Prof. Dr. Durre Sameen Ahmed
Chairperson of the department of academic studies and professor of psychology and communication at the National College of Arts, Lahore, Pakistan.
Anousheh Ansari
CEO, XPRIZE
Anousheh Ansari
CEO, XPRIZE
Anousheh Ansari is CEO of XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges. Ansari sponsored the $10M Ansari XPRIZE, igniting a new era for commercial spaceflight. Prior, Ansari served as CEO of Prodea Systems, a leading Internet of Things technology firm. She captured international headlines by embarking upon an 11-day space expedition, becoming the first female private space explorer, first astronaut of Iranian descent, first Muslim woman in space, and fourth private explorer to visit space. Ansari co-founded The Billion Dollar Fund for Women, with a goal of investing $1 billion in women-founded companies by 2020. Her memoir, My Dream of Stars, aims to share her life story as inspiration for young women around the world.
Anousheh Ansari is CEO of XPRIZE, the world’s leader in designing and operating incentive competitions to solve humanity’s grand challenges. Ansari sponsored the $10M Ansari XPRIZE, igniting a new era for commercial spaceflight. Prior, Ansari served as CEO of Prodea Systems, a leading Internet of Things technology firm. She captured international headlines by embarking upon an 11-day space expedition, becoming the first female private space explorer, first astronaut of Iranian descent, first Muslim woman in space, and fourth private explorer to visit space. Ansari co-founded The Billion Dollar Fund for Women, with a goal of investing $1 billion in women-founded companies by 2020. Her memoir, My Dream of Stars, aims to share her life story as inspiration for young women around the world.
Dewi Fortuna Anwar, Ph.D.
Research professor at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and was the deputy chairman for social sciences and humanities from 2001–10.
His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew
270th and current Archbishop of Constantinople.
His Eminence Francis Cardinal Arinze
Nigerian cardinal in the Roman Catholic Church who has been the Cardinal Bishop of Velletri-Segni since 2005.
Dr. M. A. Zaki Badawi
Principal of the Muslim College, London, and chairman of the Imams and Mosques Council in England.
Prof. Stephen Barr
Professor in the department of physics and astronomy at the University of Delaware, and a member of its Bartol Research Institute.
HRH Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium
Grand Duchess of Luxembourg as the wife of Grand Duke Jean.
The Hon. James H. Billington
American academic, author, and the Librarian of Congress from 1987 to 2015.
The Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake
General Secretary of the World Council of Churches from 1966 to 1972.
The Most Rev. Stuart Blanch
Archbishop of York, England, from 1975 to 1983.
Baruch S. Blumberg, M.D., Ph.D.
American physician, geneticist, University Professor of Medicine and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, and shared the 1976 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work on the discovery of the Hepatitis B virus.
John J. Brennan
Chairman Emeritus and Senior Advisor of The Vanguard Group, Inc.
John J. Brennan
Senior Advisor
John J. Brennan is Chairman Emeritus and Senior Advisor of The Vanguard Group, Inc., one of the world’s largest investment companies with current assets of more than $4 trillion. Mr. Brennan joined Vanguard in July 1982, was elected President in 1989, served as Chief Executive Officer from 1996 to 2008, and as Chairman of the Board from 1998 to 2009.
John J. Brennan is Chairman Emeritus and Senior Advisor of The Vanguard Group, Inc., one of the world’s largest investment companies with current assets of more than $4 trillion. Mr. Brennan joined Vanguard in July 1982, was elected President in 1989, served as Chief Executive Officer from 1996 to 2008, and as Chairman of the Board from 1998 to 2009.
David Brooks
Columnist for The New York Times
David Brooks
Columnist
David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times, commentator for the PBS NewsHour, and commentator for National Public Radio. He is the author of four books including The Road to Character (2015). He has also been a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal, senior editor at The Weekly Standard, and contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic.
David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times, commentator for the PBS NewsHour, and commentator for National Public Radio. He is the author of four books including The Road to Character (2015). He has also been a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal, senior editor at The Weekly Standard, and contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic.
Prof. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Visiting professor in astrophysics, University of Oxford, was elected as the first woman president of the Institute of Physics in 2008.
President George H. W. Bush
41st President of the United States from 1989 to 1993.
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Former Archbishop of Philadelphia
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Former Archbishop of Philadelphia
Charles Joseph Chaput served as the 13th bishop and the ninth Archbishop of Philadelphia from 2011 until his retirement in 2020. Born in Concordia, Kansas, Chaput previously served as Bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota and Archbishop of Denver, Colorado. As a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe, Archbishop Chaput was the second Native American to be ordained a bishop in the United States, and the first Native American archbishop. He served on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom from 2003 to 2006 and, in 2005, was named a member of the U.S. delegation to Cordoba, Spain, for the “Conference on Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance,” sponsored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty awarded him the 2009 Canterbury Medal for his work in advancing religious freedom. Archbishop Chaput is the author of three books and numerous talks, articles, and pastoral letters. His writings, discourses, and homilies are available at www.archphila.org.
