Assistant Professor of Sociology at Swarthmore, Laurison is the co-author of The Class Ceiling: Why It Pays to Be Privileged and Social Class in the 21st Century. He is also the Associate Editor of the London School of Economics’ British Journal of Sociology.

Visiting professor at both the University of California and Georgetown University, John Lawrence is the former longtime Chief of Staff of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, and Politico, among other publications.

Charles Leadbeater is the author of several internationally renowned books, among them Living on Thin Air, published in 1998, which explored the rise of the knowledge driven economy, and We-Think: Mass Innovation Not Mass Production, published in 2008, which examined how the web was enabling creative collaboration across a wide range of fields.Charles has written extensively on innovation in education and advised governments across the world on new strategies for learning, from Canada to Australia.The TED talk, ‘Learning from the Extremes’, looking at social innovation in education in the slums of the developing world, has been watched more than 1.5m times.He was an advisor to Prime Minister Tony Blair and his governments, including writing the 1998 White Paper ‘Building the Knowledge Driven Economy’. Between 1997 and 2007 he worked as an advisor at several government departments including the DCMS and the Department of Education. Throughout that period he worked closely with David Miliband, the former foreign secretary, as a strategic advisor.A past winner of the David Watt Prize for journalism, Charles had a ten year career at the Financial Times, where he was Labour Editor, Industrial Editor and Tokyo Bureau Chief before becoming Features Editor. He then became assistant editor at The Independent, where amongst other things he helped Helen Fielding devise Bridget Jones’s Diary.Charles went to the Vyne comprehensive school in Basingstoke in Hampshire before winning a scholarship to read Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford. After leaving Oxford, he went on to work on London Weekend Television’s current affairs programme Weekend World before joining the Financial Times.

Clifton Leaf is a Global Fellow at the Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine and an Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Previously (until June 2021) he was the 19th Editor-in-Chief of FORTUNE, where he shepherded this venerable publication through its 90th anniversary and beyond. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Truth in Small Doses: Why We’re Losing the War on Cancer—and How to Win It, which was named by Newsweek as one of “The Best Books About Cancer,” and which earned Cliff a Lifetime Achievement Award in cancer reporting in addition to many other honors.

Hali Lee co-founded the Donors of Color Network, was on the co-design team for Philanthropy Together, and is the founder of the Asian Women Giving Circle.  Hali was born in Seoul, South Korea, and grew up in Kansas City. She graduated from Princeton University, studied Buddhism at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, and received a master’s in social work from New York University. Currently, Hali builds out of Radiant Strategies and lives in Brooklyn, NY, along with her husband, young adult children, two old cats, a big love of a dog, and rooftop honeybees.

Derek Leebaert won the biennial 2020 Truman Book Award for Grand Improvisation: America Confronts the British Superpower, 1945–1957; his pre­vious books include Magic and Mayhem: The Delusions of American Foreign Policy from Korea to Afghanistan and To Dare and to Conquer: Special Operations and the Destiny of Nations, both Washington Post Best Books of the Year. He was a founding editor of the Harvard/MIT journal International Security and is a cofounder of the National Museum of the United States Army.

Mark Leonard is Europe’s pre-eminent authority on international relations. He is Director of the pan-European think tank, The European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), which he founded in 2007. The ECFR has offices in 7 European capitals, a council of 300 European leaders (including serving and former presidents, prime minister, economics and foreign ministers), and an award-winning staff. In this role, he has advised 19 European governments and some of Europe’s biggest companies. His first book, Why Europe will Run the 21st Century, was the most talked about book on Europe for a decade and was translated into 19 languages.

Christopher Leonard is a business reporter whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He is the critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Kochland, which won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, and The Meat Racket.

The Rt Hon. Sir Oliver Letwin took his first degree in History (for which he received a double first) at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he also completed his PhD in Philosophy. Following fellowships at Princeton and Cambridge, he has been a civil servant (where he served in Margaret Thatcher’s Policy Unit); an investment banker; a Member of Parliament; and a cabinet minister (where he served first as Minister for Government Policy and then as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster). He became a privy councillor in 2002 and was knighted in 2016.

