Tim Adams is managing director of the Lindsey Group. Previously, he served as under secretary of Treasury for international affairs in the second Bush administration, where he was point person on international financial and economic issues.

Alberto Alessi is CEO of the eponymous Italian design firm, Alessi, known for its innovative collaboration with artists such as Salvador Dalí and Philippe Starck.

André Andonian is a director in McKinsey’s Munich office and leader of the Europe, Middle East, and Africa high-tech practice; Christoph Loos is an associate principal in the Frankfurt office; and Luiz Pires is the EMEA high-tech practice manager in the Munich office.

Robert Atkinson is the founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington, DC-based technology policy think tank. He is also the author of the State New Economy Index series, and, the book, The Past And Future Of America’s Economy: Long Waves Of Innovation That Power Cycles Of Growth.

Robert Atkinson is the founder and president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington, DC–based technology policy think tank. He is also the author of the State New Economy Index series.

Stephen Ezell is a senior analyst with ITIF and came to the foundation from Peer Insight, an innovation research and consulting firm he cofounded in 2003.

Ryan Avent is The Economist‘s economics correspondent and the primary contributor to Free Exchange, an economics blog.

Martin Neil Baily is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he focuses on globalization, productivity and competitiveness, and US economic policy. He served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers for the Clinton administration from 1999 to 2001 and was one of three members of the council from 1994 to 1996.

Carter Bales is managing partner emeritus of the Wicks Group, a private equity firm. From 1976 to 1996, he was head of McKinsey’s worldwide consulting practice in media and communications. He is past vice chairman and a governor emeritus of The Nature Conservancy.

Carter Bales is managing partner emeritus of the Wicks Group, a private equity firm. From 1976 to 1996, he was head of McKinsey’s worldwide consulting practice in media and communications. He is past vice chairman and a governor emeritus of The Nature Conservancy.

Richard Duke is director of the Natural Resources Defense Council’s Center for Market Innovation. Prior to joining NRDC, he was an engagement manager at McKinsey, where his work included managing a global assessment of greenhouse gas reduction opportunities and developing a hedging strategy for a leading CO2 credits originator.

Their jointly-authored article, Containing Climate Change, appeared in the September-October 2008 issue of Foreign Affairs.

Matt Bannick is managing partner of Omidyar Network, where he leads all aspects of operations and strategy. Previously, Bannick was a member of eBay’s executive staff and served in a number of senior roles, including as president of eBay International and President of PayPal after it was acquired by eBay in 2002. Earlier in his career, Bannick was a management consultant with McKinsey and Company and a U.S. diplomat. He earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree in international studies and economics from the University of Washington.

Jonathan Bays is a consultant in McKinsey & Company’s Social Sector Office, which helps organizations address societal challenges. Based in New York, he specializes in philanthropy and economic development, working primarily with grant makers and nonprofits on issues of strategy. Before joining the Social Sector Office in 2005, Bays worked as a policy advisor in the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada. He was previously a consultant in McKinsey’s Toronto office. Bays graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA and MA in history. He received his M Phil and D Phil in international relations from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Steve Davis is the director of social innovation at McKinsey & Company and serves on the board of several nonprofit organizations. He was formerly the CEO of Corbis from 1997-2007 a global digital media company, and also served as interim CEO of IDRI (Infectious Disease Research Institute) and interim India Country Program Leader for PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health). He received an AB degree in religion from Princeton University, an MA degree in Chinese Studies from the University of Washington, and a JD from Columbia University School of Law, where he received the Faculty Prize in International Law.

Jonathan Bays is a consultant in McKinsey’s New York office, and Marla Capozzi is a consultant in the Boston office.

Jonathan Bays is a consultant in McKinsey’s New York office; and Paul Jansen is a principal in McKinsey’s San Francisco office.

Eric Beinhocker is a senior fellow with the McKinsey Global Institute.

Jeremy Oppenheim is director of McKinsey’s Climate Change Special Initiative.

Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and faculty codirector of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His works include The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom and “Coase’s penguin, or Linux and the nature of the firm,” published in the Yale Law Journal.

Peter Bernstein is founder and president of Peter L. Bernstein, Inc., a global economic consultancy started in 1973. He has written nine books on risk management and finance, including Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk and Capital Ideas.

Jens-Olaf Berwig is an associate principal in McKinsey’s Hamburg office, Nathan Marston is a principal in McKinsey’s London office, Lauri Pukkinen is an engagement manager in McKinsey’s Helsinki office, and Lothar Stein is a director in McKinsey’s Munich office.

Matthew Bishop is the coauthor, with Michael Green, of Philanthrocapitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World and The Road From Ruin: How to Revive Capitalism and Put America Back on Top. Mr. Bishop is the American Business Editor of the Economist.

Michael R. Bloomberg was elected the 108th mayor of New York City in 2001. He began his career in 1966 at Salomon Brothers, and after being let go in 1981, he began Bloomberg LP, a start-up financial news and information company that now has more than 15,000 employees around the world. Bloomberg attended Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School.

Dan Braga is a principal in McKinsey’s Chicago office.

Drew Erdmann is a consultant in McKinsey’s Washington office. Prior to joining McKinsey, he served in a number of US government foreign policy positions, including as the National Security Council’s director for Iran, Iraq, and strategic planning.

Yogesh Malik is an associate principal in McKinsey’s Cleveland office.

Aurobind Satpathy is a director in McKinsey’s Chicago office and one of the senior partners in McKinsey’s global industrial and operations practice. He coleads the North American purchasing and supply-management practice.

Stewart Brand is co-founder and president of The Long Now Foundation and co-founder of Global Business Network. He created and edited the Whole Earth Catalog and co-founded the The WELL. His books include The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility: The Ideas Behind the World’s Slowest Computer (Basic Books, 2000), The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T. (Penguin, 1988), and Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto (Viking Adult, 2009).

Ian Bremmer is president of Eurasia Group, a political-risk consultancy. His books include the forthcoming The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing, with Preston Keat. He is a regular contributor to the International Herald Tribune and a contributing editor at the National Interest and Survival.

