Galbraith, a world renowned economist, teaches at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin.  

John Gapper is a multi-award-winning business columnist at the Financial Times, and formerly chief business commentator; his award-winning column focusses on finance, media and technology. He also contributes editorials and features, including regular Lunch with the FT interviews.

He is one of the FT’s most senior and influential writers, having covered the financial and media industries, as well as employment issues. Between 2005 and 2012, he was based in the FT’s New York office, where he helped to lead its successful expansion in the US. He was formerly comment editor of the FT, and in that role was in charge of introducing and editing the paper’s award-winning comment page.

As a columnist, he has written on topics including Wall Street and the aftermath of the financial crisis, management and corporate strategy, the future of digital news and entertainment, innovation and venture capital, and the disruptive impact of technology.

He often appears on television and radio, including on the BBC, CNBC and CNN.

John won an open scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford University, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to study at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

He lives in east London with his wife, the novelist Rosie Dastgir, and their two daughters.

Bob Garfield is the co-host of the award-winning NPR show On The Media, the founding director of the annual Media Future Summit, and a Senior Fellow at the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management at Wharton. A columnist, pundit, critic and essayist, his work has appeared in the Atlantic, New York Times, The Guardian, USA Today, Washington Post, and Wired among many others.

Charles Gasparino is a veteran business reporter, senior correspondent for the Fox Business Network, and author of, among other books, King of the Club: Richard Grasso and the Survival of the New York Stock Exchange (HarperCollins), Blood on the Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors (Wall Street Journal Books/Free Press), The Sellout (HarperCollins), and Circle of Friends: The Massive Federal Crackdown on Insider Trading (HarperCollins).

Gabriel Gatehouse is a BBC journalist and broadcaster. He is the former International Editor of ‘Newsnight’, and co-host of ‘Ukrainecast’ on BBC Sounds.

Over the past decade and a half, he has reported from almost every conflict around the world, from Ukraine to Syria, Libya to Iraq. He has won numerous awards for his journalism, most recently the 2019 Prix Europa (for ‘The Puppet Master’, his five-part investigation into Vladislav Surkov, aka ‘Putin’s Rasputin’) and the 2020 Foreign Press Association award for his coverage of the Hong Kong protests. He has reported extensively from the United States on the rise and fall of Donald Trump. He is the writer and presenter of the hit podcast ‘The Coming Storm', which launched in January 2022 to critical acclaim. It was the most popular BBC podcast in the first quarter of 2022, with around 3 million downloads on BBC Sounds, and more on other platforms such as Spotify and iTunes. It was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize in 2022.

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American historian, literary critic, filmmaker, and public intellectual, Gates currently serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, and has hosted the PBS shows Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gate Jr. and The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an Emmy- and Peabody-winning journalist who over the course of her distinguished fifty-plus-year career has worked at The New Yorker, TheNew York Times (where she established the paper’s Harlem bureau), PBS NewsHour, NPR, and CNN. She is the author of four previous books: In My Place (Vintage, 1992), New News Out of Africa (Oxford University Press, 2006), To The Mountaintop (Square Fish, 2014), and Corrective Rape (Agate, 2015).

Rene Germain is a young British journalist and influencer whose blog ‘Black and Great’ about the successful career jouneys of Black talent from across the worlds of entertainment, sport, finance, law and medicine is the inspiration for her first book.

Tanya Gold is a freelance journalist, who has written for the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the Independent, the Daily Telegraph, and the Sunday Times (London), amongst other publications. She was awarded Feature Writer of the Year at the British Press Awards in 2010, also being nominated for Columnist of the Year, and was commended in the Feature Writer of the Year category in 2009.

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Danny Goldberg is the author of How the Left Lost Teen Spirit and Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside the Rock and Roll Business. Since 2007 he has been president of Gold Village Entertainment, whose clients include Steve Earle and Against Me. Previously, Goldberg was president of Gold Mountain Entertainment (Nirvana, Bonnie Raitt, the Allman Brothers), CEO of Air America Radio, chairman of Warner Bros. Records, president of Atlantic Records, and vice president of Led Zeppelin’s Swan Song Records.

David Goodhart is a commentator, journalist and best-selling author. He is Head of the Demography Unit at the Policy Exchange think tank, and in November 2020 was appointed a Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) board commissioner.

Previously, he founded Prospect magazine in 1995, was Director of the think tank Demos, and was for twelve years a correspondent for the Financial Times.

The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics was a Sunday Times bestseller.

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Graetz, who has been professor of law at Yale and at Columbia, is an expert on tax law and its effects on society.  He is writing a book on how the anti-tax revolt has shaped America for Princeton.

Rosie Gray is the White House Correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly. Before that she was a staff writer for Buzzfeed News for five years, covering two presidential elections, and got her start at the Village Voice.

