Senior Mentors

Paul F. Anderson
Senior Advisor
Booz & Company

Mehrdad Baghai
Managing Director
Alchemy Growth Partners

A. George (Skip) Battle
Senior Fellow
The Aspen Institute

Laurence D. Belfer
Chief Executive Officer
Belfer Management, LLC

Keith Berwick
Inaugural Recipient,
Keith Berwick Chair of Leadership
The Aspen Institute

Beth A. Brooke
Global Vice Chair for Public Policy
Ernst & Young, LLP

Pauline Brown
Global Partner
NEO Capital

William D.Budinger
Founder, Former Chairman and CEO
Rodel, Inc.

James (Jim) Schine Crown
President
Henry Crown and Company

Lester Crown
Chairman
Henry Crown & Company

Steven Crown
General Partner
Henry Crown and Company

Susan Crown
Vice President
Henry Crown & Company

Andrea (Andy) Cunningham
Chief Marketing Officer
Rearden Commerce

John Danner
Senior Fellow, Lester Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley

Richard Danzig
Director
Human Genome Sciences Corp., National Semiconductor Corp.,
& Saffron Hill Ventures

Benjamin Dunlap
President
Wofford College

Janet Froetscher
President and CEO
National Safety Council

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Alphonse Fletcher University Professor; Director of the W.E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research
Harvard University

Patrick W. Gross
Chairman
The Lovell Group

Arjun Gupta
Founder and Managing Partner
TeleSoft Partners

Philip L. Harris
Partner
Jenner & Block LLC—Chicago

Henrietta Holsman Fore
Chairman and CEO
Holsman International

Mark S. Hoplamazian
President and Chief Executive Officer
Hyatt Hotels Corporation

Walter Isaacson
President and CEO
The Aspen Institute

Clay Johnson
Former Deputy Director, Management
Office of Management and Budget
U.S. White House

Ann McLaughlin Korologos
Chairman Emeritus
The Aspen Institute

Stace D. Lindsay
President
Fusion Venture Partners

Frederic V. Malek
Founder and Chairman
Thayer Lodging Group

James Manyika
Partner
McKinsey & Co.

William E. Mayer
Chairman Emeritus (2000-2008)
The Aspen Institute
Senior Partner
Park Avenue Equity Partners

Teresa McBride
Chief Executive Officer
McBride and Company

John W. McCarter, Jr.
President and Chief Executive Officer
The Field Museum of Natural History

Thomas D. McCloskey
Chairman and CEO
Cornerstone Holdings

David McCormick
Co-CEO
Bridgewater Associates L.P.

Bonnie McElveen-Hunter
Founder & CEO
Pace Communications

Anne Welsh McNulty
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
JBK Partners

Clare Muñana
President and CEO
Ancora Associates, Inc.

Ranji Nagaswami
Chief Investment Advisor
City of New York

Suzanne Nora Johnson
Former Senior Director & Vice Chairman
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Jacqueline Novogratz
Founder and CEO
Acumen Fund

Christy Bieber Orris
Chief Executive Officer
ATEK Companies

Elaine Pagels
Professor of Religion
Princeton University

Michael Powell
President and CEO
National Cable and Telecomunications Association

Margot L. Pritzker
Founder and President
WomenOnCall.org

Thomas J. Pritzker
Chairman
Hyatt Hotels Corporation

Joanna Rees
Founder
VSP Capital

Peter A. Reiling
Executive VP, Leadership & Seminar Programs and Executive Dir., Henry Crown Fellowship Program
The Aspen Institute

Lynda Resnick
Co-Chairman
Roll Global

Dr. Harry J. Saal
Founder and Former CEO
Network General Corporation and Smart Valley, Inc.

Robert J. Saldich
Chief Executive Officer (Retired)
Raychem Corporation

Sue Siegel
General Partner
Mohr Davidow Ventures

Anna Deveare Smith
Actress, Playwright
Founding Director
Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue

Roger M. Widmann
CEO
Cutwater Associates, LLC

Alice Young
Partner and Chair, Asia Pacific Practice
Kaye Scholer LLP

Paul F. Anderson

Paul F. Anderson is a recently retired senior partner of Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. and currently serves as a Senior Advisor to Booz & Co. During his 40+ year career at Booz Allen, Paul had a wide range of responsibilities and experiences. From 1975-1983, he was Managing Partner of the firm's activities in Europe from his base in Paris. He then became involved with the firm's work in the automotive industry where he helped form and then lead the firm's global Automotive Practice and where he practiced for the rest of his Booz Allen career. During his last four years with the firm, Paul was responsible for rebuilding the firm's presence in Japan. In his second tour of duty as the firm's Chief Personnel officer in the mid-90's, he also spearheaded a pioneering research and consulting effort in the area of organizational leadership working in partnership with the World Economic Forum.  In addition to his work in the commercial world, Paul has considerable experience in the not-for-profit sector both through his consulting work and through his membership on the board's of the University of Chicago Medical Center, Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Aspen Institute. In 1968-69, Paul served as a White House Fellow where he carried out assignments for the President's Science Advisor, the President's Domestic Advisor and in the Office of Economic Opportunity.  Paul is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Carnegie-Mellon University. He and his wife Mary reside in Chicago and have a home in Telluride, Colorado.

Mehrdad Baghai

*Mehrdad Baghai is managing director of Alchemy Growth Partners, a boutique advisory and venture firm in Sydney, Australia. Mehrdad has been advising large global companies on growth, organization design and transformation for the last 20 years. Mehrdad is co-author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller As One as well the international bestsellers, The Alchemy of Growth and The Granularity of Growth.  Previously, Mehrdad was a partner in the Sydney and Toronto offices of McKinsey and Company and co-leader of the Firm's worldwide Growth Practice. He travels widely and is frequently asked to address business audiences about emerging ideas in the field of management. Mehrdad is Executive Chairman of Emue Technologies, the worldwide leader in authentication and personal identity protection. Mehrdad has also served as an Executive Director at the CSIRO, Australia's national science agency, with overarching responsibility for growth. Mehrdad is co-founder of High Resolves, a community project around global citizenship which has reached almost 20,000 high school students. Mehrdad received a B.S.E. from Princeton University, an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government, and a J.D. at Harvard Law School. He is a 2004 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

A. George Battle

A. George (Skip) Battle is a Senior Fellow of the Aspen Institute as well as a long time Institute moderator.  He was previously Executive Chairman of the board of Ask Jeeves, Inc. which was acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp in July 2005. Prior to that, he served as CEO of the company from 2000 to 2003. From 1968 until his retirement in 1995, Skip served in management roles at Arthur Andersen LLP and then Andersen Consulting LLP (now Accenture), where he became worldwide managing partner of market development and a member of the firm’s executive committee.  He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of FICO and as a director of OpenTable, Netflix, LinkedIn, and Expedia, Inc., as well as the Masters Select family of mutual funds and several private companies. He was previously a director of PeopleSoft, Inc. and of Barra, Inc. He received a B.A. with Highest Distinction in Economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. in Finance from Stanford Business School, where he held McCarthy and University Fellowships, and has lectured at Stanford Business School, University of California-Berkeley Business School and the American University.  Skip and his wife Hilary make their home in Berkeley, CA.

Laurence D. Belfer

*Laurence Belfer is CEO of Belfer Management, LLC, a family investment firm that emphasizes energy, real estate and financial servies industries.  As a function of his role as CEO, Laurence Belfer served as director and member of the Nominating and Governance Committee of Westport Resources Corp. (the successor to Belco Oil and Gas Corp.), one of the 15 largest independent exploration and family-owned production companies in the country, until it was acquired by Kerr-McGee in a $3.5 billion stock transaction in June 2004.  He currently serves on the board of directors of The Belfer Foundation and chairs the Terrorism and Response Fund of the UJA Federation of New York.  He has served as co-chair of the 10th and 15th Year College Reunion of Harvard University and was a member of The Dalton School Endowment Committee.  Laurence is a 1988 graduate with honors from Harvard University who earned his Juris Doctor degree from Columbia Law School in 1992.  He is a member of the New York State Bar Association. He and his wife, Carolyn, their two sons and daughter live in New York, NY.  He is a 1997 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.

