Munira Mirza is Chief Executive of Civic Future, and was previously Director of the Number 10 Policy Unit under Prime Minister Boris Johnson from 2019 until her resignation in 2022. She has also served as Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture of London, Development Director for the think-tank Policy Exchange and judge of the Samuel Johnson Prize.

Azadeh Moaveni is a journalist, writer and associate professor at New YorkUniversity, where she directs the Global Journalism Program. She is the author of Lipstick Jihad and Honeymoon in Tehran, and co-author, with Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, of Iran Awakening. Her latest book, Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS, was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, the Rathbones Folio prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book of 2019. Guest House for Young Widows emerged out of a front-page story for the Times that was a finalistfor a group Pulitzer. She writes for the London Review of Books and the New York Times, among other publications.

Daniel Morain is a regular contributor to the Washington Post’s opinion page. The former editorial page director of the Sacramento Bee and a former reporter with the Los Angeles Times, he has covered California politics and policy since 1991.

Dr. Nick Morgan is one of America’s top communication theorists and coaches; he helps speakers find clarity in their thinking and ideas – and then deliver them with panache. His books include Give Your Speech, Change The World; Trust Me; and Power Cues.

Angie Morgan is a professional speaker and trainer, executive coach and curriculum designer who works for leading companies and organizations around the globe, including Facebook, ESPN, DTE Energy, Boston Scientific, and Best Buy. She is the bestselling co-author of Leading from the Front (McGraw-Hill) and the author, with Courtney Lynch and Sean Lynch, of Spark: How to Lead Yourself and Others to Greater Success (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). She is a founding partner of the leadership consulting firm Lead Star and serves as Director for the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation.

Paul Morgan-Bentley is Head of Investigations at The Times in London, specialising in undercover work and in-depth reporting. He has won several awards, including ‘Scoop of the Year’ at the British Journalism Awards, ‘Investigation of the Year’ and the Cudlipp Award for campaigning journalism at the UK Press Awards, and two Future of Media Awards. His 2023 book, The Equal Parent, advocates for men properly sharing responsibility for caring for their children.

Paul lives in Buckinghamshire with his husband and their son.

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Jim Morris is managing editor for environment and workers' rights at the Center for Public Integrity. A journalist since 1978, Morris has won more than 80 awards for his work, including the George Polk award, the Sidney Hillman award, three National Association of Science Writers awards, two Edward R. Murrow awards and five Texas Headliners awards.

A longtime articles editor for The New Yorker, Morrison was the Editor-in-Chief of The New York Observer and a founding editor of Spy. She is the president of the Century Association.

Maura Moynihan, the author of Yoga Hotel, and her mother, Elizabeth, oversee the estate of her father, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Daniel Patrick Moynihan: A Portrait In Letters was chosen by the New York Times as one of the top 20 nonfiction books of 2010 and was a Washington Post bestseller.

Luma Mufleh, immigrant, Muslim, gay, entrepreneur, mother, introvert, leader, and speaker, is best known as "Coach" by the students and families for whom she founded the first network of middle and high schools for refugee kids in the United States. She writes from her own experiences of both struggle and privilege, with a combination of humor, humility, and inspiration.

Geoff Mulgan is Professor of Collective Intelligence, Public Policy and Social Innovation at University College, London (UCL). Prior to that he was Chief Executive of Nesta, the UK's innovation foundation, between 2011 and the end of 2019. From 1997 to 2004 he held several roles in the UK government, including director of the Government's Strategy Unit and head of policy in the Prime Minister's office. From 2004 to 2011 he was the first Chief Executive of The Young Foundation. He was the founding director of the think-tank Demos, and has been a reporter on BBC TV and radio.

A New York Times best-selling author and Forbes Senior Contributor, Mark Murphy is recognized as a global thought leader on hiring, leadership, and teams. As founder of Leadership IQ, his books (Hundred Percenters and Hiring For Attitude) and research have appeared in The WallStreet Journal, The New York Times, Fortune, Forbes, Bloomberg Business Week, and U.S. News & World Report.

National Public Radio is an independent, nonprofit media organization that was founded on a mission to create a more informed public. Every day, NPR connects with millions of Americans on the air, online, and in person to explore the news, ideas, and what it means to be human. Through its network of member stations, NPR makes local stories national, national stories local, and global stories personal.

