- Andrew Natsios
Andrew S. Natsios served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the lead US government agency for international economic development and humanitarian assistance, from 2001 until 2006. During this period, Mr. Natsios managed the agency's reconstruction programs in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Sudan, which totaled more than $14 billion over four years.
- Mark Murray
Mark Murray is president of Meijer and was the third president of Grand Valley State University, serving from 2001 to 2006. He received his master's degree in Labor and Industrial Relations and his bachelor's degree in Economics from Michigan State University. Prior to his tenure at Grand Valley, he served in Michigan state government. His positions were: treasurer, budget director, director of the Department of Management and Budget, …
- Eve Ensler
Eve Ensler (born 25 May 1953 in Scarsdale, New York) is a Jewish American playwright and feminist activist best known for the play The Vagina Monologues.
- George F. Kennan
George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 - March 17, 2005) was an American advisor, diplomat, political scientist, and historian, best known as "the father of containment" and as a key figure in the emergence of the Cold War. He later wrote standard histories of the relations between Russia and the Western powers. In the late 1940s, his writings inspired the Truman Doctrine and the U.S. foreign policy of "containing" the Soviet Union, …
- Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. Some consider him Africa's most distinguished playwright, as he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, the first African since Albert Camus so honored. Soyinka was born into a Yoruba family, specifically, an Egba family in Abeokuta, Nigeria in 1934. He received a primary school education in Abeokuta and attended secondary school at Government College, Ibadan.
- Joseph C. Battaglia
Joseph C. "Joe" Battaglia is an American lawyer, radio talk show host, and precious metals investment advisor.
- Heinrich von Pierer
Von Pierer had been long refused to step down as supervisory board chief, even when the current corruption scandal snowballed. He has refused his involvement in any personal wrongdoing. He conveyed the group's annual meeting in January of his 'deep distress' that his efforts to make certain full compliance with corporate government codes had visibly failed.
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the School of Behavioral and Organizational Sciences at Claremont Graduate University and Co-Director of the Quality of Life Research Center. He is also Emeritus Professor of Human Development at the University of Chicago, where he chaired the department of psychology. Dr. Csikszentmihalyi is one of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of creativity.
- Michael Ondaatje
Philip Michael Ondaatje, OC,, (born 12 September, 1943) is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist and poet, perhaps best known for his Booker Prize winning novel adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film, "The English Patient"
- Russell Means
Russell Means (born November 10, 1939) is one of contemporary America's best-known and prolific activists for the rights of American Indians. Means has also pursued careers in politics, acting, and music.
- Crispin Tickell
Sir Crispin Tickell (born 1930), GCMG, KCVO, is a British diplomat, environmentalist and academic. After secondary education at Westminster School as a King's Scholar, he went to Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 1952 with first class honours in Modern History. He did his national service in the Coldstream Guards. As a diplomat he was Chef de Cabinet to the President of the European Commission (1977-1980), British Ambassador to Mexico (1981-1983), …
- Gerd Leonhard
Gerd Leonhard (‘61) is an acknowledged futurist, visionary, blogger, digerati, writer, speaker and advisor. He has spent over twenty-five years in the technology and entertainment industries, both in the U.S. as well as in Europe, and recently in Asia. Gerd is considered an expert on the dramatic changes that are impacting ‘content’ and media companies as the consequences of the new, disruptive technologies, and of convergence
- Neil Gershenfeld
Let's start with the development of "personal fabrication." We've already had a digital revolution; we don't need to keep having it. The next big thing in computers will be literally outside the box, as we bring the programmability
- Charles R. Schwab
Charles R. Schwab , 71, started his San Francisco-based firm in 1971 as a traditional brokerage company and in 1974 became a pioneer in the discount brokerage business. Mr. Schwab took an early lead, offering a combination of low prices with fast, efficient order executions, and soon became the nation's largest discount broker. Today, the company is one of the nation's leading financial services firms with approximately $1.2 trillion in client assets.
