2009 Speakers and Moderators

Some of the world's most inspired and provocative thinkers, writers, artists, business people, teachers, and leaders are gathered here. Each day, they will teach, speak, lead, question, and interact with an audience ready to delve into a world of ideas, thought, and discussion. Download the complete confirmed speakers list.

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Lana Abu-Hijleh

Kenneth Adelman

Stephen J. Adler

Pamela A. Aguilar

Yousef Al Otaiba

Madeleine K. Albright

T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Elizabeth Alexander

Paula S. Apsell

James A. Baker III

Bharat Balasubramanian

Claiborne Barksdale

Maria Bartiromo

David G. Bradley

Stephen G. Breyer

Ronald Brownstein

Jason Calacanis

Joseph A. Califano Jr.

Margaret Carlson

Sean B. Carroll

Jean-Lou Chameau

Michael Chertoff

Ta'Nehisi Coates

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Gretchen C. Daily

Antonio Damasio

Hernando De Soto

Elizabeth Deane

Bernadine Dohrn

Marian Wright Edelman

Michael D. Eisner

Ezekiel J. Emanuel

Sen. Dianne Feinstein

Roger W. Ferguson Jr.

Charlie Firestone

Margo Fitzpatrick

Henrietta Holsman Fore

Thomas L. Friedman

S. Julio Friedmann

Makoto Fujimura

Ichiro Fujisaki

Elliot F. Gerson

Brooke Gladstone

Jeffrey Goldberg

Marsha Goodenow

Austan Goolsbee

William A. Haseltine

John L. Hennessy

Shephard W. Hill

Eric H. Holder Jr.

John P. Holdren

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Christopher M. Hyzy

Alberto Ibarg�en

Martin S. Indyk

Paul J. Ingrassia

Walter Isaacson

Christopher Isham

Michael Jackson

John E. Jones III

Jordan Kassalow

David M. Kennedy

Michael Kinsley

Gerard Kleisterlee

Timothy Knowles

Harold S. Koplewicz

Patricia K. Kuhl

Leonard A. Lauder

Lawrence Lessig

Sanford Levinson

Michael L. Lomax

Elisa Massimino

William E. Mayer

David H. McCormick

Andrew N. Meltzoff

Kenneth R. Miller

David P. Mindell

Andrea Mitchell

Ranji H. Nagaswami

Beth Simone Noveck

Sandra Day O'Connor

Charles J. Ogletree

Michael B. Oren

Priscilla Painton

Norman Pearlstine

Hilary Pennington

Marina Pisklakova

Robert W. Pittman

Dina Habib Powell

Donald Pressley

Thomas J. Pritzker

Raghuram G. Rajan

Sir Ken Robinson

Felix G. Rohatyn

Larry Rosenstock

David Rubenstein

Karim Sadjadpour

Michael J. Sandel

David E. Sanger

Klaus Scharioth

Douglas E. Schoen

J. Peter Scoblic

Sacha Z. Scoblic

Eugenie C. Scott

Peter Seligmann

Sir Nigel Sheinwald

Cameron Sinclair

Curtis Sittenfeld

Anna Deavere Smith

Robert H. Socolow

Margaret Spellings

Leena Srivastava

Deirdre Stanley

Robert K. Steel

James B. Steinberg

Andrew Sullivan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

They Might Be Giants

Laura D'Andrea Tyson

Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran

Toni G. Verstandig

Peter J. Wallison

Randi Weingarten

Fred Wertheimer

Linda Wertheimer

Katharine Weymouth

Richard Wilhelm

Thomas J. Wilson

Adrian Wooldridge

R. James Woolsey

Constance Yowell

Philip Zimbardo

Robert J. Zimmer

Ethan Zuckerman

Salam Fayyad

Salam Fayyad

is the prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority. Prior to becoming prime minister, he held the post of finance minister. He is the founder and leader of the Third Way political party. Previously, he served as the International Monetary Fund representative from Palestine. Fayad is an economist by training.