- Esther Dyson
Esther Dyson is a self-described authority on emerging digital technology, and considered a founding member of the digerati. Esther Dyson is the daughter of Freeman Dyson, a physicist, and Verana Huber-Dyson, a mathematician, and the sister of the digital technology historian George Dyson. After graduating from Harvard in economics, she joined Forbes as a fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter.
- Harold Brown
Harold Brown was born on September 19, 1927, in New York City. He received three degrees, among them a Ph.D. (1949) in physics from Columbia University. Brown was a research scientist at the University of California Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, then at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, CA; he became director of the Lawrence lab in 1960. Brown was senior adviser at the Conference on the Discontinuance of Nuclear Tests (1958-1959).
- Robert Anderson
Dr Robert Geoffrey William Anderson, MA, DPhil was Director of the British Museum, London. Robert Anderson studied at St John's College, Oxford University. He has held posts at the Royal Scottish Museum (joining as Assistant Keeper in 1970), the Science Museum, London, the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh and at the British Museum, London (1992–2002).
- Shaukat Aziz
Shaukat Aziz , born March 6, 1949 in Karachi, Pakistan is the current Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Pakistan.... ... Shaukat Aziz , born March 6, 1949 in Karachi, Pakistan is the current Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Pakistan....
- Ram Shriram
Ram Shriram served as an officer of Amazon.com working for Jeff Bezos, founder & CEO. Ram came to Amazon.com in August, 1998, when Amazon acquired Junglee, an online comparison shopping firm of which Ram was president. While at Amazon, Ram helped grow the customer base during its early high growth phase in 1998/1999. Before Junglee and Amazon, Ram was a member of the Netscape executive team, joining them in 1994, before they shipped products or posted revenue.
- Hartmut Mehdorn
Hartmut Mehdorn is a German manager and current CEO of Deutsche Bahn AG. After studying mechanical engineering in Berlin, he joined the construction development section of Focke-Wulf in Bremen. From 1966 to 1978, Mehdorn worked for what later became known as the "Vereinigte Flugtechnische Werke-Fokker GmbH", his last position being that of production head at the "Nordwerke" of MBB (Messerschmidt-Bölkow-Blohm).
- P. Roy Vagelos
Dr. Vagelos served as Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc. for nine years, from July 1985 to June 1994. He was first elected to the Board of Directors in 1984 and served as its Chairman from April 1986 to November 1994. He was previously Executive Vice President of the worldwide health products company and, before that, President of its Research Division, which he joined in 1975.
- Bruce Chizen
Bruce Chizen Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer Bruce Chizen ’s customer-focused vision has transformed Adobe into one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies in terms of revenue, global reach and breadth of products. Since his promotion to CEO in 2000, Chizen has more than doubled Adobe's revenue and turned a company known mainly for its popular design products into one of the most significant forces in the software industry today.
- Irene Rosenfeld
Irene Rosenfeld is the 53-year-old CEO of Kraft Foods Inc., having been appointed June 26, 2006. Rosenfeld had spent more than 20 years with Kraft and General Foods before joining Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo, in 1994, and rejoining Kraft as president of Kraft Canada in 2000. Rosenfeld left Kraft to become CEO of Frito-Lay in 2004 before returning to Kraft in June 2006. She is currently a trustee of Cornell University, her alma mater.
- Claude Lajeunesse
Claude Lajeunesse (born 1941) is the current President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University. From 1995 until August 2005, he was President and Vice Chancellor of Ryerson University. He received his PhD in 1969, and his Master of Science degree in 1967 in Nuclear Engineering. Prior to his appointment as President of Ryerson University, he was CEO of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada.
- Elizabeth Ball
Elizabeth Ball is a Vancouver city councillor who was elected as a member of Non-Partisan Association in 2005. She was the founder of Carousel Theatre Company and served as Managing Artistic Director for 27 years.
- Don W. McGeorge
Don W. McGeorge (born 1954) is the president and chief operating officer of Kroger. He started working for the Kroger Company in 1977 by holding several management positions, including division manager, in Michigan and Ohio. In 2000, he was elected executive vice president of the Kroger Company, specializing in corporate merchandising programs. In 2003, he took David B. Dillon's place as president and chief operating officer. McGeorge is also a member of the board.
