection. Pat lives in Wisconsin. Find her at www.patzietlowmiller.com. Or, visit her on X, Blue Sky and TikTok at @PatZMiller, or on Instagram at @patzmill.

Jim Ziolkowski is the co-founder of buildOn, a not-for-profit organization That today supports thousands of inner-city teenagers from across the United States while at the same time transforming communities in some of the world’s poorest countries: Malawi, Mali, Senegal, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Nepal. He is the author, with James Hirsch, of the New York Times bestselling memoir entitled Walk in Their Shoes (Free Press).

Joshua P. Zoffer is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at Columbia’s Center for Global Energy Policy and a venture capital investor. From 2023 to 2024, he served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, a commissioned officer of President Biden and a senior official on the White House National Economic Council. At the White House, he was responsible for advising the President and leading the Administration’s policy development on climate, energy, and trade issues. From 2021 to 2023, he served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, most recently as Senior Advisor to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo.

Prior to serving in government, Zoffer worked at Cove Hill Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm, and at McKinsey & Company in New York. He graduated with a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B. from Harvard University.

His writing on economic and political issues has been published in the Washington Post, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, the New Republic, and elsewhere, as well as in academic journals such as the Yale Law Journal and the Stanford Law Review.

James Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute and a senior advisor to the polling firm Zogby International. He writes a weekly column That appears in twenty Arab newspapers and hosts a weekly program on Abu Dhabi television. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic National Committee, and co-chair of the DNC’s Resolutions Committee, he is the author of Arab Voices (Palgrave).

Kristal Brent Zook is an award-winning journalist and author of four books including The Girl in the Yellow Poncho, a coming-of-age story about being biracial in America, searching for her missing white father, and finding one’s authentic identity. A former contributor to the Washington Post and ESSENCE, her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, LIFE, and The Guardian among others. The Girl in the Yellow Poncho has been praised in Vanity Fair, PEOPLE, Ms., The Root, and Kirkus. Dr. Zook is a tenured journalism at Hofstra University in New York. She has appeared on outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, MTV, Fox, BET, PBS, and TV-One and NPR.

Justin Zorn is a writer, policy maker, and mindfulness teacher. A Harvard and Oxford-trained specialist in economic and environmental policy, he has served as legislative director to three Members of Congress, a Fulbright Scholar, a Truman National Security Fellow, a Senior Adviser to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and has written for The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and CNN.

Jocelyn C. Zuckerman is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in Fast Company, The American Prospect, the New York Times Magazine, and other publications. She served as deputy editor at Gourmet, articles editor at OnEarth, and executive editor at both Whole Living and Modern Farmer magazines. An honors graduate of Columbia University's Journalism School, she is the recipient of a James Beard Award for feature writing and numerous fellowships, including an Alicia Patterson Fellowship in support of her research on palm oil. She is based in Brooklyn, NY.

Marlene Zuk is Regents Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the University of Minnesota and studies animal sexual behavior and communication. She is the author of several books including Paleofantasy; Sex on Six Legs; Riddled with Life; and Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test.

Born in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Chantale Zuzi became a refugee at the age of 13 after her parents were murdured during a paramilitary attack on her village. She and her nine siblings fled to Uganda, then on her own she went to Kenya before being granted asylum in the United States in 2019. A graduate of Wellesley College, she is the founder of Refugee Can Be, a non-profit whose mission is to educate and empower refugee girls, a recipient of a 2024 Moonshot Award, and her TED Talk on the search for home has been viewed by more than half a million people. Born with albinism and legally blind, she speaks frequently at such venues as the United Nations and the Omega Institute’s Leadership Conference, the Skoll Foundation and the Memorial Foundation for the Blind, the Clinton Global Initative Annual Meeting and Ford Global as well as colleges and universities, including the University of Washington, Clarke University, and Wellesley College.

TV writer, playwright, and bestselling author, Zweibel was an original Saturday Night Live writer. Zweibel has won multiple Emmy, Writers Guild of America, and TV Critics awards as well as the Writer’s Guild East Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in television and the stage, which includes It’s The Garry Shandling Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and 700 Sundays with Billy Crystal.

Matthew d’Ancona is an award-winning editor and columnist. He is currently Editor‑at-Large of The New World, contributing a weekly column and culture newsletter, and co-hosting its flagship current affairs podcast. He also serves as Contributing Editor at Prospect and is a visiting research fellow at Queen Mary University of London. He was elected a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, in 1989.

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He previously served as an editor and partner at Tortoise Media and wrote a weekly column for the Guardian. Prior to that, he was Editor of the Spectator, Deputy Editor of the Sunday Telegraph, a contributing writer at the International New York Times, and held roles at Index on Censorship and The Times. He is a past judge of the Booker Prize. His most recent book is Identity, Ignorance, Innovation: Why the old politics is useless - and what to do about it (2021).

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Neeltje van Horen is Senior Research Advisor at the Bank of England and Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Amsterdam. Her work explores the interplay between the financial sector and the real economy, especially in times of crisis and uncertainty. She previously worked at the World Bank and De Nederlandsche Bank and has been a visiting scholar at the EBRD, IMF, and Chicago Fed. Her research has been widely published.

Her first book Ignite: How To Unlock Your Brain’s True Potential and Change Your Life offers practical, science-based strategies and techniques to boost cognitive performance, conquer self-doubt, refine decision-making skills and, ultimately, lead a more fulfilling life.

Eva zu Beck is a leading female adventure YouTuber, writer, and TV host with over four million followers across social media platforms. She has developed content for global platforms including the BBC, Deutsche Welle, Euronews, and National Geographic, where she hosts Superskilled, a show exploring human potential in remote locations worldwide.