Conversations with pioneering business and cultural leaders about leadership, strategy, and how business and the economy are changing. 

Goldman Sachs Talks

Conversations with pioneering business and cultural leaders about leadership, strategy, and how business and the economy are changing. 

Val Ackerman

Commissioner of the Big East Conference

Carlos Acosta

Director, Birmingham Royal Ballet

Eric Adams

Mayor of New York City

Chris Ailman

Chief Investment Officer, CalSTRS

Koby Altman

General Manager, Cleveland Cavaliers

Joseph Altuzarra

Fashion Designer and Founder of Altuzarra

Dr. Aya Abe

Director Of Japan's National Institute of Population and Social Security Research

Dan Abrams

Chief Legal Affairs Anchor, ABC News and Founder and CEO, Abrams Media

André Aciman

Author, Call Me By Your Name

David Adjaye

Architect and Designer of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture

Will Ahmed

Founder and CEO of WHOOP

Ray Allen

Professional Basketball Player and Olympic Gold Medalist

John Amaechi

Former National Basketball Association Player

Dominique Ansel

Award-winning Pastry Chef and Author, Everyone Can Bake

Kwame A. Appiah

Philosopher and Author

Anne Applebaum

Author, Twilight of Democracy

Richard Armstrong

Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Alexandre Arnault

CEO, RIMOWA

Cliff Asness

Founder, Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer of AQR Capital Management

Rick Atkinson

Pulitzer Prize-winning Historian and Author, The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

John Avlon

Former Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Beast

Joe Bae

Co-CEO of KKR and Founder of The Asian American Foundation

Safi Bahcall

Author, Loonshots

Christine Bader

Author of The Evolution of the Corporate Idealist: When Girl Meets Oil

Robert Bakish

President and CEO of ViacomCBS

Tyra Banks

CEO, The Tyra Banks Company

Mary Barra

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, General Motors Company

Corie Barry

Chief Executive Officer, Best Buy

Kaspar Basse

Founder and Chairman, Joe & The Juice

David Beckham

Former Professional Football Player & UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

Victoria Beckham

Fashion Designer

Nick Beighton

CEO of ASOS

Dr. Arie Belldegrun

Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, Allogene Therapeutics

David Benioff

Novelist and Co-creator of HBO's Game of Thrones

Marc Benioff

Chair and CEO, Salesforce

Jonny Benjamin

Mental Health Advocate

Neil Berg

Composer, Lyricist and Producer

Dr. Seth Berkley

CEO, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance

Phil Bertelsen

Documentary Filmmaker, Ark Media

Michael Beschloss

Presidential Historian and Author, Presidents of War

Scott Bessent

Chief Investment Officer, Key Square Group

Dr. Shivani Bhalla

Founder of Ewaso Lions

Derek Black

Subject of Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

Leon Black

Chairman and CEO, Apollo Global Management

Cherie Blair

Barrister and Philanthropist

Marcus Bleasdale

Contributing Photographer for National Geographic

David W. Blight

Author, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

Tony Blinken

Former US Deputy Secretary of State

David Blood

Co-Founder and Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management

Alex Blumberg

Co-Founder & CEO, Gimlet Media

Neil Blumenthal

Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Warby Parker

Timo Boldt

Founder and CEO, Gousto

Nick Bollettieri

Tennis Legend and Founder of the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy

Andrew Bolton

Curator in Charge of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute

Julia Boorstin

CNBC Media & Tech Correspondent & Author, When Women Lead

Dr. Raphael Bostic

President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Melissa Bradley

Founder, 1863 Ventures

Leda Braga

Founder and CEO, Systematica Investments

Scooter Braun

Scooter Braun, Founder, SB Projects

Orlando Bravo

Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Thoma Bravo

Ian Bremmer

President of the Eurasia Group and Author of “The Power of Crisis”

Rosalind Brewer

Chief Operating Officer and Group President, Starbucks

Douglas Brinkley

Professor of History at Rice University and Author of American Moonshot

Jerry Brito

Executive Director of Coin Center

Chris Britt

Co-Founder and CEO of Chime

Tom Brokaw

Journalist and Author

Cornell Brooks

CEO of the NAACP

Ethan Brown

Founder and CEO, Beyond Meat

Tim Brown

Co-founder and Co-CEO, Allbirds

Zak Brown

CEO of McLaren Racing

Lord John Browne

Former CEO of BP and Member of the House of Lords

Kimberly Bryant

Founder and CEO, Black Girls Code

Scott Budnick

Film Producer and CEO of One Community

Tory Burch

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tory Burch LLC

Christy Turlington Burns

Model and Founder, Every Mother Counts

Ric Burns

Documentary filmmaker

William Burns

US Deputy Secretary of State

Barbara Bush

Co-founder and CEO of Global Health Corps

Mrs. Laura Bush

Former First Lady of the United States and Chair of the George W. Bush Institute’s Women’s Initiative

