Past Speakers

Susan Blumenthal

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Dr.Susan Blumenthal

American physician, global health expert, psychiatrist, public health advocate

Rear Admiral Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A. served as U.S. Assistant Surgeon General and Senior Global Health Advisor in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Dr. Blumenthal has been involved in the national public health response to terrorism, emergency preparedness, biotechnology issues, and emerging disease threats including pandemic flu and AIDS. She was a pioneer in applying information technology to improve health and was among the first in the government to use the Internet for health education.

Dr. Blumenthal currently serves as the Director of the Health and Medicine Program at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC), where she co-chairs the Center’s Commission on Future Directions in Health Care. She also directs its health diplomacy programs including a Palestinian/Israeli Health Initiative supported by USAID that has convened experts, developed recommendations for cooperative programs and used information technology to help foster information exchange. Additionally, Dr. Blumenthal serves as Senior Policy and Medical Advisor to amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research, and is Chair of the Global Health Program at the Meridian International Center. Dr. Blumenthal is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown and Tufts School of Medicine.

Dr. Blumenthal was recently decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal of the U.S. Public Health Service, its highest honor, “for distinguished and pioneering leadership, groundbreaking contributions and dedicated public service that has improved the health of women, our Nation, and the world.”

Dr. Blumenthal has also been involved in the national public health response to terrorism, emergency pandemic preparedness, biotechnology issues, and emerging disease threats including AIDS and COVID-19. She is currently a Senior Fellow in Health Policy at New America where she is focused on a broad range of issues including the COVID-19 pandemic, applying technology to advance public health, health reform implementation, food insecurity, women’s health, and global health. Additionally, Dr. Blumenthal serves as Senior Policy and Medical Advisor to amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research and is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Tufts and Georgetown Schools of Medicine.

Dr. Blumenthal was hosted by The Common Good in 2012: Aftermath: Supreme Court & Health Care with Carl Bernstein, Jeffrey Toobin & Susan Blumenthal – July 19, 2012.

Dr. Blumenthal returned to moderated the event COVID-19: Then, Now and What’s To Come with Dr. Daniel R. Lucey from Georgetown University and a leading scholar in infectious diseases, and former CDC director Dr. Tom Frieden as we learn about the origins, the spread and what the future will be like as a result of Covid-19.

Leslie Gelb

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Leslie Gelb

Author, former correspondent for The New York Times

Leslie Gelb is a former correspondent for The New York Times and is currently President Emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is author of the 2009 book, Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Policy.

Gelb was diplomatic correspondent at The New York Times from 1973 to 1977. He served as an Assistant Secretary of State in the Carter Administration from 1977 to 1979, winning the Distinguished Honor Award, the highest award of the US State Department. He returned to the Times in 1981; from then until 1993, he was in turn its national security correspondent, deputy editorial page editor, editor of the Op-Ed Page, and columnist. This period included his leading role on the Times team that won a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism in 1986 for a six-part comprehensive series on the “Star Wars” Strategic Defense Initiative.

He serves as the chairman of the advisory board for the progressive foreign policy think tank, National Security Network, on the board of directors of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, member of the board of directors of the Truman Project, board of directors of the the Center for the National Interest and the advisory board of United Against Nuclear Iran.

Jack Abramoff

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Jack Abramoff

American lobbyist, businessman, movie producer, writer

Abramoff started his political career at Brandeis University as head of the College Republicans. After becoming national chairman of that group, Abramoff was soon named head of President Ronald Reagan’s grassroots lobbying organization on Capitol Hill. He held that position while attending Georgetown Law Center at night, and obtained his JD in 1986. After a detour into motion picture production, Abramoff returned to the nation’s capital to build one of the most successful lobbying practices in history. He spent a lengthy term in federal prison on corruption charges.

His downfall caused Abramoff to reassess his past, and his book Capitol Punishment is designed to alert our nation about what goes on behind the guarded doors of power in Washington, DC. Since his release from prison, Abramoff has appeared on hundreds of television and radio networks and programs, including CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, “60 Minutes” and “The Colbert Report”.

Mr. Abramoff was hosted by The Common Good for a discussion about his book “Capitol Punishment,” which talks about reforming lobbying practices in U.S. national politics, in 2012: Jack Abramoff on Lobby Reform – June 20, 2012.

