Guests 9103 Guests
August 2008
- Judd Apatow Director
- Bob Boniface Director of Design, Chevy Volt, General Motors
- Markus Brunnermeier Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics, Princeton University
- Francesco Clemente Artist
- Vitaly Churkin Russian Ambassador to the United Nations
- Isabel Coixet Director
- Penelope Cruz Actor
- Peter Chernin Philanthropist
- Elizabeth Economy Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
- Laurence Fishburne Actor
- Austan Goolsbee Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
- Philip Gourevitch Editor, The Paris Review
- Harrison Hong Professor of Economics, Princeton University
- James Hansen Professor
- Richard Holbrooke United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Dennis Hopper Actor
- Husain Haqqani Author; Former Ambassador of Pakistan to the U.S.
- Farahnaz Ispahani Pakistani National Assembly Member, Pakistan Peoples Party
- Bob Kruse Global Vehicle Engineering, General Motors
- Don Keough Former President and C.E.O., Coca-Cola
- Robert Kagan Historian; Author; Fellow, Brookings Institution
- Joseph Kahn Beijing Bureau Chief, The New York Times
- Imran Khan Chairman, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Party
- Robert Lutz Former General Motors Executive
- Clare Lockhart Author; Director, The Institute for State Effectiveness
- Bernie Mac Actor
- Jane Mayer Staff Writer, The New Yorker
- Mark Mazzetti Journalist, The New York Times
- Joel Piaskowski Chief Designer, Hyundai
- Phil Patton Journalist, The New York Times
- Philip Pan Foreign Correspondent, The Washington Post; Author
- Seth Rogen Actor
- Ben Stiller Actor; Producer; Director
- Wole Soyinka Nobel Laureate; Poet; Playwright
- Stephen Sestanovich Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
- George Stevens, Jr. Founding Director, The American Film Institute; Founder, The Kennedy Center Honors
- Pete Sampras Former Grand Slam Tennis Champion; Author
- Richard Wagoner Chairman and C.E.O., General Motors
- Edward T. Wellburn, Jr. Vice President of Global Design, General Motors
- Bob Woodruff Journalist, ABC News
- Wei Xiong Trumbull-Adams Professor of Finance, Princeton University
- Franz von Holzhausen Director of Design, Mazda
July 2008
- David Agus Physician, USC; Contributor, CBS News
- Michael Arrington Editor, TechCrunch
- Kurt Andersen Author; Radio Host, Studio 360
- Lewis Black Comedian; Author
- Ethan Bronner Guest Host
- Michael Bloomberg Former Mayor, New York City
- Nicholson Baker Author
- James Baker Former Secretary of State
- Francis Collins Director, National Institutes of Health
- George Church Director, Personal Genome Project; Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
- David Chang Chef; Restaurateur
- Jim Courier Tennis Champion
- Warren Christopher Former Secretary of State
- Jamie Dimon Chairman and C.E.O., JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- Anthony Drexel Duke Author; Founder, Boys & Girls Harbor, Inc.
- Mohamed El-Erian Chief Economic Advisor, Allianz
- William Fallon Former U.S. Centcom Commander
- Will Ferrell Actor
- Clay Felker Founder, New York Magazine
- Bill Gates Co-Chair, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Co-Founder, The Giving Pledge
- Michael Geisen 2008 National Teacher of the Year; Science, Crook County Middle School
- Jon Hamm Actor
- Jim Hoagland Journalist, The Washington Post
- Mark Halperin Editor-in-Chief, 2WAY
- Judith Jamison Artistic Director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
- Tim Kaine Senator, (D) Virginia
- Jason Kamras 2005 National Teacher of the Year; Math, John Philip Sousa Middle School
- Ted Koppel Former Anchor, ABC's "Nightline"; Author
- Wendy Kopp C.E.O. and Founder, Teach for America; C.E.O. and Co-Founder, Teach for All
- Steven Levy Editor in Chief, Backchannel
- Amory Lovins Chairman, Rocky Mountain Institute
- Adam McKay Director
- Walter Mossberg Former Technology Columnist
- Margaret Marshall Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- Gretchen Morgenson Business Columnist, New York Times
- Kathy Mellor 2004 National Teacher of the Year; ESL Program, Davisville Middle School
- Dean Ornish President, Preventive Medical Research Institute
- Kimberly Oliver 2006 National Teacher of the Year; Kindergarten, Broad Acres Elementary School
- Kenneth Pollack Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
- John C. Reilly Actor
- David Remnick Editor, The New Yorker
- Michelle Rhee Founder and C.E.O., Studentsfirst; Former Chancellor, Washington, D.C. Public Schools
- John Slattery Actor
- Richard Stengel Former Managing Editor, Time Magazine; Author, “Mandela’s Way”
- David Simon Author; Producer
- Allan Sloan Journalist, Fortune Magazine
- Brent Stirton Photojournalist
- Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans Philanthropist
- Naguib Sawiris Chairman, Orascom Telecom
- Chuck Todd Host, "Meet the Press," NBC News
- Barbara Walters Television Host; Contributor and Co-Anchor, ABC News
- Matthew Weiner Creator
- Robin Wright Joint Fellow, U.S. Institute for Peace
- Jim Webb Senator, (D) Virginia; Author
- Godefroid Wambale Wildlife Warden, Virunga National Park
- Bob Wise President, Alliance for Excellent Education
- Neil Young Singer-Songwriter
- Emmanuel de Merode Conservationist; Director, Virunga National Park
June 2008
- Aitzaz Ahsan President, Pakistan's Supreme Court Bar Association
- Paul Begala Democratic Strategist
- Michelle Gavin Adjunct Fellow for Africa, Council on Foreign Relations
- Philip Gourevitch Editor, The Paris Review
- Emmylou Harris Singer-Songwriter
- Chenjerai Hove International Writers Project Fellow in Residence at Brown University
- Peter Levene Chairman, Lloyd's of London
- Mark Mazzetti Journalist, The New York Times
- Andrew Meldrum Former Zimbabwe Correspondent, The Guardian
- Adam Nagourney Journalist, The New York Times
- Salman Rushdie Author
- David Rhode Journalist, The New York Times
- David Rohde Investigative Journalist, Reuters
- David Sanger National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
- Daniel Yergin Author; Vice Chairman, IHS