Bridget Brennan is the CEO of Female Factor and the author of Why She Buys, a book about how women shop.

Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for the web site.

Steven Brill is a founder of Journalism Online, a company aimed at creating a new business model for online journalism. He is also the founder of the American Lawyer magazine and Court TV and the author of After, a book focusing on the aftermath of the September 11th attacks.

Alfredo Brillembourg is the founding director of Urban Think Tank, an interdisciplinary design practice based in Caracas, Venezuela. He has been a guest professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Planning at Columbia University in New York, where he cofounded the Sustainable Living Urban Model Laboratory (SLUM Lab) with his partner, Hubert Klumpner. Along with Klumpner, Brillembourg holds the chair for Architecture and Urban Design at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland.

Horace Wood Brock is president of Strategic Economic Decisions, which he founded in 1985 with the sponsorship of institutions including Fidelity Investments, GE Capital, and the IBM Pension Fund. His advisory service focuses on forecasting and analyzing market risks, specializing in the application of the economics of uncertainty model developed by economist and Nobel Laureate Kenneth Arrow.

Tim Brown is CEO and president of IDEO, a global design firm. Brown advises senior executives and writes extensively. His articles have appeared in Harvard Business Review and the Economist, as well as other prominent publications. His book on how design thinking transforms organizations, Change by Design, was released by HarperBusiness in September 2009. An industrial designer by training, he has exhibited work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Axis Gallery in Tokyo, and the Design Museum in London. Brown maintains a blog on the subject of design thinking.

Lowell Bryan and Toos Daruvala are directors in McKinsey’s New York office.

Jacques Bughin is a director in McKinsey’s Brussels office.

Jacques Bughin is a director in McKinsey’s Brussels office, Angela Hung Byers is a consultant in McKinsey’s Seattle office, and Michael Chui is a consultant in McKinsey’s San Francisco office.

Jacques Bughin is a director in McKinsey’s Brussels office and works in media, telecommunications, and high tech and leads two McKinsey digital-transformation initiatives.

James Manyika, a director in the San Francisco office, leads the high-tech strategy practice and McKinsey’s technology initiative.

Roger Roberts is a principal in the Silicon Valley office and leads the North American IT strategy practice.

Laura Callanan, a consultant in McKinsey & Company’s philanthropy practice, leads the Firm’s work on social impact assessment and sustainable capitalism. Laura is based in McKinsey’s New York Office.

Carl Camden is president and CEO of Kelly Services. He is also a founding member of Better Health Care Together, a coalition of business, labor, and public-policy leaders urging fundamental reform of the American health care system. Camden holds an undergraduate degree from Southwest Baptist College in Bolivar, Missouri, and a doctorate in communications from Ohio State University.

Colin Campbell is founder and chairman of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas. He joined the oil industry as an exploration geologist and served in executive positions with Amoco, Fina, and Shenandoah Oil and was chairman of the Nordic American Oil Company. He has also consulted to several organizations and has written five books, the latest being Oil Crisis.

Michael F. Cannon is the Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies. Previously, he served as a domestic policy analyst for the US Senate Republican Policy Committee under Chairman Larry E. Craig, where he advised the Senate leadership on health, education, labor, welfare, and the Second Amendment. He is the coauthor of Healthy Competition: What’s Holding Back Health Care and How to Free It.

Marla Capozzi is a senior expert in McKinsey’s Boston office and a leader of McKinsey’s Global Innovation Practice; Lynn Taliento is a partner in the Washington, DC, office and leads McKinsey’s Social Sector Office for the Americas.

Peter Cappelli is the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and previously served as senior adviser on employment policy to the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Robert Carlson is a principal at Biodesic, a biological engineering, consulting, and design firm in Seattle. He earned a doctorate in physics from Princeton University and is interested in the future role of biology as a human technology. He is the author of Biology Is Technology: The Promise, Peril, and Inevitability of Engineering Life, to be published in late 2009.

Joe Cerrell is the director of the Europe office of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to joining the foundation, Cerrell served as assistant press secretary to former US Vice President Al Gore. He has also served as vice president of the philanthropy practice at APCO Worldwide, overseeing the agency’s nonprofit and foundation clients. He is currently on the boards of the ONE Campaign and Comic Relief. Cerrell received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California.

Nayan Chanda is director of publications at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and the editor of YaleGlobal Online. He is the author of Brother Enemy: The War After the War and, most recently, Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped Globalization. Before joining Yale, he spent nearly 30 years at the Far Eastern Economic Review, based in Hong Kong.

Gerald Chertavian is the founder and CEO of the nonprofit organization Year Up, which offers intensive one-year training programs for low-income youth ages 18–24. In 2007, Gerald was elected as a fellow with the Ashoka Global Fellowship of social entrepreneurs. He earned a BA in economics from Bowdoin College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Sean C. S. Chiao is executive vice president, China, for AECOM, a global engineering and design firm. He has overseen high-density master plans for new towns and the regeneration of existing urban landscapes, as well as the design and construction of major public open spaces in China and across Asia. Chiao holds a master of architecture degree in urban design from Harvard University and master of architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley.

Steven Chu was appointed as US energy secretary by President Barack Obama. Prior to this, he was director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of physics and molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley.  In 1997, he won the Nobel Prize in physics.

Steve Clemons is director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and publishes the political blog the Washington Note.

Bill Clinton, the founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation, was the 42nd president of the United States.

Gary Cohen is a founder and coexecutive director of Health Care Without Harm. He is also a cofounder of Green Harvest Technologies, a bio-based green chemistry company. Mr. Cohen was awarded the Skoll Global Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2006 and the Frank Hatch Award for Enlightened Public Service Award in 2007.

Jamie Cooper-Hohn is cofounder and CEO of the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), an independent, nonprofit, philanthropic organization linked to an investment fund, which contributes a portion of its management fees and profits to the foundation. Previously, she served as codirector of Shine Trust, a grant-making trust supporting children in poverty in England through educational initiatives. Cooper-Hohn received a BA from Smith College and an MA in public administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Tyler Cowen is a professor of economics at George Mason University and author of the recent e-book The Great Stagnation: How American Ate the Low-Hanging Fruit, Got Sick, and Will (Eventually) Feel Better (Penguin, January 2011). A paperback version The Great Stagnation will be published on June 9.

