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Deborah Arnott is chief executive of the UK campaigning charity Action on Smoking and Health, an honorary associate professor at the University of Nottingham Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and a member of RCP’s Tobacco Advisory Group. A tobacco control expert, Arnott has been on several National Institute...
Angel Kyodo Williams is an author and Zen sensei (teacher), one of only three black women in this role. As founder and spiritual leader of the Center for Transformative Change, she applies wisdom teaching to social issues and is a leading voice for a movement that she has coined “transformative social change.” Williams published her first book, Being Black: Zen and the Art...
Sue Siegel is CEO of GE Ventures and of Healthymagination, GE’s innovation platform for addressing quality, access, and affordability of health care. With 30-plus years’ experience in corporations and venture capital, she was previously a general partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures and president of Affymetrix. Currently serving on numerous boards, Siegel was on the working gr...
Cori Shepherd Stern is a film producer and social-change strategist with The Strongheart Group. Her 2013 Academy Award-nominated documentary Open Heart focused on healthcare and social justice through the lens of pediatric rheumatic heart disease in Africa. She wrote and produced Bending the Arc, about the global health equity movement. Stern’s additional projects include...
Dennis Charney is a world-renowned researcher and transformation leader who, through his commitment to innovation and science, has led the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to unparalleled growth and high national rankings. He is a former Yale psychiatry professor and researcher at the National Institute of Mental Health, where he oversaw the Mood and Anxiety Disorde...
Kate Levin is a principal at Bloomberg Associates, heading the Cultural Assets Management discipline. She also oversees the Bloomberg Philanthropies Arts program. From 2002 to 2013, Levin served as commissioner of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Managing the largest single arts funder in the United States, she increased support for cultural organizations...
Peter J. Pronovost is senior vice president of patient safety and quality and director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins Medicine. A patient safety champion and critical-care physician, he is an advisor to the World Health Organization’s World Alliance for Patient Safety and regularly addresses the US Congress on patient safety issu...
Peggy Clark is a Vice President of the Aspen Institute, Executive Director of Aspen Global Innovators Group, and Director of the Artisan Alliance. Peggy has had a 30-year career working on issues of poverty alleviation, global health, social enterprise, and development finance. Serving in founding and leadership roles at the Aspen Institute, the Ford Foundation, Save the C...
Hanna Rosin is a co-host of NPR’s “Invisibilia,” a show about invisible forces that shape human behavior, and a contributing editor at The Atlantic, where she has written many cover stories about sex, murder, and the modern American family. Rosin has also written for The New Yorker, The Washington Post, New York, and GQ, among others. She is the author of The End of Men an...
