Ron Adner is an award-winning professor of strategy at the Tuck School and the author of The Wide Lens. His research and teaching focus on innovation, strategy, and entrepreneurship and his work introduces a new perspective on the relationship among firms, customers, and the broader "innovation ecosystems" in which they interact to create value.

Winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Lords of Finance, Ahamed is a former economist at the World Bank. Lords of Finance was a New York Times Bestseller and was chosen as one of The New Yorker’s top 20 nonfiction books of 2009, and one of the New York Times’s top 10 books of 2009.

Dr. Simone Ahuja is the founder of Blood Orange, an innovation and strategy consultancy and an advisor to global entrepreneurs and corporate ’intrapreneurs.’

Professor of Marketing at the University of Michigan-Dearborn College of Business, Aaron Ahuvia is one of the leading experts in the world on consumer behavior. The winner of the Consumer Brand Relationships Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Industry Impact, he studies how and why we love our favorite possessions, brands and activities.

Fouad Ajami, an internationally renowned scholar and writer, was Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Johns Hopkins University, a recipient of a MacArthur genius grant, a founding member of The Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa, a recipient of the National Humanities Medal, and author of several books including, most recently, The Foreigner’s Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis (Free Press).

Susie Alegre is an author and international human rights lawyer. She brings her background in literature and philosophy to her writing on the law.  Her ground breaking work exploring the right to freedom of thought in the digital age was featured in the Radio 4 documentary series “Forum Internum”. She is an Associate Tenant at Doughty Street Chambers, a Research Fellow at the University of Roehampton.

Originally from the Isle of Man she has lived and worked all over the world in Europe, Latin America and East Africa and is fluent in French and Spanish.

For more information visit www.susiealegre.com

Jonathan Allen is a senior political analyst with NBC News digital. A winner of the Dirksen and Hume awards for reporting, he was previously the White House bureau chief for Politico and the Washington bureau chief for Bloomberg News.

Michelle Wilde Anderson is the Larry Kramer Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. She teaches in the areas of poverty and inequality, local government, housing, and environmental justice. Her new book The Fight to Save the Town:  Reimagining Discarded America was published by Avid Reader.

Appy is professor of history, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is best known for his books on the Vietnam War: a social history of American combat soldiers; a wide-ranging oral history from multiple perspectives (including accounts of Vietnamese and Americans combatants, policymakers, antiwar activists, journalists, etc.); and a history of the war’s impact on American national identity, culture, and foreign policy from the 1950s through the Obama administration.

Author of the nationally-syndicated column "Ask a Mexican," Arellano is the editor of the OC Weekly. He has contributed to NPR’s Marketplace and The Los Angeles Times, and has appeared on The Today Show, Chelsea Lately, and The Colbert Report. He lectures widely and is represented by Verbatim.

Erin Arvedlund, a leading financial journalist who has written for Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, is the author of Too Good To Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff and Open Secret: The Conspiracy to Fix Libor (Penguin/Portfolio).

James Ashton is a business writer, commentator and consultant. His journalism appears regularly in the Evening Standard and the Sunday Telegraph (where he wrote the ‘Questor’ column), and he contributes CEO interviews for the Mail on Sunday, The Times (London) and the Telegraph. He was City Editor and Executive Editor of the Evening Standard and Independent and before that City Editor of the Sunday Times (London). He is currently CEO of the Quoted Companies Alliance, championing the UK’s 1000+ small and mid-sized companies whose shares are publicly traded. He also runs Oscar’s Book Prize, a competition to find the best pre-school book of the year.

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Sir Philip Augar’s The Augar Report into Post-18 Education was published by the May government in 2019. He was knighted in 2021 for services to higher and further education policy. A former banker with a History PhD, he contributes to the FT, the Sunday Times (London) and BBC.

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Susan MacKenty Brady is the founding CEO of the Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership and the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Chair for Woman and Leadership at Simmons University.  She is the author of the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller Arrive & Thrive and a speaker who works with global organizations.

