- Barry Eichengreen
Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London). He also is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and economic officials. - Mark Danner
Mark Danner has written about international affairs, human rights and foreign wars for more than 20 years. He has covered Central America, Haiti, the Balkans and Iraq, among many other stories. A longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, Danner is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books. - John Kenneth Galbraith
John Kenneth Galbraith (October 15 1908-April 29 2006) was an influential Canadian-American economist. He was a Keynesian and an institutionalist, a leading proponent of 20th century American liberalism and progressivism. His books on economic topics were bestsellers in the 1950s and 1960s. Galbraith was a prolific author who produced four dozen books and over a thousand articles on various subjects. Among his most famous works was a popular trilogy on economics, … - Chang-Lin Tien
Chang-lin Tien, as the 8th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1990–97), was the first Asian American and Chinese American to head a major U.S. university. Born in Wuhan, mainland China, Tien and his family fled to Taiwan in 1949 at the end of the Chinese Civil War. He earned a BS in mechanical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1955 and went on to a fellowship at the University of Louisville in 1956, … - Matthew Rabin
Matthew Rabin is the Edward G. and Nancy S. Jordan Professor of Economics. He received his PhD from MIT in 1989, the same year he joined the Berkeley faculty as an assistant professor. He was promoted to full professor in 1999. He also is director of the Program in Psychological Economics. Professor Rabin is a member of the Russell Sage Foundation Behavioral Economics Roundtable and of the Program Committee, 8th World Congress of the Econometric Society. - Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston is an American writer. She was born as Maxine Ting Ting Hong to a laundry house owner in Stockton, California. She was the first of six children to be born in the United States. Her parents had two children before coming to this country. She is currently a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley where she graduated with a BA in English in 1962. Her works often reflect on her cultural heritage and blend fiction with non-fiction. - Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American physicist. He was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics (with colleagues Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow) for combining electromagnetism and the weak force into the electroweak force. - Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis (born 1960, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American contemporary non-fiction author. His bestselling books include "Liar's Poker", "The New New Thing," "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" and "The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game". After graduating from the Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, he received an art history degree from Princeton University and a masters degree in economics from the London School of Economics. - Paul Rabinow
Paul Rabinow is a Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at Berkely since 1978. - Christos Papadimitriou
Christos Papadimitriou is a Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He studied at the National Technical University of Athens (BS in Electrical Engineering, 1972) and at Princeton University (MS in Electrical Engineering, 1974 and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1976). He has also taught at Harvard, MIT, the National Technical University of Athens, Stanford, and UCSD. - Robert Alter
Robert Alter is a Biblical scholar and professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. He has written seventeen books, and is noted most recently for his translations of both the original Hebrew Pentateuch in "The Five Books of Moses" (ISBN 0-393-01955-1), "The David Story" (1 and 2 Samuel) (ISBN 0-393-32077-4) and "Genesis". - Aaron Wildavsky
Aaron Wildavsky (31 May1930 - 4 September1993) was an American political scientist known for his pioneering work in public policy, government budgeting, and risk management. A native of Brooklyn in New York, Wildavsky was the son of two Ukrainian immigrants. After graduating from Brooklyn College, he served in the U.S. Army and then won a Fulbright Fellowship to the University of Sydney for 1954-55. - Robert Greenberg
Robert Greenberg (1954-), is an American composer, pianist, and musicologist who was born in Brooklyn, NY in 1954. He has composed more than 45 works for a variety of instruments and voices, and has recorded a number of lecture series on music history and music appreciation for the The Teaching Company, receiving critical and popular acclaim. Greenberg earned a B.A. in music, magna cum laude, from Princeton University and received a Ph.D. in music composition, … - Andrew Imbrie