Sabina Nawaz is a leadership guru with an eponymous coaching firm who advises C-level executives and teams at Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, non-profits, and academic institutions around the world. A former Microsoft executive, her work has appeared in publications such as the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Inc., and Fast Company.

Mark Nitzberg is the Executive Director of the Center for Human Compatible Artificial Intelligence at UC Berkeley. He began studying artificial intelligence at MIT in the early ‘80s with Marvin Minsky.

Marina Nitze has held some of the most senior roles in federal government without a college degree. She was the first Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the U.S. Department of Education and also the youngest-ever C-suite executive in the federal government, taking on the role of the first female federal agency CTO at 28. She is currently a partner in the crisis management firm Layer Aleph where, multiple times per year, her team is called into high stakes environments to rapidly de-escalate technology-related crises.

Michael O’Hanlon is senior fellow and director of research in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, as well as an adjunct professor at Columbia, Georgetown, and Syracuse universities, and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has written several hundred op-eds in newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Japan Times, USA Today, and Pakistan’s Dawn paper.His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The National Interest, Survival, Washington Quarterly, Joint Forces Quarterly, and International Security, among other publications.

Barry O’Reilly is a business advisor, entrepreneur, and author who has pioneered the intersection of business model innovation, product development, organizational design, and culture transformation. Barry is co-author of the international bestseller Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale and an internationally sought-after speaker, frequent writer and contributor to The Economist, Strategy+Business, and MIT Sloan Management Review.

Nikolaus Obwegeser is a Research Fellow at IMD Business School (Switzerland). He regularly publishes in various academic and practitioner outlets and provides advisory and consulting services in the area of digital business transformation and innovation.

Kaf Okpattah is an investigative reporter at ITV News. He began his career with BBC News’ specialist investigations unit, while in his first year of university. While studying for his journalism degree, he broke major stories for BBC News, leading local and national bulletins with stories about illegal COVID raves, the Tate Modern pusher tapes and teenage money mules.

He is the recipient of an NCTJ Award for Excellence 2020 (for ‘Top Scoop’), and was chosen as one of thirty-under-thirty in the British Journalism Awards, 2019. He was also highly commended in the Wincott Awards for Financial Journalism, 2020.

In August, 2021, he was the youngest ever writer and presenter of BBC’s ‘Panorama’, fronting a 30-minute documentary about social media fraudsters which was viewed by more than 3 million people when it aired. He was born in Accra, Ghana in 2000, and has lived in London since 2010.

The Washington Post’s Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa were key reporters on the newspaper’s award-winning series George Floyd’s America and contributors to the well-received Post Reports podcast episode on Floyd’s life.Olorunnipa grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, and is the son of immigrants from a small village in central Nigeria. He has covered national politics since 2015, reporting from five continents and more than 20 countries as part of the presidential press pool. Olorunnipa’s reporting has received awards and recognition from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, the National Press Foundation, the Diverse Future Initiative and others. He earned master’s and bachelor’s degrees in sociology from Stanford University, where he conducted research on social movements.

Professor Sir David Omand GCB is a former senior civil servant. During his long career in British government service he has held senior posts in security, intelligence and defence.

His last post, from 2002-5, was as Permanent Secretary in the Cabinet Office and UK Security and Intelligence Coordinator, responsible to the Prime Minister for the professional health of the intelligence community, national counter-terrorism strategy and ‘homeland security’. He has also been a member of the Joint Intelligence Committee, Permanent Secretary of the Home Office and the Cabinet Office, Director of GCHQ and Deputy Under Secretary of State for Defence Policy. He is now a visiting Professor in the War Studies Department of King’s College London and an honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.

He was educated at the Glasgow Academy and read economics at Corpus Christi College Cambridge where he is an honorary Fellow. He also has a degree in mathematics and theoretical physics from the Open University. He has written extensively on security and intelligence matters and is a member of the editorial board of Intelligence and National Security.

Arkady Ostrovsky is a Russian-born journalist who has spent fifteen years reporting from Moscow, first for the Financial Times and then as bureau chief for the Economist. He studied Russian theatre history in Moscow and holds a Ph.D. in English literature from Cambridge University. His translation of Tom Stoppard’s trilogy The Coast of Utopia has been published and staged in Russia. He is a regular guest on the BBC, Sky News, and NPR, where he comments on Russia and the former Soviet Union.