- Frans de Waal
Frans B.M. de Waal (born 1948, the Netherlands) was trained as a zoologist and ethologist in the European tradition at three Dutch universities (Nijmegen, Groningen, Utrecht), resulting in a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Utrecht, in 1977. His dissertation research concerned aggressive behavior and alliance formation in macaques. In 1981, Dr. de Waal accepted a research position at the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
- Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (born May 30, 1932 in Houston, Texas) is an accordionist and composer who currently resides in Kingston, New York. Her instrument is tuned in just intonation and she often includes it in her meditative improvisational music. Her music is not meditative in the sense that it is intended for listening to while meditating; rather, each piece is a form of meditation, such as her aptly titled "Sonic Meditations".
- Sultan Ibrahim
Almarhum Sultan Sir Ibrahim Iskandar Al-Masyhur ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Abu Bakar was the second sultan of modernized Johor, in Malaysia. Born Che Wan Ibrahim on September 17, 1873 in Istana Bidadari, Singapore, he was the only son of Che Wan Abu Bakar, Temenggung of Johor by Che Puan Besar Zubaidah ("nee" Cecilia Lange). His title changed to Tunku Ibrahim in 1885, when his father, then Maharaja Abu Bakar, …
- Barbara McDougall
Barbara Jean McDougall, PC, OC (born November 12, 1937, Toronto, Ontario) is a former Canadian politician. She is currently an advisor for Aird & Berlis LLP. A Scotiabank director since March 30, 1999, she currently sits on the Audit and Conduct Review Committee and the Human Resources Committee. Mrs. McDougall has also served as Chair of the Conduct Review/Pension Committee.
- The Scary Guy
At 6ft tall, 18 stone and tattooed from head to toe ... The Scary Guy is quite possibly the most powerful Agent For Change on the planet today! The Power to Create World Peace Lives Within Each and Everyone of Us. - The Scary Guy 2000
- Alex Proyas
Alex Proyas (born September 23 1963) is an Australian film director, writer, and producer. He was born to Greek parents in Egypt but moved to Sydney when he was 3 years of age. The director of numerous music videos and commercials frequently works with production designer Patrick Tatopoulos. His first movie directorial project was a movie adaptation of the comic book "The Crow" starring Brandon Lee. Tragically, Lee was killed in an accident during filming, …
- Jon Elster
Jon Elster (born 1940) is a Norwegian social and political theorist who has authored works in the philosophy of social science and rational choice theory. He is also a notable proponent of Analytical Marxism, and a critic of neoclassical economics and public choice theory, largely on behavioral and psychological grounds. Elster earned his PhD from the Sorbonne in Paris with a dissertation on Marx under the direction of Raymond Aron.
- John Moriarty
John Moriarty (b. 1938) is an Indigenous Australian artist, Government advisor and former football (soccer) player. He is probably most famous, as founder of the Balarinji Design Studio, for painting Qantas 747s with Aboriginal motifs. He was born in Borroloola, Northern Territory. His mother was a tribal Aboriginal woman, who spoke seven Aboriginal languages; his father was an Irishman from County Kerry. As such he was classified as half-caste.
- John Mashey
JOHN MASHEY , a consultant for venture capitalists and technology companies, sits on various technology advisory boards and is a trustee of the Computer History Museum. He spent 10 years at Bell Laboratories, working on PWB/Unix, including text-processing (the troff MM macros), command languages, Unix process accounting, security, and other issues needed to help Unix become widely accessible. He later managed development of Unix-based applications and software development systems.
- Sonny Chiba
also known as Sonny Chiba (born January 23 1939 in Fukuoka, Japan) is a Japanese actor. Sonny Chiba was one of the first actors to achieve stardom through his skills in martial arts, initially in Japan and later before an international audience.
- Gary Filmon
Gary Albert Filmon, PC, P.Eng.(Ret) (born August 24, 1942) is a Manitoba politician. He was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba from 1983 to 2000, and served as Premier from 1988 to 1999.
- Lisa Jardine
Lisa Jardine (born Lisa Anne Bronowski, April 12 1944) is a British historian of the early modern period. She is professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. She has authored several books including "The Curious Life of Robert Hooke: The Man Who Measured London", "Ingenious Pursuits: Building the Scientific Revolution" and "On a Grander Scale: The Outstanding Career of Sir Christopher Wren".