Keith Berwick

Keith Berwick is the inaugural recipient of the Keith Berwick Chair on Leadership and the former Executive Director of the Aspen Institute’s Henry Crown Fellowship Program, which he ran from the program’s inception in 1997 until 2007.  A native Canadian, Keith has had a long and varied career as a historian, educator, television broadcaster, newspaper publisher and editor.  He was educated at Syracuse University and the University of Chicago, where he earned a Ph.D. degree in U.S. History in 1959.  He has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Claremont Graduate School, Pepperdine University and the University of Southern California Graduate School of Business.  He has won four Emmy awards for his public affairs television programs.  He was founding President of Barry Ambrosetti & Associates, an Italian-American joint venture in global strategic planning and was associate editor of Pacific Historical Review and editor of New Management magazine.  Keith is author of The American Revolutionary Experience, 1776-1976, among other historical works.  He is currently at work on The Search for an American Hero, a book about the American presidency.  He and his wife Sheena live in Santa Barbara, CA.

Beth Brooke

*Beth Brooke is Global Vice Chair, Public Policy at Ernst & Young and is a member of the firm’s Global Executive Board.  In addition, she has global responsibility for the firm’s Diversity and Inclusiveness efforts.  In this role, Beth focuses on shaping the firm’s strategic direction and position on public policy, and is one of the profession’s most prominent voices in the public policy arena.  During the Clinton Administration, Beth worked in the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where she was responsible for all tax policy matters related to insurance and managed care.  And, prior to her current role at Ernst & Young, she was National Director of Tax Advisory Services in Washington D.C., and worked in both audit and tax in the Indianapolis office where she became the first woman partner there in 1990.  Beth is passionate about using her leadership platform to make a difference in the world, and is a devoted advocate for the advancement of women.  She regularly speaks at forums around the world on topics ranging from leadership in the 21st century, the role of business in society, issues impacting the accounting profession and global capital markets, women’s leadership, and the need for private sector/public sector cooperation to tackle policy challenges.  She was named three years in a row by Forbes Magazine as one of the “World’s 100 Most Powerful Women” and was named 2009 Woman of the Year by Concern Worldwide. Beth served on the US Delegation to the 53rd and 54th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, and through her leadership, Ernst & Young joins annually with Forbes to celebrate and recognize the accomplishments of women at the World Economic Forum in Davos.  She chairs the Board of The White House Project, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to training and advancing women in public leadership, and serves on the boards of Vital Voices, The Committee for Economic Development, The Atlantic Council of the United States, the Partnership for Public Service, TechnoServe, and The National Women’s Law Center, as well as serving as a Trustee of the Aspen Institute, the Women’s Leadership Board of the Kennedy School at Harvard, and the Women’s Advisory Board of the World Economic Forum.  Beth is also a member of the public policy advisory councils for Georgetown University and Indiana University, and of the Audit Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Defense, in addition to serving as a Pathways Envoy for the U.S. State Department.  Beth has an undergraduate degree, with highest distinction, from Purdue University, where she majored in Industrial Management/Computer Science, while playing Intercollegiate Women’s Basketball.   She is a CPA and a Fellow in the Life Management Institute, a professional designation in the insurance industry.  She is a member of the Committee of 200 and a Fellow in the Inaugural Class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.

Pauline Brown

*Pauline Brown is a global partner at NEO Capital, where she oversees the firm's practice in the Americas.  She was previously a managing director at the Carlyle Group. Prior to Carlyle, Pauline was the senior VP of corporate strategy and global business development at Avon Products. She joined Avon from The Estée Lauder Companies, where she was the VP of corporate strategy and new business development. Pauline began her business career as a Management Consultant at Bain & Co. She sits on the boards of directors of the Italian sportswear company Moncler SpA; the French optical company, Alain Mikli International Group; and the Italian restaurant chain, Obika Mozzarella Bar. She is a board member of the New York City Investment Fund and the Cosmetics Executive Women and is an active member of the Committee of 200 and the Women's Forum.  Pauline earned her MBA from the Wharton School and her BA from Dartmouth College. She is a 2008 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute.

Bill Budinger

Bill Budinger, inventor, holder of over three dozen patents, founded and served for 33 years as CEO and Chairman of Rodel, Inc. Rodel built plants in Delaware, Arizona, North Carolina, Germany, Japan, and Malaysia to manufacture products for the electronics industry. It was privately held until it joined Rohm and Haas' Shipley Electronics Group in 1997 - 2001. Bill has served on numerous corporate and non-profit boards and has been a guest lecturer at several universities including MIT and Harvard. His writings have appeared in various law journals as well as trade and public policy magazines. He drafted much of the 1998 patent reform law and has testified on patent, trade, and labor law reform before various committees of the House and Senate. Most of his time is now spent helping the Rodel Foundation pursue its education reform objectives. In 2005, Bill received the Henry Crown Leadership Award for exemplifying values-based leadership throughout his career.

Jim Crown

James (Jim) Schine Crown is President of Henry Crown and Company, a privately owned investment company which invests in public and private securities, real estate and operating companies. He is Lead Director of both General Dynamics Corporation and Sara Lee Corporation and a member of the Board of Directors of JPMorgan Chase Corporation. Jim is trustee of the Museum of Science and Industry, the Orchestral Association and University of Chicago. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jim was born in Chicago in 1953, the son of Lester and Renée (Schine) Crown. Jim earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1976 from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He received his law degree in 1980 from Stanford Law School, where he was Projects Editor of the Stanford Law Review and a member of the Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation. Upon graduating in 1980, Jim joined Salomon Brothers Inc, in New York City, as an associate. He became a Vice President of the Capital Markets Service Group in January 1983. In April 1985 he returned to Chicago to join his family's investment firm. He has been married to the former Paula Hannaway since 1985. They have four children.

Lester Crown

Lester Crown is Chairman of the Henry Crown and Company.  He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business.  Lester serves on the boards of General Dynamics (where he previously served as Chairman of the Executive Committee), Maytag Corporation, Northwestern University, The Jerusalem Foundation, Inc., Children's Memorial Medical Center, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, The Jewish Theological Seminary, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science, and a member of the Board of Governors, Tel Aviv University.  He is also a member of the Board of Overseers of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program.  He and his wife Renée live in Chicago, IL.

Steven Crown serves as a General Partner of Henry Crown and Company. Previously, Steve worked at Farmers Investment Co. and Aspen Skiing Co. He has been an Independent Director of Hilton Hotels Corp. since 1992 and Chairman of its Compensation Committee and as a Member of Corporate Governance, Nominating, and Audit Committees. He has been a Director of Caesars Entertainment, Inc. (Formerly Park Place Entertainment Corp.) since December 31, 1998 and Chairman of its Compensation Committee and Member of its Audit and Compliance Committees. Steve serves as a Member of Board of Visitors of UCLA Anderson School of Management, as well as a Director of Farmers Investment Company (Sahuarita, Arizona), Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, The Family Institute, Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, the Anti-Defamation League of B'Nai B'rith, Council on Jewish Workplace Issues, and Arie Crown Hebrew Day School (Chicago). He is a Trustee of Claremont McKenna College and The Art Institute of Chicago. Steve was elected to the Board of Trustees of Northwestern University in 1990 and serves on the Educational Policies and Appointments Committee and the Student Affairs Committee. He received his undergraduate degree from Claremont McKenna College, and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Susan Crown

Susan Crown is Vice President at Henry Crown and Company, a family-owned and operated company, which includes diversified manufacturing operations, cellular phone, home furnishings and real estate.  She also serves as President of the Arie and Ida Crown Memorial, a private foundation established in 1947.  She also serves on the boards of Baxter International, Illinois Tool Works, and The Northern Trust Corporation, and as a trustee of The Yale Corporation, the Executive Committee of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke’s Medical Center, The Chicago Network, The Juvenile Protective Association, The Aspen Valley Community Foundation, The Covenant Foundation and the Shoah Visual History Foundation, where she co-chairs the Partners in History and the Future Development Board.  She has received the Deborah Award from the American Jewish Congress, the McCormick Distinguished Service Award from the Yale Club of Chicago, and the Civic Leadership Award from the American Jewish Committee.  Born in Chicago, Susan received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her graduate degree from New York University.   She and her family live in Chicago, IL.