His first book, The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev’s Freedom to Putin’s War was the winner of the Orwell Prize 2016.

Tomiwa Owolade is a writer and critic based in London. He is a columnist for The Times (London), and has written for publications including the New Statesman, Literary Review, UnHerd, and the Sunday Times (London), and has appeared on BBC Radio 4. His acclaimed book This is Not America: Why We Need a British Conversation About Race (Atlantic, 2023) was named 'Book of the Year' by The Times and the Spectator.

Angela V. Paccione is senior director of client partnerships at Verus Global. She is coauthor of ONE Team.

Panos Panay is Co-President of The Recording Academy, which produces the Grammy Awards. He is the former Senior Vice President for Global Strategy and Innovation at Berklee College of Music and the founder of Sonicbids. He has been named to Fast Company's "Fast 50" list and Inc.'s "Inc. 500," among other awards and honors.

Bojan Pancevski has been the Wall Street Journal's Germany correspondent since 2018, writing about aspects of Europe’s largest economy, its politics, society and influence on the world. Before joining the WSJ, he covered Europe, including Germany, for The Times and the Sunday Times of London.

In his dispatches from Germany and nearly every other European country, he has covered every major story on the continent for nearly two decades: the financial and the Euro crises, the wars in Ukraine, the migration crises, Britain’s departure from the European Union, the rise of Islamist terror and the political upheaval across Europe. His work has won and been shortlisted for numerous journalism awards.

A former CEO of Reddit and junior partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Pao is a cofounder of the Project Include diversity-in-tech initiative.

Richard Parker is an award-winning journalist whose writing has regularly appeared in The Atlantic, Texas Monthly, Politico Magazine, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Miami Herald, and The New York Times, among other publications. He and his writings have received numerous prizes and fellowships from the Associated Press Managing Editors, the Times-Mirror Foundation, the Knight Center, and the National Press Club. He has won the E.H. Schaeffer Prize for in-depth journalism numerous times and the first prize from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists in 2018 for his commentary in the pages of The Dallas Morning News, and he was a finalist for the coveted Livingston Award for International Reporting. In 2019, NBC named him one of the 20 most influential Latinos in America and in 2020 the National Society of Newspaper Columnists named him the number one columnist in America in digital media for his work for The New York Times. The author of the book Lone Star Nation: How Texas Transforms America, Parker resides in his home state of Texas.

Amie Parnes is a senior correspondent for The Hill newspaper in Washington, where she covers the Biden White House and national politics. She was previously a staff writer at Politico, where she covered the Senate, the 2008 presidential campaign, and the Obama White House.

Deval Patrick was reelected to a second term as Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in November 2010. Guided by the advice of his grandmother to "hope for the best and work for it," Governor Patrick entered office in 2006, a first-time candidate propelled by an unprecedented grassroots campaign. Patrick came to Massachusetts in 1970 at the age of 14. A motivated student despite the difficult circumstances of poor and sometimes violent Chicago schools, he was awarded a scholarship to Milton Academy through A Better Chance, a Boston-based organization. He is a graduate of Harvard College, the first in his family to attend college, and of Harvard Law School. After clerking for a federal judge, he led a successful career in the private sector as an attorney and business executive, rising to partner at two Boston law firms and to senior executive positions at Texaco and Coca-Cola. In 1994, President Clinton appointed Patrick as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, the nation’s top civil rights post. Patrick has served on corporate and not-for-profit boards, is the recipient of several honorary degrees, is a Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and is the author of two books, A Reason to Believe: Lessons from an Improbable Life and Faith in the Dream: A Call to the Nation to Reclaim American Values.

Paul is an assistant professor of economics and environmental studies at New College of Florida, a fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, and a senior fellow at Data for Progress. His writing has been cited in the New York Times, the Economist, the Washington Post, CNN, the Atlantic, Vox, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and elsewhere.

Nicolas Pelham is Middle East correspondent at the Economist.

Since his first job as editor of the Cairo-based Middle East Times, he has spent 20 years studying and working across the region. He has a reported as a correspondent for the BBC, the Financial Times and the Economist based in Rabat, Amman, Jerusalem and Iraq. Taking occasional breaks from journalism, he was a senior analyst for the International Crisis Group, and worked for the United Nations and the Royal Institute of International Affairs, reporting on Gaza’s tunnel economy and the rise of the Bedouin in the Sinai peninsula.

