Sabina Nawaz is a leadership guru with an eponymous coaching firm who advises C-level executives and teams at Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, non-profits, and academic institutions around the world. A former Microsoft executive, her work has appeared in publications such as the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Inc., and Fast Company.

Mark Nitzberg is the Executive Director of the Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence at UC Berkeley. He began studying artificial intelligence at MIT in the early ‘80s with Marvin Minsky.

Marina Nitze has held some of the most senior roles in federal government without a college degree. She was the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the U.S. Department of Education and also the youngest-ever C-suite executive in the federal government, taking on the role of the first female federal agency CTO at 28. She is currently a partner in the crisis management firm Layer Aleph where, multiple times per year, her team is called into high stakes environments to rapidly de-escalate technology-related crises.

Barry O’Reilly is a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author who has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation. Barry is co-author of the international bestseller Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale and an internationally sought-after speaker, frequent writer and contributor to The Economist, Strategy+Business, and MIT Sloan Management Review.

Nikolaus Obwegeser is a Research Fellow at IMD Business School (Switzerland). He regularly publishes in various academic and practitioner outlets and provides advisory and consulting services in the area of digital business transformation and innovation.

The Washington Post’s Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa were key reporters on the newspaper’s award-winning series George Floyd’s America and contributors to the well-received Post Reports podcast episode on Floyd’s life.Olorunnipa grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and is the son of immigrants from a small village in central Nigeria. He has covered national politics since 2015, reporting from five continents and more than 20 countries as part of the presidential press pool. Olorunnipa’s reporting has received awards and recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the National Press Foundation, the Diverse Future Initiative and others. He earned master’s and bachelor’s degrees in sociology from Stanford University, where he conducted research on social movements.

Professor Sir David Omand GCB was Intelligence and Security Coordinator in the Cabinet Office from 2002-5. During his long career in British government service he has held senior posts in security, intelligence and defence. His last post was as Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office and UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, responsible to the Prime Minister for the professional health of the intelligence community, national counter-terrorism strategy and “homeland security”. He has also been a member of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Permanent Secretary of the Home Office and the Cabinet Office, Director of GCHQ and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Defence Policy. He is now a visiting Professor in the War Studies Department of King’s College London and an honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.He was educated at the Glasgow Academy and read economics at Corpus Christi College Cambridge where he is an honorary Fellow. He gained a first in maths and theoretical physics with the Open University in 2008. He has written extensively on security and intelligence matters and is a member of the editorial board of Intelligence and National Security.

Arkady Ostrovsky is a Russian-born journalist who has spent fifteen years reporting from Moscow, first for the Financial Times and then as bureau chief for The Economist. He studied Russian theater history in Moscow and holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Cambridge University. His translation of Tom Stoppard’s trilogy The Coast of Utopia has been published and staged in Russia. Ostrovsky is a regular guest on the BBC, Sky News, and NPR, where he comments on Russia and the former Soviet Union. He is married with one son and lives in Moscow with his family.His first book, The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War, was the winner of the Orwell Prize 2016 and was published by Atlantic Books in the UK and Viking in the USA.

Angela V. Paccione is senior director of client partnerships at Verus Global. She is coauthor of ONE Team.

Panos Panay is Co-President of The Recording Academy, which produces the Grammy Awards. He is the former Senior Vice President for Global Strategy and Innovation at Berklee College of Music and the founder of Sonicbids. He has been named to Fast Company's "Fast 50" list and Inc.'s "Inc. 500," among other awards and honors.

A former CEO of Reddit and junior partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Pao is a cofounder of the Project Include diversity-in-tech initiative.