Andrea Cunningham

*Andy Cunningham is the chief marketing officer for Rearden Commerce in Foster City, California. Prior to joining Rearden, she founded and was CEO of CXO Communication, a brand strategy and communication firm. In 1985, Andy founded and was CEO of Cunningham Communication, a public relations agency she sold to Huntsworth PLC in 2000. She sits on the boards of The Aspen Institute; the Computer History Museum; and ZERO1: the Art and Technology Network, an organization she founded that acts as a catalyst and platform for the development and presentation of innovative art. She is a member of the advisory board of Specialized Bicycle Components. Andy is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society, Committee of 200, and the World Presidents Organization, where she is an officer. She received a BA in English from Northwestern University and resides in Palo Alto, California with her husband, Rand Siegfried, and two children. She is a Trustee and a 1998 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute.

John Danner

John Danner has extensive experience advising and managing both large, complex organizations and emerging startup ventures.  As a management consultant, he worked in a diverse array of industry settings, from energy and healthcare to consumer products and multimedia.  John teaches several MBA courses in venture development and business model innovation at the Haas Business School, University of California, Berkeley.  He also launched a popular campus-wide undergraduate course on entrepreneurship to address global poverty. Additionally, he serves as a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, where he created an interdisciplinary course on social entrepreneurship and launched a pilot venture development program for student entrepreneurs.  He serves on the global faculty for an Intel-sponsored global seminar program on technology entrepreneurship and innovation.  He also conducts seminars for Haas’ international Executive Education program; and serves as a senior moderator for the Aspen Institute.  In addition to his consulting and teaching activities, John’s professional career includes prior experience as an entrepreneur, corporate lawyer and senior policy advisor at both the state and federal government levels.  He co-founded a national business newspaper covering the U.S. healthcare industry, and a market research company in his college days.  His legal work for a leading international law firm included major client representations in electricity, telecommunications, oil and gas, real estate and investment industries.  His public service includes work as a senior aide to then-Governor Bill Clinton, and to U.S. Secretary of Education Shirley Hufstedler in establishing the U.S. Department of Education.  He volunteers for a wide variety of organizations and initiatives, which currently include a nonprofit effort to deliver solar-powered light to maternal clinics in Nigeria, Haiti, and elsewhere; a venture piloting a new approach to offer clean, affordable drinking water to millions of people living on $1-2/day; and an innovative technology approach to helping homeowners manage energy usage. In addition, he serves on the National Advisory Council on Technology and Aging; and is the “grandfather” of TED University.  John holds J.D., M.P.H. and M.A.Ed. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley; and served as Assistant Editor of the California Law Review.  He received his A.B. cum laude from Harvard College, where he sang with the Harvard Krokodiloes and performed in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.  John has been married for 41 years, has 3 sons and makes his home in Berkeley, CA and New York City.

Richard Danzig

Richard Danzig is a director of Human Genome Sciences Corporation, National Semiconductor Corporation, and Saffron Hill Ventures (a European venture capital fund). His pro bono activities include serving as Chairman of the Center for a New American Security, as a Director of The RAND Corporation and as a member of the Defense Policy Board and The President’s Intelligence Advisory Board. In recent years other pro bono activities have included service as The Chairman of the Board of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and as a member of the Boards of Public Agenda and the Partnership for Public Service.  From the spring of 2007 through the Presidential election of 2008, Richard was a senior advisor to Senator Obama on national security issues, and served as the 71st Secretary of the Navy from November 1998 to January 2001.  He was the Under Secretary of the Navy between 1993 and 1997.  Richard is a senior advisor at the Center for New American Security, the Center for Naval Analyses, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington DC. His primary activity is as a consultant to the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security on terrorism.  Between 1972 and 1977, Richard was an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Law at Stanford University, a Prize Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow.  During this period, he wrote a book on contract law and articles on constitutional history, contracts, criminal procedure, and law and literature. From 1977 to 1981, Richard served in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, first as a Deputy Assistant Secretary and then as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs and Logistics.  In 1981, he was awarded the Defense Distinguished Public Service Award.  He received that same honor—the highest Department of Defense civilian award—twice more in 1997 and 2001 for his work with the Navy and Marine Corps. Between 1981 and 1993, Richard was a partner in the law firm of Latham and Watkins.  Resident in Washington, his unusually broad legal practice encompassed white-collar crime defense work, civil litigation, and corporate work, including heading the firm’s Japan practice.  During this time he co-authored a book on National Service, taught contracts at Georgetown Law School, and was a Director of the National Semiconductor Corporation, a Trustee of Reed College, and litigation director and then vice chair of the International Human Rights Group.  In 1991, he was awarded that organization’s Tony Friedrich Memorial Award as pro-bono human rights lawyer of the year. Richard received a B.A. degree from Reed College, a J.D. degree from Yale Law School, and Bachelor of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.  Upon his graduation from Yale, he served as a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron White. He and his wife, Andrea, reside in Washington, DC.  They have two adult children, David and Lisa. 

Benjamin Dunlap

Benjamin (Ben) Dunlap was born in Columbia, South Carolina.  After graduating summa cum laude from Sewanee: The University of the South in 1959, he attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard University as a graduate student, receiving his Ph.D. in English Language and Literature  in 1967.  From that year until 1993, he held academic appointments at Harvard and the University of South Carolina, where he was awarded both the USC Teacher of the Year Award and the university’s Russell Award for Distinguished Scholarship.  During that time, he twice served as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Bangkok, Thailand, and Chiang Mai, Thailand, and was also a member of the inaugural class of U.S.-Japan Leadership Fellows in Tokyo.  In 1993, he accepted an appointment at Wofford College as the Chapman Family Professor in the Humanities, a position he still holds.  In 2000, he became the 10th president of Wofford College. Ben has lectured and spoken widely in this country and abroad including an appearance as one of “Fifty Remarkable People” at the 2007 TED Conference in Monterey.   He is a frequent moderator for the Aspen Institute’s Executive and C.E.O. Seminars as well as its Henry Crown Fellowship, the Executive Seminar Asia, the Faculty Seminars at Wye, the Aspen-Rodel Fellowship, the Africa Leadership Initiative, the Central European Leadership Initiative, and the Liberty Fellowship of South Carolina.  Ben’s many publications include poems, essays, anthologies, guides, and opera libretti as well as two novels in manuscript, Famous Dogs of the Civil War and Sunshine: The Autobiography of a Genius.  As a writer-producer and on-camera talent for public television, he has won numerous national and international awards, and, for four and a half years in the 1970’s and 80’s, he performed as soloist and principal dancer for the Columbia City Ballet.  Since 1963, he has been married to Anne Boyd Dunlap.  They have three grown children. 

*Janet Froetscher was named President and CEO of the National Safety Council, an organization dedicated to educating and influencing people to prevent accidental injuries and deaths, in 2009. She was formerly the president and CEO of United Way of Metropolitan Chicago, and during her first year there she led the merger of 54 locations into one metropolitan system, vastly improving the organization's impact on health and human services in Chicagoland. She previously served as the chief operating officer of the Aspen Institute, and was responsible for the Institute's day-to-day operations. From 1992 to 1999, she served as executive director of the service arm of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and from 1989 to 1992 was a founder and managing partner of Executive Options, an executive search firm. Prior to that she worked for Bankers Trust Company as vice president in the corporate finance area. Janet was named by Crain's Chicago Business as one of "Chicago's Most Influential Women" in both 2004 and 1996 and by Crain's in 1997 as one of Chicago's "40 under 40" leaders. She is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago and The Chicago Network. Janet holds a Masters of Management with high distinction from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management of Northwestern University, as well as a Bachelors degree with high distinction from the University of Virginia. She resides in Glencoe, IL with her husband and two children. Janet is a member of the 1998 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.

Henry Louis (Skip) Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis (Skip) Gates, Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is general editor of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, coeditor of Transition magazine, regular contributor to The New Yorker and the author of several books and articles, as well as writing and hosting a number of documentary films for PBS and the BBC.