Ian Craig is a founding member and CEO of the Northern Rangelands Trust and a board member of the National Wildlife Authority, Kenya Wildlife Service. He has spent most of his life in northern Kenya and is experienced in both wildlife conservation and community development in the region.

Clive Crook is a senior editor of The Atlantic, a columnist for National Journal, and a commentator for the Financial Times. He worked at The Economist for nearly 20 years, including 11 years as deputy editor.

Tom Curley is the president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press. Previously, he was the president and publisher of USA Today and also served as the senior vice president of Gannett.

Abdallah Daar is professor of public health sciences and of surgery at the University of Toronto and is senior scientist and director of the Program on Ethics and Commercialization for the McLaughlin–Rotman Centre for Global Health.

Steve Davis is the director of social innovation at McKinsey & Company and serves on the board of several nonprofit organizations. He was formerly the CEO of Corbis from 1997-2007 a global digital media company, and also served as interim CEO of IDRI (Infectious Disease Research Institute) and interim India Country Program Leader for PATH (Program for Appropriate Technology in Health). He received an AB degree in religion from Princeton University, an MA degree in Chinese Studies from the University of Washington, and a JD from Columbia University School of Law, where he received the Faculty Prize in International Law.

Professor J. Gregory Dees is cofounder of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. He chairs the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council for Social Entrepreneurship. He previously taught at the Yale School of Management, at Harvard Business School, where he helped launch the Initiative on Social Enterprise, and at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, where he served as founding co-director of the Center for Social Innovation. Professor Dees also worked in McKinsey’s New York office from 1981 to 1985.

Dr. Dickson Despommier is professor of environmental health sciences and microbiology at Columbia University and president of the Vertical Farm Project. His book The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century, was published by Thomas Dunne Books in October, 2010.

Janamitra Devan is director of Asia for the McKinsey Global Institute, based in Shanghai. He has published extensively and currently works with consulting teams on new thinking in a range of topics, from macroeconomics to the complex implications of rural–urban development in India and China and how these countries are likely to evolve over the next 20 years.

Ross DeVol is executive director of economic research at the Milken Institute, leading the Center for Regional Economics, the Center for Health Economics and the California Center.

Carol Diamond is managing director at the Markle Foundation. She is also chair of Markle Connecting for Health, a public-private collaborative effort that aims to improve health and health care in the United States through the use of information technology.

Josh Lemieux is director of personal health technology at the Markle Foundation.

Richard Dobbs is a director of the McKinsey Global Institute and a director in McKinsey’s Seoul office; Jaana Remes, who is based in San Francisco, is a senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute, where she leads research on productivity, competitiveness, urbanization, and economic development.

Richard Dobbs is a director of the McKinsey Global Institute and a director in McKinsey’s Seoul office. David Skilling is a senior fellow with the McKinsey Global Institute, based in Singapore.

Richard Dobbs—a director at the McKinsey Global Institute, based in Seoul—and David Skilling—a senior MGI fellow, based in Singapore—led led the research effort, along with San Francisco-based MGI fellow Wayne Hu. Susan Lund, MGI’s head of research, is based in McKinsey’s Washington, DC, office; James Manyika is a director in the San Francisco office; and Charles Roxburgh is a director in the London office.

Thomas Doorley is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Sage Partners, a management consultancy. He is also the founder of the Technology Empowerment Network and served as the inaugural chair of the World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers.

Bill Drayton, an alumnus of McKinsey is CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, and chairman of Get America Working! He has taught at Stanford and Harvard and was assistant administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency.

Eric Drexler, the author of Engines of Creation and Nanosystems: Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation, is an adviser and consultant on technology strategy and emerging nanotechnologies. His personal blog is at Metamodern.com

Deborah Dugan joined (RED) as CEO in September 2011. She previously served for eight years as the president of Disney Publishing Worldwide, as well as senior advisor to the Tribeca Enterprises Board, which owns the Tribeca Film Festival, and as executive vice president at EMI/Capitol Records. Dugan started her career as an M&A attorney for a Wall Street law firm.

Soumitra Dutta is the Roland Berger Professor of Business and Technology and founder of eLab at INSEAD. He is the author of Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom and Innovating at the Top.

Nathan Eagle is the CEO of Jana, a mobile marketing and research firm focused on the developing world. He also serves as an adjunct assistant professor at Harvard University, a visiting assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, and a research assistant professor at Northeastern University. His research involves engineering computational tools, designed to explore how the petabytes of data generated about human movements, financial transactions, and communication patterns can be used for social good.

Gregg Easterbrook is a fellow of the Brookings Institution and author, most recently, of The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse. He is also a contributing editor at the Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic, and the Washington Monthly and is currently completing a book about the acceleration of global change.

Elizabeth Economy is the C. V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Ottmar Edenhofer is deputy director and chief economist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, joint chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and personal adviser to the German foreign minister for international climate and energy policy. He is a professor of the economics of climate change at the Technical University of Berlin.

Steffen Brunner is research fellow at the Potsdam Institute, focusing on carbon markets.

Al Ehrbar is chief executive of EVA Advisers, a registered investment adviser. Earlier in his career, Mr. Ehrbar spent more than 20 years as a financial journalist at Fortune, the Wall Street Journal and Corporate Finance. He is the author of EVA: The Real Key to Creating Wealth (John Wiley & Sons, 1998) and has an MBA in finance and economics from the University of Rochester and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism from Northwestern University.

John Elkington is executive chairman of Volans and also cofounded Environmental Data Services in 1978 and SustainAbility in 1987. His most recent book is The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World, cowritten with Pamela Hartigan and published by Harvard Business School Press (2008).

Richard Elman is the founder and CEO of Noble Group, a global supply-chain-management company based in Hong Kong.