Richard Parker is an award-winning journalist whose writing has regularly appeared in The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, Politico Magazine, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, and The New York Times, among other publications. He and his writings have received numerous prizes and fellowships from the Associated Press Managing Editors, the Times-Mirror Foundation, the Knight Center, and the National Press Club. He has won the E.H. Schaeffer Prize for in-depth journalism numerous times and the first prize from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists in 2018 for his commentary in the pages of The Dallas Morning News, and he was a finalist for the coveted Livingston Award for International Reporting. In 2019, NBC named him one of the 20 most influential Latinos in America and in 2020 the National Society of Newspaper Columnists named him the number one columnist in America in digital media for his work for The New York Times. The author of the book Lone Star Nation: How Texas Transforms America, Parker resides in his home state of Texas.

Amie Parnes is a senior correspondent for The Hill newspaper in Washington, where she covers the Biden White House and national politics. She was previously a staff writer at Politico, where she covered the Senate, the 2008 presidential campaign, and the Obama White House.

Deval Patrick was reelected to a second term as Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in November 2010. Guided by the advice of his grandmother to "hope for the best and work for it," Governor Patrick entered office in 2006, a first-time candidate propelled by an unprecedented grassroots campaign. Patrick came to Massachusetts in 1970 at the age of 14. A motivated student despite the difficult circumstances of poor and sometimes violent Chicago schools, he was awarded a scholarship to Milton Academy through A Better Chance, a Boston-based organization. He is a graduate of Harvard College, the first in his family to attend college, and of Harvard Law School. After clerking for a federal judge, he led a successful career in the private sector as an attorney and business executive, rising to partner at two Boston law firms and to senior executive positions at Texaco and Coca-Cola. In 1994, President Clinton appointed Patrick as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, the nation’s top civil rights post. Patrick has served on corporate and not-for-profit boards, is the recipient of several honorary degrees, is a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and is the author of two books, A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life and Faith in the Dream: A Call to the Nation to Reclaim American Values.

Paul is an assistant professor of economics and environmental studies at New College of Florida, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and a senior fellow at Data for Progress. His writing has been cited in the New York Times, the Economist, the Washington Post, CNN, the Atlantic, Vox, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and elsewhere.

Nicolas Pelham is a writer on the Arab world for The Economist and the New York Review of Books. Since his first job as editor of the Cairo-based Middle East Times, he has spent 20 years studying and working across the region. He has a reported as a correspondent for the BBC, the Financial Times and The Economist based in Rabat, Amman, Jerusalem and Iraq, often dragging his indefatigable family with him. Taking occasional breaks from journalism, he was a senior analyst for the International Crisis Group, and worked for the United Nations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, reporting on Gaza’s tunnel economy and the rise of the Bedouin in the Sinai peninsula.

Jeremy W. Peters is a reporter in the Washington bureau of The New York Times who covers politics, with a focus on the conservative movement. In his decade at the paper, he has written about media, the financial markets, New York and chronicled his travels around the world.

Leigh Phillips is a British-Canadian science journalist and commentator on European affairs whose work has appeared in Nature, the New Scientist, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman and Jacobin, among other outlets. Much of his writing lies at the crossroads of science, economics and politics, championing a progressive, democratic modernity against its critics right, left and green. He spent much of the last decade in Brussels covering the European Union as reporter and deputy editor with the EUobserver, an EU news daily. In 2013, he returned to the University of Victoria, Canada, where he works as science writer for the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions.

J. Weston Phippen is a reporter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has covered the border, its people and environment, and the U.S.-Mexico relationship for ten years. He has twice been a finalist for the Livingston Award for excellence in international reporting, and has been a staff writer and editor at Outside and The Atlantic. His work has appeared in outlets such as Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Politico, and many others.

Seasoned executive Joe Plumeri is currently vice chairman of the First Data Board of Directors, senior advisor to First Data chairman and CEO Frank Bisignano, and head of First Data’s client delivery, innovation, and marketing organization. He is also the author of The Power of Being Yourself: A Game Plan for Success (Da Capo).

