Aspen Ideas

Jeff Ashby is the chief of mission assurance at Blue Origin, a Seattle-based commercial space flight company..

Greene became the first physicist to edit the prestigious series, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006..

Serena Auñón-Chancellor, M.D.,M.P.H. is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine..

Kenji Williams is the founder and director of Bella Gaia (Beautiful Earth) and an award-winning filmmaker, music producer.

Mayer developed a passion for computers while at Stanford University.

Twenty years ago, a video game that you could neither win nor lose was inconceivable unless you were Will Wright.

Kurt Anderson is primarily a writer. He’s the author of the novels True Believers,

Justin Bibb is a Senior Adviser at Gallup where he advises clients in the public,

Charlie Rose is a television journalist and former talk show host. From 1991 to 2017, he was the host and executive producer of the talk show

Ruby Bright is executive director of the Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis.

Ellen McGirt is an editor at FORTUNE, where she established the race and leadership beat in 2016.

Included on NPR’s list of “Best Commencement Speeches” Tiffany Shlain is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker, founder.

Eric Motley is vice president of the Aspen Institute and executive director of national programs.

Oskar Eustis has served as the Artistic Director of The Public Theater since 2005.

Taymor’s previous film, Across The Universe, a re-imagining of 35 Beatles songs..

Marla Blow is the Senior Vice President of Mastercard's philanthropic hub, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth. The Center’s priorities are to promote financial security;

Sendhil Mullainathan is the Roman Family University Professor of Computation and Behavioral Science at Chicago Booth.

Valerie Jarrett is Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of the Barack Obama Foundation.

Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University and founding president of the Learning Policy Institute.

Eric Schmidt is an American software engineer, a businessman, and the Executive Chairman of Alphabet, Inc. In 2017, Forbes ranked Schmidt as the 119th-richest person in the world, with an…

Howard Schultz is an American businessman. He was formerly the CEO of Starbucks, now executive chairman, and a former owner of the Seattle SuperSonics. He was a member of the…