Bill Emmott is an independent author and consultant. He was editor-in-chief of The Economist from 1993-2006, and is the author of nine books, many of them on Asia. His latest book is Rivals: How the Power Struggle between China, India and Japan will Shape our Next Decade.

Juan Enriquez is a Managing Director of Excel Medical Ventures. He previously served as founding director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business School and is the author of As the Future Catches You: How Genomics & Other Forces are Changing Your Life, Work, Health & Wealth.

Alain Enthoven is the Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management (Emeritus) in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. A member of the research advisory board for the Committee for Economic Development (CED), he served as project director for the CED report Quality, Affordable Health Care for All.

Judy Estrin is founder and CEO of consulting firm JLabs and author of Closing the Innovation Gap: Reigniting the Spark of Creativity in a Global Economy.

Gareth Evans is president and CEO of the International Crisis Group, based in Brussels. A former foreign minister of Australia, he is also co-chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. He is the author of several books, including Cooperating for Peace: The Global Agenda for the 1990s and The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and For All.

Diana Farrell joined US President Obama’s administration as deputy director of the National Economic Council and deputy economic adviser to the president.  Prior to her appointment, she was director of the McKinsey Global Institute, McKinsey’s economics research arm.

Wolfgang Fengler is the World Bank lead economist for Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, and Eritrea.

Michael Joseph is the World Bank’s first Fellow and was previously the CEO of Safaricom (2000–10) spearheading the introduction and expansion of M-PESA.

Philana Mugyenyi is an Analyst at the World Bank office in Nairobi.

Armida Fernandez was a professor of neonatology and, later, dean of Lokmanya Tilak Muncipal General Hospital and Lokmanya Tilak Muncipal Medical College in Mumbai. She is also a founder and trustee of the Society for Nutrition Education and Health Action (SNEHA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health care for women and children in the slums of Mumbai.

Michael P. Fleischer is president of Bogen Communications in Ramsey, New Jersey. In 2004, he served as director of private-sector development for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. In 2010 he wrote an op-ed on the high cost of hiring (“Why I’m not hiring”) that appeared in the Wall Street Journal. Fleischer earned a BA from Colgate University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Richard Florida is senior editor at the Atlantic and director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto.

James W. Fortune has spent more than 40 years analyzing and designing the elevators for some of the world’s tallest buildings, including the 101-story Taipei 101 office tower, the 160-story Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, U.A.E, and a 250-story tower to be built in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is head of Fortune Consultants, Ltd.

Richard Foster is a managing partner of Millbrook Management. He is a former McKinsey director and co-leader of the private-equity practice.

Juan Ocampo is the president of Trajectory Asset Management and a former partner at McKinsey.

Nicole Miller is a US fashion designer. Her collections are available on NicoleMiller.com, at 1,200 specialty stores worldwide, and at 15 Nicole Miller freestanding stores in the United States. Miller was dually trained at the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA in Apparel Design) and L’Ecole de la Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne in Paris.

Ben Stone is CEO of Indego Africa. Previously, Stone was an attorney at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, where he enrolled Indego Africa as a pro bono client before joining the organization in 2008. He received a BA in English literature from Washington University in St. Louis, a JD from New York University School of Law, and completed the Executive Program in Social Entrepreneurship at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Conor French is the COO/CFO of Indego Africa. Prior to joining Indego Africa, he practiced corporate law in the New York City and Los Angeles offices of Latham & Watkins LLP. As pro bono counsel to Ashoka, French structured joint ventures, strategic partnerships, and other collaborations for Ashoka’s global network of social entrepreneurs. French received a BA in history and English from Georgetown University and a JD from New York University School of Law, where he was an editor of the school’s Journal of International Law and Politics.

Thomas E. Freston is chairman of the ONE Campaign and a principal of Firefly3, an investment and consultancy firm focusing on the media and entertainment industries. He is the former CEO of Viacom Inc., where he also served as chief operating officer. For 17 years, Freston was chairman and CEO of MTV Networks. Prior to that, he ran a textile business in Afghanistan and India called Hindu Kush.

Lynn Taliento leads McKinsey’s Social Sector Practice in the Americas. After joining McKinsey in 1999, she cofounded the firm’s first practice dedicated to serving nonprofits. She works exclusively with nonprofits, philanthropies, and private and corporate foundations on strategic planning, organizational design, board governance, and advocacy. Taliento serves on the boards of the Clinton Health Access Initiative and Water.org.

Phyllis Frosst is the head of Policy and Program Analysis at the National Human Genome Research Institute and a contractor for the National Institutes of Health. This piece represents her personal and professional views, not necessarily those of the US government.

Stan Gale is the founder, chairman, and managing partner of Gale International, one of the largest private real estate development and investment firms in the world. Its focus today is on city-scale international investment and development. Gale International is the master developer of Songdo IBD.

Jeffrey E. Garten is the Juan Trippe Professor of International Trade and Finance at the Yale School of Management and was formally dean from 1996 to 2005. Prior to that, he was undersecretary of commerce for international trade in the Clinton administration and managing director of the Blackstone Group.

Francis J. Gavin is director of the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law and Tom Slick Professor of International Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also director of The Next Generation Project, a multi-year national initiative focused on U.S. global policy and the future of international institutions, and is the author of Gold, Dollars, and Power: The Politics of International Monetary Relations, 1958-1971.

Leslie Gelb is the president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Council Board senior fellow. He was formerly a New York Times columnist and senior official in the US State and Defense Departments and is the author of the forthcoming Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy.

Martin Gilman is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Prior to 2006, Gilman was with the International Monetary Fund for 24 years, where he was assistant director in the IMF’s policy department and its representative to the Paris Club. In addition to earning his PhD from the London School of Economics, Gilman attended the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.

Dana Goldstein is an education journalist based in Brooklyn, Puffin Fellow at The Nation Institute, and Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation.

Stephen Grenville is a visiting fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy, in Sydney, Australia.

Scott Griffith is chairman and CEO of Zipcar, the world’s largest car-sharing company.

Andy Grove is the former CEO of Intel.

Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel, teaches a seminar on strategy at Stanford Business School, with Professor Robert Burgelman. They enlisted the students in their fall 2008 Bass seminar to help develop “An electric plan for energy resilience.”

Jacob S. Hacker is a professor of political science at the University of California at Berkeley and a fellow at the New America Foundation. He has written extensively on health care. His latest book is The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream.

George Halvorson is chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, and author of Health Care Co-ops in Uganda, Strong Medicine, and, most recently, Health Care Reform Now! He is president of the International Federation of Health Plans and chairman of the Governors’ Meeting for Health Care at the 2009 World Economic Forum.

Gary Hamel is a management expert whose most recent book is The Future of Management. He is leading an effort to build the world’s first Management Lab, a setting in which executives and scholars co-create “tomorrow’s best practices” today. Hamel is a visiting professor at the London Business School.

Wendy Hanamura is vice president/strategy and general manager of Link Media, Inc. She is also in charge of Link TV’s ViewChange.org, a multimedia web site that shares powerful videos about real people and progress in global development. Hanamura began her career at Time magazine, has been a Tokyo-based correspondent on the Discovery Channel and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation), a reporter for CBS’s San Francisco station, KPIX-TV, and produced a series for PBS.

William Haseltine is founder of Human Genome Sciences and served as its chairman and CEO until 2004. He is president of the William A. Haseltine Foundation for Medical Sciences and the Arts, which supports access to high-quality health care in developing countries, primarily India. He was a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health from 1976 to 1993.

J. Michael Haynie is the Barnes Professor of Entrepreneurship at Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, where he is also the executive director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families.

Mark Helprin is a writer and novelist. His commentaries on politics and culture have appeared in several publications including the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the author of Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War, and Freddy and Fredericka, among other novels. A senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, his latest book is Digital Barbarism: A Writer’s Manifesto.

Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. She has conducted extensive research on health care, including her early predictions of the unraveling of managed care and the rise of both consumer-driven health care and health care focused factories . She is also the author of Who Killed Health Care: America’s $2 Trillion Problem—and the Consumer-Driven Cure.

Frederick Hess is resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.

Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs (International), was a “sherpa” for the first eight G-7 economic summits, during the Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations. A former assistant secretary of state and deputy US trade representative, he is the author of the recent book The Price of Liberty: Paying for America’s Wars from the Revolution to the War on Terror.

Rupert Howes has been chief executive of the Marine Stewardship Council since October 2004. He came to the MSC from the Forum for the Future, where he was director of the Sustainable Economy Programme. Howes qualified as a Chartered Accountant and spent six years with KPMG. Mr. Howes holds a BA in economics from the University of Sussex and an MSc in environmental technology from Imperial College, University of London.

Arianna Huffington is cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post, an online news site and blog launched in May 2005. She is a nationally syndicated columnist and the author of 12 books, including Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe. She is also cohost of Left, Right & Center, a public-radio political-roundtable program.

Joi Ito is the CEO of Creative Commons and a venture capitalist and early-stage investor in consumer Internet companies. He has been involved in the creation of several Internet companies including PSINet Japan, Digital Garage, and Infoseek Japan.

Vipin Jain is the cofounder and CEO of Retrevo.com, a consumer electronics shopping and review site.

Harold James is professor of history and international affairs at Princeton University, and Marie Curie Professor at the European University Institute.  He studies economic and financial history and modern German history and is the author of several books including The End of Globalization: Lessons from the Great Depression.

Richard Jones is a professor of physics at the University of Sheffield and is the senior strategic adviser for nanotechnology for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the UK’s physical sciences funding agency. He is the author of Soft Machines: Nanotechnology and Life.

Calestous Juma is a professor of the practice of international development at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is also director of the school’s Science, Technology, and Globalization Project and lead author of Innovation: Applying Knowledge in Development.

Bruce Katz is vice president and director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. James S. Rubin is a Brookings Trustee and a senior partner at BC Partners, Inc.

Paul Kedrosky is an investor, speaker, writer, and entrepreneur. He is also a senior fellow at Kauffman Foundation and the editor of Infectious Greed, an influential financial blog.

John Kelly is a senior vice president at IBM and the director of IBM Research. He oversees eight laboratories across the globe and helps guide the company’s overall technical strategy. Dr. Kelly also leads IBM’s worldwide intellectual property business, as well as the company’s open-source and open-standards strategies and practices.

Charles Kenny, a development economist based in Washington, DC, blogs at charleskenny.blogs.com. This article is based in part on his forthcoming book, The Success of Development: Technology, Ideas and the Global Standard of Living.

Parag Khanna is a senior research fellow at the New America Foundation and author of The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order (Random House, 2008) and How to Run the World: Charting a Course to the Next Renaissance (Random House, 2011).

Vinod Khosla, a founder of Sun Microsystems, former partner at Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, and now head of Khosla Ventures, has become an influential investor in green technology.

Craig Kielburger is the cofounder of Free The Children. Since its start in 1995, Free The Children has built more than 500 schools throughout Asia, Africa, and Latin America, providing daily education to more than 50,000 children. Mr. Kielburger has a degree in peace and conflict studies from the University of Toronto and a Kellogg-Schulich executive MBA. He has received six honorary doctorates for his work and has travelled to more than 50 countries, visiting underprivileged children and helping with humanitarian projects.

Matthew Kiernan is founder and CEO of Innovest Strategic Value Advisors.  He is a former senior partner with KPMG and the first director of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, based in Geneva, Switzerland.  He is the author of Investing in a Sustainable World.

David Kilcullen is founder and CEO of Caerus Associates, a strategic design consulting firm that designs, implements, and evaluates programs for peace, stability, and growth in conflict and frontier environments. In 2007, he served as the senior counterinsurgency adviser to the commander of the multinational force in Iraq.

Alexa Courtney is vice president for growth at Caerus. As a former conflict specialist and senior civil-military adviser with USAID, she led the assessment and design of multiple conflict prevention and stabilization programs throughout South Asia. As a former conflict specialist and senior civil-military advisor with USAID, she led the assessment and design of multiple conflict prevention and stabilization programs throughout South Asia.