Lauren Bush Lauren

Creative Director and Chief Executive Officer of FEED Projects

Giovanni Caforio

CEO of Bristol-Myers Squibb

Alastair Campbell

Political Strategist and Mind Ambassador

Melanie Campbell

President and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation

Dana Canedy

Administrator, The Pulitzer Prizes

Patrick Cantlay

2021 PGA TOUR Player of the Year

Mayor LaToya Cantrell

New Orleans, LA

Ben Cardin

US Senator

Peter Carlsson

CEO, Northvolt

Mark Carney

UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance

Jovita Carranza

Administrator, U.S. Small Business Administration

Ash Carter

Former US Secretary of Defense and Author, Inside the Five-Sided Box

Maverick Carter

CEO/Co-founder, SpringHill Company

Zachary Carter

Author, The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes and Senior Reporter, HuffPost

Sarah Casanova

Chief Executive Officer, McDonald’s Holdings (Japan)

Jean Case

CEO of The Case Impact Network and Chairman of the National Geographic Society

Mathieu Chabran

Co-founder of Tikehau Capital

Christian Chabot

Co-founder and CEO of Tableau Software

Peter Chernin

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, The Chernin Group

Ron Chernow

Historian & Author, Grant & Alexander Hamilton

Ellen Chesler

Scholar and Women's Rights Advocate

Carolyn Childers

CEO & Co-founder, Chief

Jimmy Chin

Mountain Athlete, Photographer, Filmmaker

Deepak Chopra, M.D.

Founder, The Chopra Foundation

Amy Chozick

Writer-At-Large, The New York Times and Author, Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling

Amy Chua

Professor, Yale Law School Author, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations

James Citrin

Leader, Spencer Stuart North American CEO Practice

Richard A. Clarke

National Security Expert and Author

Keller Rinaudo Cliffton

CEO and Co-founder of Zipline

Dan Cogan

Documentary Filmmaker

Bob Colacello

Journalist and Vanity Fair Special Correspondent

Kat Cole

COO and President of North America for Focus Brands

Joanna Coles

Former Chief Content Officer, Hearst Magazines

Tony Coles

President, CEO and Chairperson, Cerevel Therapeutics

Steve Coll

Pulitzer Prize-winning Author and Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

Beth Comstock

Author and Former Vice Chair, General Electric

John Connaughton

Co-Managing Partner of Bain Capital

Misty Copeland

Principal Dancer for American Ballet Theatre

Deedee Corradini

Former President, Women’s Ski Jumping USA

David Cote

Former Chairman and CEO, Honeywell and Author, Winning Now, Winning Later

US Sen. Tom Cotton

Author, Sacred Duty: A Soldier's Tour at Arlington National Cemetery

Jim Coulter

Co-CEO and Founding Partner, TPG

Katie Couric

Award-Winning Journalist, Host and Executive Producer, America Inside Out, National Geographic Channel

John F. Crowley

Chairman and CEO of Amicus Therapeutics

Mark Cuban

Owner, Dallas Mavericks

Stacey Cunningham

President of the NYSE Group

The Most Rev. Michael Curry

Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church

Steve Daines

US Senator

Ray Dalio

Founder, Co-Chief Investment Officer & Co-Chairman, Bridgewater Associates

Dr. Susan David

Author, Emotional Agility

Ruth Davidson

Baroness of Lundin Links

Tim Davie

Director-General, BBC

Dr. John J. DeGioia

President of Georgetown University

Frank Del Rio

President and CEO of Norwegian Cruise Lines

Michael Dell

Chairman and CEO, Dell Technologies

Peter Diamandis

Chairman and CEO X PRIZE Foundation

Jared Diamond

Author, Upheaval and Professor of Geography, UCLA

John Dickerson

Author, The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency and Correspondent, 60 Minutes