Kelly Richmond Pope PhD researches white-collar crime and teaches forensic accounting at DePaul University. She directed the acclaimed documentary, All the Queen’s Horses, about Rita Crundwell, perpetrator of the largest municipal fraud in American history, and presented the TED Talk, “How Whistleblowers Shape History,” which has more than 1.6 million views. She is the Surgent Faculty Fellow for Knowfully Learning Group. And she will feature as an on-air expert on CNBC’s forthcoming series Superheist.

An investigative journalist and author, Posner has written twelve books, including the New York Times bestsellers, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer in History, Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, and God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican. His wife, author Trisha Posner, works with him on all his projects.

Founded in 1877, The Washington Post delivers news and analysis from Washington, D.C. and around the world. Named the 1 Most Innovative Media Company of 2015 by Fast Company, the Post is defined by an ongoing dedication to transformation, integrity, and quality that manifests itself in the form of quality content and innovative experiences. The Washington Post has been awarded 43 Pulitzer Prizes to date.

Jaideep Prabhu is the Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He works with executives from ABN Amro, Bertelsmann, BP, BT, IBM, ING Bank, Nokia, Philips, Roche, Shell, Vodafone, and Xerox on breakthrough growth strategies and is the co-author of several books about frugal innovation, including Jugaad Innovation (Wiley) and Frugal Innovation (Profile Books/Economist Books).

The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day and their teams operate in 250 locations worldwide.

Gene Pressman was co-CEO, creative director, and head of merchandising and marketing for Barneys New York, and a veteran of the store for more than 25 years. Under his leadership, Barneys New York emerged as the defining force in retailing for upscale men’s and women’s ready-to-wear, accessories, and home furnishings. He is the author, with Noah Kerner, of Chasing Cool: Standing Out in Today’s Cluttered Marketplace.

Founder of the private security firm Blackwater, Prince served as the company’s CEO and Chairman of the Board. He is a former Navy SEAL and worked closely with the US government in its anti-terrorism efforts.

Paul Pringle is an investigative journalist with the Los Angeles Times and a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize—most recently in 2019—and the George Polk Award, among other honors. In Sunlight and Shadow is his first book.

Vicky Pryce is an economist, author and broadcaster and a Board member of the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). She was previously Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, Director General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service.She holds a number of academic posts and is a Fellow of the UK Academy for Social Sciences and of the Society of Business Economists. She also sits on the Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, on the cross-party/cross-House Design Commission, on the Advisory Board of the central banking think-tank OMFIF and on the Economic Advisory Group of the British Chambers of Commerce and is a Patron of the charities Pro-Bono Economics and Working Chance. She was instrumental in the setting up and was previously chair of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on corporate social responsibility. She is a Freeman and Liveryman of the City of London.

Ari Rabin-Havt served as Deputy Campaign Manager of Bernie Sanders's 2020 Presidential Campaign and Deputy Chief of Staff in his Senate Office. Previously he served as an advisor to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and former Vice President Al Gore. He is the author of Lies Incorporated: The World of Post Truth Politics and The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, Jacobin, The Nation and The American Prospect.

Navi Radjou is an innovation and leadership strategist based in Silicon Valley and a World Economic Forum faculty member. He advises C-level executives worldwide on breakthrough growth strategies and is the co-author of several books about frugal innovation, including Jugaad Innovation (Wiley) and Frugal Innovation (Profile Books/Economist Books).

June Diane Raphael is a actress, screenwriter, producer, comedian, and podcaster known for her reoccurring role of Brianna on the TV show Grace and Frankie and her podcast, How Did This Get Made?

Emily Ratajkowski is a model, actress, entrepreneur, activist, and writer. She has been photographed for the covers of magazines including Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Vogue Italia, Vogue Australia, Vogue Spain, Vogue Germany, and GQ, and has worked with brands including Versace, Marc Jacobs, and Dolce & Gabbana. She has translated her audience of nearly 27 million Instagram followers into a direct-to-consumer clothing business, Inamorata, and as an actress has appeared in films including I Feel Pretty, We Are Your Friends, and Gone Girl. She campaigned for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020, and her essay “Buying Myself Back” for New York magazine went viral in September 2020.

