Guests 9100 Guests
December 2011
- Mike Allen Co-Founder, Axios
- Michael Boyd Director, Royal Shakespeare Company
- Patricia Churchland Professor, U.C. San Diego; Adjunct Professor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
- Lee Child Novelist
- Matthew Dowd Chief Political Analyst, ABC News
- Stanislas Dehaene Cognitive Neuroscientist; Chair of Experimental Psychology, College de France
- Niall Ferguson Historian, Author
- Mary Gabriel Author
- John Hurt Actor
- Jonah Hill Actor
- Eric Kandel Profesor, Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
- Betty Liu Guest Host
- Bernard-Henri Lévy Philosopher
- John Loengard Photographer
- John Lasseter Director, Pixar Animation Studios
- Simon Sebag Montefiore Author
- Bennett Miller Director
- Jon Meacham Historian; Author
- Brad Pitt Actor
- Robert Rubin Former Secretary of the Treasury
- Nicholas Schiff Jerold B. Katz Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medical College
- Gillian Tett Managing Editor, Financial Times
- Evan Thomas Author
- Clarissa Ward Senior International Correspondent, CNN
- Timothy Wilson Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia
- Zhang Xin C.E.O., Soho China
November 2011
- Elliot Ackerman C.O.O., Americans Elect
- Tim Arango Baghdad Correspondent, The New York Times
- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen Founder, Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund; Author
- Marc Benioff Chairman and C.E.O., Salesforce.com
- Khalil Byrd C.E.O., Americans Elect
- Kenneth Branagh Director; Actor
- David Brooks Columnist, Author
- Taylor Branch Author
- Amanda Burden Chair, New York City Planning Commission
- Ehud Barak Former Prime Minister, Israel
- Michael Boyd Director, Royal Shakespeare Company
- Harold Bloom Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University
- Ian Bremmer President, Eurasia Group
- Cornelia Bargmann Advisory Board Co-Chair, Obama's Brain Initiative
- Tom Brokaw Former Anchor, NBC Nightly News
- Simon Curtis Film Director
- Jim Collins Author
- Sandra Dzankovic Friend of Ted Forstmann
- Joshua David Co-Founder, Friends of the High Line
- Joan Didion Author
- Oskar Eustis Artistic Director, The Public Theater
- Siya Forstmann Son of Ted Forstmann
- Everest Forstmann Son of Ted Forstmann
- Gerald Fischbach Columbia University; Simons Foundation Autism Project
- Barbara Gaines Director, The Chicago Shakespeare Theater
- Stephen Greenblatt Literary Critic; Author
- John Heilemann National Affairs Analyst, NBC News
- Robert Hammond Producer
- Jack Healy Correspondent, The New York Times
- Mark Halperin Senior Political Analyst, NBC News
- Maggie Haberman White House Correspondent, The New York Times; Political Analyst, CNN
- Thomas Insel Director, National Institute of Mental Health
- James L. Jones Founder, Jones Group International; Former National Security Advisor; Retired Marine General
- Diane Keaton Actor
- David Kastan Professor, Yale University
- Eric Kandel Profesor, Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
- Rahmi Koç Honorary Chairman, Koç Holding
- Andrew Lack C.E.O., Bloomberg Media Group
- Mohammad-Javad Larijani Head of Iran's Human Rights Council
- Lawrence Lessig Professor, Harvard University
- Robert Lutz Former General Motors Executive
- John Malkovich Actor
- Elon Musk Co-founder and C.E.O., Tesla Motors
- Joe Nocera Columnist, Bloomberg View
- Alexander Payne Director
- Mattathias Schwartz Contributor, The New Yorker
- Mattias Schwarts Contributor, The New Yorker
- Dave Stockton Former Professional Golfer
- Thom Shanker Journalist, The New York Times
- Eric Schmitt Journalist, The New York Times
- Nick Schifrin Special Correspondent, PBS NewsHour
- Naguib Sawiris Chairman, Orascom Telecom
- George Shultz Former Secretary of State
- Dov Seidman Founder and C.E.O., LRN
- Michael Schmidt Reporter, The New York Times
- Sheryl Sandberg C.O.O., Facebook
- Jake Tapper Guest Host
- Laurence Tribe Harvard Law Professor
- Gillian Tett Managing Editor, Financial Times
- Calvin Trillin Author; Contributor, The New Yorker
- Jing Ulrich Global Markets Chairman, China, J.P. Morgan
- Antonio Villaraigosa Mayor of Los Angeles
- Ezra Vogel Author; Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
- Nora Volkow Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH
- Michelle Williams Actor
- Jon Wertheim Executive Editor, Sports Illustrated; Commentator, Tennis Channel
- Sam Waterston Actor
- Mark Zuckerberg Founder, C.E.O, Facebook
- Diane von Furstenberg Fashion Designer
October 2011
- Lisa Anderson President, American University in Cairo
- Lionel Barber Editor, Financial Times
- Zanny Minton Beddoes Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
- Süreyya Ciliv C.E.O., Turkcell
- Steve Case C.E.O., Revolution
- Ray Dalio CIO, Bridgewater Associates
- Stephen Greenblatt Literary Critic; Author
- Misha Glenny Journalist; Author
- Amy Goodman Author; Host, "Democracy Now!"
- Chris Hedges Author; Columnist, Truthdig
- Greg Ip Author, Commentator
- Walter Isaacson Author, Editor
- David Ignatius Foreign Affairs Columnist
- Stavros Lambrinidis Foreign Minister of Greece
- Chris Matthews Host, MSNBC's "Hardball with Chris Matthews"
- John Micklethwait Editor in Chief, Bloomberg News
- Hisham Matar Author
- Amos Oz Author
- Azim Premji Chairman, Wipro
- Paul Volcker Chairman, Volcker Alliance
- Slavoj Žižek Philosopher