Dr. Joseph Wong is the University of Toronto’s Vice-President, International. He is also the Roz and Ralph Halbert Professor of Innovation at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, and a Professor of Political Science. He also was the Director of the Asian Institute at the Munk School from 2005 to 2014 and held the Canada Research Chair in health, democracy, and development from 2006 to 2016. Holding a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, his latest book is titled From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia ..read more

Dr. Lawrence C. Marsh is a professor emeritus in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame, where he was the director of the Ph.D. program for over a decade. He has written hundreds of papers and books,  served on 78 Ph.D. dissertation committees, and has given several thousand lectures in statistics, econometrics, mathematical economics, microeconomic theory, and research methods in psychology. Holding a Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University, his latest book is titled Optimal Money Flow: A New Vision of How a Dynamic-Growth Economy Can Work for Everyone ..read more

Dr. Michael Bernstam is a research fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institute and an economic demographer. He was formerly an economic adviser to the Russian Parliament, the Central Bank of Russia, and the Russian government on several policy projects, and remains a regular commentator on the Russian economy ..read more

Siddharth Kara is a British Academy Global Professor and an Associate Professor of Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery at Nottingham University and an adjunct lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. As an author, researcher, and activist on modern slavery, he has authored three books and won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize. His first book was adapted into a Hollywood film called Trafficked, and a feature film inspired by his latest book, Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives, is currently in preproduction ..read more

Philip Howard is the Founder of Common Good, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that advocates simplifying government, as well as a lawyer, renowned columnist, and author. In 2017, he was a member of President Trump's Strategic and Policy Forum, where his reports played a key role in influencing the Trump Administration's infrastructure proposals, including speeding up approval times. His latest book is titled Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions ..read more

Dakin Campbell is the Chief Finance Correspondent at Business Insider. He is the publication's senior reporter covering Wall Street, after a decade at Bloomberg writing for its wire service, Businessweek, and Markets magazine. At Insider he writes and reports about Wall Street and the broader finance industry, often working with confidential sources to uncover issues that management teams and other subjects would rather keep quiet. His latest book is titled Going Public: How Silicon Valley Rebels Loosened Wall Street's Grip on the IPO and Sparked a Revolution ..read more

Dr. Maureen Perry-Jenkins is a Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a nationally renowned scholar whose contributions on the national, state, regional, and university levels have had a profound impact on family research. Her work focuses on the ways in which socio-cultural factors such as race, gender, and social class shape the mental health and family relationships of parents and their children. Holding a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from Penn State, her latest book is titled Work Matters: How Parents’ Jobs Shape Child ..read more

Dr. Mordecai Kurz is the Joan Kenney Professor of Economics-Emeritus at Stanford University, whose research work has covered a variety of problems in economic theory and policy. He has written extensively on growth theory, game theory, and the effect of market power on inequality and growth, and he has worked on many policy projects. He also served as a special economic advisor to President Carter’s Commission on Pension Policy in 1979. His latest book is titled  The Market Power of Technology: Understanding the Second Gilded Age ..read more

Connor Boyack is the founder and president of Libertas Institute, an award-winning free market libertarian think tank located in Utah with a mission to advance the cause of liberty. He is the author of 37 books, including the popular Tuttle Twins children’s series, which have sold over 5 million copies. Named one of Utah's most politically influential people by The Salt Lake Tribune, Connor's leadership has changed over 100 laws covering a wide range of areas such as privacy, government transparency, property rights, drug policy, education, personal freedom, and more ..read more

Dr. Satish Nambisan is the Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. His research interests lie in the broad areas of innovation management, entrepreneurship, and digital globalization. Holding a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Syracuse University, his latest book is titled The Digital Multinational: Navigating the New Normal in Global Business ..read more