Andrew Walsh Imbrie (Born April 6, 1921) is an American composer of classical music. In 1937, he went to Paris to study briefly with Nadia Boulanger, but returned to the United States the next year, going to Princeton University, where he received his degree in 1942. His senior thesis there, a string quartet, was recorded by the Juilliard Quartet. He then went to the University of California, Berkeley, where he received an M.A. in Music in 1947. - Harvey Bialy
Harvey Bialy (born New York City, 1945) is an American molecular biologist and AIDS dissident. He was one of the original signatories to the letter establishing the Group for the Scientific Reappraisal of the HIV-AIDS Hypothesis, the editor of its first newsletter, and was a member of the controversial South African Presidential AIDS Advisory Panel convened by Thabo Mbeki in 2000. - Errol Morris
Since the premiere of his groundbreaking 1978 film, "Gates of Heaven," Errol Morris has indelibly altered our perception of the non-fiction film, presenting to audiences the mundane, bizarre and history-making with his own distinctive elan. ... Recently, Morris was highly praised for his short film that ran at the front of the 2002 Academy Awards, where he asked an admixture of anonymous and well-known people outside the movie business to talk about what they love about movies. - Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus E. Wirth (b. February 15, 1934) is a Swiss computer scientist, best known for designing several programming languages, including Pascal, and for pioneering several classic topics in software engineering. In 1984 he won the Turing Award for developing a sequence of innovative computer languages. - Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan (born October 18, 1951, in Port Huron, Michigan) is an African-American author. Her interest in books comes from working at a library when she was sixteen. She received her BA in journalism in 1986 from the University of California at Berkeley. Her work is characterized by strong female protagonists. Her first book, "Mama", was self-promoted. She achieved national attention in 1992 with her third novel, "Waiting to Exhale", … - Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren ( April 24 , 1905 - September 15 , 1989 ) was an American poet and writer. He was born in Guthrie, Kentucky and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1925 and the University of California, Berkeley in 1926. He later attended Yale University and obtained his B. Litt . at Oxford University in England in 1930. - Owen Chamberlain
Owen Chamberlain was a prominent American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1959 with his collaborator Emilio Segrè for their discovery of the antiproton, a fundamental particle. Born in San Francisco, Chamberlain graduated from Germantown Friends School in Philadelphia in 1937. He studied physics at Dartmouth College (A.B. 1941), where he was a member of Theta Chi Fraternity, and at the University of California, Berkeley. - David Chaum
David Chaum is the inventor of many cryptographic protocols and has contributed to the advancement of electronic cash. Chaum founded DigiCash in 1990, an electronic cash company. Additionally, in 1982 he founded the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), which currently organizes some of the most important academic conferences in cryptography research. Dr. - Alfred Tarski
Alfred Tarski (January 14, 1902, Warsaw, Russian-ruled Poland – October 26, 1983, Berkeley, California) was a logician and mathematician who spent four decades as a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. A member of the interwar Warsaw School of Mathematics, and active in the USA after 1939, he wrote on topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, metamathematics, and above all, model theory, abstract algebra, … - Terence Yin
Terence Yin (born May 19, 1975 in Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong film actor. Raised in Los Angeles, California, he attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduating in 1997. He is the son of top 60's-70's Shaw Brothers Studios actress Jenny Hu and director Kang Wei, also a younger brother of Yin Ziyang. Terence made his film debut in Yonfan's 1998 film "Bishonen" opposite Daniel Wu, one of his close friends and frequent collaborators. - Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (September 15, 1894 - February 12, 1979), born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France, was a film director, actor and author. He was the second son of Aline Charigot and the French painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He was also the brother of Pierre Renoir, a noted French stage and film actor; the uncle of Claude Renoir, a cinematographer; and the father of Alain Renoir, a professor emeritus of comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley. - Richard Fateman
Richard Fateman is a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a BS in Physics and Mathematics from Union College in 1966, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1971. He was a major contributor to the Macsyma computer algebra system at MIT and later to the Franz Lisp system. - Robert N. Bellah