Mary Dillon

CEO of Ulta Beauty

Deborah DiSanzo

General Manager, IBM Watson Health

Byron Dixon

CEO of Micro-Fresh

Cardinal Timothy Dolan

Cardinal and Archbishop of New York

Robert Draper

Writer at Large, The New York Times Magazine

Stanley Druckenmiller

Chairman and CEO of Duquesne Family Office

Mike Duggan

Mayor of Detroit

Thomas Dyja

Author of New York, New York, New York

David Eagleman

Stanford University Neuroscientist

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Retired NASCAR Driver and NBC Sports Analyst

Rahm Emanuel

Former Chicago Mayor and Author, The Nation City

Dr. Zeke Emanuel

Chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania

Juan Enriquez

Co-Founder & Managing Director, Excel Venture Management

Mark Esper

US Secretary of Defense

Oskar Eustis

Artistic Director, The Public Theater

Irving Fain

CEO/Founder, Bowery Farming

John Fallon

Chief Executive, Pearson

Dr. Paul Farmer

Chief Strategist and Co-Founder, Partners In Health, and Professor, Harvard Medical School

Paul Farmer

CBE and CEO, Mind

David Fialkow

Documentary Filmmaker

Terry Finley

President and CEO, West Point Thoroughbreds

Princess Firyal of Jordan

UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador

Mardy Fish

Former Professional Tennis Player

Dawn Fitzpatrick

Chief Investment Officer, Soros Fund Management

Antoine Flamarion

Co-founder of Tikehau Capital

Bryan Fogel

Documentary Filmmaker

John Foley

Founder and CEO, Peloton

Peter Fonagy

Chief Executive of Anna Freud Centre for Children and Families

Eric Foner

Historian and Author, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

James Forman Jr.

Professor, Yale Law School and Author of Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

Ed Foster-Simeon

President and CEO of the U.S. Soccer Foundation

Dr. Wayne Frederick

President of Howard University

Frances Frei

Professor, Harvard Business School

Adena Friedman

President and CEO of Nasdaq

Mike Fries

CEO and Vice Chairman, Liberty Global

Jayne-Anne Gadhi

CEO, Virgin Money

William G. Gale

Arjay and Frances Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy and senior fellow, Brookings Institution

Fernando Garcia

Co-Creative Director of Oscar de la Renta & Founder/Creative Director of Monse

Cori “Coco” Gauff

Professional Tennis Player

Ali Ghodsi

Co-Founder and CEO of Databricks

Dan Gilbert

Founder of Quicken Loans

Dave Gilboa

Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Warby Parker

Gary Ginsberg

Author of `First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (and Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents`

Malcolm Gladwell

Author and Staff Writer at The New Yorker

Eddie Glaude Jr.

Chair, Department of African American Studies, Princeton University and Author of Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

Laurie Glimcher

Dean of the Weill Cornell Medical College

Tricia Glynn

Managing Director, Advent International

Susan Goldberg

Editor-in-chief and Editorial Director of National Geographic

Neal Goldman

Founder of Networking Platform 'Relationship Science'

Jack Goldsmith

Author, In Hoffa's Shadow and Professor, Harvard Law School

Jane Goodall

Ethologist and Conservationist

Sasan Goodarzi

CEO, Intuit

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Presidential Historian

Annette Gordon-Reed

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian and Author

Allison Gornik

Subject of Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

Alex Gorsky

Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson

Dr. Scott Gottlieb

Author, Uncontrolled Spread; Former FDA Commissioner; Board Member, Pfizer and Illumina

Theresia Gouw

Founding Partner of Acrew Capital

Adam Grant

Organizational Psychologist and Wharton Professor

James Grant

Founder of 'Grant's Interest Rate Observer'

Jon Gray

President and COO, The Blackstone Group

Brian Grazer

Academy Award-winning Producer and Author, Face to Face: The Art of Human Connection