A former New York City Public Advocate and mayoral candidate, Green has served as president of Air America Radio and director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, the largest consumer rights lobby in Washington, DC. Green is currently the host of the nationally syndicated radio show Both Sides Now.

Greenhouse is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who for thirty years covered the Supreme Court for the New York Times where she now writes a regular column on the court.  

Chairman and former CEO of Nasdaq, Robert Greifeld is also the Chairman of the USA Track and Field Foundation. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and elsewhere.

Nicholas Griffin is an author and journalist who's been published in periodicals such as the Times of London, the FT, Men’s Vogue, and Foreign Policy. His nonfiction book, Ping Pong Diplomacy, was an Amazon Best Book of the Year in 2014, Shortlisted for the 2015 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, and Shortlisted for the UK's 2015 Political Book Awards. Nicholas was also elected a Term Member at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York in 2007.

Olaf Groth is Program Director for Digital Futures at Hult International Business School, a member of the Global Expert Network at the World Economic Forum, a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, a CEO and a contributor to the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review and other publications.

Jason Grumet is founder and president of the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). A frequent witness at Congressional hearings, he has written about the challenge of bipartisan collaboration in the New York Times, Bloomberg, TheHill, Roll Call, and many other publications. He is the author of City of Rivals: Restoring the Glorious Mess of American Democracy (Lyons Press).

Michael M. Grynbaum is a media correspondent for The New York Times, covering the intersection of business, culture and politics. Since starting at The Times as an intern, he has served as City Hall bureau chief, Metro political writer, transportation reporter and economics writer during the 2008 financial crisis.

Trained as a political economist and sociologist, Mauro Guillén is the Dean at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School and the Dr. Felix Zandman Professor Emeritus of Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. An award-winning writer and scholar, his commentary has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and Financial Times.

Liam Halligan is an economist, writer and broadcaster, with extensive business experience. He is best known for his weekly award-winning ‘Economics Agenda’ column in the Sunday Telegraph, which he has written since 2003, and was formerly Economics and Business Editor at GB News.

Liam holds a First Class (Hons) degree in economics from the University of Warwick and an M.Phil (Econ) from St Antony’s College, Oxford University. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Social Market Foundation and the Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, an ESRC-funded research body based in the University of Warwick’s Economics Department. He is a citizen of both the UK and the Republic of Ireland.

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Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, research professor of Islamic Studies at Fuller Seminary, and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He was named one of the world's top 50 thinkers by Prospect magazine in 2019. Hamid is the author of Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World, which was shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize for best book on foreign affairs, and co-editor of Rethinking Political Islam. His first book, Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East, was named a Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2014

Charles Handy CBE is an Irish author and philosopher specialising in organisational behaviour and management. Among the ideas he has advanced are the ‘portfolio worker’ and the ‘Shamrock Organization’ (in which professional core workers, freelance workers and part-time/temporary routine workers each form one leaf of the Shamrock).

He was born the son of a Church of Ireland archdeacon in Clane, Co. Kildare, Ireland in 1932 and educated as a boarder at Bromsgrove School and Oriel College, Oxford.

Charles Handy’s business career started in marketing at Shell International. He left Shell and spent a year as an International Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. On his return he joined the London Business School, where he was Professor from 1978–94.

He has appeared regularly in the Thinkers50, a biannual global ranking of the most influential living management thinkers. In 2001 he was second on this list, behind Peter Drucker; in 2005 he was tenth; 2007 he was fourteenth. When the Harvard Business Review had a special issue to mark their 50th Anniversary, they asked Charles Handy, Peter Drucker and Henry Mintzberg to write special articles.

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Nick Haramis, the editor in chief of Interview magazine, was formerly the articles editor at T: The New York Times Style Magazine. A contributor to publications including Billboard, Out, and The Wall Street Journal, he has interviewed everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Meryl Streep. Prior to joining The New York Times, he was the editorial director of Bullett and, before that, the executive editor of BlackBook. He lives in New York City.

Ryan Hass is a Fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution and former advisor to President Obama on China policy whose research and analysis focuses on enhancing policy development on the pressing

political, economic, and security challenges facing the United States in East Asia. He holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies; he is a nonresident affiliated

fellow in the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School; and from 2013 to 2017, Hass served as the director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia at the National Security Council (NSC) staff. Prior to joining NSC, Hass served as a Foreign Service Officer in U.S. Embassy Beijing, where he earned the State Department Director General’s award for impact and originality in reporting, an award given annually to the officer whose reporting had the greatest impact on the formulation of U.S. foreign policy.

