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Executive Director Karsh Institute of Democracy at UVA, Professor at the Miller Center & Former Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council

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Advocate for Public Education, CEO of Stand for Children

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Managing Partner at Emerson Collective; Former U.S. Secretary of Education

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Host & Senior Editor of American Public Media's "Marketplace"; Co-Host of the "Make Me Smart" Podcast

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Co-Founder of Microsoft; Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy & International Politics, Harvard Kennedy School

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Host of "Studio 360 from PRI and WNYC" & Author

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Award-Winning Actress, Playwright & Social Commentator

David M. Rubenstein

Co-Founder & Co-CEO of The Carlyle Group

Austan Goolsbee

Chairman, President's Council of Economic Advisers (2010-2011) and Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Elliot Gerson

Executive Vice President of Policy and Public Programs, International Partners, The Aspen Institute

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Thomas L. Friedman

Three-Time Pulitzer Prize Winning Commentator; New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnist; Author of "The World Is Flat"

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Mickey Edwards

Professor, Princeton University; Author, "The Parties Versus the People"; Former US Congressman

David G. Bradley

Chairman and Owner, Atlantic Media Company

James Bennet

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Carol Adelman

Carol Adelman is a senior fellow and director of Hudson's Center for Science in Public Policy, specializing in international development, foreign aid, trade and global health.

Jeffrey Rosen

President & CEO of the National Constitution Center & Contributing Editor of The Atlantic

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Chairman, President & CEO of The Allstate Corporation

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President, Shell Oil Company

Corby Kummer

Executive Director of Food and Society Program & Editor in Chief of Ideas: The Magazine of the Aspen Institute

William E. Mayer

Chairman Emeritus, The Aspen Institute; Partner, Park Avenue Equity Partners

Clive Crook

Columnist and member of the editorial board at Bloomberg View

Richard Wilhelm

Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

Karl Wendt

Doctoral Student, Harvard University

Darren Walker

President of the Ford Foundation; Chair of the US Alliance on Impact Investing

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Paul Rieckhoff

Founder and Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA); Author, "Chasing Ghosts: Failures and Facades in Iraq"

Ted Mitchell

President of the American Council on Education, Former Under Secretary, U.S. Department of Education

David Leonhardt

Senior Writer for The New York Times

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Seth Berkley

Global Health Expert and Epidemiologist; Senior Advisor to Brown University Pandemic Center

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Founder & Board Co-Chair of Room to Read; Former Microsoft Marketing Executive