Antoine van Agtmael

In this vital speech, visionary international investment manager Antoine van Agtmael -- the pioneer who coined the term "emerging markets" -- pulls back the curtain on the Global Economy. Picking up where Thomas Friedman's The World Is Flat left off, he persuasively demonstrates why the we must look beyond our borders to get a better understanding of what is driving the tumultuous...

Eugene Jarecki

Eugene Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker and visiting senior fellow at BrownUniversity's Watson Institute. After training at Princeton as a stage director, Jarecki turned to film in 1992, and his first short film, Season of the Litterbees, premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival before winning both a Student Academy Award and the Time Warner Grand Prize.

Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov was the highest-rated chess player in the world for over 20 years and is widely considered the greatest chess player that ever lived. On Thursday, 10th March, 2005 Kasparov announced his retirement from competitive chess. He remains the highest-rated player in the history of the game and the only true icon in a sport with over 100 million players. He was the first player to break...

John Legend

In 2004, John Legend stepped into the solo spotlight as a premier singer-songwriter-pianist-performer in his own right with his debut album Get Lifted. Driven in part by the hit singles "Ordinary People" and "Used To Love U," Get Lifted was a critical and commercial triumph, earning John an astounding eight Grammy nominations -- he won Best New Artist, Best Male R&B Vocal Performance...

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Joseph E. Stiglitz was born in Gary, Indiana in 1943. A graduate of Amherst College, he received his PHD from MIT in 1967, became a full professor at Yale in 1970, and in 1979 was awarded the John Bates Clark Award, given biennially by the American Economic Association to the economist under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the field. He has taught at Princeton, Stanford...

Marvin Zonis

Marvin Zonis is a professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago, where he teaches courses on International Political Economy, Leadership, and Business Strategy in the Era of eCommerce. Zonis argues that accelerating technological developments drive globalization both economically and politically. And, in the face of these global challenges, business leadership and a...

Muhummad Yunus

What if you could harness the power of the free market to solve the problems of poverty, hunger, and inequality? To some, it sounds impossible. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus is doing exactly that. As founder of Grameen Bank, Yunus pioneered microcredit, the innovative banking program that provides the poor - mainly women - with small loans they use to launch businesses and...

Niall Ferguson

Harvard's Niall Ferguson is one of the world's leading historians of the global economy and author of such internationally-acclaimed works as The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, and The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West. His new book...

Robert Baer

Robert Baer is the author of two New York Times bestsellers: Sleeping with the Devil, about the Saudi royal family and its relationship with the United States; and See No Evil, which recounts Baer’s years as a top CIA operative. See No Evil was the basis for the acclaimed film Syriana, which earned George Clooney an Oscar for his portrayal of Baer. Baer writes regularly for Time.com and has...

Sebastian Junger

Sebastian Junger is the author of the international best-seller The Perfect Storm and Fire, a collection of his most compelling magazine articles from his travels throughout the U.S. and around the globe. As a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and as a contributor to ABC News, he has covered major international news stories in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.

Senator George Mitchell

Senator George J. Mitchell is the co-chair of Piper Rudnick's Government Controversies practice group. Mitchell entered the U.S. Senate in 1980 when he was appointed to complete the unexpired term of Senator Edmund S. Muskie, who resigned to become secretary of state.

Tim Weiner

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Tim Weiner has covered soldiers, spies, terrorism, war and revolution for 25 years. He has reported for The New York Times from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Cuba, Haiti, and many other nations around the world. His history of the CIA, “Legacy of Ashes,” is an international bestseller, translated into 24 languages, and featured on the...