After a career in law and academia, Levin spent the last twenty years working with governments and institutions, focused on economic development and political reform. Over the past ten years, he’s run the Liechtenstein Foundation for State Governance, through which he’s helped monarchies democratize their political foundations and state and non-state actors in armed conflict zones. His first book, Nothing But A Circus, was published in the UK, Germany, Russia, and Japan.

A former editor at both Wired and Billboard, Levine has also written for the New York Times, Fortune, Business 2.0, Conde Nast Portfolio, Rolling Stone, and Vanity Fair.

Junheng Li is founder of the New York–based equity research firm JL Warren Capital LLC, former senior equity analyst at hedge fund Aurarian Capital Management, and author of Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back (McGraw-Hill).

Allan J. Lichtman is Distinguished Professor of History at American University and the author of many acclaimed books on U.S. political history, including White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, FDR and the Jews (with Richard Breitman), and the National Bestseller, The Case for Impeachment. He is regularly sought out by the media for his authoritative views on voting and elections.

Josh Linkner is the founder and president of ePrize.com, a successful four-time entrepreneur and CEO, the founding partner of Detroit Venture Partners, a jazz musician, and weekly contributor to Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and the Detroit Free Press. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Disciplined Dreaming and The Road to Reinvention (Jossey-Bass). He has twice been named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and is a President Obama Champion of Change Award recipient.

John Lithgow is a Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe award-winner, a bestselling author, a talented humorist, and a renowned performer. He is best known for his time on the mega-hit NBC comedy 3rd Rock From the Sun, his performances in The Crown and Dexter and his starring roles in The World According to Garp, Terms of Endearment, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Pelican Brief, This is 40, Interstellar, Pet Sematary, Bombshell, and Late Night, among many others.

John Lloyd was the founding director of the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where he is now Senior Research Fellow. He is contributing editor to the Financial Times, chairman of the advisory board of the Moscow School of Political Studies and a columnist for Reuters.com and La Repubblica of Rome. He has won awards for journalism, including Specialist Writer of the Year in the British Press Awards and Journalist of the Year in the Granada What the Papers Say Awards.

Tom LoBianco is a White House reporter for The Associated Press. He has covered Mike Pence from his first campaign rally for governor in Pence’s native Columbus, Indiana to his return to Washington to take the oval office. LoBianco worked the halls of the Indiana Statehouse and Congress for a combined seven years with the AP, the Indianapolis Star and CNN. He is a regular political analyst on national television and radio, including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR and more.

Mike Lofgren is a former senior analyst on the House and Senate Budget committees and the author of the New York Times bestseller The Party Is Over and The Deep State (Viking).

James Lowell is the editor of Fidelity Investor, a mutual fund advisory newsletter published by Phillips, and has spent the last decade covering mutual funds for all media. A feature columnist for the Dow Jones Investment Advisor Magazine, he is the author of Investing from Scratch and How to Survive in the Real World. He lives in Massachusetts.

Humble Lukanga immigrated to the United States from Uganda in 1998 at the age of 11. He is now the CEO of Lifeline Financial and manages the lives and careers of many of the brightest stars in sports and entertainment. He is on a mission to make generational wealth and wellness, especially among Black Americans, a reality for millions.

Sean Lynch is a senior consultant at leadership firm Lead Star and the author, with Angie Morgan and Courtney Lynch, of Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). He has also served as an F-16 fighter pilot in the United States Air Force.

Courtney Lynch is a founding partner of the leadership consulting firm Lead Star. She is the bestselling co-author of Leading From the Front (McGraw-Hill) and the author, with Angie Morgan and Sean Lynch, of Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). She is a recipient of the National Stevie Award for Best Female Entrepreneur. Her efforts to spark a national dialogue on the topic of leadership have been featured by CNN, Inc. Magazine, The New York Times, Businessweek, and many other media outlets.

