Guests 9103 Guests
May 2009
- J. J. Abrams Director
- David Brooks Former Columnist, The New York Times
- Christopher Buckley Author
- Ramin Bahrani Writer; Director
- Kenneth Branagh Director; Actor
- Sherrod Brown Senator, (D) Ohio
- Jagdish Baghwati Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations; Author
- Alan Blinder Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University; Correspondent, The New York Times
- Sarah Chayes Former NPR Correspondent; Military Adviser
- James Carville Democratic Strategist
- Hope Davis Actor
- Jeff Daniels Actor
- Elizabeth Edwards Author
- Frank Gehry Architect
- James Gandolfini Actor
- William Greider National Affairs Correspondent, The Nation; Author
- Timothy Geithner President, Warburg Pincus; Former Treasury Secretary
- Jim Hoagland Journalist, The Washington Post
- Marcia Gay Harden Actor
- Ron Howard Film Director
- Tom Hanks Actor
- David Ignatius Foreign Affairs Columnist
- Rashid Khalidi Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies, Columbia University; Author
- Naomi Klein Activist; Writer
- Hamid Karzai President of Afghanistan
- Neel Kashkari President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
- Anand Mahindra Managing Director, Mahindra & Mahindra
- Jon Meacham Historian; Author
- Doug Melton Co-Director, Harvard Stem Cell Institute
- Azim Premji Chairman, Wipro
- Renzo Piano Architect
- Amy Poehler Comedian; Founder, Upright Citizens Brigade
- Martin Sorrell C.E.O., WPP Group
- Cheryl Saban Philanthropist; Author
- Bret Stephens Columnist, The New York Times
- Souleymane Sy Savane Actor
- Andy Stern Former President, SEIU
- Susan Schwab Former U.S. Trade Representative, Bush Administration
- Jake Tapper Guest Host
- Lally Weymouth Correspondent, Newsweek
- Red West Actor
- Elizabeth Warren Senator, (D) Massachussetts
- Suzy Welch Former Editor, Harvard Business Review; Author
- Ayelet Zurer Actor
- Asif Ali Zardari President of Pakistan
- Robert Zoellick World Bank President; Former Deputy Secretary of State
April 2009
- Mike Allen Co-Founder, Axios
- Bill Ackman Founder and C.E.O., Pershing Square Capital Management
- Lionel Barber Editor, Financial Times
- David Brooks Former Columnist, The New York Times
- Michael Bloomberg Former Mayor, New York City
- Mika Brzezinski Journalist, MSNBC
- Zbigniew Brzezinski Professor, Johns Hopkins University; Former National Security Advisor
- Tom Colicchio Chef; Restaurateur; Head Judge, "Top Chef"
- Michael Caine Actor
- John Crowley Director
- Robert Caro Historian
- Juan Cole Blogger; Professor, University of Michigan
- Thomas Curley C.E.O., The Associated Press
- Emanuel Cleaver II Representative, (D) Missouri; Member, Congressional Black Caucus
- Tony Dungy Head Coach, Indianapolis Colts
- Ulrich Ditzen Son of Hans Fallada
- Jim Ellis Journalist, Business Week
- Andrew Exum Fellow, Center for a New American Security
- Alastair Fothergill Filmmaker; Producer
- Jeff Greenfield Guest Host
- Bill Gates Co-Chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Co-Founder, The Giving Pledge
- William Gates, Sr. Co-Chair, The Gates Foundation; Author
- Laurie Garrett Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
- Mikhail Gorbachev Former President, Soviet Union
- Ashraf Ghani Afghan Presidential Candidate
- John Heilemann National Affairs Analyst, NBC News
- Al Hunt Journalist, Bloomberg News
- Zakir Hussain Tabla Player
- Arianna Huffington Co-founder and President, The Huffington Post
- John Hope Franklin Professor Emeritus of History, Duke University
- Paul Ingrassia Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist; Author
- Dennis Johnson Publisher, Melville House
- Katty Kay Anchor, BBC World News America
- Jeffrey Koplan VP for Global Health, Emory University; Former Director, CDC
- Kate Kelly Author; Journalist, The Wall Street Journal
- Mike Krzyzewski Basketball Coach
- Robert Kaplan Author; Political Analyst
- Henry Kissinger Former Secretary of State; Author
- Christine Lagarde Managing Director, IMF
- Jim Lehrer Former Anchor, "PBS Newshour"; Author
- Micheline Maynard Journalist, The New York Times
- Donald McNeil, Jr. Science and Health Journalist, The New York Times
- Richard Myers Retired General; Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Robert Morgenthau Former Manhattan District Attorney
- Wynton Marsalis Musician; Artistic Director, Jazz at Lincoln Center
- John Negroponte Former Director of National Intelligence; Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State
- Shannon O'Neil Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
- Andres Oppenheimer Journalist, The Miami Herald
- Carlos Pascual Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
- Carl Pope Executive Director, Sierra Club
- Christine Quinn New York City Council Speaker
- Joshua Cooper Ramo Co-C.E.O., Kissinger Associates
- Ahmed Rashid Journalist; Author
- L. A. Reid Chairman, Island Def Jam Music Group
- Christina Romer Former Chair, Council of Economic Advisers
- Laura Richardson Representative, (D) California; Member, Congressional Black Caucus
- John Stoll Reporter, Automobile Industry, The Wall Street Journal
- Andrew Ross Sorkin Guest Host
- Joseph Stiglitz Professor, Columbia University; Nobel Laureate; Author
- Brent Scowcroft Former National Security Advisor
- George Shultz Former Secretary of State
- Joe Scarborough Host, "Morning Joe"
- Liesl Schillinger Contributor, The New York Times
- Cliff Sloan Author
- Jehan Sadat Former First Lady, Egypt
- David Sanger National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
- Tung Chee-hwa Former Chief Executive and President, Executive Council of Hong Kong
- Mike Tyson Boxer
- James Toback Director
- Tracy Wilkinson Journalist, The Los Angeles Times
- Robin Wright Joint Fellow, U.S. Institute for Peace