Emma Grede

CEO and Co-founder of Good American

Kirsten Green

Founding Partner, Forerunner Ventures

Aleksandra Gren

Country Manager, Fiserv Poland

Ken Griffin

Founder and CEO, Citadel

Shaquem Griffin

Professional Football Player

Shaquill Griffin

Professional Football Player

Jitse Groen

CEO, Just Eat Takeaway.com

Loyd Grossman

Broadcaster, Entrepreneur, Gastronome and Heritage Campaigner

Will Guidara

Restaurateur and Former Co-Owner of Make It Nice Hospitality Group

Gordon Gund

Chairman & CEO, Gund Investment Corporation

Lulie Gund

Co-founder, Foundation Fighting Blindness

António Guterres

United Nations Secretary-General

Dr. Richard Haass

Author of The World: A Brief Introduction

Jim Hackett

President and CEO of Ford Motor Company

Jonathan Haidt

Professor of Ethical Leadership, NYU Stern School of Business

Nikki Haley

US Ambassador to the United Nations (2017-2018) and Author, With All Due Respect

Nicolas Hamilton

Racing Driver

David Harding

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Winton Group

Misan Harriman

Photographer

Britt Harris

President, CEO and CIO of UTIMCO

Tristan Harris

President of the Center for Humane Technology

Scott Harrison

Founder and CEO, charity: water

Julia Hartz

Co-Founder and CEO, Eventbrite

Maggie Hassan

US Senator

Heather Hasson

Co-founder and co-CEO, FIGS

Dr. Richard Hatchett

CEO of Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations

Jan Hatzius

Chief Economist, Goldman Sachs

Stephen Hawthornthwaite

Chairman and CEO, Rothy’s

General Michael Hayden

Former Director of the NSA and the CIA

Sarah Hendrickson

2014 Olympic Winter Games Alpine Ski Jumper

Diana B. Henriques

Award-Winning Journalist and Author

Whitney Wolfe Herd

Founder and CEO of Bumble

Laurie Hernandez

2016 Olympic Gold Medalist in Gymnastics

Hugh Herr

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, MIT Media Lab and Co-Director of MIT Center for Extreme Bionics

Davida Herzl

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Aclima

Bruce Heyman

Amb. Bruce Heyman Co-Author, The Art of Diplomacy

Vicki Heyman

Co-Author of The Art of Diplomacy

Adam Higginbotham

Author, Midnight in Chernobyl

Ambassador Christopher Hill

Former US Ambassador to South Korea

Anya Hindmarch

Fashion Designer

Linda Hirshman

Supreme Court Lawyer and Author

Reid Hoffman

Co-Founder, LinkedIn and Partner, Greylock

Kelly Holmes

Olympic Gold Medalist

Michael Horvath

CEO and Co-Founder of Strava

Drew Houston

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Dropbox

Eddie Huang

Lawyer, Restaurateur and Author

Anne Hubert

Senior Vice President at Viacom Media Networks and Head of its Creative Consulting Team

Arianna Huffington

Co-founder of The Huffington Post, founder of wellness venture Thrive Global and board member of Uber, Inc.

Chris Hughes

Co-Founder of Facebook and Co-Chair of the Economic Security Project

Louise Hulland

Broadcaster and Journalist

Barbara Humpton

CEO of Siemens USA

Vivian Hunt DBE

McKinsey & Company Managing Partner, UK and Ireland

Jennifer Hyman

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Rent the Runway

Jean Hynes

Managing Partner, Wellington Management

Bob Iger

Executive Chairman, The Walt Disney Company

Andre Iguodala

Professional Basketball Player and Author, The Sixth Man: A Memoir

Tom Ilube

Chair of the Rugby Football Union and Founder of the African Gifted Foundation

Jeff Immelt

Former Chairman and CEO of GE

Bjarke Ingels

Internationally Acclaimed Architect

Steve Inskeep

Host, NPR's Morning Edition and Author, Imperfect Union

Walter Isaacson

Historian and Author of The Code Breaker

LL COOL J

CEO of Rock the Bells, Hip Hop Artist, Music Producer, Actor

Deborah Jackson

Co-Founder and CEO, Plum Alley Investments

Philip Jansen

Chief Executive Officer, BT Group

Andy Jassy

Chief Executive Officer, Amazon Web Services

Kris Jenner

CEO, Jenner Communications

Michaël Jérémiasz

Paralympian and Former Professional Wheelchair Tennis Player

Earvin “Magic” Johnson

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Magic Johnson Enterprises

Dr. Paula Johnson

President of Wellesley College

Jeff Jonas

IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist of the IBM Entity Analytics Group

Cobi Jones

All-time Leader for Appearances on the U.S. National Soccer Team

US Sen. Doug Jones

Author, Bending Toward Justice

Eddie Jones

Head Coach, England National Rugby Union Team

Gina Ortiz Jones

Under Secretary of the Air Force

Paul Tudor Jones

Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Tudor Investment Corporation and Co-Founder, JUST Capital

Van Jones

Host, CNN and Chief Executive Officer, The REFORM Alliance

Alan Jope

CEO, Unilever

Andrea Jung

CEO of Grameen America

Sebastian Junger

Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker, Author of Freedom

Dean Kamen

Inventor and Entrepreneur

Dr. Eric Kandel

Nobel Prize-winning Neuroscientist and Co-director of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University