- Martin van Pernis
Martin van Pernis (born 1945) is a Dutch business man and currently member of the board of Feyenoord Rotterdam as well as the chairman of the Siemens department in the Netherlands. He is also a member of the board of the VNO-NCW as well as ad interim chairman of the FME/CWM. As a member of the board of directors at Feyenoord he is responsible for the Human Resource Management.
- Peter Vogelzang
Peter Vogelzang (born 1945) is a Dutch business man and currently member of the board of Feyenoord Rotterdam. Vogelzang worked as a director for the Royal Netherlands Football Association (KNVB) and is currently part of the board of directors of the KNVB as well. He was Chef de Mission of the Dutch Olympic Committee during the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. At Feyenoord Vogelzang was appointed in April 2007 for a period of five months.
- Sergio Marchionne
Sergio Marchionne began his professional career in Canada. From 1983 to 1985, he worked as a chartered accountant and tax specialist for Deloitte & Touche. From 1985 to 1988, he was group controller and then director of corporate development at the Lawson Mardon Group of Toronto. In 1989 and 1990, he was executive vice president of Glenex Industries.
- Jos van der Vegt
Jos van der Vegt (born 1953) is a Dutch business man and currently member of the board of Feyenoord Rotterdam as well as director of Ahoy Rotterdam. He is also chairman of the Rotterdam Marathon and part of the Economic Development Board Rotterdam. Between 1991 and 1996 he was director of the Feyenoord Stadion.
- Coert Beerman
Coert Beerman (born 1955) in Vlaardingen is a Dutch business man and currently member of the board of Feyenoord Rotterdam as well as the chairman of the Rabobank of the Rotterdam district. He also is the director of the Efteling and a member of the Economic Development Board Rotterdam. Before joining the Rabobank in the Rotterdam district he was the chairman of the Rabobank in the Eindhoven district.
- Les Otten
Les Otten LBO Enterprises Les has a long history in consumer loyalty and marketing. Les is formerly Vice-Chairman and Partner of the Boston Red Sox. He was the founder and CEO of American Skiing Company, and remains an active member of the board. American Skiing Company is one of the largest operators of alpine ski, snowboard and golf resorts in the U.S., with resorts including Sunday River, Steamboat, The Canyons and Killington.
- Bernardo Sorj
Bernardo Sorj (born September 1948, Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Brazilian social scientist, professor of Sociology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and Director of the Edelstein Center for Social Research. He is also the coordinator of SciELO Latin American Social Sciences Journals English Edition (a site offering free access to 30 Latin American journals translated into English. He has published 20 books and more than 100 articles, on Latin American development, …
- Boudewijn Poelmann
Boudewijn Poelmann (born 1949) is a Dutch business man and currently member of the board of Feyenoord Rotterdam as well as the chairman of Novamedia as well as the Nationale Postcode Loterij, Sponsor Loterij and the BankGiro Loterij. As a member of the board of directors at Feyenoord he is will mainly focus on media and marketing.
- Benjamin Huger
Benjamin Huger (November 22, 1805 - December 7, 1877) was a career United States Army ordnance officer and a Confederate general in the American Civil War.
- Ben Bernanke
Ben Bernanke , the Chairman of the Federal Reserve has studied both the '30's and the Japanese deflationary periods in depth. Fortunately he published papers and books on the subject along with other like minded economists, including GB Eggertsson.
- Geoffrey R. Stone
Geoffrey Stone has been a member of the law faculty since 1973. From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Stone served as Dean of the Law School, and from 1993 to 2002 he served as Provost of the University of Chicago. Mr. Stone received his undergraduate degree in 1968 from the University of Pennsylvania and his law degree in 1971 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review .
- Benjamin Harrison V
Benjamin Harrison, V (April 5, 1726 - April 24, 1791) was an American planter and revolutionary leader from Charles City County, Virginia. He was educated at the College of William and Mary and was, perhaps, the first figure in the Harrison family to gain national attention. Harrison was a representative for Surry County, Virginia (1756 - 1758) and Charles City County (1766 - 1776) to the House of Burgesses.
- Gavin Newsom
Gavin Newsom was elected the 42nd Mayor of the City and County of San Francisco on December 9, 2003. He was sworn into office on January 8, 2004 by his father, the Honorable William Newsom . Mayor Gavin Newsom has made bold ideas the driving force of his administration. As Mayor, Gavin Newsom uses ideas, innovation and practical solutions to improve the quality of life for all San Franciscans.
