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Topics: Author/Writer, Diversity, Human Rights, Inspiration, International Affairs, Religion/Spirituality, Women's Issues After the tragedy of the World Trade Center attack on September 11th, 2001, Ranya Idliby, an American Muslim of Palestinian descent, faced constant questions about Islam, God, and death from her c… |
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Topics: Author/Writer, Ethics/Values, International Affairs, Leadership, Military, National Politics, Overcoming Adversity Andrew Carroll is the editor of several New York Times bestselling collections of letters, including Letters of a Nation and War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars, as well as… |
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Topics: Current Affairs, International Affairs, Leadership, Negotiation, Terrorism/Homeland Security Cesar Gaviria served as President of Colombia from 1990 to 1994, and Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 1994 until 2004. Gaviria is known in Latin America as a conflict … |
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Topics: Business Motivation, Diversity, Growth, International Affairs, Leadership, Marketing, Motivation, Strategy, Women's Issues, Work/Life Balance Chin-Ning Chu is a descendant of the pauper who became the first Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. At the age of ten, her father began to teach her strategies by reading from the text of the ancient Chi… |
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Topics: Current Affairs, Human Rights, International Affairs, Journalist, National Politics E.J. Dionne, Jr. is a widely syndicated Washington Post columnist,a regular political analyst for National Public Radio and a frequent guest on the Chris Matthews Show, the Tim Russert Show and Thi… |
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Topics: Current Affairs, International Affairs, National Politics, Terrorism/Homeland Security Ivo H. Daalder, special adviser on national security at the Center for American Progress, is also senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the Sydney Ste… |
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Topics: Current Affairs, International Affairs, Journalist, Media, National Politics, Television Media John Stossel joined the ABCNEWS newsmagazine 20/20 in 1981. He began doing one-hour primetime specials in 1994. Stossel's first special, "Are We Scaring Ourselves To Death?", examined exaggerate… |
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Topics: Current Affairs, Economy, Human Rights, International Affairs, Leadership, National Politics, Security, Visionaries Lord Robertson is Chairman of Cable & Wireless International. He was Secretary General of NATO from 1999-2003 and Defence Secretary of the United Kingdom from 1997-1999. He was Member of Parliament… |
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Topics: Author/Writer, Economy, Globalization, International Affairs, International Business, Leadership, National Politics, Professor/Teacher Marvin Zonis is a Professor at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He also heads Marvin Zonis + Associates, a political risk consulting firm in Chicago, and is a co-founde… |
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Topics: Diversity, Education, Ethics/Values, Human Rights, International Affairs, National Politics Paul Loeb has spent over thirty years researching and writing about citizen responsibility and empowerment--asking what makes some people choose lives of social commitment, while others abstain. … |
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Topics: Adventure, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environment, Green, International Affairs, Sustainability Founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Director of the Sierra Club and the Founding Director of the Greenpeace Foundation. Called the "world's most aggressive, most determined, most acti… |
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Topics: Current Affairs, International Affairs, Leadership, National Politics, Negotiation Senator George J. Mitchell entered the U.S. Senate in 1980 when he was appointed to complete the unexpired term of Senator Edmund S. Muskie, who resigned to become secretary of state. Before the 19… |
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Topics: Author/Writer, Current Affairs, International Affairs, Journalist, National Politics Seymour Hersh is widely acknowledged as the most influential and acclaimed investigative reporter of the past 35 years. His special focus is, and has always been, the abuse of power in the name o… |
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Topics: Current Affairs, Energy, Globalization, International Affairs, Terrorism/Homeland Security Flynt Leverett became Senior Fellow and Director of the Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Energy Security Project of the New America Foundation in June 2006. He was previously with the Saban Ce… |
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Topics: International Affairs, Professor/Teacher, Terrorism/Homeland Security Jessica Stern is the foremost U.S. expert on terrorism and author of Terror In The Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill. A lecturer at Harvard University, Stern served as director for Russi… |
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Topics: Globalization, International Affairs, Terrorism/Homeland Security Professor Adelman, who has appeared recently on both Fox News and the Dennis Prager Show, is a frequent and popular speaker on Israel. He has spoken for AIPAC from San Francisco and Seattle to Hous… |
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Topics: International Affairs, National Politics, Professor/Teacher Joe Nye received his bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1958. He did postgraduate work at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship and earned a Ph.D. in political scien… |
