- John Q. Public
John Q. Public is a generic name in the United States to denote a hypothetical member of society deemed a "common man." He is presumed to have no strong political or social biases relevant to whatever topic is at hand, and to represent the randomly selected "man on the street." The equivalent terms are John Q. Citizen and John Q. Taxpayer. Female equivalents include Jane Q. Public, Jane Q. Citizen, …
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, poet, and leader of the Transcendentalist movement in the early nineteenth century.
- Robert Zoellick
Robert Zoellick also serves or has served as a board member on a number of private and public organizations: Alliance Capital , Said Holdings , and the Precursor Group ; a member of the advisory boards of Enron and Viventures , a venture fund; as a Director of the Aspen Institute 's Strategy Group, Council on Foreign Relations , the German Marshall Fund of the United States , and the World Wildlife Advisory Council ; and a member of Secretary William Sebastian Cohen 's Defense Policy Board .
- Myron Ebell
Myron Ebell is the Director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He is also the Chairman of the Cooler Heads Coalition. His main job is to provide material to the media in the form of quotes to newspaper reporters and participation in live interviews on the subject of climate change. His positions at various times are: (a) climate change isn't happening, (b) it is happening, …
- George Graham
George Graham (1772 - August 9, 1830) served as acting U.S. Secretary of War under two U.S. Presidential administrations from 1815 to 1818. Outside of his Cabinet service, he is best known for a mission to Galveston Island, Texas to persuade the small Bonapartist colony of Champ d'Asile to accept American jurisdiction. There he met with privateer Jean Laffite. This voyage is considered the first Anglo-American account of a sea voyage to Texas.
- Andrew Kohut
Andrew Kohut is an American pollster. Kohut currently serves as the president of Pew Research Center and director of two of Pew's sub-projects: Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and Pew Global Attitudes Project.
- Sheryl Sandberg
Sheryl Sandberg is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook Inc. Before that she served as Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School. Sandberg previously served as chief of staff to Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers from 1999 to 2001. She joined Google after the administration of George W. Bush came into office and both Summers and his team left the Treasury.
- Haleh Esfandiari
Haleh Esfandiari is director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where she had earlier been a fellow in 1995-96. Ms. Esfandiari has worked as a journalist in Iran and taught at the College of Mass Communication in Tehran. She served as deputy secretary general of the Women's Organization of Iran and was the deputy director of a foundation at which she was responsible for the activities of several museums and art and cultural centers.
- Reed Hastings
Reed Hastings (Wilmot Reed Hastings, Jr.) is the founder of Netflix. He is currently Netflix's chief executive officer, president and chairman of the board, and was the founder of Pure Software. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Microsoft Corp. His father was a lawyer who once served in the Nixon administration, serving as general counsel in the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
- Marvin Kalb
Marvin Kalb (born June 9 1930) is an American journalist. Marvin Kalb is a Senior Fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and Faculty Chair for the John F. Kennedy School of Government's Washington programs. Kalb was the Shorenstein Center's Founding Director and Edward R. Murrow Professor of Press and Public Policy (1987-1999). The Shorenstein Center and the Kennedy School are part of Harvard University.
- Larry Brilliant
Dr. Lawrence (Larry) Brilliant is a medical doctor, epidemiologist, technologist, author and philanthropist. Born in Detroit, Michigan (May 5, 1944), he received his undergraduate training as well as his MPH (Masters in Public Health) from the University of Michigan and his M.D. from Wayne State University. He moved to California for his internship at the Pacific Medical Center, and developed thyroid cancer from which he recovered.
- Kishore Mahbubani
Kishore Mahbubani is dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. He began his career as a diplomat, joining the Singapore Foreign Service in 1971 ending up as Singapore's Ambassador to the United Nations in 2002, in which he served as president of the United Nations Security Council.
