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Our People

Susan Blumenthal

Physician and U.S. Rear Admiral; clinical professor, Georgetown and Tufts University Schools of Medicine; director of the health and medicine program, Center for the Study of the Presidency; senior policy and medical advisor, the Foundation for AIDS Research; former U.S. assistant surgeon general and senior global health advisor, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; founding deputy assistant secretary, Women’s Health

Journalist and syndicated columnist on international affairs; military analyst; documentary radio and filmmaker; author, War, Future Tense, and Climate Wars

Francis Fukuyama

International political economist; senior fellow, Stanford University and former professor, Johns Hopkins University; former deputy director, U.S. Department of State; author, The End of History, Trust, Our Posthuman Future, and The Origins of Political Order

Geographic demographer and cultural commentator; professor of law, culture and values at Arizona State University's law school; fellow, New America Foundation; former senior writer, The Washington Post; author, The Nine Nations of North America, Edge City, and Radical Evolution

Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and presidential advisor; former professor, environmental policy, Harvard University and president and director of the Woods Hole Research Center; chair, executive committee, Pugwash conferences; author; MacArthur fellow

Economist; undersecretary of state for energy, environment and agriculture; former vice chair, Goldman Sachs International; author, Reforming the International Monetary Systems

Political scientist and visual communicator at Stanford University, specializing in complex, wicked problems and social messes like global climate change; founder, Information Mapping. Inc.; author, Visual Language: Global Communication for the 21st Century

Partner, Reos Partners; cofounder, The Global Leadership Initiative; facilitator, national scenario projects in South Africa (Mont Fleur), Colombia, Guatemala; author, Solving Tough Problems and Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change

Cognitive linguist; professor of linguistics, U.C. Berkeley; author, Metaphors We Live By, Moral Politics, and Philosophy in the Flesh: How the Embodied Mind Challenges the Western Tradition, Don't Think of an Elephant, and The Political Mind

Graham Leicester

Integrative thinker on governance, learning, health, and policy; cofounder, International Futures Forum, Scotland; former diplomat (EU and China); co-author, Ten Things to do in a Conceptual Emergency; author, Transformative Innovation in Education and Beyond Survival

Kishore Mahbubani

Historian, philosopher, and dean/professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy; career Singaporean diplomat, including ambassador to the UN and permanent secretary of the foreign ministry; author, Can Asians Think and The New Asian Hemisphere

Mark Malloch-Brown

Authority on foreign policy and finance; former vice-chairman, World Economic Forum and minister of state, UK foreign office, covering Africa and Asia, member of Gordon Brown's cabinet, UN deputy secretary-general, UNDP administrator, and World Bank vice president; member, House of Lords

President, Comprehensive Crisis Management; professor emeritus and founder, the Center for Crisis Management, University of Southern California; author, Business NOT as Usual, Smart Thinking for Crazy Times, Dirty Rotten Strategies, and Swans, Swine, and Swindlers: Coping With The Growing Threat of Mega Crises and Mega Messes

Professor, Harvard Business School, specializing in the competitive advantage of companies, nations, and regions, and the application of competitive principles to social problems such as health care, the environment, and corporate responsibility; cofounder, Monitor Consulting; author of 18 books including Competitive Strategy and The Competitive Advantage of Nations; coauthor, Can Japan Compete?

Writer, futurist, entrepreneur; president, Morning Star Imports; former legislative assistant; coauthor, Nuclear Weapons Decision Making and The Futures of Women

Jonathan Sallet

Attorney specializing in technology, public policy, and politics; partner, O’Melveny & Meyers; former assistant secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce; presidential campaign strategist

Russell Schweickart

Consultant, satellite technology and space development; Apollo 9 astronaut; cofounder, Association of Space Explorers and the B612 Foundation (addressing astereoids)

Economist; Chan Chair in Global Management, Haas Business School, U.C. Berkeley; former dean, London Business School and U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business; former National Economic Adviser to President Clinton and chair, council of economic advisers; author, Who’s Bashing Whom?: Trade Conflict in High Technology Industries

Specialist on Russian and Eastern European transformation; board member, German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin; retired professor and author of eight books including After the Revolutions: East-West Trade and Technology Transfer in the 1990s

Mathis Wackernagel

Pioneer in sustainable development and metrics; executive director, Global Footprint Network; co-creator, the Ecological Footprint; author, Our Ecological Footprint

Political scientist specializing in international and national political economy and security; professor and director, Institute of International Studies, U.C. Berkeley; author, The End of Arrogance: America in the Global Competition of Ideas; The Success of Open Source

Angela Wilkinson

Global scenarist; director of futures programme, Smith School of Enterprise and Environment, University of Oxford; former leader, Shell International's global scenario team; director of major public-private scenario initiatives on sustainability, AIDS in Africa, and global finance; physicist

Viability pioneer and founder of Whole Systems, a Belgium-based consultancy using integrated, human-centered, systemic approaches for enabling viable enterprise and win-win solutions; coauthor, The Millennium Bug

Michael Zielenziger

Managing editor/thought leadership for Oxford Economics. Former Asian bureau chief for Knight Ridder, based in Tokyo; long-time Asia-Pacific foreign correspondent; Pulitzer Prize finalist; author, Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Lost Its Way and "China: Life Science Leader in 2020"

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