Lindsay Kaplan

Chief Brand Officer & Co-founder, Chief

Scott Kapnick

Founder & CEO of HPS Investment Partners, LLC

Jonathan Karl

Chief White House Correspondent, ABC News and Author, Front Row at the Trump Show

Brad Katsuyama

Co-Founder and CEO, IEX

David Katz

Founder and CEO, The Plastic Bank

Dr. Alan Kay

Foundational Researcher in Computer Science

Chip Kaye

CEO, Warburg Pincus

Jacki Kelley

Chief Operating Officer of Bloomberg Media

U.S. Marine Corps, Ret. General John Kelly

Former White House Chief of Staff, Former Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Mark Kelly

Retired Astronaut and Retired US Navy Captain

Ray Kelly

Former New York City Police Department Commissioner

Ross Kemp

Actor and Award-winning Documentary Maker

Paula Kerger

President & CEO of PBS

Zalmay Khalilzad

Former Ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq

Parag Khanna

Managing Partner, FutureMap

Daniel Dae Kim

Actor, Director and Producer

Gilbert King

Author, Devil in the Grove

Karlie Kloss

Model and Entrpreneur, Founder of Kode With Klossy

Robert Kraft

Chairman and CEO of the New England Patriots and The Kraft Group

Henry Kravis

Co-Founder, Co-Chairman, and Co-Chief Executive Officer of KKR

Sallie Krawcheck

CEO/Co-founder, Ellevest

Arvind Krishna

CEO, IBM

Esther Krofah

Executive Director of FasterCures

John Kufuor

President of the Republic of Ghana (2001-2009)

Samarth Kulkarni

CEO, CRISPR Therapeutics

Scott Kupor

Managing Partner, Andreessen Horowitz and Author, Secrets of Sand Hill Road

Richard Kurin

Smithsonian Under Secretary for History, Art and Culture

George Kurtz

CEO/Co-founder, CrowdStrike

David Lammy

Right Honourable David Lammy, Member of Parliament for Tottenham, Shadow Secretary of State for Justice

Kenneth Langone

Co-Founder, The Home Depot

Doreen Lawrence

Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, OBE

Zalmay Khalilzad

Former Ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq

Jeff Lawson

Co-founder and CEO of Twilio

Neil Laybourn

Mental Health Advocate

Brig. Gen. Jeannie M. Leavitt

Commander, Air Force Recruiting Service

Kewsong Lee

CEO, The Carlyle Group

Jeneria Lekilelei

Conservationist, Ewaso Lions

Nick Leschly

CEO, Bluebird Bio

Meredith Kopit Levien

CEO, The New York Times Company

Denise Lewis

Olympic Gold Medalist

John Lewis

US Representative of Georgia's Fifth Congressional District

Ric Lewis

Executive Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, Tristan Capital Partners

Daniel Libeskind

Principal Design Architect, Studio Libeskind

Maya Lin

Artist, Architect and Memorial Designer

Paul Lindley OBE

Founder, Ella's Kitchen

Tom Lister

Co-Managing Partner, Permira

Avi Loeb

Professor and Author

Fredrik Logevall

Professor of History, Harvard University

Christine Loh

Under Secretary for the Environment, Hong Kong

Dr. Michael Lomax

President and CEO of the United Negro College Fund

Bernard Looney

Chief Executive Officer, BP

Kevin Love

Professional Basketball Player

Amory Lovins

Co-Founder and Chief Scientist of Rocky Mountain Institute

Daniel Lubetzky

Founder and Executive Chairman, KIND Snacks

Dennis Lynch

Head of Counterpoint Global, Morgan Stanley Investment Management

Tzi Ma

Actor

Dame Ellen MacArthur

Ret. Professional Sailor and Founder, Ellen MacArthur Foundation

John Mackey

Co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods

Jeff Maggioncalda

CEO, Coursera

Claudia Malley

National Geographic's Executive Vice President of Global Corporate Partnership

Kweku Mandela

Filmaker and President, Out of Africa Entertainment and Co-founder of Africa Rising

Roy March

Chief Executive Officer, Eastdil Secured

Howard Marks

Co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management

Geoff Martha

Chairman and CEO, Medtronic

General James Mattis (USMC, Ret.)

Former US Secretary of Defense

General Stanley McChrystal (US Army, Ret.)

