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José Gómez-Márquez is Program Director for the Innovations in International Health initiative at MIT. He was named Humanitarian of the Year by *Technology Review* in 2009.

Rachel Glennerster is Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT and coauthor of *Strong Medicine: Creating Incentives for Pharmaceutical Research on Neglected Diseases*.

Kentaro Toyama is a researcher at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, and former Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research India.

David Hume Kennerly has been shooting on the front lines of history for more than 40 years. He has photographed eight wars, as many U.S. presidents, and he has traveled to dozens of countries along the way. At 25, the Roseburg, Oregon native won the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for his photos of the Vietnam War, and two years later was appointed President Gerald R. Ford’s personal photographer. He has been presented with numerous other honors, among them the Overseas Press Club’s Olivier Rebbot Award for “Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad,” for his coverage of Reagan and Gorbachev’s historic first summit meeting in Geneva. He was named, “One of the Most 100 Most Important People in Photography” by *American Photo Magazine*. Kennerly has been on the masthead of *Time* Magazine, John F. Kennedy, Jr’s *George* magazine, *Life* Magazine, and was a contributing editor for *Newsweek* magazine for ten years. He has more than 50 major magazine covers to his credit. He has published several books of his work, *Shooter*, P*hoto Op*, *Seinoff: The Final Days of Seinfeld*, *Photo du Jour*, and *Extraordinary Circumstances: The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford*. Most recently he produced *Barack Obama: The Official Barack Obama Inaugural Book*, with Bob McNeely, who was President Clinton’s official White House photographer.

Robert McNeely is an American photojournalist and Vietnam veteran. He chronicled President Clinton’s march to the White House. For the next six years, each morning he would shoot in black and white (other members of the White House photo staff shot in color), in order to make a historic record of virtually every meeting, every detail of the president’s daily life. His interest in photography began while he was serving in the US Army in Southeast Asia. When he returned to the US he took several workshops at the Center of the Eye in Aspen, Colorado and then began to photograph full time. In 1972 his fascination with politics started when he became a staff photographer on the McGovern for President campaign. In 1977 he entered the White House as a staff photographer with a primary responsibility to cover Vice-President Mondale. Throughout the 1980's and early 90's he traveled the world for editorial and corporate clients. In 1992 he became the campaign photographer for Bill Clinton and entered the White House with Clinton as his personal photographer. His work from the years with President Clinton was published in the book "The Clinton Years". Upon leaving the White House he began work on a two year documentary project called Photo 2000 that documented the election cycle of the year 2000 at the local, state and national level. This work was published all over the world and in a 30 page, award winning portfolio in Fortune Magazine. Since then he has continued to photograph personal projects and for editorial and commercial clients. He also lectures and teaches workshops on documentary photography.

Wendell Potter is the senior fellow on health care at the Center for Media and Democracy and a leading critic of the health insurance industry. After a thirty-year career in public relations, he left his job as a corporate pr executive to speak out against he had seen and been a part of during his years in the health insurance industry. He has appeared on countless television and radio programs and been cited in newspapers and magazines around the world. Time magazine wrote that Potter "may be the ideal whistleblower."

Jane Leavy is an author and journalist. She was a staff writer at *The Washington Post* from 1979 to 1988, covering baseball, tennis, and the Olympics. She also wrote features for the style section about sports, politics, and pop culture. Before joining the *The Washington Post*, Leavy was a staff writer at *Women Sports* and *Self* magazines. She has written for many publications, including *The New York Times*, *Newsweek*, *Sports Illustrated*, *The Village Voice*, and *The New York Daily News*. Leavy’s work has been anthologized in many collections, including *Best Sportswriting*, *Coach: 25 Writers Reflect on People Who Made a Difference*, *Child of Mine: Essays on Becoming a Mother*, *Nike Is a Goddess: The History of Women in Sports*, *Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend: Women Writers on Baseball*, *A Kind of Grace: A Treasury of Sportswriting by Women*, and *Making Words Dance: Reflections on Red Smith, Journalism and Writing*. Leavy attended Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She has two adult children, Nick and Emma Isakoff, and she lives in Washington, DC, and Truro, Massachusetts.

Phil Hochberg is a Washington, D.C., based attorney specializing in the representation of professional and collegiate sports leagues, conferences, and teams. Mr. Hochberg does public address announcing at sporting events and was the first baseball and last football stadium announcer in the first 37 years of Washington D.C.'s R.F.K Stadium. He spent 38 years with the Washington Redskins and is one of 39 persons and the first non-player/coach/owner to be honored by the team in its Hall of Fame/Ring of Stars at FedEx Field in Landover, MD. Previously, he announced for the Washington Senators for six years and part-time for the Baltimore Orioles for three seasons. In addition, he has been the college basketball announcer for George Washington University since 1978 and the Football Press Box P.A. Announcer for Maryland since 1976, has done University of Maryland and American University basketball, the Army-Navy football classic in Philadelphia in 1998, and the Presidential Inaugural Parades in 1973, 1977, 1989, 1993, 1997, 2001 and 2005.

W. Joseph Campbell is a tenured professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. He joined the AU faculty in 1997 and has since written five books, including *Getting It Wrong: Ten of the Greatest Misreported Stories in American Journalism*. Campbell entered journalism education after more than 20 years as a newspaper and wire service journalist, a career that took him across North America and to West Africa, Europe, and Asia. His international assignments included nuclear arms negotiations in Geneva, youth unrest in Swiss urban centers, the challenge to communist rule in Poland, political upheaval across West Africa, and the consequences of the world's deadliest industrial disaster at Bhopal, India. Campbell earned his Ph.D. in mass communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1997.

Martin E. Appel is an American public relations executive and author. He was named PR Director of the New York Yankees in 1973 after beginning his tenure with the team handling fan mail for Mickey Mantle. After nine years with the Yankees, under both CBS and Steinbrenner ownership, Appel went on to direct public relations for Tribune Broadcasting’s WPIX in New York and to serve as the Yankees Executive Producer concurrently. He later directed public relations for the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games and the Topps Company before opening his own agency. Appel has written 18 books, including a biography of King Kelly, and children's biographies of Yogi Berra and Joe DiMaggio. He has ghost-written books for Eric Gregg, Larry King, Bowie Kuhn, Lee MacPhail, Thurman Munson, and Tom Seaver, and wrote a biography of Munson published in 2009. He has also contributed to a variety of publications, including Sports Collectors Digest, Yankees Magazine and Encyclopedia Americana. He is president of Marty Appel Public Relations, New York based PR firm specializing in sports, and is married to Lourdes Appel. He has two children from an earlier marriage.

Siddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Center. A Rhodes scholar, he graduated from Stanford University, University of Oxford, Harvard Medical School. He has published articles in *Nature*, *The New England Journal of Medicine*, The New York Times, and *The New Republic*.

Harold McGee writes about the science of food and cooking. He's the author of the award-winning classic *On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen*, and writes a monthly column, "The Curious Cook," for *The New York Times*. He has been named food writer of the year by Bon Appetit magazine and to the Time 100, an annual list of the world's most influential people.