Twitter: @jackabramoff

Todd Gitlin

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Todd Gitlin

Author, political activist

Todd Gitlin is an author and political activist. His latest book is Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street, published in April 2012. Gitlin’s two previous books are The Chosen Peoples: America, Israel, and the Ordeals of Divine Election (with Liel Leibovitz) and Undying. He has written 12 books, chiefly on media and contemporary America. He has also published a book of poetry, Busy Being Born, and his book Sacrifice won the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for novels on Jewish themes.

He contributes to many newspapers and magazines, lectures frequently in the United States and abroad, is a member of the editorial board of Dissent.

Gitlin spoke at The Common Good on June 20th, 2012, alongside Jesse LaGreca: The Power of Protest: Todd Gitlin & Jesse LaGreca.

Twitter: @toddgitlin

Senator Tim Kaine

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Senator Tim Kaine

American lawyer, politician

Tim Kaine has served people throughout his adult life as a missionary, fair housing attorney, teacher and elected official. He is the current junior Senator from Virginia.

Tim entered political life in 1994, running for the Richmond City Council. He served until 2001 as a Councilman and Mayor. Richmond saw an economic renaissance that led to increasing population, a bond rating upgrade and recognition by Forbes Magazine as one of America’s ten best cities for doing business. In 2001, Tim was elected Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. He worked to reform Virginia’s budget and improve Virginia’s education system. In 2005, Tim was elected Virginia’s 70th Governor. Virginia was honored as the Best Managed State in America (Governing Magazine), the Best State for Business (Forbes.com—four years in a row) and the Best State to Raise a Child (Education Week). Virginia maintained its Triple A bond rating for fiscal management—an honor shared by only 7 states—and had one of the nation’s lowest unemployment rates and highest median incomes.

Tim was the Chairman of the Southern Governor’s Association in 2008-09 and served as Chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2009 through 2011. He has received numerous awards and honorary degrees from organizations such as the Richmond Bar Association, Virginia Military Institute, the National Fair Housing Alliance, the Virginia Holocaust Museum and the Virginia Council of Churches.

In 2016, Senator Kaine ran for Vice President on the democratic ticket with Hilary Clinton unsuccessfully.

Senator Kaine was hosted by The Common Good in 2012: Governor Tim Kaine on the Election Cycle.

Twitter: @timkaine

Governor Christine Todd Whitman

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Governor Christine Todd Whitman

American politician

Former Governor Christine Todd Whitman serves as co-chair of the Republican Leadership Council (RLC), which she founded with Senator John Danforth. The RLC’s mission is to support fiscally conservative, socially tolerant candidates and to reclaim the word Republican.  The RLC was created in March of 2007 by joining forces with Governor Whitman’s political action committee, It’s My Party Too. She is the author of a New York Times best seller by the same name, which was published in January of 2005 and released in paperback in March 2006.

Governor Whitman served in the cabinet of President George W. Bush as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from January of 2001 until June of 2003. She was the 50th Governor of the State of New Jersey, serving as its first woman governor from 1994 until 2001.

Governor Whitman is on the Steering Committee of The Cancer Institute of New Jersey; the Board of Trustees of the Eisenhower Fellowships; the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations; the Governing Board of the Park City Center for Public Policy; and is a member of the Board of the New America Foundation. She was also the Co-Chair for the Council on Foreign Relations’ Task Force, More Than Humanitarianism: A Strategic U.S. Approach Toward Africa as well as the Aspen Health Stewardship Project, which was released in February of 2008. She co-chairs Clean and Safe Energy (CASE) with Dr. Patrick Moore.

The Common Good hosted Governor Whitman in 2012: Governor Christine Todd Whitman.

Twitter: @GovCTW

Gloria Steinem

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Gloria Steinem

American feminist, journalist, and social political activist

Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist. She travels in this and other countries as an organizer and lecturer and is a frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality. She is particularly interested in the shared origins of sex and race caste systems, gender roles and child abuse as roots of violence, non-violent conflict resolution, the cultures of indigenous peoples, and organizing across boundaries for peace and justice.

In 1972, she co-founded Ms. magazine, and remained one of its editors for fifteen years. She continues to serve as a consulting editor for Ms., and was instrumental in the magazine’s move to join and be published by the Feminist Majority Foundation. In 1968, she had helped to found New York magazine, where she was a political columnist and wrote feature articles. As a freelance writer, she was published in Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, and women’s magazines as well as for publications in other countries. She has produced a documentary on child abuse for HBO, a feature film about the death penalty for Lifetime, and been the subject of profiles on Lifetime and Showtime.