- Kweisi Mfume
Mr. Mfume became President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on February 20, 1996, after being unanimously elected to the position by the NAACP's Board of Directors. Previously he held a seat in the United States Congress where he represented Maryland's 7th Congressional District for ten years.
- Donald J. Carty
Mr. Carty has been a member of the Company's board of directors since 1992 and for much of that time has served as chairman of the Audit Committee. From 1998 to 2003, Carty served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of AMR Corporation. He also previously served as President of AMR Airline Group and American Airlines, Inc. Prior to that he was the Chief Financial Officer and held various other executive positions at AMR and its subsidiaries.
- Steny Hoyer
"Congressman Hoyer is a skilled legislator. He recently forced Republicans to scuttle budget legislation that included a number of cuts in programs important to labor and working families by attaching an increase in the minimum wage to the bill." - Abe Breehey , assistant director of government affairs
- John Shoven
John B. Shoven , 59, is the Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the Wallace R. Hawley Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). He is also a Senior Fellow by Courtesy of the Hoover Institution at Stanford. He has served as the Chairman of the Economics Department (1986-89), Director of the Center for Economic Policy Research (1988-93) and Dean of Humanities and Sciences (1993-98).
- Shirley Jackson
Dr. Jackson has been President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since July 1999. She was Chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission from July 1995 to July 1999 and Professor of Physics at Rutgers University from 1991 to 1995. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Physical Society.
- Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks ( February 4 1913 a October 24 2005 ) was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement ". ... Rosa Parks was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee , Alabama on February 4 , 1913 , to James McCauley and Leona Edwards , respectively a carpenter and a teacher, and was of African-American , Cherokee - Creek , [1] and Scots-Irish [2] ancestry.
- Lois Juliber
Ms. Juliber joined Colgate from General Foods to become President of Colgate's Far East Division in 1988. In 1992, she was promoted to Chief Technology Officer of the Corporation, a position she held until her promotion to President - Colgate North America in 1994.
- Irwin Stelzer
Irwin Stelzer is a business adviser and director of economic policy studies at the Hudson Institute. In our view, Irwin Stelzer always seems to present a well thought out and sensible view.
- John Lynch
The commission was created in 2005 through an Executive Order issued by Gov. Lynch, with the purpose of vetting candidates for judicial posts. "I created the Judicial Selection Commission to ensure that we are finding the best qualified people to serve in our judicial system," Gov. Lynch said. "I want to thank Emily for agreeing to co-chair the commission.
- Jack Dyer Crouch II
Dr. Jack Dyer Crouch II was confirmed by the Senate on May 21, 2004, and sworn into office as the U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Romania on May 28, 2004. He was formerly Associate Professor of Defense & Strategic Studies at Southwest Missouri State University. From August 6, 2001 through October 31, 2003, Dr. Crouch was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy.
- Ben Bova
Galaxyonline.com, the largest science fiction and science fact related Interactive online network in the universe, announced today that renowned author and futurist Dr. Ben Bova has recently signed on as supersite publisher and senior vice president.
- James Wolfensohn
President of the World Bank for the past decade, has confirmed he will retire from his post later this year. He told the ABC television network in the US that the time had come for him to pass on the baton after 10 years at the helm of the global institution. "I had 10 years and I think that's probably enough," the 71-year-old Mr Wolfensohn said. He is due to wrap up his second five-year term as the Washington-headquartered bank's president in June.
- David Dreier
Water is a priority issue for Congressman Dreier. One of the midnight regulations would discontinue the EPA's monitoring of a water contaminant called perchlorate. A chemical used in rocket fuel and explosives, perchlorate has been linked to thyroid problems in children, pregnant women, and newborns. The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is not only in Rep. Dreier's district, it is a superfund cleanup site which has a history of water contamination from -- wait for it -- perchlorate.
- Muhammad Yunus
Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient and founder of Grameen Bank, has shown himself to be a leader who can translate his vision into powerful reality for the benefit of millions. The Nobel Peace Prize was bestowed upon him for his entrepreneurial efforts and innovative thinking as he single handedly revolutionized economic and social development worldwide.
- Madeleine Korbel Albright
Madeleine Albright (1937 - ) was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia. As the Nazis invaded that country before World War II, Albright and her family fled and eventually settled in the U.S. She graduated from Wellesley College in Massachusetts, and she later received master's and doctorate degrees from Columbia University in New York. By the late 1970s, she was working in the White House for President Jimmy Carter 's national security team.