Stuart Kliman is a founder and now Senior Advisor at Advantage Partners, a consulting and training firm based in Boston as well as a Senior Advisor at Building Industry Partners. He is a member of the Strategic Advisory Board of the Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership

LTG Leslie C. Smith, Retired is the former Inspector General, Office of the Secretary of the US Army.  He currently is the the Vice President for Leadership, Education and Programs for the Association of the US Army, the Carter Chair for Leadership at Georgia Southern University, and the CEO of LV Smith CorporateGroup.

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Iyad el-Baghdadi is a prominent Arab Spring intellectual, writer, and activist. He is resident fellow at Civita, Norway’s leading liberal think tank and participates regularly in the Oslo Freedom Forum and the Global Tolerance Forum.

He writes on issues related to Islam and liberty, the Arab Spring, Middle Eastern and world affairs, radicalization, jihadist ideology, and populism. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, Foreign Policy, Prospect and the International Business Times. He is a regular interviewee on Al-Jazeera and other global news media. He also sits on the board of The Munathara Initiative, the Arab world’s leading society-run debate platform & TV show.

He lives and works in Oslo, Norway.

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Stephanie Baker is a senior writer at Bloomberg. After studying Russia and Eastern Europe for her Master’s at the LSE, she began her reporting career in the heyday of ’90s Moscow. Since then, she has won a Gerald Loeb Award and been recognised by the UK Society of Editors, the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing, and the UK’s Foreign Press Association. She is a fixture across all Bloomberg media, including Bloomberg Television, radio, and podcasts, and she has been featured on NPR, PBS, and the BBC. She lives in London, with joint US/UK nationality. Stephanie is represented by Toby Mundy and Todd Shuster at Aevitas Creative Management.

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Dave Balter is a pioneer in the world of word-of-mouth marketing, the founder and CEO of bzzagent.com and the author of Grapevine: The New Art of Word-of-Mouth Marketing (Penguin/Portfolio).

David Banks is the inspirational founder of the Eagle Academy for Young Men and the president and CEO of the Eagle Academy Foundation, a network of all-boys public schools in New York City, and the author of Soar: How Boys Learn, Succeed, and Develop Character.

Theo Barclay is a barrister based in London. Educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, he can often be found around the Royal Courts of Justice in his wig and gown. He started writing about politics in 2010 after developing an unhealthy obsession with the autobiographies of minor Blair-era ministers. He has written extensively about the blurred line between politics and law for several industry journals and for The Times’s Red Box politics website, and given lectures at King’s College, London.

Hannah Barnes is Associate Editor at the New Statesman. Previously, she was an award-winning senior BBC journalist, serving as Investigations Producer for ‘Newsnight’. Over the past decade and a half, she has specialised in investigative and analytical journalism. Prior to joining the ‘Newsnight’ team in 2016, Hannah was a Daily Programme Editor at Radio 4’s ‘Today’ programme, and spent many years reporting and producing documentaries and other long-form programmes for BBC Radio 4, 5 Live and the World Service.

Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children was a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for both the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Orwell Prize.

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Thomas P. M. Barnett is a highly sought after military strategist, a contributor to Esquire magazine and author of the New York Times bestseller The Pentagon’s New Map (Putnam) as well as Blueprint for Action and Great Powers (Putnam).

A former Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), Barofsky is a Senior Fellow at NYU’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law and a partner in the Litigation Department of national law firm Jenner & Block LLP. His book Bailout was a New York Times Bestseller.

Jean-Louis Barsoux is a Research Professor at IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland) and has published extensively in Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. He is also the author of several books on management, including the award-winning Set-Up-To-Fail Syndrome: How Good Managers Cause Great People To Fail (with Jean-François Manzoni, HBSP, 2002).

Christian Bason, Ph.D., is CEO of the Danish Design Centre, a foundation working to advance the value of design for business and society. A political scientist and design thinker, he is the former Director of MindLab, the Danish governments innovation team, and the author of seven books on leadership, innovation and design.

Amanda Becker is the Washington correspondent for The 19th and has previously worked at Reuters and CQ Roll Call. Her work has appeared in publications including the Washington Post, the New Republic, and Glamour, and her political coverage has been broadcast on NPR.