Charles Joseph Chaput served as the 13th bishop and the ninth Archbishop of Philadelphia from 2011 until his retirement in 2020. Born in Concordia, Kansas, Chaput previously served as Bishop of Rapid City, South Dakota and Archbishop of Denver, Colorado. As a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe, Archbishop Chaput was the second Native American to be ordained a bishop in the United States, and the first Native American archbishop. He served on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom from 2003 to 2006 and, in 2005, was named a member of the U.S. delegation to Cordoba, Spain, for the “Conference on Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance,” sponsored by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty awarded him the 2009 Canterbury Medal for his work in advancing religious freedom. Archbishop Chaput is the author of three books and numerous talks, articles, and pastoral letters. His writings, discourses, and homilies are available at www.archphila.org.
Prof. Suniti Kuymar Chatterji
National Research Professor of India for the Humanities and president of the Senate of Bengal.
Patriarch Daniel Ciobetea
Archbishop of Iaşi, Romania, and Metropolitan of Moldavia and Bukovina, and in 2007 was elected Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church.
Prof. Sarah Coakley
English systematic theologian and philosopher of religion, an honorary professor at the Logos Institute, the University of St Andrews, and was Norris Hulse Professor of Divinity, Cambridge, from 2007 to 2018.
The Rt. Rev. and Rt. Hon. the Lord Coggan
Archbishop of Canterbury from 1974 to 1980.
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
2020 Templeton Prize Laureate, director of the (U.S.) National Institutes of Health, and led the Human Genome Project.
Cecilia A. Conrad, Ph.D.
CEO, Lever for Change and Managing Director, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Cecilia A. Conrad, Ph.D.
CEO, Lever for Change and Managing Director, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Cecilia A. Conrad, Ph.D. is CEO of Lever for Change and a Managing Director at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Lever for Change is a new nonprofit affiliate of the MacArthur Foundation whose mission is to unlock philanthropic capital and accelerate solutions to the world’s biggest social challenges. In addition to her role at Lever for Change, Dr. Conrad oversees the MacArthur Fellows program and MacArthur’s 100&Change, the Foundation’s competition for a single $100 million grant to help solve a critical problem of our time. Before joining the foundation in January 2013, Conrad had a distinguished career as both a professor and an administrator at Pomona College, Claremont, CA. She held the Stedman Sumner Chair in Economics and is currently emerita professor of economics. She served as Associate Dean of the College (2004-2007), as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College (2009-2012), and as Acting President (Fall 2012). From 2007-2009, she was interim Vice President and Dean of the Faculty at Scripps College. As Associate Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Pomona, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Pomona, Conrad championed the College's summer undergraduate research program and expanded it to the arts and humanities, led conversations regarding the value and assessment of a liberal arts college education, nurtured collaborations between the arts and the sciences, and worked with academic departments to improve the campus climate for diversity. As a member of the faculty, Conrad contributed to the curriculum of several interdisciplinary programs and, in 2002, was recognized as California's Carnegie Professor of the Year, a prestigious national award that recognizes faculty members for their achievement as undergraduate professors. Conrad's academic research focuses on the effects of race and gender on economic status. Her work has appeared in both academic journals and nonacademic publications including The American Prospect and Black Enterprise.
Cecilia A. Conrad, Ph.D. is CEO of Lever for Change and a Managing Director at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Lever for Change is a new nonprofit affiliate of the MacArthur Foundation whose mission is to unlock philanthropic capital and accelerate solutions to the world’s biggest social challenges. In addition to her role at Lever for Change, Dr. Conrad oversees the MacArthur Fellows program and MacArthur’s 100&Change, the Foundation’s competition for a single $100 million grant to help solve a critical problem of our time. Before joining the foundation in January 2013, Conrad had a distinguished career as both a professor and an administrator at Pomona College, Claremont, CA. She held the Stedman Sumner Chair in Economics and is currently emerita professor of economics. She served as Associate Dean of the College (2004-2007), as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College (2009-2012), and as Acting President (Fall 2012). From 2007-2009, she was interim Vice President and Dean of the Faculty at Scripps College. As Associate Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Pomona, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Pomona, Conrad championed the College's summer undergraduate research program and expanded it to the arts and humanities, led conversations regarding the value and assessment of a liberal arts college education, nurtured collaborations between the arts and the sciences, and worked with academic departments to improve the campus climate for diversity. As a member of the faculty, Conrad contributed to the curriculum of several interdisciplinary programs and, in 2002, was recognized as California's Carnegie Professor of the Year, a prestigious national award that recognizes faculty members for their achievement as undergraduate professors. Conrad's academic research focuses on the effects of race and gender on economic status. Her work has appeared in both academic journals and nonacademic publications including The American Prospect and Black Enterprise.