Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an Emmy- and Peabody-winning journalist who over the course of her distinguished fifty-plus-year career has worked at The New Yorker, TheNew York Times (where she established the paper’s Harlem bureau), PBS NewsHour, NPR, and CNN. She is the author of four previous books: In My Place (Vintage, 1992), New News Out of Africa (Oxford University Press, 2006), To The Mountaintop (Square Fish, 2014), and Corrective Rape (Agate, 2015).

Rene Germain is a young British journalist and influencer whose blog ‘Black and Great’ about the successful career jouneys of Black talent from across the worlds of entertainment, sport, finance, law and medicine is the inspiration for her first book.

Danny Goldberg is the author of How the Left Lost Teen Spirit and Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business. Since 2007 he has been president of Gold Village Entertainment, whose clients include Steve Earle and Against Me. Previously, Goldberg was president of Gold Mountain Entertainment (Nirvana, Bonnie Raitt, the Allman Brothers), CEO of Air America Radio, chairman of Warner Bros. Records, president of Atlantic Records, and vice president of Led Zeppelin’s Swan Song Records.

David Goodhart is a commentator and author. He is the founder of Prospect magazine, where he is Editor at Large. He is also a former director of the think tank Demos and was for twelve years a correspondent for the Financial Times.

Graetz, who has been professor of law at Yale and at Columbia, is an expert on tax law and its effects on society.  He is writing a book on how the anti-tax revolt has shaped America for Princeton.

Rosie Gray is the White House Correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. Before that she was a staff writer for Buzzfeed News for five years, covering two presidential elections, and got her start at the Village Voice.

A former New York City Public Advocate and mayoral candidate, Green has served as president of Air America Radio and director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, the largest consumer rights lobby in Washington, DC. Green is currently the host of the nationally syndicated radio show Both Sides Now.

Greenhouse is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who for thirty years covered the Supreme Court for the New York Times where she now writes a regular column on the court.  

Chairman and former CEO of Nasdaq, Robert Greifeld is also the Chairman of the USA Track and Field Foundation. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere.

Nicholas Griffin is an author and journalist who's been published in periodicals such as the Times of London, the FT, Men’s Vogue, and Foreign Policy. His nonfiction book, Ping Pong Diplomacy, was an Amazon Best Book of the Year in 2014, Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and Shortlisted for the UK's 2015 Political Book Awards. Nicholas was also elected a Term Member at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York in 2007.

Olaf Groth is Program Director for Digital Futures at Hult International Business School, a member of the Global Expert Network at the World Economic Forum, a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, a CEO and a contributor to the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review and other publications.

Jason Grumet is founder and president of the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). A frequent witness at Congressional hearings, he has written about the challenge of bipartisan collaboration in the New York Times, Bloomberg, TheHill, Roll Call, and many other publications. He is the author of City of Rivals: Restoring the Glorious Mess of American Democracy (Lyons Press).

Michael M. Grynbaum is a media correspondent for The New York Times, covering the intersection of business, culture and politics. Since starting at The Times as an intern, he has served as City Hall bureau chief, Metro political writer, transportation reporter and economics writer during the 2008 financial crisis.

Trained as a political economist and sociologist, Mauro Guillén is the Dean at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School and the Dr. Felix Zandman Professor Emeritus of Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. An award-winning writer and scholar, his commentary has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Financial Times.

Liam Halligan is an economist, writer and broadcaster, with extensive business experience. He is best known for his weekly award-winning ‘Economics Agenda’ column in the Sunday Telegraph, which he has written since 2003.He is also Editor-at-Large of Business New Europe, a leading source of English-language business, economics and political news and analysis covering the 30 countries in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He writes his “Invisible Hand” column in the monthly BNE magazine.During the 1990s, he was Political Correspondent at the Financial Times, based at the House of Commons – where he was singled-out by the Downing Street Press Office as ‘impervious to spin’. He then joined Channel Four News – where for seven years he was the programme’s Economics Correspondent, winning a string of broadcasting awards, including the World Leadership Forum’s Business Broadcaster of the year twice in succession and the prestigious Wincott Business Broadcast Award an unprecedented three times.He has researched, written and presented a series of award-winning Dispatches documentaries on economic and financial issues for Channel 4, presented ‘Wake up to Money’ on BBC’s Radio Five Live and his also written for The Spectator, The Economist, New Statesman, Wall Street Journal, Prospect, Euromoney and GQ – where he wrote a monthly column between 2008 and 2010.A regular commentator on UK, European and global economic issues for the BBC, CNN, CNBC, Sky and other broadcasting outlets, Liam has appeared on flagship programs such as BBC1’s Question Time, This Week, Newsnight, Daily Politics and Radio 4’s Today programme. He is also a regular guest on RT’s Keiser Report, with Max Keiser & Stacy Herbert – the most watched financial news programme in the world, with over 20m viewers.Liam holds a First Class (Hons) degree in economics from the University of Warwick and an M.Phil (Econ) from St Antony’s College, Oxford University. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Social Market Foundation and the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, an ESRC-funded research body based in the University of Warwick’s Economics Department. He is a citizen of both the UK and the Republic of Ireland.

Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, research professor of Islamic Studies at Fuller Seminary, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He was named one of the world's top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine in 2019. Hamid is the author of Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize for best book on foreign affairs, and co-editor of Rethinking Political Islam. His first book, Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East, was named a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2014

Charles Handy CBE is an Irish author and philosopher specialising in organisational behaviour and management. Among the ideas he has advanced are the ‘portfolio worker’ and the ‘Shamrock Organization’ (in which professional core workers, freelance workers and part-time/temporary routine workers each form one leaf of the Shamrock).He was born the son of a Church of Ireland archdeacon in Clane, Co. Kildare, Ireland in 1932 and educated as a boarder at Bromsgrove School and Oriel College, Oxford.Charles Handy’s business career started in marketing at Shell International. He left Shell and spent a year as an International Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On his return he joined the London Business School, where he was Professor from 1978–94.He has appeared regularly in the Thinkers50, a bi-annual global ranking of the most influential living management thinkers. In 2001 he was second on this list, behind Peter Drucker; in 2005 he was tenth; 2007 he was fourteenth. When the Harvard Business Review had a special issue to mark their 50th Anniversary they asked Charles Handy, Peter Drucker and Henry Mintzberg to write special articles.He has Honorary Doctorates from Bristol Polytechnic (now the University of the West of England), UEA, Essex, Durham, Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Dublin. He is an Honorary Fellow of St Mary’s College, Twickenham, the Institute of Education City and Guilds and Oriel College, Oxford. He was awarded a CBE in 2000.

Michael O’Hanlon is senior fellow and director of research in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, as well as an adjunct professor at Columbia, Georgetown, and Syracuse universities, and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has written several hundred op-eds in newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Japan Times, USA Today, and Pakistan’s Dawn paper.His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Survival, Washington Quarterly, Joint Forces Quarterly, and International Security, among other publications.

Nick Haramis, the editor in chief of Interview magazine, was formerly the articles editor at T: The New York Times Style Magazine. A contributor to publications including Billboard, Out, and The Wall Street Journal, he has interviewed everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Meryl Streep. Prior to joining The New York Times, he was the editorial director of Bullett and, before that, the executive editor of BlackBook. He lives in New York City.

Ryan Hass is a Fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and former advisor to President Obama on China policy whose research and analysis focuses on enhancing policy development on the pressing

political, economic, and security challenges facing the United States in East Asia. He holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies; he is a nonresident affiliated

fellow in the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School; and from 2013 to 2017, Hass served as the director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia at the National Security Council (NSC) staff. Prior to joining NSC, Hass served as a Foreign Service Officer in U.S. Embassy Beijing, where he earned the State Department Director General’s award for impact and originality in reporting, an award given annually to the officer whose reporting had the greatest impact on the formulation of U.S. foreign policy.

Jim Hemerling is a managing director and senior partner at BCG, focusing on transforming organizations to deliver and sustain breakthrough performance. He is a BCG Fellow and a leader in the firm’s People & Organization and Transformation practices. He is also a featured TED speaker with his talk “5 Ways to Lead in an Era of Constant Change.” With 30 years of experience as an advisor to senior leaders, he has deep expertise in heading large-scale transformation programs and cultivating high-performing organizations.He has coauthored numerous publications on transformation and organization effectiveness, including The Head, Heart and Hands of Transformation; Transformation: Delivering and Sustaining Breakthrough Performance; Purpose with the Power to Transform Your Organization; It’s Not a Digital Transformation Without a Digital Culture; and Solving the Tech Industry’s Purpose Problem. His work has been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune, Forbes, the Economist, Manager Magazine, and on CNBC.

Joseph Henderson, BSHRM, MPA, is senior advisor for leadership development at Deloitte Consulting and, formerly, Director of the Office of Safety, Security and Asset Management at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Michael Hendrix is a Partner and Executive Design Director at global design and innovation consultancy IDEO, where he has worked on everything from home goods to homeland security.