David Benjamin is Chief Technology Officer/Chief Architect of Syntegrity, a global leader in Business Orchestration Solutions, which has a unique platform, combining scientific methodologies and proprietary technologies, that helps companies and organizations solve their most complex challenges and clear the way for execution.

Mark T. Bertolini is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Aetna, a Fortune 50 diversified health care benefits company with over $60 billion in 2015 revenue. Aetna serves an estimated 46.5 million people with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care and has operations in North America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Arindam Bhattacharya is a managing director and senior partner at Boston Consulting Group. He is a cofounder and the former director of the BCG Henderson Institute. He is a current member of the global leadership team of the firm’s Global Advantage practice and a former member of the global leadership team of the Industrial Goods, Operations, and Public Sector practices. He previously led BCG India for six years.As a BCG Fellow, he has focused his research on new globalization over the past four years, leading the firm’s work in this area. His research has uncovered the radical shift of globalization and its implications for global firms across sectors.His first book, Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything, was included in the Economist’s Books of the Year list in 2008.

Dr Chris Bickerton is a Professor in Modern European Politics at POLIS and fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge. Born in Glasgow to a French mother and an English father, he read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Somerville College, Oxford. He did his Masters in International Relations at the Graduate Institute for International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, returning to St Johns’ College, Oxford, for his D.Phil. He taught at the Universities of Oxford, Amsterdam and Sciences Po in Paris, before moving to Cambridge in 2013.

Chris writes regularly on European politics for newspapers such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Guardian, and also for Prospect, the Big Issue and other magazines. He was also a regular panelist on the podcast 'Talking Politics'.

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Mike Bird is an award-winning financial journalist who has worked most extensively for the Economist. He previously worked for the Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong as a reporter and financial columnist. He’s one of the presenters of the Economist’s premier financial podcast, ‘Money Talks’, which receives 2.5 million listens per month worldwide.

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Zac Bissonnette has written for The Boston Globe Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times. He’s appeared on CNN, The Today Show, and MSNBC, among others. His book How to Be Richer, Smarter, and Better-Looking Than Your Parents was a New York Times bestseller.

Kate Black is the Chief of Staff at EMILY's List, a nonprofit dedicated to helping Democratic pro-choice women run for office.

Melissa Estes Blair is a historian of women and politics in the 20th-century United States, and an associate professor of history at Auburn University. Her first book was Revolutionizing Expectations: Women’s Organizations, Feminism, and American Politics 1965-1980.

Jenny Blake is an author, career and business strategist and international speaker. She has been featured on Forbes.com, US News & World Report, Real Simple magazine, and has spoken at major universities and top companies such as Columbia, TEDxCMU, Yale, Parsons, UCLA, Google, Intuit, KPMG and Best Buy. She worked at Google for over five years on the Training and Career Development teams, and since then has been running her own business for over three years. Jenny created her first website, Life After College in 2005 and released a book of the same name in 2011 that was featured in Target’s 2012 graduation display. Jenny is also the co-founder of an app called Lucent (@LucentApp) for people who are “meditation-curious.” She is based in New York City.

Heidi Blake is a staff writer for The New Yorker. She is the author of “From Russia with Blood: The Kremlin’s Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin’s Secret War on the West,” which builds on an investigation at BuzzFeed News that was a Pulitzer finalist and won Investigative Reporters & Editors’ Tom Renner Award in 2018. She is also the co-author of “The Ugly Game: The Corruption of FIFA and the Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup,” which draws on revelations from hundreds of millions of documents that were leaked from inside soccer’s governing body. Both books have been adapted for TV.

Arthur Blank is the co-founder of the Home Depot. He is the owner of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta United of Major League Soccer, Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, the PGA Tour Superstores retail chain and is one of America’s most effective philanthropists.

The New York Times’s Visual Op-Ed Columnist, Blow was previously the paper’s Graphics Director and Design Director for News. In those roles he led the Times to numerous design awards. His Op-Ed column appears twice a week on Mondays and Thursdays.

Greg Bluestein is a political reporter who covers the governor's office and state politics for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He joined the newspaper in June 2012 after spending seven years with the Atlanta bureau of The Associated Press, where he covered a range of beats that included politics and legal affairs.

