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Vice President and Executive Director, Business and Society Program, The Aspen Institute
Writer; Artist
Bezos Scholar
Founder and CEO, Girls Who Code; CEO, Moms First
Executive Director and Curator, Letterform Archive
Writer; Advice Columnist, Savage Love; Podcast Host, "Savage Lovecast"
Jazz Fusion Band
University Professor of Art History and History, Columbia University
President and CEO, Wells Fargo and Company
Graphic Designer; Partner, Pentagram
Executive Director, Aspen Digital, The Aspen Institute
Founder and Principal, The Bureau Consortium; Owner, Schweit Consulting; Author, “Stop the Killing: How to End the Mass Shooting Crisis”
Historian; Author, "The World: A Family History of Humanity"
Singer-Songwriter; Founder, Hurray for the Riff Raff
Chief Heat Officer and Director, Climate Emergency Mobilization, City of Los Angeles
Founder and President, GOOD+ Foundation
Vice President and Deputy Chief Privacy Officer, Meta
Executive Director, Stevens Initiative, The Aspen Institute
President, COO and Member, Board of Directors, SpaceX
Chairman, Special Olympics International; Co-Founder, Unite; Co-Founder and Chairman, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning
Founder and CEO, Kaleidoscope Affect; Retired Major General, Maryland Army National Guard
Executive Director, Religion and Society Program, The Aspen Institute
Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Vista Equity Partners
Co-Executive Director, Financial Security Program, Aspen Institute
Co-Anchor, “Squawk Box,” CNBC; Financial Columnist, The New York Times; Founder and Editor at Large, DealBook
Senior Director of Government Relations, Business Roundtable
Founder, Howard Kennedy
Actor and director
Executive Vice President, External Affairs, The Obama Foundation
CEO, GE Vernova
CEO, Microsoft AI
Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University; Weil Director, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Astrophysicist; Research Professor of Theoretical Cosmology, Institute for Advanced Computational Science, Stony Brook University
CEO and Board of Trustees Member, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Editor at Large, New York Media; Podcast Host, “On With Kara Swisher” and “Pivot”; Contributing Writer, New York Magazine
CEO bp’s Archaea Energy and bp’s former Senior Vice President for the Gulf of Mexico and Canada