Ideas Festival Presenters A-L
Sponsor and Partner Presenters A-L

Ideas Festival Presenters M-Z
Sponsor and Partner Presenters M-Z

Kenneth L. Adelman, Defense policy expert and member, Pentagon Defense Policy Board; vice president; Movers & Shakespeares leadership training seminars

Madeleine K. Albright, Principal, the Albright Group, LLC; former US secretary of State

Lord John Alderdice, Commissioner, Independent Monitoring Commission; member, House of Lords (UK)

Aerin Alexander, Certified Feldenkrais practitioner and kinesiologist

Kurt Andersen, Author, editor, cultural critic; host, PRI’s Studio 360

Ray C. Anderson, Chairman and CEO, Interface, Inc.

Daniel Ayalon, Israeli Ambassador to the United States

George Ayittey, Distinguished economist in residence, American University; president, Free Africa Foundation

Bruce Babbitt, Former US secretary of the Interior; former governor of Arizona

Harriet C. Babbitt, Former deputy administrator, USAID

Andrew Beebe, President and COO, Energy Innovations

Peter Beinart, Editor-at-large, The New Republic

Lawrence Bender, Film producer

Daniel Benjamin, Senior fellow, International Security Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Bob Bennett, US Senator (R-UT)

Janine Benyus, Natural sciences consultant; author, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Rosina Bierbaum, Professor and dean, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan

Nancy Birdsall, President, Center for Global Development

David Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography and chair, Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University

Bruce G. Bodaken, Chairman, president, and CEO, Blue Shield of California

Marion A. Bolden, Superintendent, Newark Public Schools

Benjamin C. Bradlee, Vice president–at-large, The Washington Post

Stephen G. Breyer, Associate justice, Supreme Court of the United States

Richard H. Brodhead, President and professor of English, Duke University

John Seely Brown, Visiting scholar, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern California; former chief scientist, Xerox Corporation

William Bynum, CEO and president, Enterprise Corporation of the Delta and Hope Community Credit Union

Barbara Byrd-Bennett, Executive-in-residence, College of Education and Human Services, Cleveland State University

Nigel M. de S. Cameron, President, Institute on Biotechnology and Human Future; director, Center on Nanotechnology and Society; Chicago-Kent College of Law

Margaret Carlson, Washington editor-at-large, The Week magazine; columnist, Bloomberg News

Stephen L. Carter, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Richard Cohen, Columnist, The Washington Post

Jim Collins, Best-selling author

Susan M. Collins, US Senator (R-ME)

David Coltart, Movement for Democratic Change Parliament member, Bulawayo South Constituency, Zimbabwe

Eric J. Cooper, President, National Urban Alliance for Effective Education

Katie Couric, Anchor, The CBS Evening News: former anchor, NBC’s The Today Show

Sir Richard Dearlove, Master, Pembroke College, Cambridge; former chief, British Secret Intelligence Service

John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

David Dubal, Pianist; professor of Piano Literature, the Juilliard School

Connie K. Duckworth, Founder and president, Arzu, Inc.

Fred Dust, Lead, environmental design and Smart Space practices, IDEO design firm

Victor J. Dzau, Chancellor for Health Affairs, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine, director of Molecular and Genomic Vascular Biology, Duke University; president and CEO, Duke University Health System

Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and director of Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Guy Ellena, Director, Health and Education Department, International Finance Corporation

Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Chair, Department of Clinical Bioethics, Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health

Nora Ephron, Best-selling author, director, screenwriter, and filmmaker

Nabil Fahmy, Egyptian Ambassador to the United States

James Fallows, National correspondent, The Atlantic

Peter D. Feaver, Special advisor for Strategic Planning and Institutional Reform, National Security Council

Mike Feinberg, Co-founder, KIPP Schools

Dianne Feinstein, US Senator (D-CA)

Benjamin Friedman, William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University

Stephen Friedman, Senior advisor, Stone Point Capital, LLC; former assistant to the president of the United States for Economic Policy; former director, National Economic Council

Howard Gardner, John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education; senior director, Harvard Project Zero; Harvard University

Murray Gell-Mann, Nobel Prize–winning physicist; Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus, California Institute of Technology; distinguished fellow, the Santa Fe Institute

David Gergen, Director, Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Nancy Gibbs, Editor-at-large and writer, Time magazine

Dana Gioia, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts

Barbara Goldsmith, Historian and best-selling author

Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister, Memorial Church, Harvard University

Jonathan Greenblatt, Co-founder, Ethos Water; vice president of Global Consumer Products, Starbucks Coffee Company

Brian Greene, Professor of Physics and co-director and co-founder; Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics; Columbia University

Alan Greenspan, Former chairman of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System

Leigh G. Hafrey, Senior lecturer in Communications and Ethics, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; co-master, Mather House, Harvard College

Ted Haggard, President, National Association of Evangelicals

David Hale, Global economist; founder and chairman, Hale Advisors, LLC

Lyric M. Hughes Hale, Publisher and CEO, China Online

Jane Harman, US Congresswoman (D-CA)

Sidney Harman, Executive chairman, Harman International Industries, Inc.

