- Jonathan Zittrain
Jonathan Zittrain Jonathan Zittrain is a co-founder of Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and from 1997 to 2000 served as its first executive director. He further holds the Chair in Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford University and is a principal of the Oxford Internet Institute. Zittrain is the Jack N. & Lillian R. Berkman Visiting Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.
- Tariq Ramadan
Tariq Said Ramadan (born 26 August 1962 in Geneva, Switzerland) is a Swiss Muslim academic and theologian. He advocates a reinterpretation of Islamic texts, and emphasizes the heterogeneous nature of Islamic society. He believes that Muslims in Europe have to establish a new "European Islam" (see also Euroislam) and emphasizes the necessity for their engagement in European society.
- Reid Hoffman
Reid Hoffman believes that Facebook has a big future as a development platform, arguing that many fresh-from-college coders will turn to the popular social networking site when building their next Web-based entertainment application. But he questions whether the Facebook "friends list" - or "social graph" - is suited to business applications and other tools that go beyond entertainment. Of course, that’s what you’d expect him to say.
- Chris Anderson
Chris Anderson is the curator of the TED (Technology Entertainment Design) Conference, an influential annual conference. Anderson, who is British, was born in Pakistan in 1957. His parents were medical missionaries and he spent most of his early life in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan before going to public school in England. In 1978 he graduated from Oxford University, with a 'First' in Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
- Ajit Jaokar
Ajit Jaokar is an Indian-born British author and Web 2.0 specialist. He is the founder and CEO of the publishing company Futuretext. He is also the chair of the Oxford University's Next Generation Mobile Applications Panel.
- Henry Luce
Henry Robinson Luce (pronounced like "loose") (April 3, 1898 - February 28, 1967) was an influential American publisher.
- 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.
- Marc Kielburger
Marc Kielburger has inspired young people around the globe to become socially involved and change the world on local, national and international levels. At a young age, life took an unexpected turn for Kielburger when he arrived in Thailand to teach English and work with AIDS patients. He realized the extent to which he could help others, especially children, around the world.
- Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern was one of the finest violin virtuosi of the twentieth century. Born in Kremenetz, Ukraine on July 21, 1920, Isaac Stern was ten months old when his family moved to San Francisco. He received his first music lessons from his mother before enrolling at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in 1928. He studied there until 1931, then studied privately with Louis Persinger.
- Peter Moores
Sir Peter Moores is a British businessman, art collector and philanthropist, a former chairman of the Liverpool-based Littlewoods football pools and retailing business in the United Kingdom. His father, Sir John Moores, was the founder of the company, though the family no longer owns it. In the Sunday Times Rich List 2006 the Moores' family wealth was estimated at £1,160m. He has given over £93 million to charity. His elder sister Lady Grantchester (née Betty Moores), …
- Doreen Massey
Doreen Massey FRSA FBA (born 1944), is a contemporary British social scientist and geographer, and currently Professor of geography at the Open University. Massey was born in Manchester and studied at Oxford and Philadelphia, beginning her career with a thinktank, the Centre for Environmental Studies (CES) in London. CES contained several key analysts of the contemporary British economy, and Massey established a working partnership with Richard Meegan, among others.
- Barry Nalebuff
An economist, game theory expert, and consultant to multinational corporations and politicians, Barry Nalebuff '80 knows a successful strategy when he sees one. His latest endeavor involves a simple premise: improve the world, one clever idea at a time.
- Larry Sabato
Dr. Sabato is Director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, and along with being the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, he is one of just a half-dozen University Professors at U.Va. He is a former Rhodes Scholar and Danforth Fellow.
- Eric Lander
Eric Steven Lander (b. February 3, 1957) is a Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a member of the Whitehead Institute, and director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard who has devoted his career toward realizing the promise of the human genome for medicine. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1974 and then attended Princeton University.
- Mike Cadogan
Emergency Physician, Rugby Doctor and internet entrepreneur. CEO of HealthEngine.com.au, an health search engine designed to provide rapid contact with health professionals in Australia. CIO of Popfossa.com a world medical and allied health conference / scientific meeting resource. Emergency physician at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital and resuscitation doctor for the Western Force. Passionate about medical education and running LifeInTheFastLane.com to help disseminate medical education.
