Featured Contributors
Anka Mulder
President, OpenCourseWare Consortium; secretary general and director of education, Delft University of Technology.
Ken Taylor
Former Canadian ambassador to Iran.
Hedrick Smith
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter; Emmy Award-winning producer; bestselling author.
Robert DuPont
Former U.S. White House drug chief; founding director, National Institute on Drug Abuse; president, Institute for Behavior and Health, Inc.
Anil Kashyap
Professor of economics and finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Velvin Hogan
Jury foreman, Apple vs. Samsung patent infringement case.
Story Musgrave
Former shuttle astronaut, NASA.
Noam Chomsky
Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Chris Hedges
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; author, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.
Dan Ariely
Best-selling author, The Honest Truth About Dishonesty; founder and director, Center for Advanced Hindsight; professor, Duke University.
Stephen Wolfram
Creator, Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha; founder and CEO, Wolfram Research.
Richard Saul Wurman
Creator, TED conferences.
Antony Beevor
British historian; award-winning author.
Saskia Sassen
Author, The Global City; co-chair, The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University.
Richard Leakey
Paleoanthropologist; chairman, Turkana Basin Institute; professor, Stony Brook University; fellow, Royal Society of London.
Donald Sadoway
Inventor, liquid metal battery; professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Blaine Harden
Author, Escape from Camp 14; former bureau chief, East Asia, The Washington Post.
Adrienne Clarkson
Former Governor General of Canada; founder, Institute for Canadian Citizenship.
Josh Schonwald
Journalist and author, The Taste of Tomorrow: Dispatches from the Future of Food.
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Former Secretary-General, United Nations; president, Egyptian National Council for Human Rights.
Christopher Cerf
Award-winning composer & lyricist, Sesame Street
Martin Lindstrom
Branding expert; best-selling author, Buyology, and Brandwashed.
Abdiweli Mohamed Ali
Prime Minister of Somalia.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Former CNN bureau chief in Tokyo and Beijing; Author, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom.
Jamie Oliver
Celebrity chef, TV personality, and food activist.
Jill Tarter
Director of SETI Research, SETI Institute.
Susan Greenfield
Baroness; Professor of Pharmacology, Oxford University; Director, Institute for the Future of the Mind.
Herman Chinery-Hesse
Founder and CEO, SOFTtribe.
Elisabeth Badinter
Leading feminist theorist; professor, École Polytechnique in Paris; author, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women.
Wang Shu
Pritzker Prize-winning architect; Dean, School of Architecture of the China Academy of Art.
John Limbert
Distinguished Professor of International Affairs, departments of political science and history, U.S. Naval Academy.
Rick Falkvinge
Founder, Pirate Party.
Michael E. Mann
Director, Earth System Science Center. Winner, Nobel Peace Prize.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Former U.S. national security advisor to president Jimmy Carter.
James P. Delgado
Chief scientist, 2010 Titanic expedition.
