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Jake Sullivan

  • U.S. National Security Advisor (2021-2024), Director of Policy Planning, US Department of State (2011-2013), Deputy Chief of Staff,  US Department of State (2009-2011)
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Mika Brzezinski & Joe Scarborough

  • Hosts of MSNBC's 'Morning Joe'
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Philipp Hildebrand

  • Former Chairman of Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank, Member of G30, and Vice Chairman of Blackrock, Inc.
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Kevin McCarthy

  • 55th Speaker of the House
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Ron Klain

  • Chief of Staff to President Biden (2021-2023) & Longest Serving First Chief of Staff for Any Democratic President
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Olivier Blanchard

  • Former Chief Economist for IMF; Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
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R. Glenn Hubbard

  • Chairman of U.S. Council of Economic Advisors, Co-Chair of Committee on Capital Markets Regulation, and Dean of Columbia Business School
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Ed Balls

  • UK Shadow Chancellor and Chief Economic Advisor to the UK Treasury (2010-2015)
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Elizabeth Duke

  • Governor of the Federal Reserve (2008-2013), First Female Chairman of a Top U.S. Bank, and Expert on Monetary Policy
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Al Gore

  • Fmr. U.S. Vice President, Founder & Chairman of The Climate Reality Project, and Nobel Laureate
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Jack Lew

  • Secretary of the Treasury (2013-2016), White House Chief of Staff (2012-2013), Director Office Management & Budget (2010-2012), Citigroup Senior Executive, COO, New York University & United States Ambassador to Israel (2023-2025)   
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Richard Thaler

  • Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, Field-Defining Pioneer of Behavioral Economics, and Bestselling Author
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Michael Nutter

  • Former Mayor of Philadelphia, Senior Fellow with Bloomberg Philanthropies, and Urban Policy Innovation Advocate
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Rick Santorum

  • U.S. Senator and Member of the Armed Services Committee, Republican Presidential Candidate, and Advocate for Conservative Values
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Joe Scarborough

  • MSNBC 'Morning Joe' Co-Host; Fmr. U.S. Congressman; NYT Bestselling Author of 'Saving Freedom' & More
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Bill Frist

  • U.S. Senator (R-TN) and Senate Majority Leader, Transplant Surgeon & Physician, and Chairman of Nature Conservancy's Global Board
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Mohamed El-Erian

  • Chief Economic Advisor at Allianz; President of Queens’ College, University of Cambridge; Board Member (Under Armor); Author of Permacrisis
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Carol Browner

  • Fmr. Director, White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy; Fmr. Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Board Chair, League of Conservation Voters
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Patrick McHenry

  • Congressman (NC-R, 2005-2025), Deputy Republican Whip (2014-2019), Chair of the House Financial Services Committee (2023–205)
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Michael S. Regan

  • 16th Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; The 1st Black Man to Lead the U.S. EPA
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Gary Gensler

  • Professor of the Practice, MIT Sloan School of Management, Chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) (2021-2025)
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Julian Castro

  • Political Analyst, NBC News & MSNBC; Fmr. Mayor of San Antonio; Fmr. Secretary of Housing & Urban Development
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Lawrence Summers

  • Fmr. Treasury Secretary; Fmr. White House National Economic Council; OpenAI Board Member
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Felipe Calderon

  • Fmr. President of Mexico (2006-2012); Founder of The Global Commission on the Economy & Climate
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Kevin Warsh

  • Fmr. Member of the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System; Executive Secretary, National Economic Council, & Member of G31
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John Lipsky

  • Former Director of the IMF (2006-2011), Co-Chair of Aspen Institute's Program on the World Economy, and Executive Director of NBER
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Kay Bailey Hutchison

  • Former U.S. Senator and Ambassador to NATO, Advisor on Foreign and Security Policy, Voice for Bipartisan Policy Solutions
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Ambassador Terry Branstad

  • Former U.S. Ambassador to China, Longest-Serving Governor in U.S. History, and President of The World Food Prize Foundation
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Joshua Angrist

  • Nobel Prize-Winning Economist; Co-Founder & Director, MIT's Blueprint Labs; Co-Author of 'Mostly Harmless Economics' & 'Mastering 'Metrics'
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Karl Rove

  • Former Deputy Chief of Staff & Sr. Advisor to President George W. Bush; MSNBC, FOX News, WSJ Contributor; NYT Bestselling Author of 'Courage and Consequence'
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Gary Cohn

  • Vice Chairman of IBM; Fmr. Director of National Economic Council; Fmr. President & COO of Goldman Sachs
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Howard Dean