Jim Hemerling is a managing director and senior partner at BCG, focusing on transforming organizations to deliver and sustain breakthrough performance. He is a BCG Fellow and a leader in the firm’s People & Organization and Transformation practices. He is also a featured TED speaker with his talk “5 Ways to Lead in an Era of Constant Change.” With 30 years of experience as an advisor to senior leaders, he has deep expertise in heading large-scale transformation programs and cultivating high-performing organizations.He has coauthored numerous publications on transformation and organization effectiveness, including The Head, Heart and Hands of Transformation; Transformation: Delivering and Sustaining Breakthrough Performance; Purpose with the Power to Transform Your Organization; It’s Not a Digital Transformation Without a Digital Culture; and Solving the Tech Industry’s Purpose Problem. His work has been featured in Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune, Forbes, the Economist, Manager Magazine, and on CNBC.

Joseph Henderson, BSHRM, MPA, is senior advisor for leadership development at Deloitte Consulting and, formerly, Director of the Office of Safety, Security and Asset Management at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Michael Hendrix is a Partner and Executive Design Director at global design and innovation consultancy IDEO, where he has worked on everything from home goods to homeland security.

Jonathan E. Hillman is a world authority on China’s economic and foreign policy. He is currently Senior Fellow for Geoeconomics at the Council on Foreign Relations, and was previously Senior Advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and a Senior Advisor and Member of the Secretary's Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. Department of State.

Before that, he was a Senior Fellow with the economics program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, directing the Reconnecting Asia Project, and served as a policy advisor to the U.S. Trade Representative. He won the Financial Times/McKinsey & Company Bracken Bower Prize in 2019 and is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and Brown University. His commentary has been published in the Washington Post, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

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A labor and civil rights lawyer and former Supreme Court litigator, Hirshman has written for Slate, Salon, The Daily Beast, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. Her book Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution was named one of the New York Times Book Review’s Notable Books of 2012. Sisters in Law was a New York Times bestseller.

Mike Hixenbaugh is an award-winning national investigative reporter for NBC News. He previously worked for the Houston Chronicle, the Virginian-Pilot, and elsewhere, and has hosted two podcasts, Do No Harm and Southlake, the latter of which won a Peabody Award and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist.

David Hogg is a recent graduate of Marjorie Stonemason Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, and is one of the 20 founders of Never Again MSD.Lauren Hogg is a sophomore at Marjorie Stonemason Douglas.

John Horn is a professor of practice in economics at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. He was previously a Senior Expert in McKinsey & Company’s Strategy Practice, where he spent nine years helping companies understand their competitors’ mindsets. John has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.

Jesse Horwitz is the Co-Founder/Co-CEO of Hubble, the first direct to consumer subscription for contact lenses. Jesse is an investor, advisor and founder across multiple businesses in the direct to consumer space, and focused on how a broader community of consumer companies can integrate this new, mobile-first channel into their marketing and distribution.

Jamer Hunt is the Vice Provost for Transdisciplinary Initiatives at The New School and founding director of the graduate program in Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons School of Design. At the MoMA he was co-creator of the award-winning, curatorial experiment and book Design and Violence (2013-15), was named by Fast Company to their list of “Most Creative People…Inspiring Leaders Who are Shaping the Future of Business in Creative Ways” and he regularly presents to influential leaders and change-makers around the world in the fields of business, design, technology and education. As a writer, he has appeared as an expert design blogger for Fast Company an invited blogger for The Huffington Post, and has also written for or appeared in TheAtlantic, The New York Times, Financial Times, Metropolis Magazine, and others.

Jeremy Hurewitz's writing appears in Forbes, Bloomberg, USA Today, The Hill, and elsewhere. He built the international journalism start-up Project Syndicate and more recently launched Interfor Academy, a speakers bureau and consultancy. He is also a policy advisor on national security for the Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy.

Inaya Folarin Iman is a British journalist, commentator, and television presenter, and has written for the Telegraph, the Daily Mail, and spiked. She has also presented for GB News, hosting a weekly culture and politics show, ‘The Discussion’. She is the director and founder of the Equiano Project, a forum focussing on race, culture and politics, and was appointed a trustee for The National Portrait Gallery in September 2021. Since 2023, she has been a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Moral Maze’.

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Andrew Imbrie was the lead author of more than 300 speeches for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the State Department, is a scholar of U.S. foreign policy and national security strategy, and a fellow and senior advisor to Kerry at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a non-profit, non-partisan international affairs think tank. His research focuses on great powers in decline, U.S. policy toward Europe and Russia, and national security decision making. He has served in senior speechwriting and policy positions at the United States Senate and U.S. Department of State, where he was twice awarded the Department’s Meritorious Honor Award.

Alan Iny is the senior specialist for creativity and scenario planning at The Boston Consulting Group and author, with Luc de Brabandère, of Thinking in New Boxes: A New Paradigm for Business Creativity (Random House).

Lawrence served as one of four official White House photographers during the Obama administration. He’s worked at The Associated Press and The Virginian-Pilot, and his work has been published in The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, U.S. News & World Report, among other outlets.