Jonathan E. Hillman is a world authority on China’s economic and foreign policy. He has served as a policy advisor to the U.S. Trade Representative, testified before Congress, briefed Fortune 500 executives, and his commentary has been published in the Washington Post, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

A labor and civil rights lawyer and former Supreme Court litigator, Hirshman has written for Slate, Salon, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. Her book Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution was named one of the New York Times Book Review’s Notable Books of 2012. Sisters in Law was a New York Times bestseller.

Mike Hixenbaugh is an award-winning national investigative reporter for NBC News. He previously worked for the Houston Chronicle, the Virginian-Pilot, and elsewhere, and has hosted two podcasts, Do No Harm and Southlake, the latter of which won a Peabody Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

David Hogg is a recent graduate of Marjorie Stonemason Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and is one of the 20 founders of Never Again MSD.Lauren Hogg is a sophomore at Marjorie Stonemason Douglas.

John Horn is a professor of practice in economics at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. He was previously a Senior Expert in McKinsey & Company’s Strategy Practice, where he spent nine years helping companies understand their competitors’ mindsets. John has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.

Jesse Horwitz is the Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Hubble, the first direct to consumer subscription for contact lenses. Jesse is an investor, advisor and founder across multiple businesses in the direct to consumer space, and focused on how a broader community of consumer companies can integrate this new, mobile-first channel into their marketing and distribution.

Jamer Hunt is the Vice Provost for Transdisciplinary Initiatives at The New School and founding director of the graduate program in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons School of Design. At the MoMA he was co-creator of the award-winning, curatorial experiment and book Design and Violence (2013-15), was named by Fast Company to their list of “Most Creative People…Inspiring Leaders Who are Shaping the Future of Business in Creative Ways” and he regularly presents to influential leaders and change-makers around the world in the fields of business, design, technology and education. As a writer, he has appeared as an expert design blogger for Fast Company an invited blogger for The Huffington Post, and has also written for or appeared in TheAtlantic, The New York Times, Financial Times, Metropolis Magazine, and others.

Jeremy Hurewitz's writing appears in Forbes, Bloomberg, USA Today, The Hill, and elsewhere. He built the international journalism start-up Project Syndicate and more recently launched Interfor Academy, a speakers bureau and consultancy. He is also a policy advisor on national security for the Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy.

Andrew Imbrie was the lead author of more than 300 speeches for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department, is a scholar of U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy, and a fellow and senior advisor to Kerry at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a non-profit, non-partisan international affairs think tank. His research focuses on great powers in decline, U.S. policy toward Europe and Russia, and national security decision making. He has served in senior speechwriting and policy positions at the United States Senate and U.S. Department of State, where he was twice awarded the Department’s Meritorious Honor Award.

Alan Iny is the senior specialist for creativity and scenario planning at The Boston Consulting Group and author, with Luc de Brabandère, of Thinking in New Boxes: A New Paradigm for Business Creativity (Random House).

Lawrence served as one of four official White House photographers during the Obama administration. He’s worked at The Associated Press and The Virginian-Pilot, and his work has been published in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, U.S. News & World Report, among other outlets.

Saru Jayaraman is the President and Co-Founder of One Fair Wage (OFW), a national organization, campaign and coalition fighting for a full, fair minimum wage for every person who works in America, with tips being a supplement on top of wages rather than the wage itself, and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and author of Behind the Kitchen Door and Forked: A New Standard for American Dining.

With Sarah Duenwald, Nancy McSharry Jensen founded The Swing Shift, dedicated to lifting barriers which impede women from finding meaningful work, allowing them to combine career and family in the modern workplace.

Erich Joachimsthaler, the founder and CEO of Vivaldi Partners, the co-author of Brand Leadership and the author of Hidden In Plain Sight is an internationally recognized authority on the impact of technology on strategy, the digitalization of industries and categories, and the role of innovation and branding.

Bruce Jones is vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at Brookings and a senior fellow in the Institution's Project on International Order and Strategy at Brookings. He served in the United Nations' operation in Kosovo, was special assistant to the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, and is also a consulting professor at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University and chair of the advisory council of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University.

Colin Kahl was Vice President Joe Biden’s national security advisor from 2013-2017 and deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East from 2009-13. He is currently and Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. With Thomas Wright, he is the author of Aftershocks, forthcoming from St. Martin's Press.

Rich Karlgaard is the publisher of Forbes magazine and is based in Silicon Valley. He is a renowned lecturer, a pilot, and the author of four acclaimed books.