Alec MacGillis covers politics and government for ProPublica, and his work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic, New York, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. MacGillis was previously a reporter for the New Republic, the Washington Post, and the Baltimore Sun, and was awarded the 2016 Robin Toner Prize for Excellence in Political Reporting, and the 2017 Polk Award for National Reporting.

A bi-weekly magazine, New York covers life, culture, politics, and style with a particular emphasis on New York City. In the past decade, New York has won 34 National Magazine Awards, including six General Excellence awards.

An online magazine for teenage girls, Rookiemag.com received more than one million page views within six days of its debut in 2011. It was founded by eighteen-year-old media entrepreneur, writer, actor, and tastemaker Tavi Gevinson.

Mark Makepeace is now Non-Executive Chairman, Information Services at the London Stock Exchange Group having served as Group Director of Information Services from October 2012 to January 2019 and as Chief Executive of FTSE Russell from 1995 to January 2019.He founded FTSE International (now FTSE Russell) in November 1995 and has since led the company. He has been developing successful joint ventures for over 15 years and has forged alliances with stock exchanges, academics and leading industry groups worldwide. He holds senior positions in several industry bodies. After beginning his career in local government, Mark joined London Stock Exchange in 1985 to co-ordinate Big Bang in The City. He is a long time supporter of children’s charity UNICEF.

Declared one of America’s most influential women by Vanity Fair, Malcolm is the founder and chairwoman of the venerated political action committee EMILY’s List. Malcolm has been named a Woman of the Year by Glamour and one of the 100 Most Important Women in American by Ladies’ Home Journal.

Kenan Malik is an Indian-born English writer, lecturer and broadcaster who trained in neurobiology and the history of science and writes a regular column for the International New York Times. Kenan Malik is a presenter of Analysis and a panelist on The Moral Maze, both programs on BBC Radio 4. He has written and presented many radio and television documentaries, including Man, Beast and Politics (2001), Disunited Kingdom (2003), Are Muslims Hated? (2005), Let ’Em All In (2005), Skullduggery (2006) and Islam, Mullahs and the Media (2009).

Leonard J. Marcus, Ph.D. is the founding co-director of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University and an internationally recognized authority on leadership during times of crisis and change.

Trained as an historian, sociologist, and in business administration, Christopher Marquis’s work aims to show business leaders, policy makers, employees, investors, and consumers a new way to think about our economy and their role init. The award winning author of Better Business, he is currently a professor at Cambridge Judge Business School, and previously held faculty positions at Cornell University, and Harvard Business School. A frequent contributor to Forbes, his work has also appeared in the Boston Globe, Washington Post, Fortune, The Hill and Harvard Business Review as well as many academic journals ranging from the Academy of Management Journal, American Sociological Review, to Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Stephanie Marston is a pioneering psychotherapist with more than 30 years experience and is a widely recognized stress and work-life expert and corporate consultant. She is the founder of 30 Days to Sanity, a stress and work/life online platform. She has published five previous books and has appeared frequently on shows such as The Oprah Show, The Today Show, CNN Headline News and numerous other radio and TV shows. Stephanie has also served on the WebMD clinical advisory board. She consults with some of the world’s most prestigious corporations including Whirlpool Corporation, H.J. Heinz Company, Xerox Corporation, Mattel Inc., Prudential Insurance, Morgan Stanley, and The Mayo Clinic. Stephanie lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Ama Marston is an international strategy and leadership expert as well as a recognized thought leader focused on Transformative Resilience and inclusive and purpose-driven leadership and business. She is the founder of Marston Consulting, which has provided services to Fortune 500 and FTSE companies, the United Nations, Oxford University and numerous others. Her work with leaders like Mary Robinson, Ireland’s first female President and Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel laureate economist and as a top advisor to the UN and international NGOs has placed her at dozens of decision-making tables and taken her to work in countries around the world. Ama has long been hailed as a leader and original thinker and has won several awards, including a Council of Women World Leaders Fellowship and Phi Beta Kappa national honors, and was nominated as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. She earned a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and currently splits her time between the UK and the US.