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in Economic Studies where he holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair, policy director of the Future of the Middle Class Initiative, co-director of the Center on Children and Families and editor-in-chief of the Social Mobility Memos blog at the Brookings Institution in Washington DC. His research focuses on social mobility, inequality, and family change. Prior to joining Brookings, he was director of strategy to the British Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg.Richard’s publications for Brookings include: Saving Horatio Alger: Equality, Opportunity, and the American Dream (2014), Character and Opportunity (2014), The Glass Floor (2013), and The Parenting Gap (2014). He is also a contributor to The Atlantic, National Affairs, Democracy Journal, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.His previous roles include director of Demos, the London-based political think-tank; director of futures at the Work Foundation; principal policy advisor to the Minister for Welfare Reform, research fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, and researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. He is also a former European Business Speaker of the Year.He earned a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Warwick University. With co-author Isabel V. Sawhill, he was recipient of the “Best Policy Paper” 2014 ranking in the University of Pennsylvania’s annual Think Tank Awards.

Benjamin Reeves is a contributing editor at Worth magazine and a freelance journalist and documentary director and producer. His work has appeared in a range of publications including The New York Times, Miami Herald, Vice, The Los Angeles Review of Books, McClatchyDC, USAToday, PRI’s The World and GlobalPost, among others.

Rhodeen is a practicing lawyer in New Haven, a lecturer at the Yale Child Study Center, and a former counsel to the New Haven Police Department. Before becoming an attorney, Rhodeen worked as a newspaper reporter and a teacher.

Lord Ricketts was at the epicentre of the security and foreign policy establishment for more than 30 years. He has held an unprecedented range of the most senior roles within the British state: Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee; UK Permanent Representative to NATO during the early part of the Afghanistan intervention; Permanent Secretary in the Foreign Office; Britain’s National Security Adviser at the time of the Libya conflict; and finally Ambassador to France.

Victoria L. Roberts is president at Verus Global, responsible for the execution and scaling of growth strategy.

Craig Ross is CEO at Verus Global. He is coauthor of ONE Team, Degrees of Strength, and Stomp the Elephant in the Office.

Founder and CEO of The Rothkopf Group, David Rothkopf was the Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade in the Clinton administration, and, since, he has been a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a visiting professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and CEO of the Foreign Policy Group. A prolific author and journalist, he is also a co-host of the Deep State Radio podcast on Washington politics.

Jennifer Rubin writes reported opinion for The Washington Post. She covers politics and policy, foreign and domestic, and provides insight into the conservative movement, the Republican and Democratic parties, and threats to Western democracies. Rubin, who is also an MSNBC contributor, came to The Post after three years with Commentary magazine. Prior to her career in journalism, Rubin practiced labor law for two decades. She is a mother of two sons and lives in Northern Virginia.

Laurie Ruettimann is a former human resources leader turned writer, speaker, and entrepreneur known for her commonsense style and straightforward approach to workforce issues. A former HR executive, she is the creator of The Cynical Girl and Punk Rock HR websites and the host of the “Let’s Fix Work” podcast.

A professor at Occidental College, Russell has a Ph.D. in American history and has taught at Columbia University and The New School.

Robin Ryan is a career counselor who has been advising clients on improving their lives for over 25 years. She was called “the leading job search expert in America today” by NPR. A bestselling author, she has appeared on Oprah, Dr. Phil, CNN,NBC Nightly News, Fox, and NPR discussing career, job search, and post-retirement life/work issues.

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is the voice of all things work, workers and the workplace and the foremost expert, convener and thought leader on issues impacting today’s evolving workplaces. With 300,000+ HR and business executive members in 165 countries, SHRM impacts the lives of more than 115 million workers and families globally.

