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Jennifer Eberhardt is a social psychologist at Stanford University,conducting research on race and inequality. She is currently the Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor of Public Policy, a psychology professor, and a faculty director of Stanford SPARQ, a university initiative to use social psychological research to address pressing social problems. Previously, she taught a...
Adam Grant is a professor of management and psychology at The Wharton School, where he’s been the top-rated professor for seven straight years. As an organizational psychologist, his expertise is in how people can find motivation and meaning. Grant writes on work and psychology for The New York Times, authored four best-selling books, hosts the TED podcast “WorkLife,” and...
Nicholas Thompson is the editor in chief of WIRED, a position he has held since January 2017. He is also a contributor for CBS News and regularly appears on “CBS This Morning” and CBSN. Prior to his current position at WIRED, Thompson was editor of NewYorker.com from 2012 to 2017. Before that, he was a senior editor at WIRED. He is a co-founder of The Atavist, a National M...
Robert Kagan is a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, a contributing columnist at The Washington Post, and historian. From 1984 to 1988, he served in the US State Department as a policy planning staff member, principal speechwriter for then-secretary of state George Shultz, and policy deputy in the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs. Kagan’s latest book...
Richard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, since 2003. A veteran diplomat, he was previously senior Middle East advisor to President George H.W. Bush and director of the US State Department’s policy planning staff, advising Colin Powell. Haass has also been US coordinator for Afghanistan policy and US envoy to the Cyprus and Northern Ireland peace talk...
Mira Rapp-Hooper is a lecturer and senior research law scholar at Yale Law School, a Senior Fellow at Yale’s Paul Tsai China Center, Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and David Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission. Previously, she held fellowships with the Center for a New American Security’s Asia-Pacific Security Program and the CSIS As...
Paul Ryan is former speaker of the US House of Representatives, serving from 2015 to January 2019. First elected to Congress at age 28, he represented Wisconsin’s First District for two decades. In 2012, he was selected as Mitt Romney’s vice-presidential nominee. Ryan chaired the House Ways and Means Committee and the House Budget Committee and spearheaded passage of the T...
Karl Rove writes a weekly op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, is a Fox News contributor, and founded the American Crossroads/Senate Leadership Fund super PAC. He served as senior advisor to President George W. Bush from 2000 to 2007 and as deputy chief of staff from 2004 to 2007. “The Architect” of Bush’s 2000 and 2004 campaigns previously was president of Karl Rove + Compa...
Gita Gopinath is economic counsellor and director of the International Monetary Fund’s Research Department, on leave from Harvard University, where she’s the John Zwaanstra Professor of International Studies and of Economics. Previously, Gopinath was an assistant economics professor at University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She has been co-director of the National...
Valerie Jarrett is a senior advisor to the Obama Foundation and media company ATTN: and a Senior Distinguished Fellow at University of Chicago Law School. Her memoir is Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward. Under President Obama, Jarrett oversaw the Offices of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs and chaired the White House Council...
Christie Aschwanden is an award-winning journalist and author of the New York Times best-seller Good to Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery. She’s producer and co-host of “Emerging Form,” a podcast about the creative process. Previously the lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight, Aschwanden contributes to The Washington Post and...
Doug Rauch is founder and president of Daily Table, a nonprofit retail store designed to bring affordable nutrition to the food insecure in US cities by recovering unsold, wholesome food from grocers, food service, growers, and manufacturers to provide ready-to-eat meals and basic groceries at prices that compete with nutritionally challenged food. Rauch was previously pre...
Paul Bakus is president of Nestlé Corporate Affairs and leads US public engagement efforts. He is responsible for public affairs, communications, and government relations, as well as scientific, regulatory, and nutrition affairs. Bakus has held numerous marketing roles for brands in other Nestlé divisions, including PetCare and Prepared Foods, and prior to moving into his...
Tristram Stuart is an author, speaker, campaigner, and expert on environmental and social impacts of food production. His books include The Bloodless Revolution and Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal. Stuart is founder of environmental campaigning organization Feedback and has spread its work into dozens of countries to change society’s attitude toward wasting food....
Zia Khan is vice president for initiatives and strategy at the Rockefeller Foundation, overseeing its approach for achieving impact and realizing the organization’s mission and goals. He leads the program teams in New York, Bangkok, and Nairobi and their work in searching for new opportunities, developing strategies, and executing initiatives. Prior to joining the Rockefel...
Ronald Daniels is president of Johns Hopkins University, a position he has held since 2009. Since taking office, he has focused his leadership on enhanced interdisciplinary collaboration, individual excellence, and community engagement — themes that are the backbone of the university’s strategic vision through 2020. Before coming to Johns Hopkins, Daniels was provost and p...
Grover, Sesame Street’s gregarious blue monster, accomplishes his tasks with a childlike exuberance that has been making young viewers laugh for more than four decades. He displays seemingly endless confidence, curiosity, and perseverance. He is eager to explore new things and start new adventures, even when he inevitably takes a few wrong turns along the way. Grover is a...
Frostpaw is a polar bear fighting climate change to save his home and preserve a livable climate for all. Frostpaw makes his home in Everytown, USA, and is frequently spotted at gatherings, rallies, and even on the front page of the New York Times. Frostpaw was home-schooled and enjoys his association with the Center for Biological Diversity in Tucson, Arizona.
Elmo is a 3½-year-old red monster with a distinctive cheerful voice and a contagious giggle. Enthusiastic, friendly, and curious, he loves to explore new things and be a part of everything that happens on Sesame Street. However, like most preschoolers, he sometimes doesn’t have all the skills or knowledge he needs. But that never stops him! He always maintains an optimist...