Noordin Nanji is Vice President, Strategy & Development of Ballard Power Systems and is responsible for corporate development, major business development initiatives and broader corporate strategy. He is also a principal of Black Pine Capital Group Corporation, a private equity investment firm based in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Matthew Klippenstein is a senior fuel cell engineer at Ballard Power Systems. His current focus is fuel cell development for backup power markets. 

Tommy Koh is ambassador-at-large at Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and chairman of the Institute of Policy Studies and the National Heritage Board in Singapore. He has served as Singapore’s permanent representative to the United Nations and ambassador to Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

M. James Kondo is president of the Health Policy Institute in Japan and cochairman of Table for Two, a program launched by the Forum of Young Global Leaders and the World Economic Forum. He also serves as codirector of the Healthcare and Social Policy Leadership Programme at the University of Tokyo.

Raj Kumar is cofounder and president of Devex, a social enterprise serving the international development, humanitarian aid, and global health communities. Founded in 2000, Devex serves a global community of 500,000 aid workers and 1,000 donor agencies, companies, and NGOs with news, business information, and recruitment services.

Philippe Legrain is the author of Open World: The Truth About Globalisation and, most recently, Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them. He was previously a trade and economics writer for the Economist and special adviser to the director general of the
World Trade Organization. He is currently a visiting fellow at the European Institute of the London School of Economics.

David A. Levy is managing partner of the Jerome Levy Forecasting Center. He is the coauthor, with S. Jay Levy, of Profits and the Future of American Society, published by HarperCollins. Mr. Levy graduated from Williams College Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in mathematics and received an MBA from the Columbia University School of Business.

Jody Lewen is the founder and executive director of the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison. She earned an MA in philosophy and comparative literature from Freie Universität Berlin and a PhD in rhetoric from University of California, Berkeley. She has published and presented extensively in the fields of psychoanalysis, literary theory, and criminal justice.

Mark Lewis is a managing director in commodities research and the global head of carbon research at Deutsche Bank. His global emissions’ research recently ranked number one in Energy Risk magazine’s 2008 survey of commodity markets. Mark previously served as a financial analyst covering the European utility industry and as an academic at London University.

Paul C. Light is a professor at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and is the author of a forthcoming essay titled Social Impact in a Time of Urgent Threats.

Michael Likosky is a senior fellow at New York University’s Institute for Public Knowledge and author of Obama’s Bank: Financing a Durable New Deal (Cambridge University Press, September 2010).

Greg Lindsay is a contributing writer for Fast Company. His writing has also appeared in Time, Fortune, Travel + Leisure, Condé Nast Traveler, and The Daily Beast. Greg speaks frequently about globalization, innovation, and the future of cities, most recently in Shanghai at Expo 2010. John D. Kasarda, a professor at Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, has advised countries, cities, and companies about the “aerotropolis” and its implications. Their book, Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in March 2011.

Bjorn Lomborg is an adjunct professor at the Copenhagen Business School and the organizer of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, which brings together top economists to set priorities for the world. He is the author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and, most recently, Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming.

Mindy S. Lubber is president of Ceres. She was recently voted one of “The 100 Most Influential People in Corporate Governance for 2009” by Directorship Magazine, which noted Ceres’ substantial influence in its field. Before coming to Ceres, Ms. Lubber was the regional administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency and founder and CEO of Green Century Capital Management, an investment firm managing environmentally screened mutual funds.

Dr Gerard Lyons is Chief Economist at Standard Chartered Bank in London.

Kishore Mahbubani is dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore and has just published a book titled The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East. He previously served as Singapore’s ambassador to the United Nations and as president of the UN Security Council.

Sebastian Mallaby directs the Center for Geoeconomic Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a columnist and former editorial board member at the Washington Post. Before that, he served as the Washington, DC, and Tokyo bureau chief
for the Economist.

Thomas Malone is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management and founding director of its Center for Collective Intelligence. He is also a founding codirector of MIT’s Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century initiative and author of The Future of Work.

Michael Mandel, former chief economist at Business Week, writes about innovation at southmountaineconomics.com. He is also starting up a venture that combines economic/financial journalism and education.

Paul Mango is a director in McKinsey’s Pittsburgh office, where he leads the North American health care payers and providers practice.

Nicolaus Henke is a director in the London office and leads the European health care payers and providers practice.

James Manyika is a director in McKinsey’s San Francisco office, where Lareina Yee is an associate principal; Kara Sprague is a consultant in the Silicon Valley office.

Authors would like to thank Michael Chui, Ajit Dansingani, Minli Virdone, and Joe Newsum.

Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), studies the ways that information technology (IT) affects businesses. He coined the phrase “Enterprise 2.0”; his book on the topic was published in 2009 by Harvard Business School Press. He has also held appointments as a professor at Harvard Business School and a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, the Schussel Family Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and chair of the MIT Sloan Management Review. His research examines the effects of information technologies on business strategy, productivity, Internet commerce, pricing models, and intangible assets. Brynjolfsson is coauthor of Wired for Innovation: How IT is Reshaping the Economy (MIT Press, September 2009).

Megan McArdle is a senior editor for The Atlantic who writes about business and economics. She has worked at three start-ups, a consulting firm, an investment bank, a disaster recovery firm at Ground Zero, and the Economist.

William McDonough is an architect and the founding principal of design firm William McDonough + Partners, which focuses on ecological and socially intelligent architecture. Stephan Dolezalek has spent 23 years in Silicon Valley working exclusively with technology-driven companies. He joined VantagePoint Venture Partners in 1999 and currently heads up VantagePoint’s CleanTech practice.

Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, including the first account of global warming for a general audience, The End of Nature. A scholar in residence at Middlebury College, he is a cofounder of 350.org and has organized 1,400 demonstrations across the United States to demand action on climate change.

Lenny Mendonca is a director in McKinsey’s Washington, DC and San Francisco offices; Laura D’Andrea Tyson is the S.K. and Angela Chan professor of global management at Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley and a special adviser to the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI).

Matt Miller is a senior advisor to McKinsey. This essay is adapted from his new book, The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity.