Patrick W. Gross

Patrick (Pat) Gross is Chairman of The Lovell Group, a business and technology advisory and investment firm. Through The Lovell Group, he is advising half a dozen private technology and internet commerce firms. Previously, he spent three decades with American Management Systems, Inc., which he founded 1970 with four colleagues from the Office of the Secretary of Defense and built it to a $ 1 billion company with 7,000 professionals throughout North America and Europe. He is currently a director of four public companies: Capital One Financial Corporation, Career Education Corporation, Liquidity Services, Inc., and Mobius Management Systems, Inc. He is also a director of several private companies including Sarnoff Corporation and Development Alternatives, Inc. His other leadership positions include Trustee and Chairman of the Research and Policy Committee of the Committee for Economic Development, Vice Chairman of the Council for Excellence in Government, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Technology Leadership Consortium, and cofounder and past chairman of the World Affairs Council of Washington, D.C. Pat is and has been a director/trustee/board officer of several educational institutions, hospitals/health care organizations, and economics and public policy organizations. He has also been active in the charter school movement in Washington, DC.  Pat is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Economic Club of Washington. He attended Cornell University and received a B.E.S. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as well as an M.S.E. from the University of Michigan, and an M.B.A. in 1968 from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He and his wife, Sheila Proby Gross, live in suburban Washington, DC. and Whidbey Island, WA, and have a son and daughter.

Arjun Gupta

*Arjun Gupta is the managing partner and founder of TeleSoft Partners, an international special situations venture capital firm. Over the last decade, he has overseen investing in and helping build 60-plus private companies, resulting in 35 acquisitions and IPOs to date. At TeleSoft, he manages capital commitments of more than $625 million and has established corporate partnerships in the US, Europe, and Israel with Bechtel, Deutsche Telekom, Intel Capital, Salesforce.com, Verizon and Vodaphone. Arjun serves on the board of directors of Calient Technologies, LogLogic, Validity Sensors, and Nexant. He is also president of his Community Foundation, which supports projects in education, medical research, the environment and the arts. Earlier in his career, Arjun was a strategy consultant for high-tech clients with McKinsey & Company, and a software engineer with Tektronix, Inc. He holds a BA (honors) in economics from St. Stephen's College (India), an MS and BS, Phi Beta Kappa, in computer science from WSU, and a MBA from Stanford. Arjun splits his time between San Francisco and Aspen. Arjun is a Trustee and a 2001 Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

Philip L. Harris

*Phil Harris is partner at Jenner & Block in Chicago, where he also serves on the firm’s management committee.  His practice focuses on the defense of mass tort, product liability and complex commercial litigation.  He is a member of the American, National, Illinois, Chicago and Iowa State Bar Associations.  He also is an elected member of the American Law Institute.  Since 1990, Phil has served as a Trustee of Northwestern University.  He currently is a Vice Chair of the Board and a member of the Board’s Executive Committee.  He also serves on the boards of the Chicago Zoological Society and the National Art Museum of Sport.  He graduated from Northwestern University in 1980 with a BA in political science and in 1983 earned a Juris Doctor degree from The University of Chicago Law School.   Phil is a 1997 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.  He also is a Fellow of Leadership Greater Chicago.  He has three daughters ages 23, 20 and 17.

 
Henrietta Holsman Fore 

Henrietta Holsman Fore is Chairman and CEO of Holsman International, an investment and management company. In 2007, she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the first female Administrator of USAID and concurrently assumed the position of Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance. She reported to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and held the rank of Deputy Secretary of State. As Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance, Henrietta was responsible for providing strategic direction and guidance to all other foreign assistance programs delivered through the various agencies and entities of the U.S. government, including the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the Office of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator. In addition to her foreign policy experience in government service, Henrietta has held leadership positions in numerous international non-profit organizations, including the Center of Strategic and International Studies, the Aspen Institute Board of Trustees, the Asia Society, The Asia Foundation, the Institute of the Americas, the Committee of 200, National Public Radio and the United States Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council. She was previously Director of the United States Mint, managing the world’s largest manufacturer of coins, medals, and coin products. During her tenure the United States Mint generated a $4 billion profit which was returned to the U.S. Government. In 2005, for her service as Director of the United States Mint, she received the Department of Treasury’s highest honor, the Alexander Hamilton Award. Earlier in her career Henrietta was a successful business woman running her own company and serving on the boards of public corporations, including: Stockton Wire Products, the Dexter Corporation and HSB Group Inc. In 1997 the State of the World Forum recognized Henrietta with the Women Redefining Leadership Award. Henrietta has a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Wellesley College and a Master of Science degree in Public Administration from the University of Northern Colorado. She received the 2004 Alumnae Award from the University of Northern Colorado and the 2006 Alumnae Award from the Baldwin School. She has also studied International Politics at Oxford University and studied at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Mark S. Hoplamazian

*Mark Hoplamazian was appointed to the Board of Directors in November 2006, and named President and Chief Executive Officer of Hyatt Hotels Corporation in December 2006. Prior to being appointed to his present position, Mark served as President of The Pritzker Organization, LLC. The Pritzker Organization is the principal financial and investment advisor for Pritzker family business interests.  During his 17 year tenure with The Pritzker Organization he served as advisor to various Pritzker family-owned companies, including Hyatt Hotels Corporation and its predecessors.  Mark has served on the boards of directors of a number of privately held companies and participated on behalf of the Pritzker family business interests in the formation of a number of companies.  He previously worked in international mergers and acquisitions at The First Boston Corporation in New York.  Mark is the current Chairman of the National Advisory Council on Minority Business Enterprise. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of Facing History and Ourselves, the Council on the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the Board of Directors of New Schools for Chicago, and the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of World Business Chicago. He graduated from Harvard College in 1985 and earned an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 1989. Mark is a member of the 2003 Discovery Class of the Henry Crown Fellowship at the Aspen Institute. 

Walter Isaacson

Walter Isaacson is the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies institute based in Washington, DC.  He has been the chairman and CEO of CNN and the editor of TIME magazine. He is the author of Steve Jobs (2011), Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007), Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003), and Kissinger: A Biography (1992), and coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). Isaacson was born on May 20, 1952, in New Orleans. He is a graduate of Harvard College and of Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He began his career at The Sunday Times of London and then the New Orleans Times-Picayune/States-Item. He joined TIME in 1978 and served as a political correspondent, national editor, and editor of new media before becoming the magazine’s 14th editor in 1996. He became chairman and CEO of CNN in 2001, and then president and CEO of the Aspen Institute in 2003. He is the chairman of the board of Teach for America, which recruits recent college graduates to teach in underserved communities. He was appointed by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate to serve as the chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and other international broadcasts of the United States. He is vice-chair of Partners for a New Beginning, a public-private group tasked with forging ties between the United States and the Muslim world. He is on the board of United Airlines, Tulane University, and the Overseers of Harvard University. From 2005-2007, after Hurricane Katrina, he was the vice-chair of the Louisiana Recovery Authority. He lives with his wife and daughter in Washington, DC.

Clay Johnson

Clay Johnson was the Deputy Director for Management at the Office of Management and Budget from 2003 thru 2008.  Previously, Clay was Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel and prior to this, the Executive Director for President George W. Bush’s transition into office.  Clay served Governor Bush as the head of his Appointments Office and subsequently his Chief of Staff.  He was President of the Horchow and Neiman Marcus mail order companies, and held management positions at Pepsico, Citicorp, and the Dallas Museum of Art.  He has a BS degree in Administrative Sciences from Yale University and an MS degree from MIT’s Sloan School of Management.

Ann McLaughlin Korologos

Ann D. McLaughlin Korologos is Chairman Emeritus of the Aspen Institute, having served as Chairman from 1996 through August of 2000, and is also Chairman of the RAND board of trustees. From 1990 to 1995 she served as president of the Federal City Council, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization comprised of 150 top business and civic leaders dedicated to improving the nation's capital. She also served as a Trustee and former visiting fellow of The Urban Institute, and on the corporate boards of directors for Nordstrom Inc., Kellogg Co., Host Marriott Corp. and Fannie Mae. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of The Dana Foundation. McLaughlin was a top official in the Departments of Treasury and Interior and served as U. S. Secretary of Labor under President Reagan. From 1989 to 1990 she served as Chairman of the President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism. Ann has been awarded honorary degrees from Marymount College (Tarrytown, New York), University of Rhode Island, New England School of Law, the College of St. Elizabeth, Tri-State University and Pardee RAND Graduate School.  She is a native of Chatham, New Jersey, earned a B.A. degree from Marymount College and studied at the University of London and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. She is married to Tom C. Korologos and lives in Washington, DC.

