For more detailed Illustrative Lists of Participants, categorized by disciplines,
select from the following list.
| David Agus Author, The End of Illness |
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Buzz Aldrin Former Astronaut |
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| Lamar Alexander US Senator/Former US Education Secretary and Tennessee Governor |
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Dan Ariely Author, Predictably Irrational |
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| Frances Arnold Bioeng. & Biochem. Prof., Cal Tech/Winner, 2013 Nat'l Medal of Technology/Fndr., 2 Companies |
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Adam Aron CEO, AMC Theaters/Former Pres., Philadephia 76ers; Pres., Vail Resorts |
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| Jeffrey Von Arx President, Fairfield University |
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Byron Auguste Co-Founder & Chairman, Hope Street Group Partners/Strategy Consultant, McKinsey |
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| Bruce Babbitt Former US Secretary of Interior & Arizona Governor |
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Bob Barnett Sr. Partner, Williams & Connolly |
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| Craig Barrett Former Chm.-CEO, Intel |
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Evan Bayh Former US Senator and Indiana Governor |
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| Charlotte Beers Former CEO, Ogilvy Worldwide & J. Walter Thompson and US Under Secretary of State |
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Peter Benchley Author-Screenwriter, Jaws |
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| Regina Benjamin Former US Surgeon-General/MacArthur Prize-winning former President, Alabama Medical Assn. |
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Henry Bienen Former Pres., Northwestern University and Dean, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School |
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| Theo Bikel Actor-Vocalist, "Fiddler on the Roof," "Sound of Music" |
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Harry Blackmun Former Associate Justice of US Supreme Court |
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| Sara Blakely Founder-Pres., Spanx |
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Alan Blinder Econ. Prof., Princeton Univ./Former V. Chm., Federal Reserve Board |
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| Wolf Blitzer Correspondent, CNN |
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Robert Blocker Dean, Yale School of Music |
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| Charles Bolden Administrator, NASA/Former Astronaut & Marine Corps General |
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David Booth Patron, Univ. of Chicago Booth School of Business/Co-Founder, Dimensional Fund Advisors |
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| Robert Bradway Chm.-CEO, Amgen |
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Lael Brainard Governor, Federal Reserve Board & former Asst. Secretary, US Treasury |
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| Rita Braver Emmy-winning Nat'l, and former Chief White House Correspondent, CBS News |
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Stephen Breyer Associate Justice, US Supreme Court |
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| William Brock Former US Secretary of Labor, Trade Representative & Senator and Chairman, National Republican Party |
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J. Carter Brown Former Director, National Gallery of Art |
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| Sam Brownback Governor, Kansas/Frmr. US Senator |
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Erik Brynjolfsson Director, MIT Center for Digital Business/Editor, Information Systems Network |
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| Art Buchwald Former Pulitzer Prize-winning Syndicated Columnist |
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| Angel Cabrera President, George Mason University |
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Kim Campbell Former Canadian Prime Minister |
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| Tony Campolo Pres., Evangelical Assn. for Promotion of Education |
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Jack Canfield Co-Author, Chicken Soup for the Soul Series |
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| Stephen Carter Prof., Yale Law School/Author, The Culture of Disbelief |
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James ("Hoss") Cartwright Retired Vice Chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff/Former Commander, US Strategic Command & Marine 1st Air Wing |
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| Steve Case Founder, Revolution/Former Chm., AOL/TIME-Warner & CEO, AOL |
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Julian Castro US Secretary of Housing & Urban Affairs/Former Mayor, San Antonio |
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| Vint Cerf VP-Chief Internet Evangelist, Google/"One of the Founders of the Internet" |
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Clayton Christensen Prof., Harvard Business School/Author The Innovator's Dilemma |
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| Stephen Chu Former US Secretary of Energy; Dir., Lawrence Livermore Laboratory/Physics Nobel Laureate |
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George Church Genetics Prof., Harvard Univ./Director, PersonalGenomes.org |
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| Wesley Clark Former Supreme Allied Commander, NATO & US Army General |
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William Clinton Former US President & Arkansas Governor |
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| Hillary Clinton Former US Secretary of State; US Senator; US First Lady |
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Matt Cohler General Partner, Benchmark Capital/Former VP, Facebook & VP-Gen. Mgr., LinkedIn |
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| Stephen Colbert TV Host & Comedian |
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James Comer Child Development Authority, Yale University |
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| Charlie Cook Editor-Publisher, Cook Political Report |
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Roger Corman Academy Awarding-winning Film Producer-Director |
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| Philippe Cousteau CEO, EarthEcho Int'l & Thalassa Ventures/Smithsonian's "Top Innovators"/Host, TV's "Oceans" |
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James Cuno President, J. Paul Getty Trust |
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| Meryl Davis Olympic Gold & Silver Medalist/2014 US Sportswoman of Year/6x US Ice Dance Champion |