Ms. Steinem helped to found the Women’s Action Alliance, a pioneering national information center that specialized in nonsexist, multiracial children’s education, and the National Women’s Political Caucus, a group that continues to work to advance the numbers of pro-equality women in elected and appointed office at a national and state level. She also co-founded the Women’s Media Center in 2004. She was president and co-founder of Voters for Choice, a pro-choice political action committee for twVFC for the 2004 elections. She was also co-founder and serves on the board of Choice USA, a national organization that supports young pro-choice leadership and works to preserve comprehensive sex education in schools. She was the founding president of the Ms. Foundation for Women, a national multi-racial, multi-issue fund that supports grassroots projects to empower women and girls, and also a founder of its Take Our Daughters to Work Day, a first national day devoted to girls that has now become an institution here and in other countries. She was a member of the Beyond Racism Initiative, a three-year effort on the part of activists and experts from South Africa, Brazil and the United States to compare the racial patterns of those three countries and to learn cross-nationally. Now, she is working with the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College on a project to document the grassroots origins of the U.S. women’s movement.

Twitter: @gloriasteinem

Gayle King

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Gayle King

American television journalist and personality

Gayle King is the co-host of CBS This Morning and Editor-at-Large of the award-winning O, the Oprah Magazine. Since joining CBS News in 2011, King has conducted revealing and news-making interviews with world leaders, political figures, and celebrities for the broadcast, including Michelle Obama, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Jack and Suzy Welch, Taylor Swift and Cicely Tyson.

King previously hosted The Gayle King Show, a live, weekday television interview program on OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.

King has received numerous awards for her extensive work as a journalist. In addition to three Emmy’s, she was honored in 2008 with the American Women in Radio & Television Gracie Award for Outstanding Radio Talk Show and in 2010 with both the Individual Achievement Award for Host-Entertainment/Information and the New York Women in Communications’ Matrix Award recipient. She was awarded an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award as part of CBS News’ division-wide coverage of the Newtown tragedy.

The Common Good hosted King in March of 2012: Gloria Steinem with Special Guest Gayle King.

Twitter: @GayleKing

Rachel Roy

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Rachel Roy

Fashion designer, activist

Rachel Roy is the founder and creative director of her eponymous brand and a tireless activist. She founded Kindness Is Always Fashionable, an entrepreneurial philanthropic platform to help women artisans around the world create sustainable income for their families and communities. In 2018 Rachel was named a UN Women Champion for Innovation, and works for the UN advocating gender equality and focusing attention on these and related issues. She is a member of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. She is an advisor to World of Children, a national non-profit organization that serves underprivileged children.

Rachel has been recognized by the Accessories Council with an ACE AWARD for best brand launch as well as Mattel’s 10 Women to Watch. Rachel has also been recognized for her innovative brand and film work by AdWeek Media and the LaJolla Fashion Film Festival. She has been a contributing columnist to Huffington Post and InStyle magazine. Rachel’s work has been featured on CNN, The Today Show, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, and numerous other publications. In 2015, Rachel wrote Design Your Life.

The Common Good hosted Roy in 2011: Summer Cocktail Party with Manhattan Magazine and at The American Spirit Awards 2011, and in 2012: Gloria Steinem with Special Guest Gayle King.

Twitter: @Rachel_Roy

Maria Cuomo Cole

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Maria Cuomo Cole

Filmmaker and Director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence

Maria Cuomo Cole has produced and directed films and public service announcements to raise awareness for social issues including homelessness, domestic violence, at-risk youth, and gun violence. She has captured numerous intimate first person stories of hardship and perseverance on film, video, and in print, which have been broadcast and published in a variety of media. Current film projects include documentaries on female veterans and reflections by prominent Americans on their personal mentors. Cuomo Cole has served as a Director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Million Mom March since 2005, participating in the strategic leadership of the organization.

Since 1992 she has led the nonprofit agency, HELP USA as Executive Chairman. Under her leadership, the organization has expanded nationally to become one of the largest providers of homes, jobs and services for the homeless in the United States. Additionally, Cuomo Cole produced the documentary Newtown.

Ms. Cuomo Cole is an appointee of the New York State Advisory Committee on the Welfare of Children and Families and the Mayor’s Task Force to Combat Domestic Violence of New York City. She serves as a director of The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and HELP PSI. This year she was honored with the American Red Cross Humanitarian Award and the Newark Now Award.