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Topics: Current Affairs, International Affairs, Professor/Teacher, Terrorism/Homeland Security Dr Magnus Ranstorp is Chief Scientist at the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College and a Senior Honorary Research Associate and former Director of Centre for … |
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Topics: Economy, Finance, Human Rights, International Affairs, Small Business, Visionaries, Women's Issues Winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. Professor Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen bank, is responsible for many innovative programs benefiting the rural poor. He is the developer and founder… |
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Topics: Coaching/Mentoring, Communication, Globalization, International Affairs, Leadership, Negotiation, Peak Performance, Strategy Thomas D. Zweifel believes that soft skills (leadership, coaching, communication, cross-cultural management) are the key to hard results. His stories and tools give people access to being global le… |
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Topics: Current Affairs, Globalization, International Affairs, National Politics, Terrorism/Homeland Security Counselor and Trustee, Center for Strategic & International Studies;
and Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy, the Paul Nitze
School of Advanced International Studies, J… |
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Topics: Current Affairs, International Affairs, Leadership, Team Building, Terrorism/Homeland Security Anthony Zinni joined the Marine Corps in 1961 and was commissioned an infantry second lieutenant in 1965 upon graduation from Villanova University. He has held numerous command and staff assignment… |
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Topics: Commentators, Current Affairs, International Affairs, Journalist, Media, Moderator/Facilitator, National Politics, Popular Culture, Television Media Anderson Cooper anchors Anderson Cooper 360°, an unconventional, wide-ranging news program airing on CNN/U.S. weekdays. Cooper, who joined CNN in December 2001, served as CNN's weekend anchor befor… |
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Topics: Commentators, Current Affairs, International Affairs, Journalist, National Politics, Television Media (CBS) Bob Schieffer, interim anchor of The CBS Evening News, is broadcast journalism's most experienced Washington reporter. He also serves as anchor and moderator of Face The Nation, CBS News - Su… |
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Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Diversity, Education, Inspiration, International Affairs, Leadership, Philanthropy, Visionaries Craig Kielburger is an accomplished child rights advocate, leadership specialist, New York Times best-selling author and a speaker with a powerful message. He is the founder of Free The Children, t… |
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Topics: Current Affairs, Human Rights, International Affairs Strobe Talbott served in the State Department from 1993 until 2001, for a year as Special Advisor to the Secretary of State for the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union and then for se… |
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Topics: Celebrity, International Affairs, Television Media Paula Zahn is anchor for CNN's weeknight primetime evening program,"Live from the Headlines". Based in the network's New York bureau, Zahn also hosts "People In The News", CNN's feature-format prog… |
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Topics: Branding, Consumer Trends, Current Affairs, Education, Ethics/Values, Globalization, Human Rights, International Affairs Benjamin R. Barber has combined a career as a distinguished scholar and political theorist with a life of practical commitment to democratic civic practices and the arts that has given him widespre… |
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Topics: Current Affairs, Energy, Human Rights, International Affairs, Terrorism Fawaz Gerges is a leading expert on the Middle East, terrorism, and energy policy. He is currently in the field interviewing activists and militants in preparation for his next book. Fawaz A. G… |
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Topics: Current Affairs, Globalization, Historian, International Affairs, Professor/Teacher Niall Ferguson, MA, D.Phil., is Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is also a Senior… |
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Topics: International Affairs, Journalist, Media, Moderator/Facilitator, Television Media Ralph Begleiter is the University of Delaware's "Distinguished Journalist in Residence," teaching Communication, Political Science and Journalism. He joined the faculty in July, 1999, bringing more… |
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Topics: Baseball, Current Affairs, Historian, International Affairs, Religion/Spirituality, Terrorism/Homeland Security Sol Gittleman was born in Hoboken, NJ, the son of immigrant parents. He was educated in the New Jersey public school system, received his B.A. from Drew University, the M.A. from Columbia Universit… |
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Topics: Author/Writer, Historian, International Affairs Bryan Mark Rigg is the author of "Hitler's Jewish Soldiers." Raised as a Protestant in the Texas Bible Belt, Bryan was surprised to learn of his own Jewish ancestry while researching his family tr… |
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Topics: Commentators, Current Affairs, International Affairs, Media, National Politics On the Media Co-Host Bob Garfield is a columnist, critic, essayist, pundit, international lecturer, and inveterate broadcaster. In print, Garfield's "Ad Review" TV-commercial criticism feature in … |
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Topics: Diversity, Ethics/Values, Human Rights, International Affairs, Personal Growth, Relationships/Family, Religion/Spirituality Dennis Prager is one of America's most respected thinkers. He is an author, lecturer, teacher, theologian and radio talk show host. RADIO AND TELEVISION: Dennis Prager is one of America's most r… |