- John Willinsky
John Willinsky Pacific Press Professor of Literacy and Technology University of British Columbia
- Benjamin Mako Hill
Benjamin Mako Hill is a Debian hacker and author of the Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible and "The Official Ubuntu Book". He works in the Computing Culture group of the MIT Media Lab, and is on the boards of Software Freedom International (the organization that organizes Software Freedom Day) and the Ubuntu Foundation. Hill was on the board of Software in the Public Interest from March 2003 until July 2006, serving as the organisation's vice-president from August 2004. Read more...
- Frank Sesno
Frank Sesno is a professor of public policy and communication at the George Mason University, School of Media and Public Affairs and is an Emmy Award-wining special contributor to CNN. He is a 1977 graduate of Middlebury College and currently serves as one of its trustees. During his long CNN career, he served in many parts of the world, as well as Washington bureau chief. He has also worked with PBS, producing several shows about political topics, …
- Jerome Hauer
Jerome Hauer is the director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness (OPHP) of the US since May 5, 2002. He was a former empolyee of Kroll Inc. which studied biological terrorism attacks.
- Steve Curwood
Journalist, author, public radio personality and actor Steve Curwood was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on December 11, 1947, and brought up as a Quaker in Yellow Springs, Ohio where his mother Sarah Thomas Curwood was a sociology professor at Antioch College.
- Emm Gryner
Emm Gryner (born June 8 1975) is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter. Gryner was born in Forest, Lambton County, Ontario to a father of half Irish heritage and a Filipina mother. She graduated in 1995 from Fanshawe College in London, Ontario after studying under its Music Industry Arts program, and released her first independent solo album, "And Distrust It", that year. She then moved to Toronto, and the following year formed her own label, Dead Daisy Records, …
- Pita Sharples
Dr. Pita Russell Sharples CBE (born 20 July 1941), a Māori academic and politician, currently co-leads the Māori Party, he currently is the member for Tamaki Makaurau(Auckland City) in New Zealand's Parliament. Sharples, of the Ngati Kahungunu iwi, was born in Waipawa, a town in Hawke's Bay. He received his early education at Waipukurau District High School and then at Te Aute College. He then attended the University of Auckland, studying education.
- Tim Lovejoy
Timothy Paul Lovejoy (born 28 March, 1968), is a British television presenter, famous for his Saturday morning football programme on Sky Sports - Soccer AM - alongside co-host Helen Chamberlain. He is the father of twin girls, Grace and Rose and split from his wife in 2006.
- Inez Tenenbaum
Inez Tenenbaum , Former South Carolina Superintendent of Education
- Alan Hurst
Alan Arthur Hurst (born 2 September 1945) is a solicitor and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Braintree in Essex from 1997 to 2005. At the 1997 general election he caused a stir by overturning Tony Newton's majority of c. 17,000, by a majority of just over 1,400; Braintree had been Conservative since the 1955 election.
- Mellody Hobson
Mellody Hobson President, Ariel Capital Management, LLC Chairman, Ariel Mutual Funds Board of Trustees Mellody is responsible for firmwide management and strategic planning, overseeing all operations of Ariel’s business outside of research and portfolio management. Last fall, she was elected Chairman of Ariel Mutual Funds Board of Trustees. Mellody has become an important and nationally recognized voice on financial literacy and investor education.
- Fred E. Foldvary
Fred Foldvary Lecturer of Economics
- Anodea Judith
Anodea Judith (born Judith Ann Mull, December 1, 1952, Elyria, Ohio) is an American author, therapist, public speaker and expert on the Chakra system, bodymind (body/mind integration), somatic therapy, and Yoga. Judith is best known as the author of "Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System". Judith's academic background includes a Master's degree in Clinical Psychology from Rosebridge School of Integrative Therapy, …
- Ted Gayer
Ted Gayer is an American economist. He is an associate professor at Georgetown Public Policy Institute and served as a senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He is currently a visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Gayer has a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Emory University and a M.A. and Ph.D. economics degrees from Duke University.
- 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.