The Common Good hosted Ms. Cuomo Cole in May of 2011: Manhattan Society: The Common Good Hosts Screening for “Living for 32” and she spoke at The Common Good Forum & The American Spirit Awards 2014.

Twitter: @MariaCuomoCole

Governor Howard Dean

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Governor Howard Dean

Former Governor of Vermont, former DNC Chairman

Howard Brush Dean III is an American politician and physician from Vermont. He served six terms as the 79th Governor of Vermont and ran unsuccessfully for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. He was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 2005 to 2009. Although his U.S. Presidential campaign was unsuccessful, Dean is regarded as a pioneer in raising the profile of Internet-based fundraising and grassroots organizing.

In 1991, Dean became governor of Vermont and was subsequently elected to five two-year terms, serving from 1991 to 2003, making him the second longest-serving governor in Vermont history. He formed the organization Democracy for America and later was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee in February 2005. As chairman of the party, Dean created and employed the 50 State Strategy that attempted to make Democrats competitive in normally conservative states often dismissed in the past as “solid red”. In the 2008 election, Barack Obama used the 50 state strategy as the backbone of his candidacy.

Dean was named chairman emeritus of the DNC upon his retirement.

Governor Dean was hosted by The Common Good in 2012: Meet & Greet: Governor Howard Dean – February 17, 2012.

Twitter: @GovHowardDean

Dr. Rachel Adato

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Dr. Rachel Adato

Israeli gynecologist, lawyer, politician

Dr. Rachel Adato-Levy is an Israeli gynecologist, lawyer and politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Kadima from 2009 through 2013.

She gained a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, as well as an MBA and a degree in law. She served as a senior doctor at the women’s department of Hadassah Medical Center at Mount Scopus and became Deputy Director of Hadassah Hospital at Ein Kerem in 1993. In 1995 she became vice-president of Sha’arei Tzedek Medical Center. From 1997 she served as a consultant on women’s health for the Minister of Health, and has chaired the National Women’s Health Association since 1999.

Adato formerly has served on Mevaseret Zion city council as a member of the Likud central committee. She currently chairs the lobby for the Promotion of Women’s Health. Dr. Adato is also a member of numerous different health-related organizations including the Public Committee for Setting the Health Basket, the Board of Hospital Directors, the Steering Committee for Prevention of Violence towards Women (in the health system), the Steering Committee for Establishing Medical Centers for Victims of Sexual Assault, and 4 delegations to the UN on women’s health.

Dr. Adato spoke at The Common Good in 2012 on a panel about the challenges women in Israel face from the strict orthodox culture.

Jill Iscol

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Jill Iscol

Educator, activist

Educator and activist, Jill Iscol, Ed.D, is President of the IF Hummingbird Foundation, a family foundation established in 1989 to support domestic and international efforts to strengthen democracy and reduce the social, economic, and educational inequalities that threaten it.

Jill has been actively involved in the Democratic Party and served as Chairperson of the Annual Family Re-Union Conference, moderated by then-Vice President Gore and Mrs. Gore. She also served as Co-Chair for Hillary Rodham Clinton for Senate’s New York Finance Committee and as National Vice-Chair of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2008 Finance Committee. 

Most recently, Jill serves as a Trustee of Horizons National, the Advisory Board of the Center for New American Security in Washington. She’s also a member of the New York State Commission on National and Community Service and in 2011 was appointed to the US-Afghan Women’s Council.

Iscol published her first book, Hearts on Fire: Stories of Today's Visionaries Igniting Idealism Into Action, in 2012.

The Common Good hosted Iscol to discuss her book in 2012: Author Jill Iscol on her book “Hearts on Fire”.

Twitter: @jilliscol

Dr. Alon Ben-Meir

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Dr. Alon Ben-Meir

Expert on Middle East politics and affairs

Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is an expert on Middle East politics and affairs, specializing in peace negotiations between Israel and Arab states. For the past seventeen years, Dr. Ben-Meir has been directly involved in various negotiations between Israel and its neighboring countries and has operated as a liaison between top Arab and Israeli officials. Dr. Ben-Meir serves as senior fellow at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs where he has taught courses on the Middle East and international negotiations. Dr. Ben-Meir hosts “Global Leaders: Conversations with Alon Ben-Meir,” a speaking series of debates and conversations with top policy-makers from around the world held each semester at NYU. He also regularly briefs at the US State Department for the International Visitors Program.