Former Commander of the US & Allied Forces in Afghanistan and Founder of the McChrystal Group

Dr. Mark McClellan

Director, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy

Muffet McGraw

Head Coach of Notre Dame Women’s Basketball

Rodney McMullen

Chairman and CEO, The Kroger Company

Admiral William McRaven

Former Commander of the United States Special Operations Command

Kara Medoff Barnett

Executive Director, American Ballet Theatre

Ken Mehlman

Co-Head, Global Impact, KKR and Global Head of Public Affairs, KKR

Ming Mei

Co-Founder and CEO of GLP

Marc Metrick

President of Saks Fifth Avenue

Danny Meyer

Chief Executive Officer of Union Square Hospitality Group

David Miliband

President and Chief Executive Officer of the International Rescue Committee

Michael Milken

Chairman, The Milken Institute

Ella Mills

Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Deliciously Ella

Matthew Mills

Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Deliciously Ella

Scott Mills

Scott Mills, President, BET Networks

Yao Ming

Former National Basketball Association Player and Founder of the Yao Ming Foundation

Rebecca Minkoff

Fashion Designer

Rajeev Misra

CEO, SoftBank Investment Advisers and Board Member, SoftBank Group

Jon Moeller

President/CEO of Procter & Gamble

Michael Scott Moore

Author, The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast

Wes Moore

CEO, Robin Hood

Virginie Morgon

CEO, Eurazeo

Marc Morial

President and CEO of the National Urban League

Dr. Dambisa Moyo

Economist and Author of How Boards Work

Ibtihaj Muhammad

US Olympic Fencer and Author, Proud: My Fight for an Unlikely American Dream

Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad

Professor of History, Race and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee

Author, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer; Cancer Physician and Researcher

Dr. Denis Mukwege

Nobel Laureate and Founder, Panzi Hospital

Oscar Munoz

Executive Chairman, United Airlines

James Murdoch

Chief Executive Officer of 21st Century Fox

Dr. Vivek Murthy

Former US Surgeon General

David Mussafer

Managing Partner, Advent International

Dikembe Mutombo

NBA Hall of Famer, Chairman and President , Dikembe Mutombo Foundation

Satya Nadella

CEO, Microsoft

Stanley Nelson

Emmy Award Winning Filmmaker

José Neves

Founder and CEO Farfetch

Brian Niccol

Chairman and CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill

Nandan Nilekani

Co-Founder of Infosys

Nitin Nohria

Dean of Harvard Business School

Lando Norris

McLaren Formula One Driver

Edward Norton

Actor and Entrepreneur

Ellen Ochoa

Former Director, Johnson Space Center and Retired NASA Astronaut

Jill O'Donnell-Tormey

CEO of the Cancer Research Institute

Admiral Eric Olson

Retired US Navy Admiral and 8th Commander, US Special Operations Command

Hakeem Oluseyi

Space Sciences Education Manager, NASA Science Mission Directorate

David Olusoga

British Historian and Professor

Shaquille O’Neal

Former NBA Player and Philanthropist

Michael Oppenheimer

Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton University

Peter Oppenheimer

Goldman Sachs, Chief Global Equity Strategist and Author, The Long Good Buy

Jeff Orlowski

Documentary Film Director, Chasing Ice & Chasing Coral

Evan Osnos

Author of Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now

Yotam Ottolenghi

Chef and Author

Susan Page

Washington Bureau Chief at 'USA Today' and Author of 'Madam Speaker`

Stephen Pagliuca

Co-Chairman, Bain Capital; Co-Owner, Boston Celtics

Anna Palmer

Co-Author, POLITICO Playbook and The Hill to Die On

Gwyneth Paltrow

Founder and CEO, goop

Candace Parker

WNBA Champion

Douglas Parker

Chairman and CEO of American Airlines

Verena Pausder

Founder of Fox & Sheep

Christiane Pendarvis

Co-President and Chief Merchant, Savage X Fenty

Dana Perino

Former White House Press Secretary, Fox News Anchor, and Author

Toni Petersson

Chief Executive Officer, Oatly

Michael Pettis

Economist and Professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management

Charles Phillips

Co-Chair of the Black Economic Alliance and Co-Founder of Recognize

Professor Peter Piot

Director, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Bob Pittman

Chairman and CEO, iHeartMedia

Kevin Plank

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Under Armour

Richard Plepler

Chairman and CEO of HBO

Frank Pope

CEO of Save the Elephants

Samantha Power

US Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) and Member of President Obama’s Cabinet

Tony Prophet

Chief Equality Officer, Salesforce

Lewis Pugh

Endurance Swimmer and United Nations Patron Of The Oceans

Patrick Radden Keefe

Staff Writer, The New Yorker and Author, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Rami Rahim