  • DNC Chairman (2005-2009), Governor of Vermont (1991-2003), and Leading Democratic Commentator
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Chris Sununu

  • 82nd Governor of New Hampshire, National Honorary Chair of Balanced Budget Now
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Rostin Behnam

  • Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Distinguished Fellow at the Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown University
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Anita Dunn

  • Fmr. Senior Advisor to President Joe Biden; President Obama's White House Communications Director
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Ken Langone

  • Co-Founder of The Home Depot, Author of a Business Bestseller, and Philanthropist
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Dick Cheney

  • Former U.S. Vice President, Secretary of Defense, and White House Chief of Staff; Renowned Statesman and Bestselling Author
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David Plouffe

  • Fmr. Obama White House Senior Advisor; 2x NYT Bestselling Author: 'The Audacity to Win' & 'A Citizen's Guide to Beating Donald Trump'
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Guido Imbens

  • Nobel Prize-Winning Economist
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Marc Lasry

  • Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Avenue Capital Group; Pioneer and Leading Authority in Distressed Investing
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Wendell Potter

  • Health Insurance Reformer, Whistleblower, News Media Commentator, NYT Best Selling Author
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Steve Forbes

  • Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Media, Expert on Global Economy and Monetary Policy, and Bestselling Author
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Rahm Emanuel

  • U.S. Ambassador to Japan (2021-2025), 55th Mayor of Chicago (2011-2019), White House Chief of Staff for President Barack Obama (2008-2010), U.S. Congressman (D-IL) (2002-2008)
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Robert Gibbs

  • Former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama and McDonald's Executive, and MSNBC Commentator
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Olympia Snowe

  • Bipartisan Leader in Congress, Served in the Senate and House, Sr. Fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center
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Lael Brainard

  • 14th Director of the National Economic Council (2023-2025), Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Board (2022-2023) & Member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (2014-2023), Former Under Secretary of the Department of the Treasury (2009-2013)
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Deval Patrick

  • Governor of Massachusetts (2007-2015), Political Contributor to CBS News, and Leader in Social Impact Investing
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Paul Tucker

  • Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (2009-2013); Author of 'Unelected Power', and Chair of the Systemic Risk Council
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John J. Sullivan

  • Former United States Ambassador to Russia (2019-2022) and Former United States Deputy Secretary of State (2017-2019)
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Steven T. Mnuchin

  • Former Secretary of Treasury, Founder of Dune Capital Management and Liberty Strategic Capital, and Expert in Global Finance Markets
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Michael Spence

  • Nobel Laureate, Economic Sciences; Stanford Business School Professor; Hoover Institute Senior Fellow; Author: 'Permacrisis' & More
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John Boehner

  • Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Senior Strategic Advisor to Squire Patton Boggs, and Author
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Dambisa Moyo

  • Member of the United Kingdom House of Lords; Executive: Versaca Investments; NYT Bestselling Author: 'Edge of Chaos'
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Jean-Claude Trichet

  • Current President of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, President of European Central Bank (2003-2011); Honorary Chairman for Group of 30 (G30)
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Karen G. Mills

  • U.S. Small Business Administration (2009-2013); Former Member of President's Economic Council, Fintech Expert
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Jim Messina

  • Renowned Campaign Manager, National Chair of Organizing for Action, and Expert in Blockchain Regulation
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Wendy Davis

  • Texas State Senator (2009-2015); Founder of Deeds Not Words, non-profit for women's empowerment
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Max Baucus

  • U.S. Ambassador to China; Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, and Board of Ingram Micro
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Ehud Barak

  • Fmr. Israeli PM, 2x Minister of Defense; Board Member, CIFC Asset Management

John Stossel

  • Current Events Commentator with a Libertarian Point of View

John Mack

  • Former CEO and Chairman of Morgan Stanley, Author of 'Up Close and All In: Life Lessons from a Wall Street Warrior'

Andrew Busch

  • Economic Futurist; 1st Chief Market Intelligence Officer, US Government

Muhammad Yunus

  • Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Economist and Author

David M. Blitzer

  • Chairman & Managing Director, S&P Dow Jones Indices (1995-2019)

Anthony Gardner

  • Former United States Ambassador to the European Union

Moises Naim

  • Senior Associate in the International Economics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Michael Leavitt

  • Expert on Healthcare and Environmental Policy

Todd Buchholz

  • Former White House Director of Economic Policy, Best-selling Author, Economist & Trend Forecaster

Roy Neel

  • Chief of Staff to Congressman, Senator, and Vice President Al Gore

Ian Bremmer

  • President and Founder, Eurasia Group and GZERO Media

Lionel Barber

  • Editor, Financial Times (2005-2020)

Jeremy Siegel

  • Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

Allen Sinai

  • President and Chief Global Economist, Decision Economics, Inc.