Jeremy W. Peters is a reporter in the Washington bureau of The New York Times who covers politics, with a focus on the conservative movement. In his decade at the paper, he has written about media, the financial markets, New York and chronicled his travels around the world.

Leigh Phillips is a British-Canadian science journalist and commentator on European affairs whose work has appeared in Nature, the New Scientist, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman and Jacobin, among other outlets. Much of his writing lies at the crossroads of science, economics and politics, championing a progressive, democratic modernity against its critics right, left and green.

For much of the last decade, he covered the European Union from Brussels as reporter and deputy editor with the EUobserver, an EU news daily. He has also worked as the science writer for the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions at the University of Victoria and for the Paris-based International Council for Science.

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J. Weston Phippen is a reporter based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has covered the border, its people and environment, and the U.S.-Mexico relationship for ten years. He has twice been a finalist for the Livingston Award for excellence in international reporting, and has been a staff writer and editor at Outside and The Atlantic. His work has appeared in outlets such as Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, Politico, and many others.

Seasoned executive Joe Plumeri is currently vice chairman of the First Data Board of Directors, senior advisor to First Data chairman and CEO Frank Bisignano, and head of First Data’s client delivery, innovation, and marketing organization. He is also the author of The Power of Being Yourself: A Game Plan for Success (Da Capo).

Cezary Podkul is an award-winning investigative reporter with over a dozen years of experience producing ambitious, data-driven stories for news outlets including Reuters, The Wall Street Journal and, most recently, ProPublica. Cezary has covered everything from oil markets to mortgage rent fraud, healthcare and human trafficking and taught journalism at Columbia Journalism School and Hong Kong University. He is the author of the forthcoming The Big Trace — a character-driven nonfiction thriller that will expose the dark world of Southeast Asian scam compounds staffed by human trafficking victims and their unsuspecting fraud targets in the U.S. and around the world.  

Dror Poleg is an economic historian and former technology and private equity executive. He advises the world's largest investors on the evolution of work, cities, and markets. His writing has been featured in publications including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Atlantic.

He is also a keynote speaker, regularly briefing executives from leading companies, including UBS, Bank of America, CBRE, HSBC, and Indeed. He holds a Master's degree in Economic History from the London School of Economics, and has taught and spoken at The University of Zurich, The Wharton School, MIT, and Columbia University.

Kelly Richmond Pope PhD researches white-collar crime and teaches forensic accounting at DePaul University. She directed the acclaimed documentary, All the Queen’s Horses, about Rita Crundwell, perpetrator of the largest municipal fraud in American history, and presented the TED Talk, “How Whistleblowers Shape History,” which has more than 1.6 million views. She is the Surgent Faculty Fellow for Knowfully Learning Group. And she will feature as an on-air expert on CNBC’s forthcoming series Superheist.

An investigative journalist and author, Posner has written twelve books, including the New York Times bestsellers, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer in History, Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11, and God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican. His wife, author Trisha Posner, works with him on all his projects.

Founded in 1877, The Washington Post delivers news and analysis from Washington, D.C. and around the world. Named the 1 Most Innovative Media Company of 2015 by Fast Company, the Post is defined by an ongoing dedication to transformation, integrity, and quality that manifests itself in the form of quality content and innovative experiences. The Washington Post has been awarded 43 Pulitzer Prizes to date.

Zoltan Pozsar is a Hungarian-American economist, specialising in global macroeconomics, central banking, and financial intermediation. He is Founder and CEO of Ex Uno Plures, a macroeconomic advisory firm specialising in funding and interest rate markets, and a member of the Shadow Banking Colloquium of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). He has written for VoxEU.

Jaideep Prabhu is the Jawaharlal Nehru Professor of Indian Business and Enterprise at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He works with executives from ABN Amro, Bertelsmann, BP, BT, IBM, ING Bank, Nokia, Philips, Roche, Shell, Vodafone, and Xerox on breakthrough growth strategies and is the co-author of several books about frugal innovation, including Jugaad Innovation (Wiley) and Frugal Innovation (Profile Books/Economist Books).

The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world’s population sees AP journalism every day and their teams operate in 250 locations worldwide.