Robert Neelly Bellah is an American sociologist, now the Elliott Professor of Sociology, Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. - Yang Jianli
Yang Jianli (b. 1963) is a Chinese dissident with U.S. residency. Yang Jianli, a Tiananmen Square activist in 1989, came to the United States, earned two Ph.D.s (Ph.D., Political Economy, Harvard University and Ph.D. Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley), and then founded the Foundation for China in the 21st Century. Given his political activism, he was blacklisted by the Chinese who also refused to renew his passport. - Bernard Lietaer
Bernard Lietaer Bernard Lietaer has for over thirty years, existed in two seemingly contridicting worlds. He has served as a central banker for Belgium, the general manager of the most successful offshore currency fund, senior consultant to both multinational corporations and developing countries, professor of international finance at the University of Louvain, in Belgium, and President of the most cost-effective and comprehensive electronic payment system in the world. - Shantanu Narayen
Shantanu Narayen is currently the President & Chief Operating Officer of Adobe Systems since 2005 - Irma Adelman
Irma Adelman (1930-) is Professor of Economics in the Graduate School of the University of California at Berkeley. She has made important contributions in the field of development economics. - Theodore Olson
Theodore Bevry Olson (born September 11, 1940) was the 42nd United States Solicitor General, serving from June 2001 to July 2004. Born in Chicago, Olson completed his undergraduate degree at the University of the Pacific. After earning his law degree from Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, he worked as an associate and a partner in the Los Angeles, CA office of the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. - Lucy Suchman
Lucy Suchman is Professor of Sociology at Lancaster University. Before coming to Lancaster, she held the positions of Principal Scientist and manager of the Work Practice and Technology at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, obtaining her BA in 1972, MA in 1977 and a Doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology in 1984. - Reva Siegel
Reva Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is a specialist in constitutional law and antidiscrimination law, and frequently draws on legal history to explore contemporary issues of inequality and the role of social movements in shaping constitutional law. - Nelson W. Polsby
Nelson Woolf Polsby was an American political scientist who specialized in the study of the United States presidency and United States Congress. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and former editor of the American Political Science Review from 1971-77. Polsby was born in Norwich, Connecticut, and grew up in the state. He earned his undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University. He earned a master's and a doctoral degree from Yale University. - Martin Malia
Martin Malia (1924-2004) was a historian specializing in Russian history. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley from 1958 to 1991. One of his colleagues at Berkeley was another prominent Russian historian, Nicholas V. Riasanovsky. In the official Berkeley obituary, Riasanovsky is quoted as saying of Malia: "[he was an] outstanding and now very popular historian, … - Neil Smelser
Neil Smelser is a University Professor Emeritus of Sociology and former director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford. His research has focused on what he calls the "macroscopic social structural level" of collective behavior, including economic sociology, social change, and the sociology of education. - Sheldon Lee Glashow
Professor Sheldon Lee Glashow (born December 5, 1932, Brookline, MA) is an American physicist. He is the Metcalf Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Boston University. Around 1960 Glashow put forward an initial theory of electroweak interactions, which Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam later developed. For this work the three won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics. Also, in collaboration with John Iliopoulos and Luciano Maiani, Glashow predicted the charm quark. - Tanya Atwater
Tanya Atwater is an American geophysicist and marine geologist who specializes in plate tectonics, in particular the evolution of the San Andreas fault plate boundary. Her educational work has focused on the creation of computer-animated multimedia products and presentations depicting plate tectonic histories. - Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr, NPR Biography Senior News Analyst - Andreas Papandreou
Andreas Georgiou Papandreou (5 February, 1919 - 23 June, 1996) was a Greek economist, a socialist politician and a towering figure in Greek politics. He served three terms as Prime Minister of Greece (October 21, 1981, to July 2, 1989, and October 13, 1993, to January 22, 1996). In 1999, Papandreou was posthumously awarded the Swedish Order of the Northern Star.
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