- Nikola Špirić
Dr. Nikola Špirić is a Bosnian Serb politician and the current Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He completed elementary education in Drvar, high school in Sarajevo, and his undergraduate and postgraduate education at the University of Sarajevo. He holds a Ph.D. in economics. His doctoral thesis was in monetary and public finance. Špirić has been an economics professor at the University of Banja Luka since 1992.
- Herbert Kelman
Herbert Kelman is professor emeritus at Harvard University. On August 1, 2003, the Program on International Conflict Analysis and Resolution, under leadership of Kelman was closed.
- Rick Chiarelli
Rick Chiarelli (c.1963) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is currently an Ottawa City Councillor, and the second cousin of former Ottawa mayor Bob Chiarelli. He represents the College ward covering part of Nepean. Deeply active in Liberal Party politics in his youth, he was first elected to office at age 19 when he won a seat on the Carleton Separate School Board in 1982. At the time, he was the youngest elected official in the province.
- Howard Koh
As Director of the Division of Public Health Practice, Dr. Howard Koh is committed to developing innovative interdisciplinary approaches to promote and protect the health of communities. Hence his interests span the dimensions of science, research, education, communication, policy, advocacy, and leadership.
- Jodi White
Jodi's career combines experience in journalism, politics and government, the private sector and international affairs. As a journalist, she spent six years at the CBC, first as a television news reporter and subsequently as a network radio producer. Jodi was Chief of Staff to the Minister of External Affairs (1984 - 1988) and Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister (1993).
- Wally Stiles
R. Wallis "Wally" Stiles, BBA (born October 18 1950 in Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada) is a New Brunswick politician. He is currently a member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick (MLA), where he serves as the whip for his Progressive Conservative Party. On September 17 2005, he married fellow MLA Joan MacAlpine making them the first husband and wife to serve together in the New Brunswick legislature.
- Richard G. Hewlett
Richard Greening Hewlett (b. 1923) is an American public historian best known for his work as the Chief Historian of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
- Nigel Pierre
Nigel Pierre (born 6 February 1979 in Saint Joseph) is a football striker from Trinidad and Tobago. He currently plays as for Caledonia AIA Fire, having been sacked from both his previous clubs. He got 58 caps and scored 20 goals for the national team between 1999 and 2005
- Nariman Farvardin
Nariman Farvardin became dean of the A. James Clark University in 2001, after serving five years as chair of the department of electrical and computer engineering. He joined the university in January 1984, as a professor of electrical and computer engineering with a joint appointment with the Institute of System Research. Dean Farvardin was also a visiting professor at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris, France, during 1990-91.
- Francis Plowden
Francis John Plowden is a lay member of the Judicial Appointments Commission. Plowden is Chairman of the Greenwich Foundation for the Old Royal Naval College and Chairman of the National Council for Palliative Care. He was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers until 2001, where he was responsible for public policy and management work world-wide. He has previously held board positions in the public, private and voluntary sectors.
- Şahin K
Şahin K and his "natural" mood (in "Sahil" ("The Beach") he can't "get it up"). His most famous monologues are heard in "Sahil" and "Hizmetçi Kız" ("The Maid"). In 2003, he was arrested briefly in Turkey for having sex in public. In 2005, he organised summits in Istanbul and Ankara with his fans. In 2006 he even supported a "Porn Rap Music Project" with the German Turkish hip hop band Turk Live Crew.
- Marc Ewing
Marc Ewing is the creator and originator of the Red Hat brand of software, most notably the Red Hat range of Linux operating system distributions. He was involved in in the 86open project in the mid-90s.
- James M. Phillips
James M. Phillips is an American businessman who is the current president, chairman, and CEO of Luminetx Corporation, a bioscience technology company. He also serves as CEO of Snowflake Technologies Corporation, a subsidiary of Luminetx. Phillips’ career began when he was asked to do research for his master’s thesis on an emerging company, Telecommunications System of America (TSA). TSA sold to Northern Telecom (Nortel Networks) and Phillips stayed on, …