Festival Speakers

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2024

Festival Speakers

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Peace Activist; Co-Founder, Mejdi Tours; Co-Founder, InterAct International

Novelist; Essayist; Author, “Americanah”

Vice President and Fellow at Google Research

Journalist; Women's Rights Activist

CEO, Fannie Mae

Founder and CEO, The Business of Fashion

President and Board Chair, American Civil Liberties Union; Margaret B. Hoppin Professor of Clinical Law and Faculty Director, Community Equity Lab, New York University School of Law

Otis Booth Leadership Chair, Division of Engineering and Applied Science and Howard Hughes Professor of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology

Senior Lecturer, Department of History, Clemson University; Contributing Writer, The Atlantic

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General Manager of Democracy Forward, Microsoft

Head, Bloomberg Beta

Regional Development Director, Teach Plus

Journalist

Executive Editor, Local Investigations Fellowship, The New York Times

Editor in Chief, Parents

System Chair of Dept of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai Health System

President, Dartmouth College

Secretary of State, Michigan

CEO, Family Equity

Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Author, "Everyone Who is Gone is Here"

President of Editorial, NBC News

Senior Media and Tech Correspondent, CNBC

Co-Founder and Co-CEO, NewsGuard; Author, "The Death of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil and Demagogues The Weapons to Destroy Trust and Polarize the World – And What We Can Do About It"

Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Chair, Weave: The Social Fabric Project, The Aspen Institute

CEO, Hermitage Capital Management; Head, Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign

Guest Curator, Aspen Ideas Festival

Charles Warren Professor of American History, Professor of African and African-American Studies, Harvard University

CEO, Robin Hood Foundation

Chair of Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures, Edinburgh College of Art

Co-Host, “Today with Hoda and Jenna,” NBC

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Theater, Film, and Television Director​

Political Consultant

Architect; Founder and Creative Director, Practice for Architecture and Urbanism

EVP Strategy, Sustainability, and Ventures, BP

Chairman, NBCUniversal News Group; Trustee, The Aspen Institute

Attorney; Contributing Writer, The Atlantic

Author; Podcast Host, “Kelly Corrigan Wonders;” Host, “Tell Me More with Kelly Corrigan,” PBS

Founder and Director, AgeLab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Journalist; Founder and Executive Producer, Katie Couric Media

Governor of Utah

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President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Spokesperson and Director of International Relations, Parents Circle – Families Forum

Executive Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees, Mount Sinai Health System

President and Trustee, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

Columnist, The New York Times

Writer, The New Yorker; Author, “Supercommunicators”

Actor; Producer; Director

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CEO, Endeavor and TKO

Senior Personal Finance Correspondent, CNBC

Professor of Strategy, China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College

Founder and CEO, Human Capital Africa; Senior Economic Adviser, Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative

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Vice Chair and Member, Board of Directors, Prudential Financial

Executive Director, Sports and Society Program, The Aspen Institute

Milbank Senior Fellow Hoover Institution, Stanford University; Senior Faculty Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University

Cartoonist; Author

Senior Advisor, TPG Rise Climate Fund; Chair, Rubicon Carbon

Soprano; Arts and Health Advocate; Co-Artistic Director, Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS

Founder and President, James L. Foley Legacy Foundation

Actor; Producer; Activist

President and Co-Founder, Economic Security Project

Writer; Filmmaker; Podcast Host, Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

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Human Rights Attorney

Editor in Chief, Reuters

Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy; Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Yale University

Managing Director, Perseus Strategies

Director of Comprehensive Brain Tumor Program, Co-Director of the Radiosurgery Program and Vice Chair for Diversity and Inclusion for the Dept of Neurosurgery at Mount Sinai Health System

Executive Chairman, U.S. News and World Report

Chief Heat Officer, Miami-Dade County

Mayor, City of Mesa, Ariz.

James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University

CEO, Vet Voices Foundation

Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone; Author, “The Heat Will Kill You First”

Staff Writer, The New Yorker; Author, "The Real Work: On the Mystery of Mastery"

Director of Cyber Initiatives, Aspen Digital, Aspen Institute; Columnist, The Washington Post; Podcast Host, “Long Shadow”

Producer; Writer; Founder and Chairman, Imagine Entertainment

John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University

Founder and Managing Partner, Telesoft Partners; Trustee, The Aspen Institute

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Principal, Head of Wealth Management Advice and Solutions, Edward Jones

Founder and CEO, Loyal

Founder, One Country Project; Director, Institute of Politics, University of Chicago; Former U.S. Senator

Associate Director, Economic Opportunities Program, The Aspen Institute

CEO, Reconstruction; Former Chancellor, District of Columbia Public Schools

Journalist; Author

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney

Correspondent, NBC News and MSNBC

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Former President and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Columnist and Associate Editor, The Washington Post; Novelist

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Senior Legal Correspondent, NBC News; Co-Anchor, Saturday TODAY, NBC

Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science

Founder and CEO, Salamander Hotels and Resorts; Co-Founder, Black Entertainment Television

General Counsel, Haymon Boxing Management; Author, "The Gist of Bid Whist: The Culturally-Rich Card Game From Black America"

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Attorney and Founding Partner, Kaplan Hecker and Fink

Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of Law, Georgetown University; Partner, Hogan Lovells

Co-Host, “All Things Considered,” NPR

Former U.S. Secretary of State

Director, Philosophy and Society Initiative, The Aspen Institute

Attorney, Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder

CEO, Art Bridges

Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Author, "Chasing Hope"

Chief Product Officer, Viant Technology

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Leader, The Campaign to Free Jimmy Lai

Pollster; President, Lake Research Partners

Founder, E Pluribus UNUM; Former Mayor of New Orleans

Co-CEO, BDT and MSD Partners

Senior Writer, The New York Times

Author; Journalist

Mansfield Freeman Chair Professor, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University; Director, Center for China in the World Economy