CEO of Juniper Networks

Michael Rapino

President and CEO, Live Nation Entertainment

Naval Ravikant

CEO and Founder, AngelList

Jenny Reardon

Author and Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Cruz”

Jamie Redford

Documentary Filmmaker and Co-founder of The Redford Center

J.J. Redick

Professional Basketball Player and Host of The J.J. Redick Podcast

Robert Reffkin

Founder and CEO of Compass

Gregg Renfrew

Founder and CEO of Beautycounter

Claudio Reyna

Former Captain of the U.S. National Soccer Team

Kim Reynolds

Governor of Iowa

Jason Rezaian

Global Opinions Writer, The Washington Post and Author, Prisoner

Susan Rice

Former US Ambassador to the UN, Former National Security Advisor and Author, Tough Love

Cecile Richards

Co-Founder of Supermajority

Thomas Ricks

Author, First Principles and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist

Rick Rieder

CIO of Global Fixed Income, BlackRock

Matthew Riley

Founder and Executive Chairman of Daisy Group

Adam Rippon

Author, Beautiful on the Outside

Bill Ritter

Former Governor of Colorado and President of the Center for the New Energy Economy

Andrew Roberts

Historian and Author of Leadership in War

Brian Roberts

Chairman and CEO, Comcast

George Roberts

Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, KKR & Co.

David Robinson

Former NBA Player, Investor and Philanthropist

Monique Rodriguez

Founder and CEO, Mielle Organics

Emmanuel Roman

Chief Executive Officer of PIMCO

Ginni Rometty

Former Chairman, President and CEO of IBM

Mitt Romney

US Senator from Utah

Ralph Rosenberg

Global Head of Real Estate, KKR

Dan Rosensweig

President and CEO, Chegg

Richard Rothstein

Author, The Color of Law and Distinguished Fellow, Economic Policy Institute

Linda Rottenberg

Co-Founder and CEO of Endeavor

Marc Rowan

CEO and Co-Founder of Apollo Global Management

Horacio Rozanski

President and CEO of Booz Allen Hamilton

David M. Rubenstein

Co-Founder and Co-Executive Chairman, The Carlyle Group and Author, 'The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians'

Stuart J. Russell

Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley and Author, Human Compatible: AI and the Problem of Control

Kate Ryder

Founder & CEO of Maven Clinic

Haim Saban

Chairman & CEO, Saban Capital Group

Bozoma Saint John

Chief Marketing Officer, Netflix

Dr. Enric Sala

Marine Ecologist and National Geographic Society Explorer-in-residence

Jean Salata

CEO and Founding Partner, Baring Private Equity Asia

Julian Salisbury

Global Co-Head of Asset Management, Goldman Sachs

Dr. Cristián Samper

President and Chief Executive Officer of the Wildlife Conservation Society

Marcus Samuelsson

Chef and Author of The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food

Josh Sapan

Chief Executive Officer of AMC Networks

Barry Scheck

Co-Founder, The Innocence Project

Eric Schmidt

Former Executive Chair, Alphabet and Google

Dan Schulman

President and CEO of PayPal

Howard Schultz

Chairman Emeritus, Starbucks Coffee Company

Daniel Schwartz

CEO, Restaurant Brands International Inc.

Stephen Schwarzman

Blackstone, Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder and Author, What It Takes

Tom Scott

Co-founder, Chairman & CEO, The Nantucket Project

Veronika Scott

Founder and CEO, The Empowerment Plan

Caryn Seidman Becker

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Clear

John Sexton

New York University President

Weijian Shan

Group Chairman and CEO of PAG

Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Founder and CEO, Paytm

Jake Sherman

Co-Author, POLITICO Playbook and The Hill to Die On

Jeff Shesol

Historian and Author

Alexandra Shiva

Documentary Filmmaker

Mike Sievert

President and CEO of T-Mobile

Dr. Vishal Sikka

CEO and Managing Director of Infosys

Dr. Ruth Simmons

President Emerita of Brown University

Boyan Slat

Founder and CEO, The Ocean Cleanup

Robert Smith

Technology Investor and Founder of Vista Equity Partners

Robert Rowland Smith

Philosopher and Author

Barry Sonnenfeld

Filmmaker and Author, Call Your Mother

Trina Spear

Co-founder and co-CEO, FIGS

Evan Spiegel

Co-Founder and CEO, Snap Inc.

