The challenges and opportunities of our times require creativity, agility, and purpose — from leaders and from institutions.

As members of the Giving Pledge, Melanie and Richard Lundquist have given more than $400 million over the past decade to critical causes ranging from educational opportunity to health care access to climate change mitigation.

The challenges and opportunities of our times require creativity, agility, and purpose — from lead

Aspen Ideas: Health is a three-day event, which has opened the renowned Aspen Ideas Festival since 2014, is where health’s biggest challenges meet its biggest thinkers

President and CEO Dan Porterfield in conversation with Mayor Muriel Bowser at the Global Inclusive Growth Summit on Wednesday, April 14, 2023 in Washington, DC.

President and CEO Dan Porterfield delivered these remarks the second day of the CityLab conference on Tuesday, October 11, 2022 in Amsterdam.

In his keynote address at the Action Forum, Dan Porterfield, President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, highlighted the need for institutions to foster trust by working through essential tensions - from resolving short term versus long term problems to the balance between values-based leadership and systems change.

This conversation was part of the 2022 Aspen Security Forum, an annual three-and-a-half day conference in Aspen, CO presented by the Aspen Strategy Group.

This conversation was part of Aspen Ideas Festival 2022. Aspen Ideas Festival takes place on the Aspen Institute’s wondrous 40-acre campus in the Rocky Mountains from June 25-July 1, 2022.