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Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine, a position he has held since 2019. He was named the Financial Times' and Time's Person of the Year for 2022, and amongst many international honours was most recently awarded the 2023 Chatham House Prize.

Previously, he studied law at the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics and went on to pursue a career in entertainment, creating the production company Kvartal 95 and portraying a fictional Ukrainian president in the series Servant of the People.

Yara Zgheib is the author of the critically acclaimed novel No Land to Light On (Atria, 2022), which has been longlisted for the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize and selected as an Indie Book Read. Lauded as a “masterful story of tragedy and redemption” written in “soul-searing prose,” the novel was chosen by The Washington Post, The L.A. Times, and Newsweek as one of the top books of 2022. From Alki Joshi, bestselling author of The Henna Artist, “Zgheib writes so lyrically about rootlessness, separation and a fierce longing for home.” 

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Yara’s debut novel, The Girls at 17 Swann Street (St. Martin’s Press, 2019), was a People Pick for Best New Books, which hailed it as “an absorbing page-turner,” as well as a Barnes and Noble pick for Best Books of 2019, and a BookMovement Group Read. Her new novel, Why Paris, and her essay collection An Absolute Necessity are forthcoming from Harper Via.  

Zgheib is a Fulbright scholar and holds a PhD in International Affairs in Diplomacy. She publishes a weekly essay on “The non-Utilitarian,” and her writing has appeared in The Huffington Post, Glimmer Train, Lithub, Holiday, The European, and elsewhere. Her poetry has been adapted for two musical albums, Dust and Ions (2020) and City Rhapsodies (2022)

Writer and social commentator, Zhang lives in Beijing and focuses on human stories set in China. She is a regular speaker on BBC Radio and NPR, and is the author of the memoir SOCIALISM IS GREAT!

Angel Di Zhang was born in China and raised in China, England, Canada, and the USA. She was educated in the joint BA-MIA program at Columbia University and was a Pitch Wars class of 2019 mentee. She is an internationally exhibited fine-art photographer. Her first novel is The Light of Eternal Spring, excerpts of which have been awarded ten writing grants, including one from the Canada Council for the Arts. Angel lives in a secret garden on a cloud that floats above Toronto.

Katie Zhao is the author of the middle grade book The Dragon Warrior and the young adult novel How We Fall Apart (Bloomsbury).

A writer and filmmaker in New York, von Ziegesar has contributed to the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, Art in America, Outside, and Out, among other publications.

Jim Ziolkowski is the co-founder of buildOn, a not-for-profit organization That today supports thousands of inner-city teenagers from across the United States while at the same time transforming communities in some of the world’s poorest countries: Malawi, Mali, Senegal, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Nepal. He is the author, with James Hirsch, of the New York Times bestselling memoir entitled Walk in Their Shoes (Free Press).

Joshua P. Zoffer is a Senior Non-Resident Fellow at Columbia’s Center for Global Energy Policy and a venture capital investor. From 2023 to 2024, he served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, a commissioned officer of President Biden and a senior official on the White House National Economic Council. At the White House, he was responsible for advising the President and leading the Administration’s policy development on climate, energy, and trade issues. From 2021 to 2023, he served at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, most recently as Senior Advisor to Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo.

Prior to serving in government, Zoffer worked at Cove Hill Partners, a technology-focused private equity firm, and at McKinsey & Company in New York. He graduated with a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B. from Harvard University.

His writing on economic and political issues has been published in the Washington Post, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, the Atlantic, the New Republic, and elsewhere, as well as in academic journals such as the Yale Law Journal and the Stanford Law Review.

James Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute and a senior advisor to the polling firm Zogby International. He writes a weekly column That appears in twenty Arab newspapers and hosts a weekly program on Abu Dhabi television. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic National Committee, and co-chair of the DNC’s Resolutions Committee, he is the author of Arab Voices (Palgrave).

Kristal Brent Zook is an award-winning journalist and author of four books including The Girl in the Yellow Poncho, a coming-of-age story about being biracial in America, searching for her missing white father, and finding one’s authentic identity. A former contributor to the Washington Post and ESSENCE, her work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, LIFE, and The Guardian among others. The Girl in the Yellow Poncho has been praised in Vanity Fair, PEOPLE, Ms., The Root, and Kirkus. Dr. Zook is a tenured journalism at Hofstra University in New York. She has appeared on outlets such as CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, MTV, Fox, BET, PBS, and TV-One and NPR.

Justin Zorn is a writer, policy maker, and mindfulness teacher. A Harvard and Oxford-trained specialist in economic and environmental policy, he has served as legislative director to three Members of Congress, a Fulbright Scholar, a Truman National Security Fellow, a Senior Adviser to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and has written for The Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, The Nation, Foreign Policy, and CNN.

Jocelyn C. Zuckerman is a writer and journalist whose work has appeared in Fast Company, The American Prospect, the New York Times Magazine, and other publications. She served as deputy editor at Gourmet, articles editor at OnEarth, and executive editor at both Whole Living and Modern Farmer magazines. An honors graduate of Columbia University's Journalism School, she is the recipient of a James Beard Award for feature writing and numerous fellowships, including an Alicia Patterson Fellowship in support of her research on palm oil. She is based in Brooklyn, NY.

Marlene Zuk is Regents Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the University of Minnesota and studies animal sexual behavior and communication. She is the author of several books including Paleofantasy; Sex on Six Legs; Riddled with Life; and Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test.

Elisa Zuritsky is a Brooklyn-based writer most known for her work on HBO’s Sex and the City and its sequel series, And Just Like That with screenwriting partner, Julie Rottenberg. The team also served as showrunners on Odd Mom Out, and wrote for Smash and Divorce. Prior to screenwriting, Elisa worked as an entertainment journalist, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Observer, Nickelodeon Magazine and McSweeneys. She also created the online humor magazine, WryTimes. Elisa is married with two teenaged children.

TV writer, playwright, and bestselling author, Zweibel was an original Saturday Night Live writer. Zweibel has won multiple Emmy, Writers Guild of America, and TV Critics awards as well as the Writer’s Guild East Lifetime Achievement Award for his work in television and the stage, which includes It’s The Garry Shandling Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and 700 Sundays with Billy Crystal.

Neeltje van Horen is Senior Research Advisor at the Bank of England and Professor of Financial Economics at the University of Amsterdam. Her work explores the interplay between the financial sector and the real economy, especially in times of crisis and uncertainty. She previously worked at the World Bank and De Nederlandsche Bank and has been a visiting scholar at the EBRD, IMF, and Chicago Fed. Her research has been widely published.

Her first book Ignite: How To Unlock Your Brain’s True Potential and Change Your Life offers practical, science-based strategies and techniques to boost cognitive performance, conquer self-doubt, refine decision-making skills and, ultimately, lead a more fulfilling life.

Eva zu Beck is a leading female adventure YouTuber, writer, and TV host with over four million followers across social media platforms. She has developed content for global platforms including the BBC, Deutsche Welle, Euronews, and National Geographic, where she hosts Superskilled, a show exploring human potential in remote locations worldwide.