Doris Kearns Goodwin

Goodwin’s five-decade career of studying and illuminating U.S. presidents has earned her numerous awards. Her first book, “Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream,” became a national bestseller and achieved critical acclaim. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for “No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II.” Her work “The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys” was adapted into an award-winning five-part television miniseries. Her sixth book, “The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft and the Golden Age of Journalism,” won the Carnegie Medal. Goodwin’s “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln” served as the basis for Steven Spielberg’s hit film “Lincoln” and was awarded the prestigious Lincoln Prize, the inaugural Book Prize for American History and the Lincoln Leadership Prize. Her most recent book, “Leadership in Turbulent Times,” was published to critical acclaim and became an instant New York Times bestseller.  

Peter Diamandis

Diamandis is a commercial space expert, futurist and best-selling author. He is an international pioneer in the fields of innovation, incentive competitions and commercial space. Named one of the “World’s 50 Greatest Leaders” by Fortune magazine in 2014, he is on a personal mission to open the space frontier for humanity. Diamandis is the founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, best known for its $10 million Ansari XPRIZE for private spaceflight. He is the co-founder of a number of groundbreaking businesses, including Human Longevity Inc., a genomics and cell therapy-based diagnostic and therapeutic company focused on extending the healthy human lifespan; Planetary Resources, a company designing spacecraft to enable the detection and prospecting of asteroids for precious materials; and Zero Gravity Corporation, a private space entertainment and tourism company that offers “ZERO-G” flights for individuals to experience true “weightlessness” without going into space. Diamandis is the New York Times bestselling author of “Abundance—The Future Is Better Than You Think” and “BOLD—How to Go Big, Create Wealth & Impact the World.”  

Ernest Moniz

Moniz served as the U.S. secretary of energy from 2013 to 2017 where he advanced energy technology innovation, nuclear security and strategic stability, cutting-edge capabilities for the American scientific research community and environmental stewardship. He strengthened the Department of Energy strategic partnership with its 17 national laboratories and with the Department of Defense and the broader national security establishment. Moniz served on the MIT faculty from 1973 until becoming secretary of energy in 2013, and is now the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems emeritus and special adviser to the MIT president. He has been named co-chairman of the board of directors and CEO of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonprofit organization that has advanced innovative solutions for securing nuclear materials, building international cooperation for nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation, preventing the spread of disease and reducing radiological threats. Moniz is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Harvard Belfer Center and the inaugural distinguished fellow of the Emerson Collective.  

Kevin Warsh

Warsh serves as the Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is an adviser to Duquesne Family Office and serves on the board of directors of UPS and Coupang, the leading Korean e-commerce company. Warsh is a member of the Group of Thirty and the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Congressional Budget Office. He served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 until 2011, served as the Federal Reserve's representative to the Group of Twenty and as the board's emissary to the emerging and advanced economies in Asia. Warsh served as special assistant to the president for economic policy and executive secretary of the White House National Economic Council under the George W. Bush administration. Previously, he was a member of the mergers and acquisitions department at Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York, serving as vice president and executive director.  

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