Aaron Lazar

Keynote Speaker: Award-Winning Actor, Singer, & Broadway Star Living with ALS. Motivational Speaker on Hope, Resilience and Purpose

Aaron Lazar's Keynote at Duke University

Dr. Doug Evans

Tenured Professor of Prevention and Community Health at George Washington University

Dara Torres

12x Olympic Medalist, NYT Bestselling Author, Entrepreneur & Healthcare Reform Advocate

Russell Wheeler

Visiting fellow in the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program and president of the Governance Institute

Stuart S. Taylor, Jr.

Author and freelance journalist focusing on legal and policy issues

Michael P. McDonald

Assistant Professor of Government and Politics in the Public and International Affairs Department at George Mason University

Thomas E. Mann

Senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution

Noah Shachtman

Nonresident fellow with the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy

Lewis M. Milford

Founder and President of Clean Energy Group (CEG)

Scott Winship

Former Fellow at the Manhattan Institue & the Brookings Institution

Scott W. Allard

Associate professor in the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration with expertise in the areas of social welfare policy and poverty

Trevor Potter

Nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution and a member in Caplin & Drysdale’s Washington, DC office

John Hudak

Fellow in Governance Studies

Jack A. Goldstone

Worked for the World Bank, the National Intelligence Council, USAID and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

Marc Grossman

Foreign Service officer from 1976 to 2005. He retired as the U.S. under secretary of state for political affairs

David F. Damore

Nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and an Associate Professor

Anthony Corrado

Nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and Professor of Government

Micah Altman

Director of research and head/scientist, Program on Information Science for the MIT Libraries

Angel Pascual-Ramsay

Director of Global Risks at ESADE's Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University