Jon Katzenbach is one of the world’s top experts on teams, leadership and management, and the author of The Wisdom of Teams (HarperCollins) and Leading Outside the Lines (Jossey-Bass).

International affairs writer at Slate, Keating is also a former writer and editor at Foreign Policy and a foreign policy analyst.

A lawyer and human rights activist, Kennedy is the President of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, Chair of the Amnesty International USA Leadership Council, and serves on the boards of directors of Human Rights First, Inter-Press Service, and the United States Institute for Peace. Being Catholic Now was a New York Times Bestseller.

Ro Khanna is a US Congressman representing California's 17th Congressional District. A former visiting lecturer at Stanford University’s Department of Economics, Khanna has worked with high-technology companies for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati. He formerly served as the Obama Administration’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce from 2009-2011.

Fred Kiel, Ph.D., is a business adviser and co-founder of KRW International and the author of Return on Character: The Real Reasons Leaders and Their Companies Win (Harvard Business Review Press), based on his seven years of rigorous research into character, leadership excellence, and organizational results.

A former director of production for presidential events during the Clinton Administration, King was formerly the host of the Sirius/XM radio show PoliOptics. He’s contributed to The Washington Post, Men’s Vogue, Brill’s Content, and Politico and has appeared on the BBC, CNN, NPR, and elsewhere.

Kim Kleman is the former editor-in-chief of The American Lawyer and Consumer Reports and is currently on the faculty of Columbia Journalism School.

John Kenneth Knaus was a CIA operations officer for 44 years, involved in covert efforts to support Tibetan resistance against Chinese occupation. He is the author of Orphans Of The Cold War: The United States, China, And The Tragedy Of Modern Tibet (ForeignAffairs).

David Komlos is Chief Executive Officer 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.

Jennifer Koons, a senior foreign policy reporter, former foreign correspondent and national security editor. Her work has focused on diplomacy, global security and the humanitarian implications of migration, political participation, corruption, women’s rights, global affairs, national security and intelligence issues. Her reporting has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Salon, Huffington Post, and Foreign Policy, among other publications. She is a Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting grantee for her work on women, children, terrorism and migration in the Sahel. She teaches Northwestern University journalism students specializing in national security coverage and led Medill’s award-winning Politics and National Security Reporting Project.

Alison Kosik has been a Business Correspondent and Anchor at CNN for more than a decade, recognized around the globe as the face of the network from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, and has received a nomination for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences. Additionally, Alison writes for CNN.com, which regularly registers more than 200 million unique visitors globally each month, and hosts a weekly business streaming show called CNN Markets Now.

Ivan Krastev is a Bulgarian political scientist and contributing opinion writer for the International New York Times. He is chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM). He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations. In 2012 Foreign Policy and Prospect named Ivan Krastev among the 100 most influential intellectuals in the world.After Europe, winner of the 2017 Central Europe Foundation Elemer Hantos Prize and finalist for the European Book Prize was published in 18 countries.

Richard Kreitner is an editor at The Nation and has written for publications like TheBoston Globe, TheBaffler, In These Times, Raritan, and Tablet.

Ali Kriegsman is the co-founder and COO of Bulletin, a company that’s revolutionizing brick-and-mortar retail. For women, by women, Bulletin is not only a store, but a community, holding social impact events and donating 10% of all proceeds to Planned Parenthood. Ali has been named a Forbes 30 under 30 and one of Fast Company’s “Most Creative People.”

Mark Landler is a White House correspondent for the New York Times, where he has previously served as the bureau chief in Hong Kong and Frankfurt, a European economic correspondent, a business reporter in New York, and a copy boy. He has appeared frequently on broadcast news shows, radio, and in documentaries, and is the author of Alter Egos: Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and the Twilight Struggle over American Power.

Mary M. Lane (b. 1987) is a nonfiction writer and journalist specializing in Western art, Western European history, and anti-Semitism. Lane received one of five Fulbright Journalism Scholarships at 22 years old, gained international recognition as the chief European art reporter for the Wall Street Journal, and published numerous exclusive Page One articles on the art trove of Hildebrand Gurlitt. Since leaving the Journal, Lane has been a European art contributor for the New York Times. She splits her time between Berlin and Virginia.

Carrie Lane is a professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton, and the author of A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence, and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment, which won the 2012 Society for the Anthropology of Work Book Prize and was a finalist for the 2012 Book Prize of the Society for Economic Anthropology.