Danielle Allen

Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University

Roger Ames

Philosopher, Editor and Translator; 2016-18 Berggruen Fellow at Peking University

Stephen C. Angle

Philosopher; 2016-17 Berggruen Fellow at Tsinghua University

Wallis Annenberg

Chairman of the Board, President and CEO, Annenberg Foundation

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Professor of Philosophy and Law, New York University

Timothy Garton Ash

Professor of European Studies, Oxford University

Jörg Asmussen

Economist

Jacques Attali

Chairman & CEO, Attali & Associés

Shaukat Aziz

Former Prime Minister of Pakistan (2004-2007)

Julian Baggini

Founding Editor, The Philosopher's Magazine

Tongdong Bai

Philosopher; 2016-18 Berggruen Fellow

Marek Belka

Visiting Professor in Practice at the Institute of Global Affairs, London School of Economics (LSE)

Daniel Bell

Dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration, Shandong University; Distinguished Chair Professor at Fudan University (Shanghai)

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite

Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Network Faculty Planning, New York University

Rajeev Bhargava

Political Theorist; 2016-17 Berggruen Fellow at Tsinghua University

Carl Bildt

Co-Chair, European Council on Foreign Relations

Max von Bismarck

Tony Blair

Leader of Breaking the Climate Deadlock Initiative

Gene Block

Chancellor, University of California at Los Angeles

David Bonderman

Chairman & Founding Partner, TPG Capital

Leszek Borysiewicz

Vice Chancellor, University of Cambridge (2010 - 2017)

Alain de Botton

Co-Founder, The School of Life

Gordon Brown

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2007 - 2010); United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education

Craig Calhoun

Senior Advisor, Berggruen Prize; UC Press

James Cameron

Academy Award Winning Director and Co-Founder, Lightstorm Entertainment

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

Former President of Brazil (1995 - 2002); Founder of the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Foundation

Juan Luis Cebrián

Founder and Honorary President, El País

Ronnie Chan

Chairman, Hang Lung Group Ltd.

Janet Clayton

Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications, Edison International

Jared Cohen

Founder and President, Jigsaw

Geoffrey Cowan

Director, Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership and Policy, University of Southern California

James Cuno

President & CEO, The J. Paul Getty Trust

Antonio Damasio

University Professor, Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience, Psychology and Philosophy, University of Southern California

Joseph "Gray" Davis

Attorney at Law, Loeb & Loeb LLP

Jacques Delors

Founding President, Notre Europe – Jacques Delors Institute

Jack Dorsey

Co-founder and CEO, Twitter and Square

Mohamed A. El-Erian

Chief Economic Advisor, Allianz

John Elkann

Chairman, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles; Chairman & CEO, Exor

Henry Elkus

Founder and CEO: Helena

Niall Ferguson

Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Luc Ferry

Minister for Youth, National Education and Research, France (2002 - 2004)

Christiana Figueres

Former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2010 - 2016

Jendayi Frazer

Francis Fukuyama

Mosbacher Director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University

Jonardon Ganeri

Professor of Philosophy, Arts, and Humanities, New York University

Frank Gehry

Architect, Gehry Partners LLP

Ronald George

Former Chief Justice of California

Anthony Giddens

Professor, Department of Sociology, London School of Economics (LSE)

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Professor of Philosophy at New College of the Humanities, London

Alexander Görlach

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, Cambridge University

Michael Govan

CEO & Director, LACMA

John Gray

Emeritus Professor of European Thought, London School of Economics

Amy Gutmann

United States Ambassador to Germany

Chaibong Hahm

President, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies

Jens Halfwassen

Professor of Philosophy, Universität Heidelberg

David Hempton

Dean, Harvard Divinity School

Antonia Hernández

President & CEO, California Community Foundation

Robert Hertzberg

Former Speaker of the California State Assembly and Majority Leader of the California State Senate

Reid Hoffman

Co-Founder of LinkedIn; Partner at Greylock

Seok-Hyun Hong

Chairman and CEO of the JoongAng Media Network

Fred Hu

Chairman and Founder, Primavera Capital

Arianna Huffington

Founder & CEO, Thrive Global

Maria Hummer-Tuttle

Chair of the Board of Trustees, The J. Paul Getty Trust

Chad Hurley

Co-Founder and CEO, MixBit

Siri Hustvedt

Author

Mohamed "Mo" Ibrahim

Founder & Chairman, Mo Ibrahim Foundation

Walter Isaacson

University Professor of History, Tulane

Otmar Issing

President of the Center for Financial Studies, Frankfurt

Pico Iyer

Writer & Essayist, TIME

Willie L. Brown, Jr.

Chairman and CEO, Willie L. Brown, Jr. Institute on Politics and Public Service

Francois Jullien

French Philosopher

Gabriel Kahan

Creative Practitioner and Technologist, Berggruen Fellow

Katherine Keating

Jakob Kellenberger

President, SwissPeace

Anton Friedrich Koch

Professor of Philosophy, Universität Heidelberg

Robert Kotick

CEO, Activision Blizzard

Robert Kuhn

Host of Closer to Truth, PBS

Ricardo Lagos

Former President of Chile (2000 - 2006); United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Change

Pascal Lamy

Coordinator of the Jacques Delors Think Tanks (Paris, Berlin, Brussels), President of Paris Peace Forum, Former DG of WTO

