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Bradley Abelow is a businessman and political leader who formerly served as Chief of Staff to the Governor of New Jersey in the Cabinet of Gov. Jon Corzine. Prior to entering Governor Corzine's Cabinet as State Treasurer, he was a top executive for the Wall Street firm of Goldman Sachs and formerly the Global Chief Operating Officer at MFGlobal. Read More
Alan Brinkley is the Allan Nevins Professor of History at Columbia University, where he has taught since 1991. He served as University Provost from 2003 to 2009 and as chair of the Department of History from 2000 to 2003. In 1998–99, he was the Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. Read More
Jonathan Alter is an award-winning author, reporter, columnist and television analyst. Since 2011, Alter has written a column for Bloomberg View, a commentary site housed under Bloomberg News. He spent 28 years at Newsweek, where he was a senior editor and columnist and wrote more than 50 cover stories. Read More
His journalism career extends far beyond his position as chairman and publisher of the Star, “one of the best small newspapers in the United States,” according to Time magazine. Among his first journalism assignments was that of a capitol and legislative reporter for the Raleigh Times in North Carolina. Read More
Joseph A. Califano, Jr., is founder and chairman of the board of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Read More
Alexander Morgan Capron, Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, Scott H. Bice Chair in Healthcare Law, Policy and Ethics, Professor of Law and Medicine, Keck School of Medicine at USC, Co-Director, Pacific Center for Health Policy and Ethics. Read More
Hodding Carter III is a distinguished journalist, statesman, and educator. He is professor of leadership and public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Read More
Edward E. David, Jr., is an American electrical engineer who served as science adviser to President Richard M. Nixon and as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology from 1970 to 1973. Read More
Brewster C. Denny is founder of the Graduate School of Public Affairs, University of Washington, and served as its first dean from 1961 to 1980. He also has been a professor of public affairs and chairman of the university’s Marine Affairs Board (now the College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences). Read More
Stephen Goldsmith is the Daniel Paul Professor of the Practice of Government and the Director of the Innovations in American Government Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He currently directs the Mayoral Performance Analytics Initiative at Harvard. Read More
Jacob S. Hacker, Ph.D., is the Director of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science at Yale University and Vice President of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Read More
Melissa V. Harris-Perry is professor of political science at Tulane University, where she is founding director of the Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South. She previously served on the faculties of the University of Chicago and Princeton University and is the host of the Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC. Read More
Matina S. Horner is the former executive vice president of human resources for Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and College Retirement Equities Fund (TIAA-CREF). Read More
Lewis B. Kaden left his position as vice chairman of Citigroup Inc., where he was a member of Citigroup’s Executive Committee, in 2013. He is currently chairman of the Markle Foundation Board of Directors. Read More
Bob Kerrey is a former U.S. Senator and Governor of Nebraska, and recently completed his tenure as the seventh President of The New School. Read More
Alicia H. Munnell is director of the Center for Retirement Research and the Peter F. Drucker Professor of Management Sciences at Boston College’s Carroll School of Management. Read More
Janice Nittoli is president of The Century Foundation, a position she assumed in August 2011. She came to Century from the Rockefeller Foundation, where she served as associate vice president and managing director . Read More
P. Michael Pitfield has had a long and distinguished career in Canadian public service, including over a quarter-century as senator for Ottawa-Vanier, Ontario. Read More
John Podesta is the Chair of the Center for American Progress and the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Prior to founding the Center in 2003, Podesta served as White House chief of staff to President William J. Clinton. Read More
Richard Ravitch is a politician and businessman who served as the seventy-fifth lieutenant governor of New York from 2009 to 2010. He was appointed to the position in July 2009 by New York governor David Paterson. Read More
Alan Sagner is a successful real estate developer who has spent decades in public service. Read More
Harvey I. Sloane, M.D., is a public health physician with extensive grassroots and organizational experience. Currently, he is director of public health at the Eurasian Medical Education Program (an NGO) and is integral in setting up tuberculosis and HIV control programs and working on disease prevention initiatives with Russian counterparts. Read More
Shirley Williams is co-founder of the Liberal Democrats in the United Kingdom and is a member of the House of Lords, where she was leader of the party from 2001 to 2004. She is professor emeritus of elective politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is a member of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament. Read More
William Julius Wilson is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University. He is one of only 20 University Professors, the highest professional distinction for a Harvard faculty member. After receiving a Ph.D. from Washington State University in 1966, Wilson taught sociology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, before joining the University of Chicago faculty in 1972. Read More
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Charles R. Morris, fellow, is a lawyer and former investment banker whose articles and reviews have appeared in many publications including The Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
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