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Topics: Commentators, Current Affairs, International Affairs, Journalist, National Politics, Television Media Andrea Mitchell is the Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for NBC News, a position she has held since November 1994. She reports on evolving foreign policy issues in the United States and abroad f… |
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Topics: Current Affairs, International Affairs, Terrorism, Terrorism/Homeland Security Danny O. Coulson is Former Commander of the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team. Based on his 30 years of experience and expertise in hostage rescue, major crime investigation and counter-terrorism in the Fe… |
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Topics: Human Rights, International Affairs, Journalist, Television Media Evan Williams has been a print, radio and television journalist for more than 20 years, most recently specializing in TV current affairs programs and documentaries on a wide variety of internationa… |
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Topics: Corporate Social Responsibility, Energy, Environment, Green, Homeland Security, International Affairs, Security, Sustainability, Terrorism, Terrorism/Homeland Security Gal Luft is one of America's most influential energy independence advocates. He is executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) a Washington based energy policy th… |
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Topics: Current Affairs, International Affairs, Journalist, Television Media Hedrick Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter and editor and Emmy Award-winning producer/correspondent, is one of America's most distinguished journalists. He has covered Was… |
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Topics: Business Excellence, CEO, Global Business, International Affairs, International Business, Leadership, Women's Issues Irene Natividad, a recognized leader for women in the United States, wears many hats. Ms. Natividad is President of the Global Summit of Women, an annual international gathering of women leaders f… |
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Topics: Business Excellence, Current Affairs, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, International Affairs, International Business, Leadership, Philanthropy Lord Levy was a senior member of Prime Minister Tony Blair's inner circle and acted as his personal envoy and in this role he travelled world-wide, meeting many Heads of State and senior politician… |
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Topics: Current Affairs, International Affairs, National Politics, Philanthropy Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born Oct. 1, 1924, in the small farming town of Plains, Ga., and grew up in the nearby community of Archery. … |
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Topics: Global Business, Globalization, International Affairs, International Business Few speakers know the global world as well as Tom Faranda. His clients include CEFCO China, Siemens Germany, IBM Europe, GE on five continents, Thermo-King Japan and Ford Canada. He has clients in I… |
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Topics: Globalization, Innovation, International Affairs, Management, Motivation George Yip is Dean of the Rotterdam School of Management Erasmus University. RSM Erasmus University is a top-ranked international business school renowned for its ground-breaking research in sustai… |
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Topics: Economy, International Affairs, National Politics Dr. John Stoessinger is an internationally recognized political analyst and a prize-winning author of ten leading books on world politics. He holds a Ph.D. from Harvard and has taught at Harvard M.… |
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Topics: Globalization, International Affairs Jorge Castaņeda was the former-Foreign Minister of Mexico from 2000 to 2003. He attempted to run for President of Mexico as an independent candidate in 2006. Castaņeda is a renowned public intellec… |
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Topics: Commentators, Current Affairs, International Affairs, Journalist, Media, National Politics, Television Media Hugh Downs, one of the most familiar American television figures in the history of the medium, was anchor for ABC News 20/20 from 1978 to 1999, concentrating on issues of medicine, science, family… |
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Topics: International Affairs, National Politics Since December 2003 Jim Wilkinson has served at the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Communications. In this role Wilkinson oversees commun… |
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Topics: Energy, International Affairs, Leadership, National Politics, Security, Terrorism/Homeland Security R. James Woolsey joined Booz Allen Hamilton in July 2002 as a Vice President and officer. He is with the firm's Energy practice, located in McLean, Virginia. Previously Mr. Woolsey served in the U.… |
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Topics: Globalization, International Affairs, National Politics Walter Mondale spent his boyhood in the small towns of southern Minnesota, where he attended public schools. After he helped manage Hubert H. Humphrey's first successful U.S. Senate campaign in 194… |
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Topics: Globalization, International Affairs, Journalist, Social Trends Sylvia Poggioli is senior European correspondent for NPR's foreign desk and reports from Rome, Italy; the Balkans; other parts of Europe; and the Middle East. Poggioli can be heard on NPR's award-… |
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Topics: Historian, International Affairs, Professor/Teacher Simon Schama studied history at Cambridge University where from 1966 to 1976 he was Fellow of Christ's College. From 1976 to 1980 he was Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Brasenose College, Oxf… |
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