Dr. Jill Biden
Dr. Jill Biden is a mother and grandmother, a lifelong educator, and former Second Lady of the United States. She has spent over three decades teaching in community colleges, high schools, and a psychiatric hospital for adolescents. Today, she is a full-time English professor at Northern Virginia Community College—a position she held throughout her time […]
Sam Garwin
Sam Garwin is Chief Executive Officer of Fleishers Craft Butchery, New York City’s retail destination for healthy, delicious, pasture-raised meats. In 2012, Ms. Garwin completed a whole animal butchery apprenticeship at Fleishers Westport. She continued on as the shop’s General Manager and later as the company’s Chief Operating Officer. Today, Fleishers comprises four retail butcher […]
Tara Kangarlou
Tara Kangarlou is an award-winning journalist who has reported and produced breaking news stories, investigative pieces, and magazine-style print and broadcast stories on both domestic and international issues. Over the years she has written, reported, and produced for CNN, CNN International, NBC Los Angeles, Al Jazeera America, and Al Monitor.As a multimedia journalist, Ms. Kangarlou […]
Julia Ormond
Julia Ormond is the Founder and President of ASSET, an advocacy non-profit that works to create a market economy to end enslavement. ASSET is the source, co-sponsor, and convener of the global Transparency in Supply Chains (TISC) Act that was authored by Senator Darrell Steinberg and passed by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2010 in California. The […]
Julia McQuaid
Julia McQuaid is a Principal Research Scientist in the Center for Stability & Development at the CNA Corporation. She also directs the Program on Transnational Challenges. Her work focuses on international security and U.S. interests in the Middle East and Africa. She has spent the last decade supporting the U.S. government decision-makers and military officers […]
Nick Mabey
Nick Mabey is Chief Executive and a founder director of E3G (Third Generation Environmentalism) a non-profit European organisation dedicated to accelerating the transition to sustainable development. In addition to his management role, Nick leads E3G’s work on European climate change policy, climate diplomacy and foreign policy, and the security implications of climate change and resource […]
John Rosenwald
E. John Rosenwald, Jr. is a vice chairman emeritus of J.P. Morgan. Previously, he worked for many years at Bear, Stearns and Company. He joined the firm in 1953 and rose quickly in the corporation, eventually becoming vice chairman of The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. in 1988 and vice chairman of Bear, Stearns and Company […]
Martin Forst
Mr. Forst is Head of the Governance Reviews and Partnerships division, promoting key governance themes such as open government, gender in public life and access to justice. He is responsible for OECD Public Governance Reviews, that provide countries with a strategic tool to improve the design, co-ordination and implementation of public policies. He has been […]
Lynne Doughtie
Lynne Doughtie is U.S. Chairman and CEO of KPMG — one of the world’s leading professional services firms. She also is a member of KPMG’s Global Board and Executive Committee. From 2011 to 2015, Lynne served as vice chair of KPMG’s Advisory business, establishing Advisory as the firm’s fastest growing business. She also oversaw the […]
Christina Sass
Christina Sass is the co-founder and COO of Andela, a company that recruits the most talented software engineers on the African continent and pairs them with global tech companies as full-time, distributed team members. Founded on the premise that brilliance is evenly distributed but opportunity is not, Andela has built one of the most selective […]
Lynne Twist
For more than 40 years, Lynne Twist has been a recognized global visionary committed to alleviating poverty, ending world hunger and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability.From working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta to the refugee camps in Ethiopia and the threatened rainforests of the Amazon, as well as guiding the philanthropy of some of […]