Balaji Srinivasan

CEO of 21 Inc. and Board Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Jonathan Stafford

Artistic Director, New York City Ballet

Darren Star

Television Producer, Director, Writer

Dr. Naureen Starling

Consultant Medical Oncologist, The Royal Marsden

Jenny Steffensmeier

President, Steffensmeier Welding & Manufacturing

Bret Stephens

Op-Ed Columnist, New York Times

Matthew Stevenson

Subject of Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

Charles Stewart

CEO of Sotheby’s

Julia Steyn

Gerneral Motors Head of Urban Mobility

Dr. Paul Stoffels

Vice Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Scientific Officer of Johnson & Johnson

Jens Stoltenberg

Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary-General of NATO

Daniel Susskind

Author, A World Without Work

Christina Swarns

Executive Director of the Innocence Project

Julia Sweet

Chief Executive Officer, Accenture North America

Hooi Ling Tan

Co-Founder of Grab

Alex Tapscott

Co-author, Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business and the World

Alan Taylor

Two-Time Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Historian and Professor

Johnny Taylor, Jr.

President and CEO, Thurgood Marshall College Fund

Mark Teixeira

Retired Major League Baseball Player and ESPN Analyst

Astro Teller

Captain of X, The Moonshot Factory

Angus Thirlwell

CEO and Co-Founder, Hotel Chocolat

Evan Thomas

Author, First: Sandra Day O’Connor

Ken Thompson

Brooklyn District Attorney

Lexi Thompson

Professional Golfer

Mike Tirico

NBC Sports Host

Joe Tsai

Co-Founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Alibaba Group

Esera Tuaolo

Retired NFL Player

Anna Malaika Tubbs

Author, “The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation”

Sherry Turkle

MIT Professor and Author of The Empathy Diaries

Lance Uggla

Founder and CEO of Markit

Sumayya Vally

Founder and Director of Counterspace

Lindsey Van

2014 Olympic Winter Games Alpine Ski Jumper

Hans Vestberg

Chairman and CEO, Verizon Communications

Daniella Vitale

Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President of Barneys New York

Hamdi Ulukaya

Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Chobani

Tim Urban

Co-Founder, Wait But Why

Marni Walden

Executive Vice President and President of Product Innovation and New Businesses at Verizon

Darren Walker

President, Ford Foundation

Tristan Walker

Founder and CEO, Walker & Company

Carla Walker-Miller

Founder of Walker-Miller Energy Services

Chris Wallace

Anchor, Fox News Sunday and Author, Countdown 1945

David Wallace-Wells

Author, The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future

Clarissa Ward

Chief International Correspondent, CNN

Ryan Watts

CEO and Co-Founder of Denali Therapeutics

Alli Webb

Founder of Drybar & President of Canopy

Carly Weisberg

Co-Founder of theSkimm

Jacob Weisberg

Editor-in-Chief of The Slate Group

Dan Weiss

President and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Emily Weiss

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Glossier

Justin Welby

Archbishop of Canterbury

Mayor Nan Whaley

Dayton, OH

Wendy Whelan

Associate Artistic Director, New York City Ballet

John C. Whitehead

Former Goldman Sachs Senior Partner and Co-chairman

George F. Will

Columnist, The Washington Post and Author, The Conservative Sensibility

Russell Wilson

Denver Broncos Quarterback; Super Bowl XLVIII Champion

U.S. Navy, Retired Admiral James Winnefeld, Jr.

Co-Chair, Stop the Addiction Fatality Epidemic Project U.S.

Martin Wolf CBE

Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times

Cathie Wood

Founder, CEO, and CIO, ARK Invest

Jia Lynn Yang

Deputy National Editor, The New York Times and Author, One Mighty and Irresistible Tide

Christian Yelich

Professional Baseball Player

Ben Yerxa

CEO, Foundation Fighting Blindness

David Yeung

Founder and CEO of Green Monday Group

Eric Yuan

Founder and CEO, Zoom

Muhammad Yunus

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Founder of Grameen Bank

Saadia Zahidi

Author of `Fifty Million Rising' and Head of Centre for the New Economy and Society

Danielle Zakin

Co-Founder of theSkimm

David Zaslav

President and CEO, Discovery

Niklas Zennström

CEO and Founding Partner of Atomico and Co-Founder of Skype

Lei Zhang

Founder and CEO of Hillhouse Capital

Robert Zoellick

Author, America in the World and President of the World Bank (2007-2012)

Joey Zwillinger

Co-founder and Co-CEO, Allbirds