Mary Clare Jalonick covers Congress for The Associated Press, where she has worked for nineteen years in the news agency’s Washington bureau. She has reported extensively on congressional investigations, including the probes of former President Donald Trump’s ties to Russia and the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, and was a lead reporter on both of Trump’s impeachments and the last four Supreme Court confirmations.

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Saru Jayaraman is the President and Co-Founder of One Fair Wage (OFW), a national organization, campaign and coalition fighting for a full, fair minimum wage for every person who works in America, with tips being a supplement on top of wages rather than the wage itself, and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and author of Behind the Kitchen Door and Forked: A New Standard for American Dining.

With Sarah Duenwald, Nancy McSharry Jensen founded The Swing Shift, dedicated to lifting barriers which impede women from finding meaningful work, allowing them to combine career and family in the modern workplace.

Erich Joachimsthaler, the founder and CEO of Vivaldi Partners, the co-author of Brand Leadership and the author of Hidden In Plain Sight is an internationally recognized authority on the impact of technology on strategy, the digitalization of industries and categories, and the role of innovation and branding.

Leo Johnson is a writer, broadcaster, and expert on global megatrends. He studied PPP at Oxford and took an MBA at INSEAD before working for a decade at the World Bank. His work promotes progressive disruption  — innovation that matters — grounded in practical optimism, a vision of good economic growth that works for both society and business.

Leo was the Co-Founder of Sustainable Finance Ltd, now a part of the PwC Group. He is a Business Fellow of the Smith School of Enterprise & Environment at the University of Oxford, and has presented a number of programmes for BBC World News, including ‘Down to Business’ and ‘One Square Mile’. He is the co-host of the BBC Radio 4 series, ‘FutureProofing’, examining the impact on business and society of the big ideas coming down the track, from Synthetic Biology to Block Chain and the Sharing Economy.

In 2013, he co-authored Turnaround Challenge: Business & the City of the Future (OUP), described by David Rowan, editor of Wired magazine, as ‘a fast-paced, hope-filled yet deeply grounded tour of the innovations and technologies with the potential to resolve our era’s greatest environmental, social and economic challenges’.

He is also a Judge for the Financial Times ‘Boldness in Business Awards’ and a co-Founder of the Prix Pictet, the world’s leading prize on photography and sustainability, for which Kofi Annan is the Patron. He has commented and written irregular guest columns for the Financial Times, the New Statesman, Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

Bruce Jones is vice president and director of the Foreign Policy program at Brookings and a senior fellow in the Institution's Project on International Order and Strategy at Brookings. He served in the United Nations' operation in Kosovo, was special assistant to the U.N. special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, and is also a consulting professor at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University and chair of the advisory council of the Center on International Cooperation at New York University.

Rev. Dr. Matthew Kaemingk holds the Richard John Mouw Chair of Faith and Public Life at Fuller Theological Seminary and directs Fuller Seminary’s groundbreaking new research initiative on the intersection between faith, politics, and pluralism. Matthew is the award-winning author of Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear and co-author of Work and Worship.

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Colin Kahl was Vice President Joe Biden’s national security advisor from 2013-2017 and deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East from 2009-13. He is currently and Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. With Thomas Wright, he is the author of Aftershocks, forthcoming from St. Martin's Press.

Rich Karlgaard is the publisher of Forbes magazine and is based in Silicon Valley. He is a renowned lecturer, a pilot, and the author of four acclaimed books.

Jon Katzenbach is one of the world’s top experts on teams, leadership and management, and the author of The Wisdom of Teams (HarperCollins) and Leading Outside the Lines (Jossey-Bass).

International affairs writer at Slate, Keating is also a former writer and editor at Foreign Policy and a foreign policy analyst.

A lawyer and human rights activist, Kennedy is the President of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, Chair of the Amnesty International USA Leadership Council, and serves on the boards of directors of Human Rights First, Inter-Press Service, and the United States Institute for Peace. Being Catholic Now was a New York Times Bestseller.

Ro Khanna is a US Congressman representing California's 17th Congressional District. A former visiting lecturer at Stanford University’s Department of Economics, Khanna has worked with high-technology companies for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati. He formerly served as the Obama Administration’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce from 2009-2011.

Fred Kiel, Ph.D., is a business adviser and co-founder of KRW International and the author of Return on Character: The Real Reasons Leaders and Their Companies Win (Harvard Business Review Press), based on his seven years of rigorous research into character, leadership excellence, and organizational results.

A former director of production for presidential events during the Clinton Administration, King was formerly the host of the Sirius/XM radio show PoliOptics. He’s contributed to The Washington Post, Men’s Vogue, Brill’s Content, and Politico and has appeared on the BBC, CNN, NPR, and elsewhere.

Kim Kleman is the former editor-in-chief of The American Lawyer and Consumer Reports and is currently on the faculty of Columbia Journalism School.