Aspen Ideas Festival Speakers and Moderators
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Ismahan Abdullahi Director of Movement and Campaign Strategies, Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA)
Hala Aldosari Robert G. James Scholar Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Danielle Allen James Bryant Conant University Professor and Director, Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
Mark Applebaum Leland and Edith Smith Professor of Composition, Department of Music, Stanford University
David Azerrad AWC Family Foundation Fellow and Director, B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics, The Heritage Foundation
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Melody Barnes Co-Founder and Principal, MB2 Solutions; Former Domestic Policy Advisor, Obama White House; Chair, Forum for Community Solutions, The Aspen Institute
Kathy Baughman McLeod Senior Vice President, Global Environmental and Social Risk, Bank of America
Emily Bazelon Staff Writer, The New York Times Magazine; Truman Capote Fellow for Creative Writing and Law, Yale Law School
Monika Bickert Head of Product Policy and Counterterrorism, Facebook (Festival Underwriter)
Katherine Bradley Founding Chair, CityBridge Education; Board Member, National Geographic
Stewart Brand Co-Founder, Revive & Restore; Co-Chair and President, The Long Now Foundation; Founder and Editor, Whole Earth Catalog
Tristan Bridges Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara
Arthur Brooks President and Beth and Ravenel Curry Scholar in Free Enterprise, American Enterprise Institute
Daphne Brooks Professor, Department of African American Studies, Yale University; Author
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Robyn Calder Executive Director, The ELMA Philanthropies Services (US), The ELMA Group of Foundations
John Carlin Partner, Morrison & Foerster; Chair, Cybersecurity & Technology Program, The Aspen Institute
Daniel Castro Vice President and Director, Center for Data Innovation, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Victor Cha D.S Song-KF Endowed Chair in Government and International Affairs, Director, Asian Studies, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Meryl Chertoff Executive Director, Justice and Society Program, The Aspen Institute; Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Michael Chertoff Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, The Chertoff Group; Former Secretary, US Department of Homeland Security
Amy Chua John M. Duff Jr. Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Author, Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
John Church Executive Vice President, Chief Supply Chain Officer, and Leader of Global Business Solutions, General Mills Inc. (Festival Underwriter)
Peggy Clark Vice President, Policy Programs, Executive Director, Aspen Global Innovators Group; Director, Alliance for Artisan Enterprise, The Aspen Institute
Jelani Cobb Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
David L. Cohen Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Comcast Corporation (Festival Underwriter)
Noam Cohen Journalist; Author, The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball
James Comey Former Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation; Author, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
Brittney Cooper Associate Professor, Women's and Gender Studies Department, Rutgers University; Author, Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
Katy Croff Bell Fellow, National Geographic Society; Founder, Open Ocean Initiative, MIT Media Lab
Paula Crown Artist; Board Member, Aspen Institute Committee of the Arts; Principal, Henry Crown and Company
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Malik Dahlan Founder and Principal, Institution Quraysh for Law & Policy (iQ); Professor of International Law and Public Policy, Queen Mary University of London Law School
Kenneth L. Davis President and CEO, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter); Trustee, The Aspen Institute
Linda V. DeCherrie Clinical Director, Mount Sinai at Home; Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System (Festival Underwriter)
Makan Delrahim Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