H. Melvin Ming was appointed president and CEO of Sesame Workshop in October, 2011. Previously, he served as chief operating officer for 11 years and oversaw the business strategies of all of the Workshop’s properties. Prior to joining the Workshop, Ming was the CFO of the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City. He serves on the board of directors of First Children’s Finance and the radio network Westwood One. Ming, a certified public accountant, received a BS degree from Temple University.

Rakesh Mohan recently completed a consulting professorship at the Stanford Center for International Development at Stanford University. He also served as the deputy governor for the Reserve Bank of India. His book Monetary Policy in a Globalized Economy: A Practitioner’s View focuses on issues relating to the evolution of banking and finance, the conduct of monetary policy, the management of the financial sector, and the role of central banking.

Mario Morino is co-founder and chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners, a philanthropic investment organization committed to children of low-income families in the Washington, DC region. He is also the chairman of the Morino Institute, a non-profit organization that explores opportunities to leverage technology to advance social change.

Blake Mycoskie founded TOMS in 2006 after starting five previous businesses, including a national campus laundry service and an online driver’s education company. Between business ventures, he competed in the CBS primetime series, The Amazing Race, finishing within minutes of the $1 million dollar grand prize winner. Mycoskie is the author of Start Something That Matters (Spiegel & Grau, September 2011).

Moisés Naím is the editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine. He has written extensively on international politics and economics and on globalization’s unexpected consequences. Dr Naím, a former economics minister in Venezuela, is also the author of eight books including Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy. His opinion columns and articles appear in many newspapers including Spain’s El Pais, Italy ‘s L’Espresso, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Newsweek, and TIME.

Andrew Nathan is the Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and a specialist in Chinese foreign policy. He is coauthor of The Great Wall and the Empty Fortress: China’s Search for Security and coeditor of How East Asians View Democracy.

Robert Neuwirth is the author of Shadow Cities: a billion squatters, a new urban world (Routledge, 2006). His forthcoming book, Stealth of Nations (Pantheon Books, 2011), chronicles the global growth of the informal economy.

Craig Newmark is a senior Web-oriented software engineer with more than 25 years of experience (including 18 years at IBM). In 1995, he started Craigslist, an online community bulletin board with classifieds and discussion forums. Craigslist sites—represented in all 50 US states and in over 50 countries—generate more than 12 billion page views per month.

Len Nichols is director of the health policy program at the New America Foundation. He has held several positions in health care policy and reform including as the senior adviser for health policy at the Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton reform efforts of 1993-94. He has testified frequently before Congress and state legislators and has published widely in a variety of health-related journals.

Jacqueline Novogratz is the founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global-venture fund managing more than $30 million in investments in South Asia and East Africa, all focused on delivering affordable health care, water, housing, and energy. Her book The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World will be published in March 2009.

Joseph Nye Jr. is the University Distinguished Service Professor and former dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He has served as chair of the National Intelligence Council and as deputy under secretary of state. His most recent books include Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics, The Power Game: A Washington Novel, and The Powers to Lead.

Gordon Orr is a director in McKinsey’s Shanghai office. He was responsible for opening McKinsey’s practice in China in the early 1990s, led the Greater China practice for many years, and has helped many local companies to innovate their way to success. Initially, much of this work focused on helping them succeed domestically; today the emphasis is on globalization.

Sally Osberg is the president and CEO of Skoll Foundation, which aims to drive large-scale change by investing in, connecting, and celebrating social entrepreneurs and other innovators dedicated to solving the world’s most pressing problems. A leader in the social sector for more than 25 years, Ms Osberg earned her BA from Scripps College and her MA from Claremont Graduate University. In 1998 she received the John Gardner Leadership Award from the American Leadership Forum, and in 1999 the San Jose Mercury News named her as one of the “Millennium 100,” recognizing her as one of the key individuals who have shaped and led Silicon Valley. For more of her current views on philanthropy, see her blog.

Jeffrey Pfeffer is the Thomas D. Dee II Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He has written extensively in the fields of organizational theory and human-resource management and is the author of 12 books, including his latest, tentatively titled Power Rules: An Organizational Survival Guide.

Edmund Phelps is director of Columbia University’s Center on Capitalism and Society and the recipient of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics.

Luiz Pires is the Europe, Middle East, and Africa high-tech practice manager in McKinsey’s Munich office.

Iqbal Z. Quadir is the founder and director of the The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the founder of Grameenphone in Bangladesh, which provides effective telephone access throughout the country. From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Quadir taught at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He holds a BS with honors from Swarthmore College and both an MBA and an MA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Serge Raicher is chairman of the European Venture Philanthropy Association (EVPA), which he cofounded in 2004. Previously, he spent more than 20 years in the private-equity industry, including Pantheon Ventures, where he was a partner until 2009. He holds an MBA from INSEAD.

Richard Register is founder and president of Ecocity Builders and was founding president of Urban Ecology, both nonprofit educational organizations. He is author of Ecocities: Building cities in balance with nature (Berkley Hills Books, 2001), Ecocity Berkeley: Building cities for a healthy future (North Atlantic Books, 1987), and Another Beginning (Treehouse Books, 1978). He has traveled the equivalent of 28 times around the world advocating for the potential of the pedestrian city to save the world.

Uwe Reinhardt is a professor at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where his work focuses primarily on health care economics. He has served as a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences since 1978 and is coauthor of The Future U.S. Healthcare System: Who Will Care for the Poor and Uninsured?

Michelle Rhee is CEO and founder of StudentsFirst, a nonprofit advocacy organization devoted to education reform issues. Rhee began her career as a Teach for America (TFA) corps member in Baltimore, Maryland. Later, she founded and ran The New Teacher Project, which recruits and trains teachers to work in urban schools. Rhee served as chancellor of Washington, DC public schools from 2007 to 2010.

Stephen Roach is chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. He formerly served as Morgan Stanley’s chief economist and has been with the firm since 1982.

Kim Stanley Robinson is a science fiction writer whose work has received multiple awards, including science fiction’s Hugo and Nebula awards for his Mars trilogy and The Blind Geometer. In addition to 14 novels and 4 story collections, his writings have appeared in several publications, including Nature, the New York Times, Newsweek, and Wired.