Norm Champ

  • Former Director, Division of Investment Management at the Securities and Exchange Commission

Nouriel Roubini

  • Professor of Economics & International Business, Stern School of Business, New York University

Agnia Grigas

  • Energy and Political Risk Expert

David Paterson

  • New York's 55th Governor

Jamie Metzl

  • Expert on Asian Economics and Politics, Genetics Revolution

Mark Brzezinski

  • Former United States Ambassador to Sweden (2011-2015)

Jonathan F. P. Rose

  • Renowned Urban Development Thought Leader

Joe McCannon

  • Expert in Large-Scale Social Change

Gary Bradt

  • Psychologist

Anthony Scaramucci

  • Founder and Managing Partner, SkyBridge Capital

Gina Sanchez

  • Market Strategist, Economist & Television Commentator

Anirban Basu

  • Chairman & CEO of Sage Policy Group

Laura Tyson

  • First Female Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisors (1993-1995); Director of the National Economic Council (1995-1996)

Mike Schmidt

  • Inaugural Director of the CHIPS Program Office (CPO) at the U.S. Department of Commerce

Dr. Mark T. Esper

  • Former U.S. SecDef, Bestselling Author of 'A Sacred Oath', and Commissioner, U.S.-China Economic and Security Review

Ian Morrison

  • Healthcare Futurist

John Hope Bryant

  • Founder, Chairman and CEO of Operation HOPE

Michael Steele

  • Former Chair of the Republican National Committee

Jason Ma

  • Founder, CEO and Chief Mentor of ThreeEQ; Leading Member of The B20 for The G20

Henry Waxman

  • Leading Legislator in Congress on Issues of Health, Energy & Environment

Geoff Colvin

  • Senior Editor-at-Large at Fortune, and Bestselling Author Arming Leaders to Confront Disruptive Change and Win

Delano Lewis

  • Former Ambassador to South Africa and Former President and CEO at NPR

Minxin Pei

  • Expert in China, Taiwan, East Asia and Democracy; Author of 'From Reform to Revolution'

Pippa Malmgren

  • Former Presidential Economic Advisor and Bestselling Author

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend

  • Former Lt. Governor, Maryland

Tevi Troy

  • CEO of the American Health Policy Institute

Fred Hochberg

  • Longest-serving Chairman in Export-Import Bank history; High-ranking business leader in the Obama Administration

Edward Fishman

  • Leading Authority on Economic Statecraft, Author of 'Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare', Former Top Sanctions Official at the U.S. State Department, Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University

Ben Harris

  • Vice President, Brookings Institution; Former Chief Economist of the Treasury Department & Advisor to President Biden; Author

Regan Parker

  • General Counsel and Chief Public Affairs Officer, ShiftKey; Author of '(Mis)carriage: A Mother's Story of Why Pregnancy Loss Matters'

Joseph Stiglitz

  • Recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics

George Papandreou

  • Prime Minister of Greece (2009-2011)

Steven Eastaugh

  • Expert on Health Finance and Economics

Ron Insana

  • CNBC Senior Analyst and Commentator, Trailblazing Financial Journalist, Bestselling Author, and CEO of iFi AI

Tom Rogan

  • Youngest-Ever Panelist, The McLaughlin Group; Foreign Policy Columnist, National Review

Mitch Roschelle

  • Macro-Economic Strategist and Business Consultant

Peter R. Orszag

  • Member of President Obama’s Cabinet and Director, Office of Management and Budget (2009-2010)

Harry G. Broadman

  • Emergin Markets Guru; Strategic Advisor to Investment Houses; Renowned Business Columnist; White House Trade Negotiator

Jeremy Rifkin

  • Author, Economic and Social Theorist, Advisor to the European Union and Heads of State, and President of the Foundation on Economic Trends

Arnold Schwarzenegger

  • Governor of California (2003-2011) and Climate Change Activist

Juan Manuel Santos

  • President of Colombia (2010-2018), Nobel Peace Prize Laureate (2016), and Advocate for ESG Investing & Sustainable Development

Jennifer Granholm

  • 47th Governor of Michigan (2002-2011), Secretary of Energy (2021-2025)