- Gerald Heard
Henry Fitzgerald Heard commonly called Gerald Heard (October 6, 1889 - August 14, 1971) was an historian, science writer, educator, and philosopher. He wrote many articles and authored over 35 books. Heard was a guide and mentor to numerous well-known Americans, including Clare Boothe Luce and Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, in the 1950s and 1960s. His work was a forerunner of, and influence on, …
- Robert Reich
Robert B. Reich is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton . He has written eleven books, including The Work of Nations , which has been translated into 22 languages; the best-sellers The Future of Success and Locked in the Cabinet , and his most recent book, Supercapitalism .
- Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Tim Berners-Lee Founder of the World Wide Web
- Stephan Shakespeare
Stephan Shakespeare (born 1957 in Germany as Stephan Kukowski) is the founder and Chief Innovations Officer of the high-profile British Internet-based market research and opinion polls company YouGov. His other business interests include Internet television channel 18 Doughty Street. Kukowski (as he then was) came to the UK at the age of five and was educated at Christ's Hospital near London.
- Tim Benjamin
Tim Benjamin (born September 14, 1975 in London) is an English composer. He has studied with Anthony Gilbert at the Royal Northern College of Music, Steve Martland, and with Robert Saxton at Oxford University. Tim Benjamin was winner of the BBC Young Musician of the Year Composer's Award in 1993, at the age of 17, with his work "Antagony", which was first performed by the London Sinfonietta under Martyn Brabbins.
- William Waynflete
William Waynflete (born William Patten) (c.1398 -11 August 1486), was Bishop of Winchester from 1447 to 1486, and Lord Chancellor of England from 1456 to 1460. He is best remembered as the founder of Magdalen College, Oxford.
- Mark Greif
Mark Greif is the co-editor, co-founder, and contributor to the magazine n+1, as well as a frequent contributor to American Prospect. He received a BA in History and Literature from Harvard in 1997, after which he received a Marshall Scholarship, which he used to study British Literature and 19th and 20th century American Literature at Oxford through 1999. He is currently a doctoral candidate in American studies at Yale.
- Isaac Wolfson
Sir Isaac Wolfson, 1st Baronet FRS (September 17, 1897 - June 20, 1991) was a businessman and philanthropist. He was chairman of The Great Universal Stores Limited 1947-1987 and established the Wolfson Foundation. Isaac Wolfson was the son of a Jewish cabinet maker, an immigrant from Russia who settled in the Gorbals in Glasgow, Scotland. He was educated at Queen's Park School, Glasgow. His significant fortune was based on a very successful mail order business, …
- Robert Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
Edgar Algernon Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood CH, PC (September 14, 1864-November 24, 1958), known as Lord Robert Cecil from 1868 to 1923, was a lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom. He was one of the architects of the League of Nations and a faithful defender of it, whose decades of service to the that organization saw him awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1937.
- Walter de Stapledon
Walter de Stapeldon, English bishop, was born at Annery in North Devon. He became professor of canon law at Oxford University and chaplain to Pope Clement V and in 1307 was chosen Bishop of Exeter. He went on errands to France for both Edward I and Edward II, and attended the councils and parliaments of his time. As Lord High Treasurer of England, an office to which he was appointed in 1320, the Bishop was associated in the popular mind with the misdeeds of Edward II, …
- Ansley Wilcox
Ansley Wilcox (January 27, 1856 - January 26, 1930) was an American scholar, Oxford graduate, lawyer, civil service reform commissioner, New York political insider and friend of Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt was sworn in as 26th US President at the library of Wilcox's neo-classical style home, the Ansley Wilcox House at 641 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo, New York after the assassination of William McKinley, on September 14, 1901.
- Antara Dev Sen
Antara Dev Sen is a renowned Indian journalist, and the elder daughter of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen and his first wife, Nabanita Dev Sen. Anatara did her schooling in Calcutta and higher education in Delhi, India. She then joined the Hindustan Times. As a senior editor of the "Hindustan Times", she went to Oxford University on a fellowship from the Reuter Foundation. On her return to Delhi, she started "The Little Magazine" and was its founding editor.