Dr. Judith Rodin is the Rockefeller Foundation’s 12th president. She was previously president of the University of Pennsylvania, the first woman to lead an Ivy League institution, and provost of Yale University. Dr. Rodin is the author of more than 200 academic articles and wrote or co-wrote 12 books, including her most recent, The University & Urban Renewal: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets.

Matt Rogers is a director in McKinsey’s San Francisco office and the leader of McKinsey’s North American petroleum practice. In his ten years at McKinsey, he has consulted primarily in the fields of electric power, oil and gas, and aerospace.

Kenneth Roth is executive director of Human Rights Watch. He has conducted human-rights investigations worldwide, devoting particular attention to issues of justice and accountability for human-rights violations, standards governing military conduct during war, and the responsibilities of multinational businesses. He has written extensively on a range of human-rights topics.

John Rother is AARP’s executive vice president for policy and strategy where he is responsible for the federal and state public policies of the Association, and for formulating AARP’s overall strategic direction.

Bunker Roy has been living and working in the rural areas of Rajasthan, India, since 1967. He started the Barefoot College in 1971 in the village of Tilonia. The goal is to improve the quality of life of the world’s rural poor living on less than $1 a day.

Jeffrey Sachs is a professor of sustainable development and health at Columbia University, as well as director of the school’s Earth Institute. From 2002 to 2006, he served as director of the UN Millennium Project and as special adviser to then UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. He is now special adviser to the current UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon.

Paul Saffo is a technology forecaster based in Silicon Valley. He is currently a consulting associate professor at Stanford University and a visiting scholar in the Stanford Media X research network.

Saskia Sassen is the Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and co-chairs the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Her recent books are Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press, 2008) and A Sociology of Globalization (W. W. Norton, 2007). Forthcoming is the fully updated fourth edition of Cities in a World Economy (Sage, 2011).

Orville Schell is Arthur Ross Director of the Asia Society Center on US–China Relations and former dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written 14 books, 9 of them about China, including Mandate of Heaven: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square and the Next Generation of China’s Leaders.

Carl Schramm is president and CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a philanthropic organization based in Kansas City, Missouri, that focuses on fostering entrepreneurship as well as childhood education.

Dane Stangler is a senior research analyst at the foundation.

Carl J. Schramm, president and CEO of the Kauffman Foundation, writes frequently on entrepreneurial innovation and economic growth. He is a founding board member of the Startup America Partnership, a White House–initiated private-sector effort, and has served on Department of Commerce innovation committees during both the Bush and Obama administrations. Trained as an economist and lawyer, Schramm is coauthor of Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity (Yale University Press, October 2009).

Clay Shirky is an associate new-media professor in the graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. His writings on Internet technology have been published in the Wall Street Journal and Wired, among others. He is the author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations.

Gary Shteyngart’s sixth and most recent novel, Super Sad True Love Story (Random House, May 2011) was a New York Times best seller. It was included on over 40 Best Books of the Year lists, including those of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and O, The Oprah Magazine. His novels have been translated into 24 languages.

Stan Slap is president and founder of the eponymous management consulting firm, slap, based in San Francisco, and author of a forthcoming book on the need to foster emotional commitment among managers, Bury My Heart At Conference Room B.

Michael Spence is professor and dean, emeritus, of management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford. As of September 2010, he is a professor of economics at the Stern School of Business at New York University. In 2001, he received the Nobel Prize in economic sciences.

Eric Spiegel is the president and chief executive officer of Siemens Corporation and CEO of the U.S. Region.

Paul Steiger is the editor-in-chief, president, and chief executive of ProPublica, an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism. Previously, he served as the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal for 16 years. He is the chairman of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit that has fought for press freedom around the world since 1981.

Dr. Benn Steil is director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations, author of the special report Lessons of the Financial Crisis (Counsel on Foreign Relations Press, 2009), and coauthor of Money, Markets, and Sovereignty (Yale University Press, 2009).

Jack Stephenson is managing director of mobile, e-commerce, and payments at JPMorgan Chase. He has more than 25 years of experience in financial services, payments, and e-commerce, with prior stints at McKinsey & Company and at PayPal.

David C. Edelman is a principal in McKinsey’s Boston office and global co-leader of the firm’s digital marketing strategy practice. Over the past 20 years, he has worked with companies around the world in a variety of areas, including channel strategy, database marketing, online media, and brand strategy.

Nicholas Stern is IG Patel professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is author of the Stern Report on the Economics of Climate Change, former head of the UK’s Government Economic Service, and former chief economist of the World Bank.

Don Tapscott is chairman of nGenera Insight and an adjunct professor at the Rotman School of Management, at the University of Toronto. He has written or cowritten more than a dozen books on technology in business, including Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation and a sequel, Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World.

John Thackara, author of In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World, is director of Doors of Perception, a small production company that teams grassroots innovators in Europe and India with designers to develop a sustainable future. He is also a senior adviser on sustainability to the UK Design Council and commissioner of City Eco Lab in St. Etienne, France.

Rex W. Tillerson is the chairman and CEO of ExxonMobil. He joined Exxon in 1975 and assumed his current position in 2006. Tillerson also serves as a committee member of the American Petroleum Institute and as a trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Doug Ulman is President and CEO of LIVESTRONG. After overcoming cancer while in college, he cofounded the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults with his family. Ulman served as executive director of the fund until joining LIVESTRONG in 2001. He still serves on the executive board of his family’s foundation.

Hal Varian is chief economist at Google and the author of Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy.

Dan Viederman has lived in Bangkok, Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Macau, and Nanjing , as well as Massachusetts and New York City, while serving as an educator and an NGO leader. He has been pleased to serve several world-class institutions in addition to Verité, including the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), where he founded the China office, and Catholic Relief Services. He is a graduate of Yale University, the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, and Nanjing Teacher’s University. In 2007, he was awarded the Skoll Foundation Award for Social Entrepreneurship for his work with Verité.