Stace D. Lindsay

*Stace Lindsay is the president of Fusion Venture Partners, a firm he started in order to bring together: People of great vision that inspire change, engender trust and are moved deeply to make a difference; Insights that have the power to improve our quality of life, protect that which is in danger or to fix that which is broken in our world; Capital that can be deployed with foresight, patience and commitment to finding ways to be leveraged for economic and social good. He has been a strategic advisor to senior business, government and non-profit leaders throughout the world, having held senior positions at both Monitor Company and the OTF Group, where he worked closely with Michael Porter to adapt his work to emerging markets.  He also has significant start-up, turnaround and operating experience with companies, having been CEO of New England Portable Storage and VP Business Development for Merrimack Pharmaceuticals.  He has also been a Managing Partner in the Latin American focused venture capital firm, Explorador.net.  Stace is the co-founder the Central American Leadership Initiative, part of the Aspen Institute’s Global Leadership Network where he is also a Senior Moderator.  Stace has served on the Executive Committee of the Aspen Network For Development Entrepreneurs as well as the Board of Directors of TechnoServe, a non-profit organization dedicated to building competitive businesses in rural Africa and Latin America.  He has also been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Business School as well as the University of Adolpho Ibanez Business School in Chile.  He is the co-author of Plowing the Sea: Nurturing the Hidden Sources of Growth in the Developing World.  He is also author of "Culture, Strategy and Prosperity" in Culture Matters.   Stace is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute and earned his degrees in International Relations from Georgetown University and Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.  He and his family make their home in Cambridge, MA.

Frederic V. Malek

Frederic (Fred) V. Malek is Founder and Chairman of Thayer Lodging Group, a private equity firm that has acquired over $3 billion of hotel assets and has consistently earned top returns for investors. Thayer recently acquired the largest independent hotel management company in the world, Interstate Hotels, and in addition to its U.S. interests has three hotel related ventures in China. Fred is also the Founder and Chairman of Thayer Capital Partners, a Washington D.C. based corporate buy out firm. In addition to his business activities, Fred is the 2011 Chairman of the Board of Visitors of West Point, Chairman of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell's Commission on Government Reform and Restructuring, Chairman of the Republican Governors Association Executive Roundtable, Founder and Chairman of The American Action Network and American Action Forum, and Chairman of the American Friends of the Czech Republic. He also serves on the Board of Directors of CB Richard Ellis and Dupont Fabros Technologies where he is lead director. In his earlier investment activities Fred led the acquisition of the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company with Marriott International as a major equity partner, was one of three leaders in the acquisition of Northwest Airlines, led the acquisition of CB Richard Ellis (formerly Coldwell Banker), and was a partner with former President George W. Bush in owning the Texas Rangers Baseball Club.  Previously in his business career, Fred was President and CEO of Marriott Hotels, President and CEO of Northwest Airlines, and Co-Chairman of CB Richard Ellis. During his eight year tenure as president of Marriott Hotels profits quintupled and the stock increased eight fold. In addition to his business career, Fred has served as an advisor to four U.S. Presidents.  He entered government as Deputy Undersecretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare.  He later became Special Assistant to the President of the United States, and Deputy Director of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget under Presidents Nixon and Ford.  He advised President Reagan as a member of the executive committee of the President’s Council on Cost Control, as a member of the President’s Commission on Private Sector Initiatives, and as a member of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.  More recently, he served President Bush as Director of the 1988 Republican Convention, as Director of the 1990 Economic Summit of Industrialized Nations, with the lifetime rank of Ambassador, and as Campaign Manager for President Bush during 1992.  Fred served as National Finance Chairman for the 2008 McCain Presidential Campaign and in 2008 was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.   He also serves on the Board of the Aspen Institute where he is Chairman of the Finance Committee and member of the Executive Committee, on the Board and Executive Committee of the American-Israel Friendship League and on the Board of the George H.W. Bush Library Foundation.  Fred has received a number of awards in his career including being named one of the five most outstanding graduates of the century from Morton High School in Cicero, Illinois, the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship, the Harvard Business School’s Business Statesman Award, the American Friends of the Czech Republic’s Civil Society Vision Award and the Boy Scouts of America’s Citizen of the Year Award.  He was recently inducted into the Horatio Alger Society.  He has appeared frequently television news shows including as guest host of CNBC’s Squawk Box, and numerous appearances on Fox New, Meet the Press, Fox Sunday and Face the Nation.  Fred is a graduate of West Point and the Harvard Business School, and was an Army airborne ranger serving with a special forces (Green Beret) team in Vietnam.  He resides with his wife in McLean, Virginia, and is the proud parent of two children and Grandfather of four.  Besides family, his passions include biking, hiking, and cross country skiing.

James M. Manyika

James Manyika is a Director (Senior Partner) at McKinsey & Company based in San Francisco. He is one of the leaders of McKinsey’s High Tech Media and Telecom Practice where he serves many of the leading companies. He is also Director of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), the Firm’s business and economics research arm. James serves on the Firm’s global committee that reviews and elects directors of McKinsey & Company. James was on the Engineering Faculty at Oxford University and a Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford University. He was a Visiting Scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Faculty Exchange Fellow at MIT. He published a book on distributed networks and decentralized decision theory and numerous academic papers, and was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Commerce to serve on a 15-member Innovation Advisory Board to advise the Secretary and report to Congress on economic competitiveness and innovation. James is a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Brookings Institution, a trustee of the Aspen Institute, the World Affairs Council of California, and SFJazz. He is on the advisory boards of the Oxford Internet Institute and UC Berkeley’s School of Information, an advisor to the Global Philanthropy Forum and has served on the Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee for California. A Rhodes Scholar, James holds DPhil, M.Sc. and M.A. degrees from Oxford in Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science. A native of Harare, James and his wife, Dr. Sarah Manyika, and their son Julian live in San Francisco.

William E. Mayer

William E. (Bill) Mayer is the Senior Partner of Park Avenue Equity Partners, a private equity firm. From the fall of 1992 until Dec. 1996, Bill was a professor and Dean of the College of Business and Management at the University of Maryland. He also worked at The First Boston Corporation (now Credit Suisse), a major investment bank for 23 years and held numerous management positions including President and CEO. Bill is currently a board member of DynaVox, BlackRock Kelso and Lee Enterprises and is a trustee of the Aspen Institute and the Columbia Group of Mutual Funds. Over the past 30 years, he has been a board member of numerous other public and private companies, including serving as Chairman of the Board of the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland where he is currently on its Executive Committee. He is the U.S. Chairman of the British-North American Committee, a board member of the Acumen Fund and Atlantic Council, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Vietnam Dialogue Group, and Vice Chairman of the Middle East Investment Initiative.  He also serves as Chairman of the Henry Crown Fellowship Board of Overseers.  Bill makes his home in New York, NY and Aspen, CO.

Teresa McBride

*Teresa McBride is CEO of McBride and Company, a consulting group of former CEO's that support client efforts in growth, capital and market strategy.  She was former Founder and CEO of McBride and Associates, a leading technology solutions consulting company serving Fortune 100 companies and Governments.  Having built her company from inception in 1984 to 200 million in annual revenue with over 700 consultants before selling in 1999, Teresa and her company have received over fifty client and industry awards and honors over the years including the Small Business Entrepreneur of the Year presented at the White House by George H. W. Bush.  Over the years she also served on several boards including being a director for the Federal Reserve Bank Kansas City Branch in Denver as well as a Senate Task Force under both the first Bush administration and then was asked to stay for both Clinton administrations, the U.S. Department of Education Board for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, the Digital Equipment Corporation Advisory Board, the IBM Advisory Board, The Ingram Advisory Board, and a Trustee for the Henry and Gladys Crown Charitable Trust as well as several other boards.  She is a current and former member of several organizations including: the Committee of 200, the Young Presidents Organization, and a founding member of The New American Alliance.  Philanthropically, Teresa and her son founded College Bound in 1994 a non-profit program, with the objective of reducing the drop-out rate by inspiring great young minds in inner city schools to stay in school and establish an interest in higher education at an earlier age.  The program matches grade school classrooms with a college student that delivers a curriculum that exposes the student to college life. The McBride College Bound program has served over 157,000 students since it began.  Teresa currently lives in Los Angeles and New York.  She is a member of the Inaugural Class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.

John W. McCarter, Jr.

