Government & Politics speakers

Ben Lucas
Expert on the Future of Cities

Ricardo Lagos
Former President of Chile

Dan Sinker
Director, Knight-Mozilla OpenNews Project

Xavier Hughes
Chief Innovation Officer, US Department of Labor

Kenneth Clarke
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer

Brian Forde
Director of Digital Currency, MIT Media Lab

Dick Cheatham
Historian and Former Television and Newspaper Journalist

Kitty Ussher
Economist & Former Minister

Andrew Marr
One of Britain’s Leading Political Commentators

Peter Hennessy
One of Britain’s Leading Historians

Vernon Bogdanor
One of Britain's Foremost Constitutional Experts

John Danforth
Former Attorney General, and Senator from Missouri

John Negroponte
Former United States Deputy Secretary of State

Steve Coll
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner

Loretta Napoleoni
Expert macroeconomist

Elena Salgado
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Spain

Stein Ringen
Authority on Democratic Quality & "Good Government"

Yasheng Huang
Thought Leader on Emerging Economies

Mychal Denzel Smith
Knobler Fellow, The Nation Institute

Anders Borg
Former Swedish Finance Minister