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Paul Krugman
Winner, 2008 Nobel Prize for Economics
In the midst of the current economic crisis, few people offer audiences more value than Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. He foresaw many aspects of the crisis when he published The Return of Depression Economics in 1999, and has recently published an updated edition entitled The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008. He also has been following the economics of the downturn and the politics of recover in his biweekly column for The New York Times.

To learn more about Paul Krugman, click here.
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
Silver Professor of Politics, New York University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Since the 1970s, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has been making amazingly precise and accurate forecasts of future events in politics, government, and business. Working with the State Department, CIA, and the Defense Department, he has become an invaluable factor in the formation of US foreign policy and national security issues.

To learn more about Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, click here.
Nicholas A. Christakis
Professor of both Medicine and Sociology at Harvard. Attending physician, Mt. Auburn Hospital.
Internist and social scientist with a distinguished career and an international reputation. Expert on how social networks form and how they affect our lives and health. Coauthor (with James Fowler) of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives. Named to the Time 100 in 2009.

To learn more about Nicholas Christakis, click here.

James Fowler
Associate Professor, University of California–San Diego.
Internationally recognized political scientist who specializes in the study of social networks, behavioral economics and the genetic basis of political behavior. Coauthor (with Nicholas Christakis) of Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives. Named "most original thinker" of the year by The McLaughlin Group.

To learn more about James Fowler, click here.

Is Happiness Catching?, Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler, The New York Times [9.15.09]





Tony Hsieh
On a Scale of 1 to 10, How Weird Are you? - The New York Times 1.12.10



Willem Buiter
Willem Buiter will join Citigroup Inc as Chief Economist beginning January 1, 2010. Buiter will work as a senior adviser on global economic issues, as well as lead the investment research team in the creation of world-class economic analysis. Congratulations, Willem! 12.2.09

The Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers
Fourteen of our speakers have been chosen for the first Foreign Policy Top 100 Global Thinkers list. Congratulations! For more information on these speakers click on their names.
Nouriel Roubini, Richard Thaler, Martin Wolf, Malcolm Gladwell, Robert Shiller, Chris Anderson, Paul Krugman, Jeffrey Sachs, Nicholas Christakis, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, Robert Kagan, Esther Dyson, Willem Buiter and Paul Kennedy. 12.1.09





The Daily Show, Atul Gawande [2.8.10]

A daily Publication LOG of articles by and about our speakers

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Author’s Choice: Charles Darwin, Management Guru, Alan Webber, strategy+business [2.8.10]
Innovation the 21st-Century University: It’s Time!, Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, Educause [2.8.10]
The Ticking U.S. Fiscal Bomb, Nouriel Roubini, Forbes [2.8.10]

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