- Colin Touchin
Colin Touchin is an English-born conductor, composer and music educator. He studied clarinet with Graham Turner of the Halle Orchestra and attended William Hulme's Grammar School in Manchester, and went on to read Music at Keble College, Oxford. After graduating he taught woodwind in Manchester and the surrounding areas before gaining recognition as a conductor and music educator, particularly of wind orchestras and ensembles.
- A. Thomas McLellan
A. Thomas McLellan , Ph.D. , is a psychologist, professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania and founder and Executive Director of the Treatment Research Institute, a not-for-profit research and evaluation institute in Philadelphia. McLellan was the principal developer of the Addiction Severity Index (ASI) and the Treatment Services Review (TSR), measurement instruments that characterize the multiple dimensions of substance abusing patients and treatments.
- Clayton M. Christensen
Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. His research and teaching interests center on the management issues related to the development and commercialization of technological and business model innovation.
- Rupert Murdoch
"Today, to the extent anyone is a destination, itâs the internet portals: the Yahoos, Googles, and MSNs. I just saw a report that showed Google Newsâs traffic increased 90 percent over the past year while the New York Timesâ excellent website traffic decreased 23 percent. The challenge for us â for each of us in this room â is to create an internet presence that is compelling enough for users to make us their home page.
- Michelle Nunn
MICHELLE: In 1987, a group of people started in New York with the idea of making it easier and more effective for people to get involved in service. They felt like there was a lot of untapped interest from their peers in terms of making a difference and being connected to community, and people didn't know where to turn. In a sense, we needed to reinvent a mechanism for people to be engaged. So that group of folks started with some basic principles.
- Ian Gardiner
Ian has been at the forefront of Internet Broadcasting now for over five years. Over this time he has amassed crucial in-depth knowledge of the market and has consistently strived to develop the company’s capabilities in delivering the very best in rich media. Using leading available technologies, Ian is responsible for ensuring exceptional results for Viocorp’s growing portfolio of A list clients.
- Robert Baron
Robert Baron , management professor in the Lally School of Management and Technology, has been named interim dean of management, effective July 1. Baron is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He is the president of Innovative Environmental Products Inc., a company that designs and promotes equipment for improving indoor environments.
- Gregory A. Petsko
Gregory Petsko Prof Petsko is Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry and Director, Rosenstiel Basic Medical Sciences Research Center, Brandeis University. He is also Adjunct Professor, Department of Neurology and Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School and Co-Director, Structural Neurology Laboratory.
- Lars Sundstrom
Lars Sundstrom Capsant Neurotechnologies LTD, UK Lars Sundstrom Lars Sundstrom is Chief Scientific Officer and a founder of Capsant Neurotechnologies LTD. Capsant specialises in 3-dimensional tissue culture models of neurological disease with a specific emphasis on restoring function to damaged nerve tissue.
- Sarah Sewall
Sarah Sewall is the program director at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy and adjunct lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
- Peter Batty
In November 2005, appointed as CTO of Intergraph, the leading global provider of spatial information management (SIM) software. 18 years of experience in the geospatial software industry. From 2002-2005, founder and Chief Technology Officer of Ten Sails. Formerly Vice President of Technology at GE Network Solutions / Smallworld, which became the global market leader in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for utilities and telecommunications, with revenues of around $150m in 2002. . . .
- Igor Sill
Igor Sill Managing Director, Hambrecht Geneva Ventures Igor Sill is Managing Director and co-founder of Geneva Venture Partners. In 1984 he founded and became Chairman of GenevaGroup International, Inc. Prior to forming GenevaGroup he served as Vice President for Visual Engineering, a 3D graphics software company, founding management team member of INGRES (subsequently acquired by The ASK Group and most recently Computer Associates).
- Ian Page
I run a private, £25m, early-stage, high-tech investment fund - www.sevenspires.co.uk in the UK. With an average deal size of around £1m the fund acts more like a 'super-angel' than a VC fund. My career started with several years in large-company R&D in computing and electronics, followed by 20+ years in universities. As a senior academic at the University of Oxford I invented an ESL 'software-to-hardware' conversion technology. This takes a software, system-level . . .