Felix has been a staff writer for or freelance contributor to Conde Nast’s Portfolio, WIRED, Reuters, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Euromoney, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Slate, New York Magazine, and Medium, among others. He’s currently the chief financial correspondent and a weekly columnist at Axios, and he has hosted the Slate Money podcast since 2014.

A Yemeni peace activist, Al Samawi is interested in interfaith dialogue and cross-cultural outreach. He is a frequent public speaker and lecturer on the war in Yemen, the refugee crisis, and extremism in the Middle East.

An English professor at West Point, Samet received her BA from Harvard and her PhD from Yale. Soldier’s Heart won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest and was also named one of The New York Times’s 100 Notable Books in 2007.

The Washington Post’s Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa were key reporters on the newspaper’s award-winning series George Floyd’s America and contributors to the well-received Post Reports podcast episode on Floyd’s life.Samuels has earned distinction for his intimate reporting style while writing on-the-ground stories about politics, policy and the American identity, and contributed a chapter to The Post’s best-selling book, Trump Revealed. Samuels grew up in the Bronx and is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. At the Miami Herald, Samuels won several statewide awards for feature writing as an enterprise reporter. Since joining The Post in 2011, he has been a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and the Toner Prize for National Political Reporting, the nation’s premier award for political reporting.

Donald Sassoon is Emeritus Professor of Comparative European History at Queen Mary, University of London. He was born in Cairo and educated in Paris, Milan, London and the USA. He obtained his PhD under Eric Hobsbawm’s supervision. In 2019, he won the Acqui Award of History (Premio Acqui Storia) for lifetime achievement in the field of history.

Thomas F. Schaller is professor of political science at UMBC, and the author of four books and hundreds of articles on American politics.

Bradley Schurman, Founder and CEO of Demogera, is one of the foremost experts in aging and longevity in the world. He has worked with some of the biggest organizations on these subjects and how they interact with living, working and learning, including AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons), AEGON, IBM, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the World Economic Forum.

Evan I. Schwartz is author of The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit and the Birth of Television (HarperCollins), named one of the 75 best business books of all time by Fortune, and Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story (Houghton Mifflin). He is a former award-winning editor at Businessweek and MIT’s Technology Review and has been published in WIRED and the 2011 Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. With Myrieme Churchill, an esteemed psychotherapist, he is writing Crossing Casablanca, a riveting memoir about Ms. Churchill’s early life.

Erich Schwartzel is an entertainment reporter at the Wall Street Journal’s Los Angeles bureau, where he covers all the major studios and theater chains and focuses on the growing entanglement of China and Hollywood. Before moving west, he spent several years covering fracking in Appalachia for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; his investigative work there won the Scripps Howard Award for Environmental Reporting.

Mark Sedgwick trained as a historian at Oxford University, taught for many years at the American University in Cairo, and finally moved to Denmark, where he is Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies at Aarhus University. He is also chair of the Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies. His work has focused mostly on Islam, Sufism, Traditionalism, and terrorism.

Laurie Segall is an award-winning investigative journalist known for her interviews with tech founders. Formerly the senior technology correspondent for CNN, she developed and hosted a series of docuseries that explored the impact of technology on sex, love, and death.

Elizabeth Shackelford was a foreign service officer with the State Department in Poland, Washington, South Sudan, and Somalia. She resigned in 2017 protest of President Trump’s policies in a letter to former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, which went viral, and she now works as an international human rights consultant.

Oliver Shah is the Business Editor of The Sunday Times. He was named business journalist of the year at the 2017 Press Awards for his investigation into Sir Philip Green’s £1 sale of BHS. He was also named business journalist of the year at the 2017 London Press Club Awards. Oliver has been interviewed on Radio Four’s Today Programme, BBC News, BBC Five Live and Sky News.He attended Reading grammar school and studied English literature at Cambridge University between 2002 and 2005. He worked for various trade magazines before completing a postgraduate qualification in newspaper journalism at City University in 2008. He then joined the London business daily City AM in 2009 and The Sunday Times in 2010.