Gene Pressman was co-CEO, creative director, and head of merchandising and marketing for Barneys New York, and a veteran of the store for more than 25 years. Under his leadership, Barneys New York emerged as the defining force in retailing for upscale men’s and women’s ready-to-wear, accessories, and home furnishings. He is the author, with Noah Kerner, of Chasing Cool: Standing Out in Today’s Cluttered Marketplace.

Founder of the private security firm Blackwater, Prince served as the company’s CEO and Chairman of the Board. He is a former Navy SEAL and worked closely with the US government in its anti-terrorism efforts.

Paul Pringle is an investigative journalist with the Los Angeles Times and a recipient of both the Pulitzer Prize—most recently in 2019—and the George Polk Award, among other honors. In Sunlight and Shadow is his first book.

Vicky Pryce is an economist, author and broadcaster and a Board member of the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). She was previously Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, Director General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service.

She holds a number of academic posts and is a Fellow of the UK Academy for Social Sciences and of the Society of Business Economists. She also sits on the Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, on the cross-party/cross-House Design Commission, on the Advisory Board of the central banking think-tank OMFIF and on the Economic Advisory Group of the British Chambers of Commerce and is a Patron of the charities Pro-Bono Economics and Working Chance. She was instrumental in the setting up and was previously chair of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on corporate social responsibility. She is a Freeman and Liveryman of the City of London.

Ari Rabin-Havt served as Deputy Campaign Manager of Bernie Sanders's 2020 Presidential Campaign and Deputy Chief of Staff in his Senate Office. Previously he served as an advisor to Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and former Vice President Al Gore. He is the author of Lies Incorporated: The World of Post Truth Politics and The Fox Effect: How Roger Ailes Turned a Network into a Propaganda Machine. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, USA Today, Jacobin, The Nation and The American Prospect.

Navi Radjou is an innovation and leadership strategist based in Silicon Valley and a World Economic Forum faculty member. He advises C-level executives worldwide on breakthrough growth strategies and is the co-author of several books about frugal innovation, including Jugaad Innovation (Wiley) and Frugal Innovation (Profile Books/Economist Books).

June Diane Raphael is a actress, screenwriter, producer, comedian, and podcaster known for her reoccurring role of Brianna on the TV show Grace and Frankie and her podcast, How Did This Get Made?

Emily Ratajkowski is a model, actress, entrepreneur, activist, and writer. She has been photographed for the covers of magazines including Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Vogue Italia, Vogue Australia, Vogue Spain, Vogue Germany, and GQ, and has worked with brands including Versace, Marc Jacobs, and Dolce & Gabbana. She has translated her audience of nearly 27 million Instagram followers into a direct-to-consumer clothing business, Inamorata, and as an actress has appeared in films including I Feel Pretty, We Are Your Friends, and Gone Girl. She campaigned for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020, and her essay “Buying Myself Back” for New York magazine went viral in September 2020.

Richard V. Reeves is President of the American Institute for Boys and Men, and Non Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. His research focuses on social mobility, inequality, and family change. He is also a contributor to the Atlantic, National Affairs, Democracy Journal, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.

His previous roles include director of strategy to the British Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, director of Demos, the London-based political think-tank, Director of Futures at the Work Foundation, principal policy advisor to the Minister for Welfare Reform, Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research, and researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. He is also a former European Business Speaker of the Year.

He earned a BA from Oxford University and a PhD from Warwick University.

Benjamin Reeves is a contributing editor at Worth magazine and a freelance journalist and documentary director and producer. His work has appeared in a range of publications including The New York Times, Miami Herald, Vice, The Los Angeles Review of Books, McClatchyDC, USAToday, PRI’s The World and GlobalPost, among others.

Rhodeen is a practicing lawyer in New Haven, a lecturer at the Yale Child Study Center, and a former counsel to the New Haven Police Department. Before becoming an attorney, Rhodeen worked as a newspaper reporter and a teacher.

Lord Peter Ricketts joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1974 and was at the heart of British foreign policy for 40 years. He was the Permanent Under Secretary at the FCO from 2006–10, the UK’s first National Security Adviser 2010–12 and Ambassador to France 2012–16. In all these roles, he was a close adviser to Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries. He has written for the Financial Times, The Times (London), the New Statesman and Prospect, and appears regularly on Sky News, the BBC, LBC and Times Radio. He is Chairman of the European Affairs Committee of the House of Lords.