Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan academic, economist, and physicist who specializes in topics which include climate change, water resources, sustainable development and energy. Through his work, Mohan has been the Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which led him to share the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. Mohan earned his B.A. with Hons. in Engineering from... read full bio
Ian Plimer is an Australian geologist who has been the Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne and the former professor of mining geology at the University of Adelaide. Plimer has previously earned his BSc in mining engineering at the University of New South Wales and went on to earn his Ph.D. in geology from Macquarie University.... read full bio
Robert Lacey is a British historian and writer who is best known for his biography books that he is published on notable historic figures which include Queen Elizabeth II, Eileen Ford, and Henry Ford. He is also known for working as a historian for the Netflix original series, “The Crown.” Lacey has previously earned his BA in History and went... read full bio
George Kohlrieser is an American psychologist, author, speaker, and consultant who is the Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior at the International Institute for Management Development business school. As a psychologist, Kohlrieser is an organizational and clinical doctor who began his career working with the police department in Dayton, Ohio, to try to reduce the number of domestic violence homicides.... read full bio
Tarun Khanna is an Indian-born American author, economic strategist, and professor who is currently the Jorge Paulo Lemann professor at Harvard Business School where he is also a member of the strategy group, and has been a director of their South Asia initiative. Khanna has earned his B.S. with a major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University... read full bio
Bill Fischer is the Professor of Innovation Management at IMD and a columnist for Forbes. Through his work with IMD, Fischer has been the co-founder and co-director for their program on Driving Strategic Innovation which they run in cooperation with the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Through his work with Forbes, Fischer runs the column, “The Ideas Business.” As... read full bio
Robert Engle is an American statistician who has previously been the winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Clive Granger for their work in analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility. Engle was born in Syracuse, New York, and he earned his B.S. in physics from Williams College before going on to earn his... read full bio
Edward de Bono is a British physician, psychologist, consultant, author, inventor, and philosopher. Bono was born in Malta and went on to earn his medical degree from the University of Malta. He went on to begin working as a Rhodes Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford, which is where he earned his M.A. in psychology and physiology. Bono earned his Ph.D.... read full bio
Richard H.K. Vietor is currently the Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and has also been the senior associate Dean for the Asian Initiative. Vietor has previously earned his B.A. in Economics from Union College, his M.A. in History from Hofstra University, and his Ph.D. in History from the University of Pittsburgh. He has previously... read full bio
Philip E. Tetlock is a Canadian-American writer who is expert on political forecasting, political psychology, forecasting and decision making. Tetlock was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and he has finished his undergraduate work at the University of British Columbia before going on to earn his Ph.D. from Yale University. Tetlock has previously served on the faculty of the University of... read full bio
Barbara Mellers is an educator who is the I. George Heyman University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and is the Chief Scientist for Good Judgment, Inc. Mellers has previously earned her Bachelor’s in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley before going on to earn her Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mellers began her... read full bio
Robert J. Gordon is an American economist and the Stanley G. Harris Professor of the Social Sciences at Northwestern University. Gordon is an exceptionally experienced professor, regarded as one of the leading experts on long-term economic growth as well as unemployment and inflation. In 1962, he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and received... read full bio
Barry Barish is an American physicist and Nobel Laureate who is currently the Linde Professor of Physics, emeritus at California Institute of Technology. Barish was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and he has earned his B.A. in physics as well as his Ph.D. in experimental high energy physics from the University of California, Berkeley. After earning his Ph.D., he went on... read full bio
Nancy Snowden has always tried to do things her own way. She is an educator by profession, a dream seeker by temperament and an avid student of brain science. She loves to look at an ordinary opportunity and carve out the path that cultivates her zeal for life and passion for helping others, from earning her bachelor's degree in English, Creative... read full bio
Freeman Hrabowski, also known as Freeman A. Hrabowski III is a mathematician, educator, and advocate. He is also co-author of several books. His research, leadership, expertise and vision are integral in universities, schools, and community groups in the country. He has been President of the University of Maryland for nearly 30 years and has transformed the commuter college into an... read full bio
Toby Walsh has been a Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence and has been a leading researcher in AI. Walsh is also a Laureate fellow and has worked at the UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales and Data61. Walsh has earned his M.A. in theoretical physics and mathematics from the University of Cambridge... read full bio
"FOUNDER OF CHOOSE2MATTER MOVEMENT AUTHOR OF ""GENIUS MATTERS"" & ""THE HABITUDES"" FUTURIST AND INNOVATION EXPERT Leader. Visionary. Entrepreneur. Disruptor. Change Maker. Angela embodies each of these descriptors with passion, commitment and fierce determination. She has been creating and leading change in education and enterprise for 31 years, teaching every level of school from grade school to graduate school and consulting with companies around... read full bio
Arne Duncan served as secretary of education for six years. During his time in office, he secured congressional support for President Obama’s investments in education. Such efforts included the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s $100 billion to fund 325,000 teaching positions, increases in Pell grants, reform efforts such as Race to the Top and Investing in Innovation and interventions in... read full bio
Shep Doeleman is a SAO Astronomer, author, and Harvard Senior Research Fellow who is a professor of physics at Harvard University. He researches super massive black holes with sufficient resolution to directly observe the event horizon. Doeleman and his group use telescopes that observe a mm wavelengths to create an Earth-size telescope using the technique of Very Long Baseline Interferometry.... read full bio
Molly Wright Steenson is a design strategist, author, architectural historian and associate professor at the Carnegie Mellon School of Design. She earned her PhD in architecture and urbanism from the 60s to the 80s. At the start of her career, she worked for companies including Netscape, Scient, Reuter and a wide variety of Fortune 500 and smaller, creative companies. As... read full bio