John McCarter is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Field Museum of Natural History.  He is a Life Trustee of the University of Chicago and a member of the Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory, a Regent at the Smithsonian Institution, a trustee of the National Recreation Foundation, an Emeritus Trustee and former Chairman of Chicago’s Public Television Station Channel 11.  He is a Director and former Chairman of the Chicago Consulting Alliance and serves as Vice Chairman of the Chicago Central Area Committee.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Director of W.W. Grainger, Inc.  He was previously Senior Vice President of Booz Allen and Hamilton, Inc., President of DeKalb Corp. and Budget Director of the state of Illinois under Governor Richard B. Ogilvie. He was a White House Fellow during the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson.  A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Business School, McCarter also attended the London School of Economics.  He and his wife Judy have three children, four grandchildren and live in Northfield, IL.

Thomas D. McCloskey

Tom McCloskey, is Chairman & CEO of Cornerstone Holdings and Chairman and CEO of McCloskey and Company. Tom has served as general partner in over 50 partnerships and has been involved in a variety of diverse business activities. Through his affiliation with Palmer Communications, Palmer Wireless, and now Pegasus Towers, he has been involved with high-level strategic development of wireless communications markets for the past twenty years.  Tom was the lead investor, and served as chairman of Horizon Organic Holdings, the world's largest organic dairy company, from 1993 to 2004, was a director of Summit Energy Corporation, based in Louisville, Kentucky, and was chairman of San Francisco based Kona Blue Water Farms, the world's premier open ocean aquaculture company, from 2004 through 2008.  Tom is Chairman of Urban Green Investments, a real estate company headquartered in San Francisco, and is the lead investor in both MAGNA Energy..  Tom is founder of the McCloskey Business Plan Competition at the University of Notre Dame . He was formerly vice president of the Board of Trustees of the Thacher School of Ojai, CA. Additionally, he volunteers with the Leadership Kaua'i Board of Directors, the Aspen Institute, the Advisory Council of University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, and the Gigot Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, where he has lectured on business ethics.  He is a Director of the Central American Leadership Initiative.  Tom has a BA from the University of Notre Dame and a MBA from the Wharton School. He served in the Peace Corps in Malawi.  Tom lives in Aspen, San Francisco,  and Kauai with his wife of 40 years. They have four children.

David H. McCormick

*David (Dave) McCormick is Co-CEO of Bridgewater Associates L.P., a global leader in institutional asset management. Prior to joining Bridgewater in 2009, David served in the U.S. Treasury as Under Secretary for International Affairs and before that in the White House as Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Policy. From 1999-2005 David was CEO of Freemarkets and President of Ariba, two publicly traded software companies, and earlier in his career he was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. David is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and has a Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He is a former Army officer and a veteran of the first Gulf War. He and his family live in Westport, CT. David is a member of the 2003 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.

Bonnie McElveen Hunter

Bonnie McElveen-Hunter is Founder and CEO of Pace Communications, the nation’s largest custom publishing company. In 2001, she was appointed by President Bush to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Finland, and during her term led several successful initiatives, including the Women Business Leaders Summit in Helsinki in 2002 for women from the Baltic Region and Russia. In 2003, she initiated Stop Child Trafficking: End Modern-Day Slavery and Children of Karelia. The program helped Finnish and Russian charities assist children at risk from drugs, crime, HIV/AIDS and trafficking. For her outstanding services, the President of Finland awarded Bonnie one of Finland’s highest honors — the Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion. Following her work in Helsinki, Bonnie led a second Women’s Business Leaders Summit in 2004 in Riga, Latvia and most recently a third summit in 2007 in Amman, Jordan for women from Iraq, Palestine, Syria and other Middle Eastern nations. These Summits helped to advance entrepreneurship and encourage businesswomen to launch or expand business opportunities in their native countries. In 2004, Bonnie was appointed Chairman of the Board of the American Red Cross and was reappointed in 2007. In addition, she sits on numerous boards including Rand Corporation, Malaria No More, the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Washington National Opera. She has also served as a member of the International Board of Directors of Habitat for Humanity, chaired the Alexis de Tocqueville Society and served on the United Way of America Board as a member of its National Leadership Council. She is a founder of the United Way Billion Dollar National Women’s Leadership Initiative, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Dr. Carl-Christian Rosenbröijer Award, "Woman Entrepreneur of the Year" Award from the National Foundation for Women Legislatures, National Athena Award for business and civic contributions from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and "Trailblazer of the Year" Award from the Women Leaders Forum. In 2007, Bonnie received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor and the Appeal of Conscience Public Service Award. Bonnie is a 1972 graduate of Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri. She was also awarded the honorary doctor of humane letters from North Carolina State University.

Anne Welsh McNulty

Anne Welsh McNulty is co-founder and managing partner of JBK Partners, with businesses including investment management and a private philanthropic foundation.  Before starting JBK Partners, Anne was a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs and a senior executive of the Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund Strategies Group. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Opera, the Child Mind Institute and the National Museum of American Jewish History, as well as on the boards of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and of Villanova University.  In addition Anne is a Trustee of the Naples Winter Wine Festival, benefiting children's charities in Collier County Florida. Anne earned her MBA in Finance & Insurance from the Wharton School and served as valedictorian at Villanova University.  She is Founder of the John P. McNulty Prize at the Aspen Institute, which aims to recognize exceptional young leaders making a significant difference in their communities.

Clare Muñana

Clare Muñana is an international management consultant and President and CEO of Ancora Associates, Inc.  She has performed numerous domestic and international engagements for public (primarily UN agencies) and private sector clients in the U.S., Europe, Africa and Latin America.  Her most recent assignments include: international strategy for a US/European Foundation and museum, an economic development project for an underserved region in the State of Illinois, a strategic plan for a major museum, a feasibility study for an economic development agency for a large U.S. city, and the development of a technology plan for a major US school district.  In addition, Clare serves as Vice President for the Board of Education for the City of Chicago, Vice Chairman of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, and Co-Chairman of the Mexican American Task Force for the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. She also serves as a Board member of: The Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, the Chicago Public Education Fund, The Field Museum, and is involved in the Art Institute of Chicago's Committee on Museum Education, the Paris/Chicago Sister Cities Program, Mayor Daley's Council of Technology Advisors, and several other civic boards and business organizations.  She holds a Bachelors degree from Boston College, MA in International Economics and Politics, with honors, from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at John Hopkins University, and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University.  She has a certificate in French Civilization and Language from the Sorbonne. She lives in Chicago, IL.

Ranji Nagaswami

*Ranji Nagaswami is chief investment advisor for New York City's pension funds. In her role Ranji aims to restructure the investments of the $115Billion system to balance risks and garner the best possible returns for beneficiaries. Previously, she served as the chief investment officer of Blend equity and multi-asset strategies within AllianceBernstein L.P. As CIO, Ranji was responsible for integrating AllianceBernstein's investing disciplines for growth equities, value equities, fixed income and alternatives to meet a range of institutional and mutual fund client needs. Until October 2008, she served as chief investment officer of AllianceBernstein Investments, the mutual fund division of AllianceBernstein L.P. Until 2005, Ranji was a senior portfolio manager of the Bernstein U.S. Value Equities team. Ranji joined Bernstein in 1999 as a fixed income senior portfolio manager with responsibility for credit research and risk management. Ranji is a member of the Yale University Endowment Investment Committee, the advisory board of the Yale School of Management, a member of the Asset Manager Code of Conduct Advisory Panel at the CFA Institute and a member of the Henry Crown Overseers Board at The Aspen Institute as well as a member of the North American Council of Ashoka, a global fellowship of social entrepreneurs. Ranji earned a bachelor of commerce from Bombay University in India and an MBA from the Yale School of Management. She and her husband Bo Hopkins live with their two children in Greenwich, CT. She is a 2005 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute.

Suzanne Nora Johnson

*Suzanne Nora Johnson was Vice Chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Chairman of the Global Markets Institute, Head of the firm's Global Investment Research Division, and a Member of the firm's Management Committee until 2007. Prior to joining the firm, Suzanne was an attorney with Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett and worked as a law clerk on the US Court of Appeals. Suzanne currently serves on the corporate boards of American International Group, Inc., Intuit, Inc., Pfizer, Inc. and Visa, Inc. and the not-for-profit boards of the American Red Cross, the Broad Foundation, the Brookings Institution, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the Markle Foundation, TechnoServe, the University of Southern California and Women's World Banking.  Her most recent publication is a chapter entitled “A Financial Malignancy” in Learning From Catastrophes, by Howard Kunreuther and Michael Useem (Wharton School Publishing 2009). Suzanne earned her JD from Harvard Law School and her BA from the University of Southern California.  She is a member of the 1998 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.