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Howard Dean Former Chm., Democratic Nat'l Cte; Vermont Governor; Physician |
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| Robert Dell Former Chm., Latham & Watkins |
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Robert Denham Former Managing Partner, Munger, Tolles & Olson/Former Chm., Salomon Brothers |
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| Alan Dershowitz Professor, Harvard Law School |
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Rita Dove Former US Poet Laureate |
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| Pete DuPont Former Delaware Governor |
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| John Ehrlichman Former Nixon Administration Domestic Policy Adviser |
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Charles Elachi Dir., NASA Jet Propulsion Lab/Planetary Sci. Prof., Caltech |
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| Roger Ferguson Pres., TIAA-CREF/Frmr., V.Chm., Federal Reserve Board |
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Joel Fleishman Philanthropy & Public Policy Professor, Duke University/Former Pres., Atlantic Philanthropic Co. |
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| Gerald Ford Former US President & Congressman |
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Al Franken Emmy-winning "Saturday Night Live" Writer-Comedian/US Senator |
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| Betty Friedan Author, The Feminine Mystique |
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Jerome Friedman Physics Nobel Laureate |
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| Foster Friess Chm., Brandywine Funds |
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Michael Froman US Trade Representative/Frmr. Deputy Assistant to President Obama for International Economic Affairs |
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| Millard Fuller Founder & Former Pres., Habitat for Humanity International |
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Ellen Futter President, American Museum of Natural History |
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| Orit Gadiesh Chair, Bain & Company |
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George Gallup Co-Chm., The Gallup Organization |
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| Arun Gandhi Former Director, The Gandhi Institute for Non-violence |
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Eric Garcetti Mayor, Los Angeles |
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| Howard Gardner MacArthur Prize-winning Education Prof., Harvard University |
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Helene Gayle Former Pres., CARE International |
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| Murray Gell-Mann Physics Nobel Laureate |
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Phyllis George Former "Miss America," Kentucky First Lady & TV Commentator-Host |
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| David Gergen Presidential Adviser |
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Tess Gerritsen Author, Harvest, The Surgeon, Body Double |
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| Gabrielle Giffords Former US Congresswoman |
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Ruth Bader Ginsberg Associate Justice, US Supreme Court |
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| Lee Goldman Dean, Columbia Medical School |
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Marshall Goldsmith Management Consultant |
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| Howard Gordon Emmy-winning former Exec. Producer, TV's "Homeland," "24," & "X-files" |
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Maggie Grace Actor |
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| Bob Graham Former US Senator & Florida Governor |
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Alan Greenspan Former Chm., Federal Reserve Board |
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| Pedro (Joe) Greer MacArthur Prize-winning Professor of Medicine/Presidential Medal of Freedom Awardee |
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Eric Greitens CEO, The Mission Continues/Rhodes Scholar/Frmr. Navy Seal |
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| Tom Gruber Product Designer, Apple/Co-Inventer, Siri |
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Amy Gutmann President, Univ. of Pennsylvania |
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| Gary Hamel Management Consultant & Author |
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Mariel Hemingway Actor |
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| Alexis Herman Corporate Director/Former US Secretary of Labor |
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Joan Higginbotham Former Astronaut |
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| Danny Hillis Co-Founder, Thinking Machines, Metaweb Technologies, Freebase |
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Reid Hoffman Co-Fndr., LinkedIn |
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| Rush Holt Pres., AAAS/former US Congressman/Six-time "Jeopardy" winner |
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Robert Hormats Former US Under Secretary of State and V.Chm., Goldman Sachs |
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| Arianna Huffington Author and Political Commentator |
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Jon Huntsman Former US Ambassador to China & Singapore, and Utah Governor |
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| Lauren Hutton Actress & Model |
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| Walter Isaacson Pres., Aspen Institute and former President, CNN & Editor, TIME |
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| Jessica Jackley Co-Founder, Kiva.org/Director, Opportunity International |
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Shirley Jackson Pres., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute/Former Chair, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
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| Kay Redfield Jamison Psychiatry Prof., Johns Hopkins Medical School |
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Ben Jealous Former Pres., NAACP |
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| Lady Bird Johnson Former First Lady of the United States |
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Kristina Johnson Former US Under Secretary of Energy & Provost, Johns Hopkins University and Engineering Dean, Duke University |
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| Luke Timothy Johnson New Testament Authority |
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Alex Jones Pulitzer Prize-winning former Dir., Shorenstein Ctr.-Media, Politics & Public Policy |
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| Steve Jurvetson Venture Capitalist, Draper Fisher Jurvetson |
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| Rosabeth Moss Kanter Prof., Harvard Business School/Author, World Class |