David Heber, Founding director, Center for Human Nutrition, University of California Los Angelas (UCLA); professor of Medicine and Public Health and founding chief, Division of Clinical Nutrition, Department of Medicine, UCLA

John B. Heywood, Sun Jae Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); director, Sloan Automotive Lab and the Center for 21st Century Energy, MIT; co-director, Ford-MIT Alliance, MIT

Paul Holdengräber, Director of Public Programs, New York Public Library

John Holdren, Director; Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program; John F. Kennedy School of Government; Harvard University

Thomas Homer-Dixon, Director, Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies; associate professor, Department of Political Science; University of Toronto

Robert D. Hormats, Vice chairman, Goldman Sachs International

Arianna Huffington, Co-founder and editor, HuffingtonPost.com; nationally syndicated columnist; author

Karen P. Hughes, US undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

Dennis J. Hutchinson, Senior lecturer, University of Chicago Law School; William Rainey Harper Professor and associate dean, the College, University of Chicago; Master of the New Collegiate Division

Gwen Ifill, Moderator and managing editor, Washington Week; senior correspondent, PBS’s The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Laura Ingraham, Host of the syndicated radio program, The Laura Ingraham Show

Thomas D. Jakes, Jr., Founder and pastor, the Potter’s House nondenominational church

William N. Joy, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; co-founder, Sun Microsystems

Sharon Lynn Kagan, Virginia and Leonard Marx Professor of Early Childhood and Family Policy, Teachers College, Columbia University

Michael Kahn, Artistic director, the Shakespeare Theatre Company

Ruth Katz, Dean and Walter G. Ross Professor of Health Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, the George Washington University

Karim Kawar, Jordanian Ambassador to the United States and Mexico

Jack Kemp, Principal, Kemp Partners; former secretary of Housing and Urban Development; former US Congressman (R-NY)

David M. Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Stanford University

Billy Kimball, Executive producer, Air America Radio’s The Al Franken Show

Joel I. Klein, Chancellor, New York City Department of Education

Walter Kohn, Nobel Prize–winning professor of Physics, emeritus and research professor, University of California Santa Barbara

Marguerite Kondracke, President and CEO, America’s Promise–The Alliance for Youth

Morton Kondracke, Executive editor, Roll Call; co-host, Fox News’s The Beltway Boys

Steven E. Koonin, Chief scientist, BP

Wendy Kopp, President and founder, Teach for America

Lawrence Krauss, Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics; director, Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics; Case Western Reserve University

Richard Land, President, Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, Southern Baptist Convention; commissioner, US Commission on International Religious Freedom

Norman Lear, Television writer, producer, and director; founder, People for the American Way

Bernard-Henri Lévy, Philosopher, journalist, activist, and filmmaker

Nathan S. Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

Jung Lin, Classical concert pianist

Thomas E. Lovejoy, President, H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment

Amory Lovins, CEO and co-founder, Rocky Mountain Institute

Tom Luce, Assistant secretary of the Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development; US Department of Education

Sponsor and Partner Presenters

Jim Albaugh, Executive vice president, Boeing Company; president and CEO, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems

David C. Aldrich, Senior vice president, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

Gary D. Ahlquist, Senior vice president, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

Paul F. Anderson, Senior executive advisor, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

Charles G. Beever, Vice president, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

James Bennet, Editor, The Atlantic

Lorraine Bolsinger, Vice president, Ecomagination, GE

David G. Bradley, Chairman, Atlantic Media Company

Beth A. Brooke, Global vice chair of Strategy, Communications, and Regulatory Affairs, Ernst & Young

Heather L. Burns, Senior vice president, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

Lee T. Bycel, Senior advisor, Global Strategy, International Medical Corps; moderator, Bezos Aspen Scholars Program

Carl Cannon, White House correspondent, National Journal

Clive Crook, Chief editorial advisor to the chairman, Atlantic Media Group

Mickey Edwards, Executive director, Aspen-Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership, Aspen Institute; former US Congressman (R-OK)

James Fallows, National correspondent, The Atlantic

Charlie Firestone, Executive director, Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program

Alan Fletcher, President and CEO, the Aspen Music Festival

Elliot Gerson, Executive vice president, Seminars and Public Programs, the Aspen Institute

Jennifer P. Goodale, Vice president, Contributions, Altria Corporate Services, Inc.

David I. Greenberg, Senior vice president and chief compliance officer, Altria Group, Inc.

William A. Haseltine, Chairman, Haseltine Global Health, LLC; president, the Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts; professor, the Scripps Research Institute

Bob Hutchens, Vice president, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, the Aspen Institute

Elizabeth Baker Keffer, Publisher, The Atlantic; executive vice president, Atlantic Media Group

Chris Kelly, Vice president, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.

Corby Kummer, Senior editor, The Atlantic; author and food journalist

Neal Lane, Malcolm Gillis University Professor and professor of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Physics and Astronomy; senior fellow in science and technology, James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy; Rice University

John-Michael Lind, Co-founder, Haseltine Global Health, LLC; founder and CEO, Strategic Partners Group of Companies