Jacqueline Novogratz

*Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Acumen Fund currently manages more than $40 million in investments in South Asia and East Africa, all focused on delivering affordable healthcare, water, housing and energy to the poor. The organization also includes the Acumen Fund Fellows Program, focused on building the next generation of business leaders with an understanding of global issues and poverty. Prior to Acumen Fund, Jacqueline founded and directed The Philanthropy Workshop and The Next Generation Leadership programs at the Rockefeller Foundation. She also founded Duterimbere, a micro-finance institution in Rwanda. She began her career in international banking with Chase Manhattan Bank. She is currently on the advisory boards of Stanford Graduate School of Business, MIT's Legatum Center, and Innovations Journal published by MIT Press. She serves on the Aspen Institute Board of Trustees and as a member of two World Economic Forum Global Agenda Councils, on Social Entrepreneurship and on Water. She is an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow, a Synergos Institute Senior Fellow, and she was recently honored with the 2009 CASE Leadership in Social Entrepreneurship Award. She is a frequent speaker at international conferences, including the Clinton Global Initiative and TED. She has an M.B.A. from Stanford and a B.A. in Economics/International Relations from the University of Virginia. Her recent best-seller is a memoir entitled, The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World.  

Christy Bieber Orris

*Christy Bieber Orris is CEO of ATEK Companies, a privately owned management company that serves the medical, power sport, automotive, construction and other diverse industries. Prior to running the ATEK Companies, Christy was president of Regent Aviation, rated the 5th best Fixed Base Operator in North America (out of 3,500), by Aviation International. Before running private businesses, Christy worked in operations at Baxter Healthcare and in brand management at General Mills. In 2009, Christy founded Dream Devices, a non-profit organization whose mission is to unite resources and lead the process of bringing needed pediatric devices to life. Christy is chairman of the board of the University of Colorado Leed's School of Business. She is a member of Young Presidents Organization, YPO Women's International Network, and the Committee of 200. Christy earned a BS summa cum laude in marketing and international business from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MBA from Dartmouth College, Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. She is an avid skier and biker. She has competed in the Hawaii Ironman World Championship twice. Christy resides in Boulder, Colorado with her husband and two sons. She is a 2007 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute.

Elaine Pagels

Elaine Pagels, a historian of religion, is the Harrington Pear Paine Professor at Princeton University. She received the MacArthur Prize Fellowship for creative work, and is best known for her books on the early history of Christianity, especially The Gnostic Gospels, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and The American Book Award; the critically acclaimed Adam, Eve and the Serpent, and her most recent book entitled The Origin of Satan. Dr. Pagels serves on committees at Harvard University as well as the Bioethics Committee for the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in NY; and recently she has been named one of twenty-five most influential working mothers in the United States. Her newest book, published in May 2003, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, has been a New York Times bestseller. In June 2005, she received the Centennial Medal from Harvard University in recognition of outstanding contributions to society.

Michael Powell

*Michael (Mike) Powell is President and CEO of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association.  He was previously Chairman of the MK Powell Group, a private consulting firm, as well as a partner in Providence Equity Partners, a private equity firm with $9 billion in telecommunications and media holdings. Michael previously served as Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 2001 to March 2005, and as a commissioner three years prior. He was originally nominated by President Clinton to a Republican seat on the commission in 1997. He led the FCC during one of the most critical periods in its existence, helping it meet the challenges of new technology and outdated policy. As FCC chief, he drove efforts to deregulate the communications industry, which has helped spawn alternative media and new forms of advertising. Prior to his tenure at the FCC, Michael served as Chief of Staff of the Antitrust Division in the Department of Justice. He also served as a policy advisor to the Secretary of Defense, and as an armored cavalry officer in the United States Army. He received a B.A. in Government from the College of William and Mary and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. Michael is a member of the 1999 Class of Henry Crown Fellows and a member of the Fellowship’s Board of Overseers.  He, and his wife, Jane, live in Fairfax Station, VA, with their two children. 

Margot Pritzker

Margot Pritzker is Founder and President of WomenOnCall.org. Launched in February 2006, WomenOnCall.org provides women and nonprofits an on-line meeting place to forge productive and efficient skills-based volunteer opportunities.  WomenOnCall.org went national in May 2010 and has over 3,000 members across the country. Margot is Chair of the Zohar Education Project Inc. which she established in 1995. This is a 15-year project to translate the Zohar, the canonical work of Jewish mysticism, into English.  She is involved in a number of initiatives that affect women and children in the developed and developing world, and has overseen the initiation and progress of schools in remote areas of the Himalayas and Afghanistan. Furthering cultivation of leadership amongst young people has led her to support and become involved with Ashesi University in Ghana. Through the Aspen Institute, where she is a Trustee, she participates in leadership development initiatives throughout the world. She continues her involvement in international issues as a member of the Board of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, as a Trustee of the International Board of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and as a member of the Advisory Board of America Abroad Media.  Margot currently serves as a trustee of the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School, where she was Chair of the Board from 1993-2001. She serves as a Director of the Pritzker Early Childhood Foundation.  She is also a Trustee of the Corporate and of the Governing Board of the Urban Education Initiative at the University of Chicago’s Charter School.  Born in England, Margot became a United States citizen in 1994. She currently resides in Chicago with her husband, Thomas J. Pritzker. They have three sons. Their extensive travel and knowledge of South Asia has resulted in one of the foremost collections of South Asian art. Margot holds a BA from Northwestern University and an AM from the University of Chicago.

Thomas Pritzker

Thomas J. (Tom) Pritzker was born and raised in Chicago.  He holds a B.A. from Claremont Men’s College, an MBA and J.D. degree from the University of Chicago, and currently resides in Chicago.  Tom is Chairman and CEO of The Pritzker Organization, a family merchant bank. He is also Chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corporation and Marmon Group, Inc.  Tom is on the Board of Directors of Royal Caribbean Cruises LTD. (NYSE: RCL). He is also a founding member and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bay City Capital, LLC, a merchant bank specializing in life sciences.  He is a member of The Business Council, a national organization of CEOs.  Outside of business, Tom is Chairman of the Board of the Art Institute of Chicago and a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago and the Center for Strategic & International Studies. He is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group. He has also organized the Pritzker Neurospsychiatric Disorders Research Consortium which is a collaborative research effort into the genetic basis of psychiatric disorders.  Tom is also an Honorary Professor of History at Sichuan University in China, and for the past 30 years has been leading archeological expeditions in the Western Himalayas.

Joanna Rees

*Joanna Rees is managing partner of the San Francisco-based venture capital firm, VSP Capital (formerly Venture Strategy Partners), which she founded in 1996 to build sustainable, high-growth technology businesses with investment capital and active partnership. Joanna currently serves on the boards of directors of Mirra, Posit Science, AccountNow, Sabrix, E4X and Branders, as well as Danger, QuinStreet and the National Venture Capital Association. She previously served on the board of Post Communications and the Coppola Companies. Joanna has held senior management positions in investment/merchant banking and consumer products (Groupe Danone). She began her career in advertising with clients including General Foods, Digital Equipment Corp., Texaco, Brown Forman and RJR Nabisco. The World Economic Forum selected Joanna as a "Global Leader for Tomorrow" in 2000 and the National Association of Women Business Owners named her the "2000 Entrepreneur of the Year Rising Star". She is also active in the San Francisco non-profit community, and serves on the boards of the New Schools Venure Fund and the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship. She earned her MBA from Columbia University, where she was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, and a BS from Duke University. Joanna is a 2002 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute.

Peter A. Reiling

*Peter Reiling is Executive Vice President for Leadership and Seminar Programs and Executive Director of the Henry Crown Fellowship Program at the Aspen Institute. In these roles, he oversees the Institute's growing portfolio of leadership initiatives (the Aspen Global Leadership Network) and seminars (including The Aspen Seminar, offered at the Institute since 1950) as well as its flagship leadership program. Peter is a trustee, officer, and senior moderator of the Aspen Institute, a Henry Crown Fellow (Class of 1998), and the founder of the Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI), a joint venture between the Aspen Institute and five African business leaders. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, from 1996 to 2004, Peter was President and CEO of TechnoServe, an international organization helping entrepreneurs across Africa, Latin America, India, and Central Europe to build businesses in their communities. He is co-founder of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs and currently serves as chairman of the board of the Central America Leadership Foundation as well as on the boards of ALI/East Africa, ALI/West Africa, ALI/South Africa, Agora Partnerships, the Energy Access Foundation, and Pegasus Tower Holdings LLC. Peter is a former adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and guest lecturer at the Institute for Developing Economies in Tokyo. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bretton Woods Committee, and was named "Outstanding Social Entrepreneur" by the Schwab Foundation in Geneva. He is a graduate of Georgetown University (BSFS) and the University of California/Berkeley (MBA), with additional studies at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Peter is married to Denise Byrne and is the father of two children, Dylan and Eva Luna.