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Mitch Kapor Founder, Lotus Dev't Corp. |
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| Rich Karlgaard Publisher, Forbes |
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David Keene Chm., National Rifle Assn./Former Chm., American Conservative Union |
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| Mark Kelly Former Astronaut |
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Dirk Kempthorne Former US Interior Secretary, US Senator & Idaho Governor |
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| William Kennard Former US Ambassador to the European Union & FCC Chairman; Partner, Carlyle Group |
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Robert Kirshner Astronomy Prof., Harvard University |
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| Joel Klein Former Chancellor, New York City Public Schools System/US Asst. Atty. General for Antitrust |
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Robert Kogod Philanthropist/Former Chm., Robt. E. Smith Cos. |
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| Harold Koh Former Legal Adviser, US State Dept. & Dean, Yale Law School and US Assistant Attorney-General |
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Kay Koplovitz Founder-Former CEO, USA Network |
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| John Koskinen IRS Commissioner; former Chm., Freddie Mac; Y2K Czar; Deputy Dir., OMB; Deputy Mayor, DC |
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Nicholas Kristof Pulitzer Prize-winning Columnist, New York Times |
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| Harold Kushner Rabbi/Author, When Bad Things Happen to Good People |
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| Leon Lederman Physics Nobel Laureate |
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Betty Liu News Anchor, Bloomberg TV/Frmr. Anchor, CNBC-Asia & "Capital Connection"/Author |
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| Sam Lloyd Former Dean, National Cathedral |
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Dennis Lockhart President, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
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| James Lovell Former Apollo XIII Commander & Gemini Astronaut |
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Amory Lovins MacArthur Prize-winning Fndr.-Pres., Rocky Mountain Institute |
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| Li Lu Founding Gen. Ptnr. Partner, Himalaya Capital/Former Student Leader, Tiananmen Square |
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Eugene Ludwig Founder-Chm., Promontory Financial; former US Comptroller of the Currency & Vice Chm., Bankers Trust |
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| Manuel Lujan Former US Secretary of Interior & Congressman |
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| Harry Markowitz Economics Nobel Laureate/Finance Prof., Rady School of Mgmt-UCSD |
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Thurgood Marshall, Jr. Atty., Morgan Lewis/Former Cabinet Secretary |
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| Martin Marty Religion Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago |
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Walter Massey Former Chairman, Bank of America; President, Morehouse College |
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| Sir Deryck Maughan Partner, KKR & Former Chairman, Citigroup International |
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Alexis Maybank Co-Founder, Gilt Group |
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| General Stanley McChrystal Ret'd US Army General/Frmr. Cmdr., US Forces-Afghanistan |
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Jim McKelvy Co-Fndr., Square & Third Degree Glass/Author, The Art of Fire |
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| Danny Meyer Owner, Union Square Cafe & Gramercy Tavern |
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David Miliband CEO, International Rescue Cte./Former UK Foreign Secretary |
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| Eric Mindich Founder, Eton Park/Former Partner, Goldman Sachs |
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Newton Minow Sr. Counsel, Sidley, Austin/Former Chairman, FCC, PBS, RAND Corp. & Carnegie Foundation |
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| Nell Minow Founder, The Corporate Library |
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Leslie Moonves President, CBS Corporation |
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| Edwin Moses Track & Field Olympics Gold Medalist |
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Matt Mullenweg Fndr., WordPress/Automattic; Chm., WordPress Fndtn./Dir., Grist.org/Frmr. Prod. Mgr., CNET |
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| Charles Murray Author, The Bell Curve and Fellow, American Enterprise Institute |
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Alan Murray Editor, Fortune/Former President, Pew Research |
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| Bill Nelson US Senator/1st US Congressman-Astronaut |
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William Neukom Former Pres., American Bar Assn. & General Counsel, Microsoft Corp. |
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| Scott Neustadter Award-winning Screenwriter, "The Fault in Our Stars,"
"(500) Days of Summer," & "Pink Panther II" |
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Andrew Ng Co-Fndr., Coursera/Founder, "Google Cat" |
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| Peter Norton Creator, Norton Utilities/Arts Patron |
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Bill Nye Emmy-winning Science Presenter/"The Science Guy" |
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| Joseph Nye, Jr. Former Dean, Harvard's Kennedy School of Gov't & US Under Secretary of Defense |
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| Funmi Olopade MacArthur Prize-winning Human Genetics Prof. & Dir.-Cancer Risk Clinic, Univ. of Chicago Medical School |
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Candace Carpenter Olson Founder & Former iCEO, Village |
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| Dean Ornish Author, Reversing Heart Disease and Eat More, Weigh Less |
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Sally Osberg CEO, Skoll Foundation |
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| Mehmet Oz Physician/Author/Health Commentator |
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| Luis Palau Evangelist |
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Leon Panetta Former US Defense Secretary; Director, CIA; White House Chief of Staff; OMB Director; Congressman |
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| Deval Patrick Former Massachusetts Governor & US Asst. Atty.-Gen. & General Counsel, Coca-Cola Co. |