Political Strategist; President and CEO, Longwell Partners; Publisher, The Bulwark

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Political Consultant; Principal, Grassroots Lab

Host, Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO

Attorney, Social Media Victims Law Center

Founder and Executive Director, #HalfTheStory

Director, Global Opportunity Youth Network, The Aspen Institute

Deputy Director, Technology, U.K. Department for Business and Trade

U.S. Navy Admiral, Retired; Former Chancellor, University of Texas System

Professor of Linguistics, Columbia University

President and CEO, International Rescue Committee

Founder and CEO, The Ankler

Photographer; Co-Founder, Sea Legacy

Vice President; Executive Director, Ascend; and Co-Chair, Forum on Women and Girls, The Aspen Institute

Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law, New York University School of Law; Faculty Director, Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center

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Chairman and CEO, Microsoft

Creator, Director, and Host, Poetry in America; Director, Verse Video Education; Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University

Photographer; Co-Founder, SeaLegacy

Board Member, Amazon; Former Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo; Author, “My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future”

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Co-founder, Change the Ref; Head of Global Outreach and Artistic Adviser, Global Action on Gun Violence

Historian; Professor of Public History, University of Manchester

Director of Innovation Strategy for the Dept of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai Health System

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Journalist; Documentary Filmmaker; Writer

Documentary Filmmaker; Journalist

Partner, KKR; Chairman, KKR Global Institute; Former CIA Director and Retired General

Governor of Colorado

CEO, Serum Institute of India

Co-Host and Co-Creator, Ear Hustle

U.S. Representative

President and CEO, Aspen Institute

Principal, Garnaut Global

Vice Chairman and President of Global Client Services, BDT and MSD Partners

Developmental Psychologist; Co-Founder and Director of Clinical Programming, The Mount Sinai Parenting Center; Podcast Host, "Raising Good Humans"

Chief Science Officer, American Psychological Association; John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Senior Scientist, Tufts University

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Vice President; Co-Executive Director, Financial Security Program; and Co-Chair, Aspen Partnership for an Inclusive Economy, The Aspen Institute

Founder and CEO, Moonshot

Scientific Director of Mount Sinai Bio; Design and Faculty of the Dept of Neurosurgery, Mount Sinai Health System

Chairman and CEO, Willett Advisors

Founder and President, American Institute for Boys and Men

Chair and CEO, A-Rod Corp

President and CEO, National Constitution Center

Co-Founder and Co-Chairman, The Carlyle Group

Director, Aspen Business Roundtable on Organized Labor, Economics Opportunities Program, The Aspen Institute

Ambassador to the United States, Embassy of Australia

Host, "The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle," MSNBC; Senior Business Analyst, NBC News

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Vice President and Executive Director, Business and Society Program, The Aspen Institute

Writer; Artist

Founder and CEO, Girls Who Code; CEO, Moms First

Executive Director and Curator, Letterform Archive

Writer; Advice Columnist, Savage Love; Podcast Host, "Savage Lovecast"

Professor of Art History and History, Columbia University

President and CEO, Wells Fargo

Graphic Designer; Partner, Pentagram

Executive Director, Aspen Digital, Aspen Institute

Founder and Principal, The Bureau Consortium; Owner, Schweit Consulting; Author, “Stop the Killing: How to End the Mass Shooting Crisis”

Historian; Author, "The World: A Family History of Humanity"

Chief Heat Officer and Director, Climate Emergency Mobilization, City of Los Angeles

Founder and President, GOOD+ Foundation

Chairman of the Board, Special Olympics International; Co-Founder, Unite; Co-Founder and Chairman, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning

Founder and CEO, Kaleidoscope Affect; Retired Major General, Maryland Army National Guard

Co-Anchor, “Squawk Box,” CNBC; Financial Columnist, The New York Times; Founder and Editor at Large, DealBook

Founder, Howard Kennedy

Actor and director

Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University; Weil Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

Astrophysicist; Research Professor of Theoretical Cosmology, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University

CEO and Board of Trustees Member, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Editor at Large, New York Media; Podcast Host, “On With Kara Swisher” and “Pivot”; Contributing Writer, New York Magazine

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Jehuda Reinharz Professor of the Humanities, English Professor, and Co-Chair of Italian Studies, Brandeis University

Editorial Board Chair and U.S. Editor at Large, Financial Times

Professor of Art Crime, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

Journalist; Associate Fellow, PJ Patterson Institute for Africa Caribbean Advocacy, University of the West Indies; Trustee, Trevelyan Grenada Reparations Fund

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Poet; Comedian; Actor; Author, "Your Wound, My Garden"

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General Adult and Forensic Psychiatrist, Walter Reed Center for Forensic Behavioral Sciences

Vice President of Philanthropy and Society and Executive Director, Program on Philanthropy and Social Innovation, The Aspen Institute; Founder, Global Philanthropy Forum; Co-Chair, Generosity Commission

President, Ford Foundation

Founder, Alice L. Walton Foundation

Founder and Executive Director, SilverLining

Journalist; Host, “1A,” NPR

Artist; Co-Founder, For Freedoms

Chair, President, and CEO, The Allstate Corporation

Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer, Comcast Corporation; President, Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation

President, The Juilliard School; Artistic Director, Vail Dance Festival

Co-Host and Co-Creator, Ear Hustle

Co-Founder and CEO, IDEO.org; CEO, Alight

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Director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget

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Journalist; Author, "Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present"

​Chief Communications and Impact Officer, Exile Content Studio​

CEO, Tree of Life

Israeli peace activist

Writer; Press Freedom Fellow, CUNY Craig Newmark School of Journalism; Visiting Professor, Princeton University

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