Kate Snow

Kate Snow is weekday anchor for MSNBC Live, as well as an Emmy-winning National Correspondent for NBC News and anchor of NBC Nightly News, Sunday editions.  Her reporting appears across all platforms of NBC News and MSNBC, and she serves as a fill-in anchor for Nightly News and TODAY.  Prior to being named National Correspondent […]

Hon. Michael Chertoff

Michael Chertoff is the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of The Chertoff Group, a global advisory firm that provides business strategy, risk management, and mergers and acquisition (M&A) advisory services to clients seeking to secure and grow their enterprises. From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Chertoff served as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where […]

Dan Barber

Dan Barber is the chef and co-owner of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns, and the author of The Third Plate (May 2014, The Penguin Press). His opinions on food and agricultural policy have appeared in the New York Times, along with many other publications. Appointed by President Barack Obama to serve on […]

Dr. Robb Fraley

Dr. Robert Fraley is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Monsanto. He has been with the company for more than 35 years, and currently oversees its global technology division, which includes plant breeding, plant biotechnology, ag biologicals, ag microbials, precision agriculture, and crop protection. Often recognized as the father of agricultural biotechnology, he […]

Jim Perdue

Jim Perdue has been the Chairman and advertising spokesman of Perdue Farms since 1991. He is the third generation of his family to lead the company, which was founded by his grandfather in 1920. In 1983, Jim accepted the invitation from his father, Frank Perdue, to return to the family business. He worked various plant management jobs […]

Hon. Rufus Gifford

Rufus Gifford served as United States Ambassador to the Kingdom of Denmark from August 2013 – January 2017. As Ambassador, his personal mission was to transform a historically great relationship to meet the challenges of the future by engaging Danes – especially younger Danes – on bilateral and global issues. Determined to modernize diplomacy and build back trust in institutions, Gifford […]

Anna Palmer

Anna Palmer is a senior Washington correspondent for POLITICO and co-author of POLITICO’s Playbook, the most indispensable morning newsletter for the biggest influencers in politics. Anna covers the world of Congress and politics, and has successfully chronicled the business of Washington insiders for years. Her stories take readers behind the scenes for the biggest fights […]

Helena Bottemiller Evich

Helena Bottemiller Evich is a senior food and agriculture reporter for POLITICO Pro. Before joining POLITICO, Helena spent four years reporting on food politics and policy at Food Safety News, where she covered Congress, the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Helena’s work has also appeared in the Columbia Journalism Review […]

Kerry Kennedy

Kerry Kennedy is the president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. For more than thirty years, Ms. Kennedy has devoted herself to the pursuit of equal justice, the promotion and protection of basic rights, and the preservation of the rule of law. She has worked on a range of issues, including children’s rights, child labor, […]

Aya Hijazi

Born to an to an Egyptian mother and a Lebanese father, Aya Hijazi , is an American citizen, who became interested in social activism. To further her understanding of social justice, she studied Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University in the United States and law at Cairo University in Egypt. During the Arab […]

Paul Bulcke

  Career 2017 Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé S.A. 2008 – 2016 Chief Executive Officer, Nestlé S.A. 2004 – 2008 Executive Vice President, Nestlé S.A. Zone Director for Zone Americas: United States of America, Canada, Latin America, Caribbean 2000 – 2004 Nestlé Germany, Market Head 1998 – 2000 Nestlé Czech and Slovak Republic, Market […]