- Susie Essman
Susie Essman is an American stand-up comedian and comic actress in television and films. Born in Manhattan to a Jewish family, she is well-known for her role as Susie Greene on the HBO comedy series "Curb Your Enthusiasm". Essman also provides the voice of Helen Higgins on the Comedy Central show "Crank Yankers" and has appeared on countless stages as a veteran comedian and on screen as an actress, …
- Fabian Bruskewitz
Fabian Wendelin Bruskewitz (born September 6, 1935 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lincoln in the U.S. state of Nebraska.
- Ali Bongo
Ali Bongo (born 1929) is a British comedy magician who has an act in which he is known as the "Shreik of Araby". Bongo's real name is William Wallace, and he was born in India. Bongo has written many books on magic, many containing tricks of his own. As well as writing them he also illustrates them in his instantly recognisable style. He has acted as magic consultant for many TV shows, including the "Paul Daniels Magic Show" for the BBC.
- Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki is an acclaimed German filmmaker of Czech descent. He has made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries. Farocki attended the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin from 1966 to 1968, and taught Berkeley from 1993 to 1999.
- Siegfried S. Hecker
Siegfried S. Hecker is co-director of Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and a professor (research) in the Department of Management Science and Engineering. He was director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1986 to 1997. William Liou was a research assistant at the Center for International Security and Cooperation while working at Sandia National Laboratories as a graduate student intern.
- David Sze
David joined Greylock in 2000. His areas of focus include: consumer internet, wireless data, broadband, systems management, security, and technology-assisted marketing services. Before coming to Greylock, David was SVP of Product Strategy at Excite and then Excite@Home. As an early employee at Excite, David also held roles as GM of Excite.com and VP of Content and Programming for the Excite Network. Before Excite, he was in product marketing and development at Electronic Arts and Crystal . . .
- Dudley R. Herschbach
Dudley Robert Herschbach (born June 18, 1932), a chemist and Frank B. Baird Jr. Research Professor of Science at Harvard University, won the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Yuan T. Lee and John C. Polanyi "for their contributions concerning the dynamics of chemical elementary processes." Herschbach and Lee specifically worked with molecular beams, …
- Betsey Wright
Betsey Wright is an American political advisor who worked more than a decade for Bill Clinton in Arkansas. She was Chief of Staff to Governor Clinton for seven years. In the 1990s, she was Senior Director of The Wexler Group, a government relations firm in Washington, DC. As Deputy Chair of the 1992 Clinton/Gore campaign, …
- John Sterman
John David Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management, and the current director of the MIT System Dynamics Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is mostly considered as the current leader of the System Dynamics school of thought. He is the author of "Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World". He was an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and received his Ph.D from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1982.
- Randy Farmer
F. Randall "Randy" Farmer has organized online communities. He is probably most famous for his role creating one of the first graphical online MMOG, Lucasfilm's "Habitat", with Chip Morningstar.
- Cecil D. Andrus
Cecil D. Andrus, Chairman: Chairman, Andrus Center for Public Policy. Governor Andrus was elected four times to serve as governor, the only governor in Idahos history to be so honored by its citizens. In addition, he served a full term as Secretary of Interior during the Carter Administration and established a national reputation as a
- Peter Ladefoged
Peter Nielsen Ladefoged was an English-American linguist and phonetician who traveled the world to document the distinct sounds of endangered languages and pioneered ways to collect and study data. He was active at the universities of Edinburgh, Scotland and Ibadan, Nigeria 1953-61. At Edinburgh he studied phonetics with David Abercrombie, who himself had studied with Daniel Jones and was thus connected to Henry Sweet.
- Alexander MacKendrick
Alexander Mackendrick (September 8 1912 - December 22 1993) was a Scottish-American film director.
- Clayton Keith Yeutter
Clayton Keith Yeutter (born December 10, 1930) in Eustis, Nebraska. He served U.S. Trade Representative between 1985 and 1989, as Secretary of Agriculture from 1989 until 1991 and chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1991 and 1992.