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Alan Patricof Founder & Former Chm., APAX Partners |
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| Scott Pelley Anchor, CBS Evening News & Emmy-winning Correspondent, CBS News' "60 Minutes" |
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Arno Penzias Physics Nobel Laureate |
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| William Perry Former US Secretary of Defense |
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Michael Porter Professor, Harvard Business School/Author, The Competitive Advantage of Nations |
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| Lisa Randall Physics Prof., Harvard U./Author, Warped Passages: Unraveling the Universe's Hidden Dimensions |
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Bruce Rauner Illinois Governor/Frmr. Private Equity Investor |
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| Naval Ravikant Co-Founder & CEO, AngelList |
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Susan Rice National Security Adviser/Former US Ambassador to the United Nations |
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| Bill Richardson Former US Secretary of Energy; New Mexico Governor; US Amb. to UN; Congressman |
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Richard Riley Former US Secretary of Education & SC Governor |
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| Lord (George) Robertson Former Secretary General, NATO and UK Defence Secretary |
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Judith Rodin President, Rockefeller Foundation/Former President, Univ. of Pennsylvania |
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| Jim Rogers Investor/Author, Investment Biker |
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Kenneth Rogoff Economics & International Finance Prof., Harvard University/Former Chief Economist, World Bank |
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| Terry Sanford Former US Senator; President, Duke University and North Carolina Governor |
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Roger Sant Co-Founder & former Chm., AES Corporation/Former Chm., World Wildlife Fund |
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| Diane Sawyer Former Anchor, ABC Evening News |
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Wally Schirra Former Astronaut |
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| Arthur Schlesinger Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian and JFK AIRPORT Adviser |
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Kurt Schmoke President, University of Baltimore/Former Baltimore Mayor, Howard Law School Dean & Rhodes Scholar |
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| Myron Scholes Economics Nobel Laureate |
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Rick Scott Governor, Florida |
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| William Sharpe Economics Nobel Laureate |
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Gail Sheehy Author, Passages, Pathfinders, Sex & the Seasoned Woman |
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| Jeremy Siegel Prof., Wharton School of Finance |
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Ruth Simmons Former President, Brown University & Smith College |
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| Alan Simpson Former US Senator |
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Rodney Slater Former US Secretary of Transportation |
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| Dean Smith Former Head Basketball Coach, University of North Carolina |
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Stan Smith Former Wimbledon and US Open Tennis Champ |
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| Theodore Sorensen Former Counsel to President Kennedy |
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Joseph Stiglitz Economics Nobel Laureate/Former Chm., Pres.' Coun.-Econ. Adv. & Chief Econ., World Bank |
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| Barbra Streisand Vocalist/Actress |
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Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. Publisher, The New York Times |
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| Lawrence Summers Former US Treasury Secretary; Dir., National Economic Council; President, Harvard University |
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| George Takei Actor/"Star Trek"'s Mr. Sulu |
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Amy Tan Author, The Joy Luck Club |
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| Deborah Tannen Linguistics Prof., Georgetown/Best-selling Author, You Just Don't Understand, Talking 9-5 |
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Peter Thiel Co-Founder, PayPal & Palantir Technologies; Founder, Founders Fund |
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| Debi Thomas Former World Figure Skating Champion & US Olympian/Orthopedic Surgeon |
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Dick Thornburgh Former US Attoney General, Pennsylvania Governor & UN Under Secretary-General |
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| Andrew Tobias Financial Writer |
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David Trimble Nobel Peace Prize-winning Former First Minister, Northern Ireland |
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| Sherry Turkle Sociology Prof., MIT/Author, Life on the Screen, Second Self |
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Malcolm Turnbull Australian Prime Minister |
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| Ted Turner Founder, CNN & Turner Broadcasting |
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| Craig Venter Founder, Institute for Genomic Research/Former CEO, Celera |
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Richard Viguerie Direct Mail Entrepreneur/Publisher, Conservative Digest |
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| Robson Walton Chairman, Wal-Mart |
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Ruth Westheimer Sexuality & Relationships Therapist ("Dr. Ruth") |
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| Brian Williams Former Anchor, NBC News |
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Wendell Willkie General Counsel, Mead-Westvaco Corp. & Former General Counsel, US Commerce Department |
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| Tim Wirth Former Pres., United Nations Foundation; US Senator & Under Secretary of State |
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Will Wright Fndr.-CEO, Syntertainment/Designer-Creator, SimCity/Co-Fndr., Centaur Records, Maxis Software |
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| Daniel Yergin Pulitzer Prize-winning Author, The Prize, Commanding Heights & Fndr., Cambridge Energy Research Associates |
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| Elmo & Mouza Zumwalt Former Chief, US Naval Operations |
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