A journalist, screenwriter, and film producer, Boal won two Academy Awards, Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture, for his film The Hurt Locker. His 2013 film, Zero Dark Thirty, was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Screenplay.

Dan Bouk is an award winning historian who is Associate Professor of History and University Studies at Colgate University, a core member of the Max Planck Institute of Science’s working group on “Histories of Data”, and currently serves as a Faculty Fellow at the Date & Research Institute. His first book, How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual, was awarded prizes from the History of Science Society and the Society for U.S. Intellectual History.

Cyril Bouquet is a Professor of Strategy and Innovation at IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland) where he works with companies trying to re-invent themselves, orchestrating their innovation journeys to help executives create the future and not just hold on to the formulas that have worked well in the past.

Luc de Brabandère is a fellow and senior advisor at The Boston Consulting Group, teacher at The Louvain School of Management and at the École Centrale Paris, former general manager of the Brussels Stock Exchange, and author or co-author of 12 books, most recently Thinking in New Boxes: A New Paradigm for Business Creativity (Random House), written with Alan Iny.

Mark A. Bradley is an award-winning author and national security expert who served for years at the CIA and Department of Justice and, later, was appointed by President Obama to the Director of the Information Security Oversight Office at the National Archives.

A journalist and entrepreneur, Brill is the creator of the widely acclaimed magazine Brill’s Content. He’s written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper’s, and TIME and his March 2013 TIME cover story, "Bitter Pill," marked the first time That the magazine dedicated an entire issue to a single article.

The co-founder of Hope for the Sold, an abolitionist charity dedicated to the eradication of human trafficking and exploitation, Jared Brock speaks regularly at universities and churches throughout the United States and Canada. He is the author of A Year of Living Prayerfully and his writing has also appeared in Esquire, the Huffington Post, TODAY.com, and Writer’s Digest.

David Brock is the bestselling author of BLINDED BY THE RIGHT and KILLING THE MESSENGER, and is the founder of Media Matters for America and American Bridge.

Tobias Buck is the managing editor of the Financial Times. He was previously the Berlin and Madrid correspondent.

Maggie Bullock is a journalist and former Condé Nast editor who covers the worlds of fashion, retail, and celebrity for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Elle, and Vogue among many other national publications.

Will Bunch is national opinion columnist at the Philadelphia Inquirer who shared the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for spot news reporting, and the author of several books on American politics and culture.

Tara Button is the CEO and founder of buymeonce.com.

Jonathan Byrnes is a Senior Lecturer at MIT, where he has supervised research and taught graduate students and executives for thirty years. He is the founding chairman of Profit Isle, a trusted partner whose unique, proprietary profit analytics have produced 10-30% year-on-year profit increases on over $100 billion in client revenues. He holds a doctorate from Harvard Business School. With John Wass, he is the author of Choose Your Customer, from McGraw-Hill.

Louise Callaghan is the Middle East correspondent for the Sunday Times. She was named New Journalist of the Year in 2017, and won the Marie Colvin Award at the British Journalism Awards in 2018. The citation read, in part: 'Louise Callaghan's work fights to get to the truth of what is happening on the ground in rebel-held Syria... She bore witness to crimes governments and armed groups would rather were hidden away.' Forbes Magazine named her as one of their '30 under 30' key people in the media.

Cambanis is a senior fellow and director of Century International at the Century Foundation.  His work focuses on US foreign policy, Arab politics, and social movements in the Middle East.

An investigative journalist and anthropologist, Carney blends narrative nonfiction with ethnography in his stories. His first book The Red Market: On the Trail of the World’s Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers received critical acclaim from Michiko Kakutani in the New York Times and won the Clarion Award for best work of nonfiction in 2012.

Shawn Casemore, author of Operational Empowerment, is a frequent speaker and expert on operations management, team-building, human resources and customer service who works with companies all around the world.

A behavioral scientist and lawyer, Dr. Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio is one of Harvard Law’s rising stars studying issues related to diversity and gender in organizational behavior with the goal of promoting broad-based inclusion of women and minorities in the legal profession and in large organizations.