Leigh Marz is a leadership coach and collaboration consultant specializing in work with scientists, engineers, and mission driven organizations. She has led and delivered multi-day training programs for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to promote collaboration among climate change teams; she has partnered with the Green Science Policy Institute as a facilitator of cross-sector initiatives to reduce toxic chemicals in products. She is a faculty member with the international training company CRR Global and her work has been published in Time and Harvard Business Review among other venues.

Christopher Mason writes frequently about art, design, and society for New York magazine and The New York Times and is the author of The Art of the Steal (Putnam).

Andrew G. McCabe served as deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from February 2016 to January 2018. He began his career at the FBI in 1996, working first as a street agent on the Eurasian Organized Crime Task Force. Later, he led the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, the National Security Branch, and the Washington Field Office, and was the first director of the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group, which developed new methods for lawfully and effectively questioning suspected terrorists.

Will McCants is a scholar of militant Islamism, a fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution and founder of Jihadica.com. He is also the author of The Isis Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State (Palgrave).

Dr. Jeffrey D. McCausland is an expert on defense, national security and leadership who has taught at Dickinson College, the Army War College, and the U.S. Naval Academy. A national correspondent for CBS radio, Dr. McCausland is a retired Colonel from the U.S. Army who held senior positions during the Kosovo War and the 1990-1991 Gulf War. As CEO of Diamond6 Leadership, he is the organizer of leadership workshops at battlefields including Gettysburg, Yorktown and Pearl Harbor.With Tom Vossler, he is the author of the forthcoming book Battle Tested.

Jessica McDiarmid is a Canadian author and investigative journalist whose first book, Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, was a national and international bestseller, a finalist for the RBC Taylor Prize and the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize, and published in Canada, the United States, Poland and Germany. Highway of Tears was featured in the New York Times Book Review, the New York Journal of Books, the Globe and Mail and Outside magazine, among others, and touted by Whoopi Goldberg on The View. Her work has been published by the Toronto Star, The Associated Press, Al-Jazeera, The Canadian Press, the Harvard Review, Chatelaine, and many others. McDiarmid has been a finalist for the NationalMagazine Awards’ feature writing prize and the Canadian Association of Journalists’ investigative reporting award.

A contributing editor at The New York Observer, McDonald has also written for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, New York magazine, Fortune, and Esquire, among other publications.

A professor of history at the University of Connecticut, McElya specializes in the histories of women, gender, race, and sexuality in the U.S. from the Civil War to the present, with an emphasis on political culture and memory. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, on NPR, and elsewhere, and her previous book, The Politics of Mourning, was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

Before founding the consulting firm McFarland Strategy Partners, Keith McFarland was the Dean of Pepperdine Business School and the CEO of several successful startup companies. He is the author of 1 Wall Street Journal business bestseller and the New York Times bestseller The Breakthrough Company: How Everyday Companies Become Extraordinary Performers as well as Bounce: The Art of Turning Tough Times into Triumph (Crown Business).

Eric J. McNulty is Director of Research at the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative and an Instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

J. David McSwane is an investigative reporter for ProPublica, based in Washington, D.C. His investigations and narrative stories have won numerous awards, including Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and a Peabody.

Tom McTague was born in Birmingham in 1984 and is a London-based staff writer at The Atlantic. Prior to that, he was Chief UK Correspondent at POLITICO and Political Editor of the Independent on Sunday. He has been twice shortlisted at the British press awards, including, in 2019, for 'Political Commentator of the Year. In 2019 he was named ‘Journalist of the Year’ at the Drum Awards; the previous year, the National Council for the Training of Journalists included him on their list of the most respected journalists in the UK. His first book, Betting The House, The Inside Story of the 2017 General Election, was one of The Times’ political books of the year. The Observer’s Andrew Rawnsley called it “excellent” and the Mail on Sunday the “political book of the year.”

