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Sara Simonson is managing director of Art21, an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to illuminating the creative process of today's visual artists through the production of documentary media and educational resources. Art21's flagship project is its Peabody Award-winning television series, *Art21- Art in the Twenty-First Century*, which is broadcast nationally in primetime on PBS. Sara earned her BA in Art History and Film Studies from Stanford University, and her MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where she specialized in Entertainment and Media Strategy. She has also worked on primetime network television series including *24*, *Friday Night Lights*, and Brian Grazer's *Imagine Television*. Sara studied film and video production at the New School and New York University, and her short films and visual art have been included in juried exhibitions at Stanford. She received the Lorenz Eitner Award in Art and Art History at Stanford, and was a John and Edith Titley Fellow at UCLA Anderson.

Ahsan Iqbal is the former Federal Minister for Education (2008). He is the current Information Secretary of the largest opposition party Pakistan Muslim League (N). His previous appointments include Policy and Public Affairs Assistant to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission, and Chairman of Good Governance Group. He holds an MBA from Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Saud Anwar is the president of the Pakistani American Public Affairs Committee (PAKPAC), and is also the founder and current co-chair of the American Muslim Peace Initiative. He has testified to the 109th US Congress for the Committee on Homeland Security about the American Muslim Community. Dr. Anwar specialized in Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care medicine at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He completed his fellowship in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Yale, and also earned his Masters in Public Health (MPH) from there.

Ambassador Husain Haqqani is Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States in Washington, DC. A trusted advisor of late Pakistani Prime Minister, Ms. Benazir Bhutto, Ambassador Haqqani is known as a Professor at Boston University and co-chair of the Hudson Institute's Project on the Future of the Muslim World as well as editor of the journal *Current Trends in Islamist Thought*, published from Washington, DC. Haqqani came to the US in 2002 as a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC and an adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. He is a leading journalist, diplomat, and former advisor to Pakistani Prime ministers.

Dr. Nadeem Afridi chaired Pakistan’s first Non-communicable Disease (NCD) Commission in May 2009 with the Government of Pakistan, an NCD survey in Pakistan with impact on cost effectiveness in low income population area centers of Pakistan. He is the founding president of Public Health Foundation of Pakistan and is also the President-Elect 2011 for the Association of Pakistani Descent Cardiologists of North America (APCNA). Currently Dr. Afridi is an instructor in Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Afridi earned his MBA in Entrepreneurship at Babson College and a PhD at Boston University.

Todd Millay is the Managing Director of Choate Investment Advisors. In connection with overseeing the investment strategy and day-to-day operations of Choate Investment Advisors, the firm's registered investment advisor subsidiary, Todd works closely with Choate's wealth management team of lawyers, tax preparers and trusts and estates administrators to provide clients with objective, integrated solutions to their wealth management needs. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner at CCC Alliance, a consortium of family offices, where he was responsible for managing alliances, leading strategic projects and delivering member services. During this time, Todd also served as the founding Executive Director of the Wharton Global Family Alliance, the research center on family wealth and family business at the Wharton School. As consultant in the Boston and Madrid offices of McKinsey & Company for five years, Todd specialized in serving financial institutions. During his tenure at McKinsey, he worked with senior management at major financial services companies in both the United States and Europe, providing strategic advice on a range of investment opportunities and operational improvements. After graduating from Yale Law School, he served as Managing Clerk for the Honorable Sandra L. Lynch on the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Todd was chosen as one of 40 emerging business leaders for the Boston Business Journal's 2008 "40 Under 40" award. He is a frequent speaker at investment conferences and has written for various publications on business and investing.

Esmond Harmsworth is a founding partner of the Zachary Shuster Harmsworth Literary Agency. Born in London, he was educated in England before graduating magna cum laude from Brown University and cum laude from Harvard Law School. As a literary agent, Harmsworth represents fiction and nonfiction. He is one of the leading US agents for business books, and regularly places major titles on management, leadership, finance, marketing and entrepreneurship with the leading publishers. Recent titles include the #1 Wall Street Journal business bestseller and New York Times bestseller *Breakthrough: Secrets of America's Fastest Growing Companies* by Keith McFarland (Crown Business); *Grapevine: The New Art of Word-of-Mouth Marketing* by Dave Balter and John Butman (Portfolio); *Alpha Dogs: How Your Small Business Can Become a Leader of the Pack* by Donna Fenn (Collins); and, *Moral Intelligence: Enhancing Business Performance and Leadership Success* by Doug Lennick and Fred Kiel (Wharton School Publishing).

Roger Lowenstein is a former reporter with *The Wall Street Journal*, currently a contributing writer for *The New York Times Magazine* and a columnist for *Bloomberg*, as well as the author of five books, *Buffett*, *When Genius Failed*, *Origins of the Crash*, *While America Aged*, and the forthcoming, *The End of Wall Street*--out this April from The Penguin Press. He lives in Newton, MA.

My name is Jenny Attiyeh, and I began my career in 1987 in London as a freelance reporter on the arts for the BBC World Service Radio. I remember my first interview for “Meridian”, as the program I worked for was called. It was with Placido Domingo, and I’ve never been so nervous since. After my work permit ran out, I returned to Los Angeles, my home city, and continued as an arts reporter for KCRW, an NPR station in Santa Monica. While there, I reported and produced an award-winning documentary on Japanese-American internment during World War II. Shortly after, I was accepted to a National Public Radio residency, which brought me to Washington, D.C. and to WBUR, an NPR station in Boston to report stories for NPR’s Performance Today. I later attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. After that, I remained in New York City for 9 years, during which time I worked primarily as a reporter on television and radio. I hosted and produced a weekly arts and culture segment for WNYC TV, a PBS station, until it went out of business (thanks to then Mayor Giuliani, who sold the station). Before the lights went out, I managed to produce a mini-documentary on the making of a Philip Glass opera, “Les Enfants Terribles.” I worked next as a correspondent for a nationally televised PBS program called “Freedom Speaks” which focused on the media, until it too was taken off the air. (I detect a pattern here…) In between gigs, I also worked as a reporter for WBAI radio, a Pacifica station, and WNYC radio, an NPR station, covering local politics and the arts. I then moved to Maine, where I lived by the harbor in Kittery, and worked as a reporter for New Hampshire Public Television. There, I covered the ‘99/2000 New Hampshire presidential primary season, and interviewed the major presidential candidates. I also participated as a panelist in nationally televised presidential debates, hosted by Peter Jennings and Tim Russert. Following the conclusion of the New Hampshire primary season, I moved to Boston, where I did freelance writing on academics, the 2004 presidential campaign and the single life, among other subjects. From this base, in early 2005, I launched ThoughtCast.

Charles Skillas is a board certified hypnotherapist practicing in Atlanta, GA. He is also a National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) certified hypnotherapy instructor. He has practiced energy healing and hypnotherapy since 1981 and is a member of the business and metaphysical teaching faculty of St. Johns University. He has a PhD in engineering and a doctor of divinity degree in spiritual healing arts.

Bruce Feiler is the *New York Times * best-selling author of seven books, an award-winning journalist, and the writer-presenter of the PBS miniseries *Walking the Bible*. He has traveled to more than 60 countries on five continents, immersing himself in different cultures. Born in Savannah, GA, he lives in New York with wife, Linda Rottenberg, and their twin daughters.