Joshua Angrist is an Israeli-American economist and current Ford Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Angrist was born in Columbus, Ohio, and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has earned his B.A. in economics and went on to earn his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. After finishing his Ph.D., Angrist went on to begin working... read full bio
Charlie Ang is a keynote speaker, global futurist, innovation strategist, disruption analyst, and transformation expert. Ang is a busy man who is a mentor for Kairos Society, a business partner for cloudBuy plc, co-founder for IdeasCollider!, co-founder and builder and investor for Knowble, co-founder of The Innovators Network, venture capital investor, partner, and GM for Asia for KIATT Venture Capital,... read full bio
Sterling Anderson is an American businessman who is co-founder of Aurora Innovation, and has previously had a long career working with Tesla. Anderson is an expert in autonomous vehicle technology and has previously earned his M.S. in Robotics as well as his Ph.D. in Robotics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While earning his Ph.D., Anderson began doing research while at... read full bio
Camille Wardrop Alleyne is an American aerospace engineer, space scientist, speaker, writer, leader, and current Associate Program Scientist for the International Space Station at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Alleyne was born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and she moved to the United States at 18 years old to pursue a career in space. She went on to earn her... read full bio
George Akerlof is an American economist and professor who is a professor at McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. Akerlof was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and he has earned his B.A. from Yale University and his Ph.D. from MIT. After earning his degree, Akerlof later... read full bio
Esko Aho is a Finnish politician who has previously been the 37th Prime Minister of Finland. Aho was born in Veteli, Finland, and he began earned his Master of Social Sciences at the University of Helsinki before going on to start his work in politics. He began working as a Chairman of the Finnish Centre Youth and then was a... read full bio
Ferran Adria is a Spanish chef who is best known for being the head chef of the elBulli restaurant in Roses. Adria was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and his brother, Albert Adria, is also a well-known pastry chef whom he collaborates with often. Adria began his career first working as a dishwasher at Hotel Playafels in Castelldefels. While washing... read full bio
Muna AbuSulayman is a Saudi businesswoman and activist who is best known for being the former founding Secretary General for the Alwaleed Bin Talal Foundation, for being the philanthropic arm of HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal’s Kingdom Holding Company, and for also being co-host of the Kalam Nawaem television show. AbuSulayman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and she studied at... read full bio
Nazanine Moshiri is a journalist, presenter and correspondent who has worked for Al Jazeera English. Throughout her career with Al Jazeera, Moshiri has covered huge stories based out of Europe as well as Afghanistan and Iran. Moshiri has also had the opportunity to interview numerous political figures which include the Iranian Foreign Minister, the Prime Minister of Turkey, Hugo Chavez,... read full bio
Darria Long Gillespie is a practicing emergency physician, the former senior vice president of Clinical Strategy, an author, and a television and media medical expert. Gillespie has earned her bachelor’s in political science and government from the University of Rochester and went on to earn her MBA from Harvard Business School, and her M.D. from U Of Rochester School of... read full bio
Nicole Walters is an entrepreneur, business strategist, and founder and CEO of Inherit Learning Company, which is a company that helps businesses grow their company to the next level and offers training to help build their companies. While growing up, Walters father was an immigrant who worked very hard multiple jobs to be able to put her through the top... read full bio
Darren Hardy is an American author, advisor, keynote speaker, and former publisher and CEO of SUCCESS Magazine. Hardy began his career in business at only 18 years old where he became owner of Hardy Advanced Marketing. Hardy went on to work as a real estate brokerage for Century 21 Hardy & Associates and Re/Max before going on to be owner,... read full bio
Saikat Chakrabarti is an American political advisor, activist, and software engineer who has previously served as the chief of staff for U.S. Representative, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Most recently, Chakrabarti has left his work as chief of staff to run New Consensus, a group that promotes the Green New Deal. Chakrabarti was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and he has earned his... read full bio
Gary Langer is President of Langer Research Associates and has been a polling director for ABC News. Through his work with Langer Research Associates, Langer designs, manages, and analyzes surveys research projects for various clients. Through his career with ABC News, Langer has overseen and analyzed hundreds of surveys on numerous different topics. Through his work, Langer has earned two... read full bio
Parisa Khosravi is a former senior vice president of CNN Worldwide, an expert on leadership, an adviser, keynote speaker, journalist, and a news executive. During her career with CNN, Khosravi worked on gathering international as well as domestic news, global relations for CNN, and helped direct several award-winning news stories. Some events that Khosravi went through while with CNN include... read full bio
Matt Johnson is an expert on expanding human capacity and is a founder for On Target Living. While growing up, Johnson had ADHD and had a lot of issues being able to focus as he aged. After being diagnosed, his doctors tried to tell him to take medication but Johnson refused and instead founded what is now known as, On... read full bio
Michael Gervais is a psychologist, podcast host, and an industry visionary who is co-founder of Compete to Create. Gervais has earned his Ph.D. in High Performance Psychology at San Diego University and earned his undergraduate degree from Loyola Marymount University. He began his career working as a high performance psychology consultant for Pinnacle Performance Center, Inc., where he still works,... read full bio
Peter Dunn is an author, comedian, radio host, financial consultant, and founder and President of Pete the Planner Financial Wellness. Dunn is an award-winning comedian and financial mind and is known for being a columnist for USA Today and an author for numerous books. As a radio host, Dunn is known for his radio show and podcast entitled, ‘The Pete... read full bio
Umair Haque is a consultant, author, and economist who is a world leader in management thinkers and has been known for being the youngest member of the Thinkers50. Haque has also been the Director of the Havas Media Lab and writes a blog for the Harvard Business Review. Haque has also published two books on topics which include the economy... read full bio
Steve Hanke is an American economist who has been the applied economist at the Johns Hopkins University. He has also been the Senior Fellow and Director of the Troubled Currencies Project at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. and has been co-director of the Johns Hopskins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and Study of Business Enterprise. Hanke earned his... read full bio