In 1977 Peter Mead CBE co-founded Abbott Mead Vickers with David Abbott and Adrian Vickers and the company went on to be the most successful British advertising agency ever. Among his many board appointments, he has served as the Vice Chairman of the NSPCC Full Stop Appeal and Chairman of Millwall Football Club. He is currently Chairman of Omnicom Europe and Vice Chairman of Omnicom Group Inc. In 2013 he received a CBE for services to the creative industries.

Anand Menon is Professor of of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King’s College, London. Before coming to King’s, he was Professor of West European Politics, and founding Director of the European Research Institute at the University of Birmingham. Prior to that he was University Lecturer in European Politics and Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford. He has held visiting positions at New York University, Columbia University and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, amongst others. He is an associate fellow of Chatham House and Senior Associate member of Nuffield College, Oxford. He is co-editor of the journal West European Politics.

Christopher Wong Michaelson is the Opus Distinguished Professor of Principled Leadership at the University of St. Thomas and also teaches in the Business and Society Program at NYU. As a management consultant, he has advised some of the world’s most well-known companies and government institutions on purpose and performance, and as a philosopher, he teaches students navigating the tension between meaning and money. 

Paddy Miller is Professor of Managing People in Organizations at IESE Business School (Barcelona) and the co-author of Innovation As Usual (Harvard Business Review Press).

Christopher Miller was born in Arlington Heights, Illinois in 1987 and lives in Cambridge, MA. He is Assistant Professor of International History at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He also serves as Eurasia Director at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a think tank in Philadelphia, and as a Director at Greenmantle, a New York and London-based macroeconomic and geopolitical consultancy.

Munira Mirza is Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit, she was formally Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture of London, Development Director for the think-tank Policy Exchange and judge of the Samuel Johnson Prize. In December 2009 she appeared on the BBC Radio 4 programme ‘Great Lives’, nominating political philosopher Hannah Arendt.

Daniel Morain is a regular contributor to the Washington Post’s opinion page. The former editorial page director of the Sacramento Bee and a former reporter with the Los Angeles Times, he has covered California politics and policy since 1991.

Dr. Nick Morgan is one of America’s top communication theorists and coaches; he helps speakers find clarity in their thinking and ideas – and then deliver them with panache. His books include Give Your Speech, Change The World; Trust Me; and Power Cues.

Angie Morgan is a professional speaker and trainer, executive coach and curriculum designer who works for leading companies and organizations around the globe, including Facebook, ESPN, DTE Energy, Boston Scientific, and Best Buy. She is the bestselling co-author of Leading from the Front (McGraw-Hill) and the author, with Courtney Lynch and Sean Lynch, of Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). She is a founding partner of the leadership consulting firm Lead Star and serves as Director for the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation.

Dr Paul Morland is an Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London and an authority on the interfaces between nationalism, ethnicity and demography.He is married with three children, lives in London and spends much of his time at his home in French Catalonia.

Jim Morris is managing editor for environment and workers' rights at the Center for Public Integrity. A journalist since 1978, Morris has won more than 80 awards for his work, including the George Polk award, the Sidney Hillman award, three National Association of Science Writers awards, two Edward R. Murrow awards and five Texas Headliners awards.

A longtime articles editor for The New Yorker, Morrison was the Editor-in-Chief of The New York Observer and a founding editor of Spy. She is the president of the Century Association.

Maura Moynihan, the author of Yoga Hotel, and her mother, Elizabeth, oversee the estate of her father, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait In Letters was chosen by the New York Times as one of the top 20 nonfiction books of 2010 and was a Washington Post bestseller.

Luma Mufleh, immigrant, Muslim, gay, entrepreneur, mother, introvert, leader, and speaker, is best known as "Coach" by the students and families for whom she founded the first network of middle and high schools for refugee kids in the United States. She writes from her own experiences of both struggle and privilege, with a combination of humor, humility, and inspiration.