Seung-yoon Lee

CEO and Founder of Story Protocol

Doris Leuthard

Member, Swiss Federal Council

Margaret Levi

Director, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences

Rick Levin

Senior Advisor & Professor, Coursera

Bernard-Henri Lévy

French Philosopher

Eric X. Li

Founder & Managing Director, Chengwei Capital

Lydia Liu

Director, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University

Stephen Macedo

Director of the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

Kishore Mahbubani

Professor in the Practice of Public Policy at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Felipe González Márquez

Former Prime Minister of Spain (1982 - 1996)

Paul Martin

Former Prime Minister of Canada (2003 - 2006); Founder, Martin Family Initiative

Pratap Bhanu Mehta

Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching

Alain Minc

President & Founder, A.M. Counseil

Cindy Miscikowski

Chair, The Ring Foundation

Pankaj Mishra

Indian Novelist

Festus Mogae

Chairperson, Champions for an AIDS-Free Generation

Mario Monti

President, Bocconi University

Dambisa Moyo

Economist

Robert Mundell

Professor of Economics, Columbia University

Elon Musk

Chairman & CEO, Tesla & SpaceX

Dominic Ng

Chairman & CEO, East West Bank

Xavier Niel

Deputy Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, Iliad

Nandan M. Nilekani

Co-founder and Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, Infosys

Josiah Ober

Professor of Political Science and Classics, Stanford University

Pierre Omidyar

Founder, Omidyar Group

Ian Osborne

Sean Parker

Founder & President, Parker Foundation

Gerald Parsky

Chairman of Aurora Capital Group

Philip Pettit

Laurence Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University

Jean Pisani-Ferry

Professor of Economics and Public Management, Hertie School of Governance

Romano Prodi

President, Fondazione Popoli

Michael Puett

Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Raghuram Rajan

Former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2013 - 2016); Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, Chicago Booth at the University of Chicago

Ben Rattray

Condoleezza Rice

Professor of Political Science/ Political Economy, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Mathias Risse

Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy, Harvard University

Michael S. Roth

President, Wesleyan University

Nouriel Roubini

Chairman & CEO, Roubini Macro Associates, LLC

Kevin Rudd

Australian Ambassador to the United States of America

Michael J. Sandel

Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University

Nicolas Sarkozy

Former President of France (2007 - 2010)

Orville Schell

Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society in New York

Eric E. Schmidt

Former CEO and Chairman, Google/Co-founder, Schmidt Futures

Gerhard Schröder

Former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (1998 - 2005); Chairman, Board of Directors, Rosneft

Peter Schwartz

Senior Vice President for Global Government Relations & Strategic Planning, SalesForce

Stephen Schwarzman

CEO & Founder, Blackstone

Terry S. Semel

Chairman and CEO of Windsor Media

Amartya Sen

Nobel Laureate, Economic Sciences; Thomas W. Lamont University Professor, Harvard University

John Sexton

President of New York University

Thomas Sheehan

Professor of Religious Studies, German Studies, and Philosophy, Stanford University

Alison Simmons

Samuel H. Wolcott Professor of Philosophy and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University

Jeff Skoll

Founder & Chairman, Skoll Foundation

Peter Sloterdijk

Professor of Philosophy, University of Art and Design Karlsruhe

Patrick Soon-Shiong

Chairman & CEO, Nantworks

Sir Richard Sorabji

Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, King's College London

Michael Spence

Nobel Laureate, Economic Sciences; William R. Berkley Professor in Economics & Business, New York University

Evan Spiegel

Co-Founder and CEO, Snap Inc.

Joseph E. Stiglitz

Nobel Laureate, Economic Sciences; University Professor, Columbia University

Galen Strawson

Chair of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin

Lawrence Summers

Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury (1999 - 2001); Charles W. Eliot Professor & President Emeritus, Harvard University

Charles Taylor

2016 Berggruen Prize Winner

Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir

Professor of Philosophy, University of Iceland

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

Former Prime Minister of Denmark (2011-2015)

Justin Tiwald

Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University

Weiming Tu

Director of the Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies and Professor of Philosophy, Peking University

Laura D. Tyson

Director, Institute for Business & Social Impact at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley; Senior Berggruen Fellow

Matti Vanhanen

Member of Parliament, Centre Party Parliamentary Group, Finland

Guy Verhofstadt

Brexit Coordinator, European Parliament

Franz Vranitzky

Member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria

Michael Walzer

Professor Emeritus of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study

Wang Hui

Professor of Chinese Language, Literature, and History, Tsinghua University

Axel Weber

Chairman of the Board of Directors, UBS Group AG

Feng Wei

Melissa Williams

Professor, University of Toronto

Bin Wong

Distinguished Professor of History, University of California at Los Angeles

Tadashi Yanai

Founder & President, Fast Retailing

Jerry Yang

Founding Partner, AME Cloud Ventures

Zev Yaroslavsky

Director of the Los Angeles Initiative, University of California, Los Angeles

George Yeo

Senior Adviser to both Kuok Group and Kerry Logistics Network

Fareed Zakaria

Host, CNN's Global Public Square

Ernesto Zedillo

Former President of Mexico (1994 - 2000); Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University

Xudong Zhang

Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies, Director of China House, NYU

Lei Zhang

Chairman & CEO, Hillhouse Capital Management Group

Bijian Zheng

Founder & Chairman, China Institute for Innovation and Development Strategy (CIIDS)

Min Zhu

Former Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (2011 - 2016); Former Special Advisor to the Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (2010 - 2011); Vice Chairman, China Institute for Innovation & Development Strategy (CIIDS)