Lynda Resnick

Lynda Resnick is the Co-Chairman of Roll Global, a privately held, global company focused on healthy brands for healthy lifestyles, including POM Wonderful, Paramount Farms (Wonderful pistachios and almonds), Paramount Citrus (Cuties and other citrus) and FIJI Water, as well as Teleflora, Justin Vineyards and Winery, and Landmark Winery. Ms. Resnick has been dubbed the POM Queen for her innovative marketing efforts around POM Wonderful, making pomegranates ubiquitous in our culture and their health benefits well known around the world.   Ms. Resnick is the author of the best-selling book, Rubies in the Orchard, and has been listed as one of Working Women's Top 50 U.S. Women Business Owners. She is the Vice Chairman of Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees, is on the Executive Board of The Aspen Institute, UCLA Medical Sciences, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, and the Milken Family Foundation, and is also a trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. In 2010, Ms. Resnick turned her philanthropic attention to California’s Central Valley, where a large portion of her company’s employees live and work.  Her efforts resulted in the recent launch of the Central Valley Leadership Project, a multi-pronged, hands-on program to expand opportunities and transform low-income and underserved towns throughout this economically significant agricultural region into hopeful and vibrant communities.

Harry J. Saal

Dr. Harry J. Saal served as the Chair of the Technical Committee responsible for monitoring and enforcing the Microsoft anti-trust decree. He was the founder and CEO of Network General Corporation and was the founding CEO of Smart Valley, Inc. He is active in philanthropy and community affairs, and has served as the Chairman of Community Foundation Silicon Valley. As well, he serves on the boards of several other private and public high technology firms. He was named the “Bay Area Software Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst & Young in 1991 and received Columbia University’s highest honor, the John Jay Award, in 1997. He and his wife Carol live in Palo Alto, CA.

Robert J. Saldich

Robert J. Saldich is the retired CEO and President of Raychem Corporation. Bob served as the Chairman of the American Electronics Association, on the technology advisory board of NIST in Washington, DC. He served on the local board of the National Conference for Community Justice and on the Silicon Valley American Leadership Forum Board. A long term member of the Commonwealth Club, he served a chair for two years and remains on the Executive Committee. He is on the advisory board of the John Gardener Center for Youth and Their Communities. Bob has a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Rice University and an M.B.A. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. Bob and his wife Ginny live in Palo Alto, CA.

Sue Siegel

*Sue Siegel is a VC at Mohr Davidow Ventures leading investments in personalized medicine, digital health, and life sciences. Prior to her VC career, Sue spent more than 20 years as a corporate leader growing biomedical companies through the commercialization of breakthrough technologies, including at Bio-Rad, DuPont, Amersham (now GE), and Affymetrix.  As President and Director of Affymetrix, Inc, Sue focused on accelerating the advent of personalized medicine and building shareholder value by growing Affymetrix into a leading, multi-billion dollar market cap genomic company.  Sue currently serves as a board member for Pacific Biosciences, Crescendo Bioscience, Corventis, Navigenics, On-Q-ity, Analyte Health, and RainDance Technologies, amongst others.  Sue serves on the Presidents' Circle of the National Academies, as an advisor to the Institute of Medicine, on Stanford’s ITI Council, DELL’s Healthcare & Life Sciences Advisory Board, and on SCU’s Center for Science, Technology, and Society Board.  Sue is a member of YPO, Women Corporate Directors, and is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institutein the 2003 Class. As part of her Henry Crown community project, Sue co-founded with Stanford Hospital, Checking-In™, an organization dedicated to serving our aging population. In 2010, Sue was voted a Silicon Valley Women of Influence.  She is Board Emeritus of the Silicon Valley Tech Museum and The Gladstone Institutes. 

Anna Deavere Smith

Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright, and professor. Currently, she teaches in the Department of Performance Studies at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. She formerly taught in the drama department at Stanford University. Smith is best known for her "documentary theatre" style in plays such as Fires in the Mirror and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, both of which featured Anna as the sole performer of multiple and diverse characters. Fires in the Mirror dealt with the 1991 Crown Heights Riot. Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 dealt with the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Both of these plays were constructed using material solely from interviews and other pieces of the archive. In 1993, Newsweek declared her "[t]he most exciting individual in American theater." Anna is the author of Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines published in 2000. She has appeared in several films, including Philadelphia and The American President, and has recurring roles on The West Wing and The Practice. Anna was one of the 1996 recipients of the MacArthur Fellowship, often referred to as the “genius grant.” She also won a 2006 Fletcher Foundation Fellowship for her contribution to civil rights issues. She is an alumna of Beaver College (now Arcadia University), from which she graduated in 1971, and has received honorary degrees from Arcadia University, Bates College, Bryn Mawr College, Smith College, Skidmore College, Macalester College, Occidental College, Pratt Institute, Holy Cross College, Wesleyan University, School of Visual Arts, Northwestern University, Colgate University, California State University Sacramento, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Wheelock College, and the Cooper Union.

Roger M. Widmann

Roger Widmann is CEO of Cutwater Associates, LLC. From 1996-2004, he was a Principal of the investment banking firm of Tanner & Co., Inc., providing advice and negotiation and evaluation services to corporations ranging from Fortune 200 companies to mid-sized firms.   From 1986 to 1995, he served as a Senior Managing Director of Chemical Securities Inc., a subsidiary of Chemical Banking Corporation (now JPMorgan Chase Corporation), and established the Bank's fee-based corporate finance business in 1986. In addition to his responsibilities in the U.S., he was responsible for projects ranging from South America to Eastern Europe and the Middle East.  Prior to joining Chemical, Roger was a founder and CEO of First Reserve Corporation, the largest independent energy investing firm in the U.S.  He also served as Senior Vice President with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and was responsible for the firm's domestic and international investment banking business, and has also been a Vice President with New Court Securities Corporation (now Rothschild, Inc.), completing a series of venture capital and merger and acquisition transactions.  Roger began his career in 1964 as an SEC trial attorney.  Roger is Chairman of Keystone National Group, a fund of venture and private equity funds, and was previously Chairman of Lydall, Inc., a manufacturer of thermal, acoustical and filtration materials.  He is also Chairman of Cedar Shopping Centers, Inc. in Port Washington, NY, a real estate investment trust, GigaBeam, Durham, NC, a manufacturer of wireless communication links, and Standard Motor Products in Long Island City, NY. He was a director of First Reserve Corporation, Greenwich, CT from its inception in 1980 until December 1995, Paxar Corporation, White Plains, NY from 2004 to 2007 and Weatherford Enterra, Houston, TX from 1993 to 1998.   Roger has served as a senior moderator of the Aspen Seminar at the Aspen Institute since 1990 and of the Liberty Fellowship, Greenville, SC, since 2004. He has been President of the March of Dimes of Greater New York since 1994.  He is also a Vice Chair of Oxfam America.  Roger earned a B.A. degree from Brown University, cum laude, and a J.D. Degree from Columbia Law School.

Alice Young

Alice Young is a Partner in the New York office of Kaye Scholer LLP and Chair of the firm's Asia Pacific Practice Group. For over 30 years, she has concentrated her practice on corporate law and international business and has been based in New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Alice was named by Crain's in its list of "Top 100 Minority Executives," and by Avenue Asia magazine as one of the five most influential Asian-American corporate lawyers in the U.S. In 1992, she received from the New York Woman's Agenda, a Star Award for outstanding corporate and civic achievements, and in 2004 was the recipient of the "Justice In Action" award for her leadership and mentoring of Asian Americans. She serves as Vice Chairman of the Committee of 100, a Director of Mizuho Trust & Banking Co. (USA), the American Assembly and Asia Foundation, the Deloitte Touche Advisory Board, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Alice is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School.