Dr. Ben-Meir writes weekly articles, including a syndicated column in the Jerusalem Post. His articles have appeared in scores of newspapers, magazines and websites including the Middle East Times, the Christian Science Monitor, Le Monde, American Chronicle, the Political Quarterly, Israel Policy Forum, Gulf Times, the Harvard Review, and the World Policy Journal. He makes regular television and radio appearances, and has been featured on networks such as ABC, Al Jazeera (English and Arabic), Al Arabiya, CNN, FOX, NPR, PBS and Russia Today.

He has authored seven books related to Middle East policy and is currently working on a new book about the psychological dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Dr. Ben-Meir holds a masters degree in philosophy and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University. He is fluent in English, Arabic, and Hebrew.

Mr. Ben-Meir was hosted by The Common Good in 2012: Ambassador Riyad Mansour with Dr. Alon Ben Meir- January 30, 2012.

Twitter: @AlonBenMeir

Zbigniew Brzezinski

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Zbigniew Brzezinski ✝

Co-chair of the CSIS Advisory Board, former Chairman of the American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski was a CSIS counselor as well as trustee and co-chair of the CSIS Advisory Board. He was also a senior research professor of international relations at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, in Washington, D.C. and a member of the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council. He is a former chairman of the American-Ukrainian Advisory Committee. He was a member of the Policy Planning Council of the Department of State from 1966 to 1968; director of the Trilateral Commission from 1973 to 1976; and principal foreign policy adviser to Jimmy Carter in the 1976 presidential campaign. From 1977 to 1981, Dr. Brzezinski was national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter. In 1981, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his role in the normalization of U.S.-China relations and for his contributions to the human rights and national security policies of the United States. He was also a member of the President’s Chemical Warfare Commission (1985), the National Security Council–Defense Department Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy (1987–1988), and the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (1987–1989). In 1988, he was co-chairman of the Bush National Security Advisory Task Force, and in 2004, he was co-chairman of a Council on Foreign Relations task force that issued the report “Iran: Time for a New Approach”.

His many books include Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power (Basic Books, 2012); America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy (Basic Books, 2008), coauthored with Brent Scowcroft and David Ignatius; Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower (Basic Books, 2007); and The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership (Basic Books, 2004)

On May 26, 2017, Dr. Brzezinski passed away in Falls Church, Virginia at the age of 89.

Dr. Brzezinski was hosted by The Common Good in 2012: Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski on “Strategic Vision” and reasserting America’s Strength - January 24, 2012.

David Avital

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David Avital

CEO and Founder of MTP Investment Group

David Avital is the CEO and Founder of the New York-headquartered MTP Investment Group and has experience with areas of investment ranging from real estate to technology.

As a businessman turned philanthropist, David is actively engaged in a variety of nonprofit organizations, think tanks, and policy initiatives primarily centered on issues of conflict resolution and the promotion of peaceful coexistence of communities in conflict. One such example is his seat on the board of directors of Seeds of Peace.

Avital works with many organizations, including Save a Child’s Heart, The Common Good, One Voice Movement, American Friends of the Open University, American Friends of Tel Aviv University, Israel Policy Forum/Center for American Progress, J Street, and the Institute for National Security Studies.

Avital was hosted by The Common Good to discuss the The Middle East and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in 2011.

Honorary Advisory Board Member: Nouriel Roubini

Nouriel Roubini is a leading global economist, a professor of Economics and International Business at New York University Stern School of Business, and the founder of multiple highly regarded economic consultancy and research firms. At a 2006 address to the International Monetary Fund, Roubini warned of the impending recession due to the credit and housing market bubble. His predictions became a reality in 2008, with the bubble bursting and reverberating around the world into a global financial crisis.

He was assigned the nickname ‘Doctor Doom’ by the media for his persistently pessimistic economic outlooks in advance of the crisis. Given the accuracy of his forecasts, he has garnered widespread respect. In 2009, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. He has been repeatedly listed as one of the 100 Top Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy.

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Roubini is the co-founder and chairman of Continuum Economics, formerly Roubini Global Economics, an independent, global macroeconomic and market strategy research firm. The firm's website, ContinuumEconomics.com, has been named one of the best economics web resources by Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal and The Economist. He is also CEO of Roubini Macro Associates, LLC, a global macroeconomic consultancy firm in New York, and Co-Founder of Rosa & Roubini Associates based out of London. 

From 1998 to 2000, Roubini served as the senior economist for international affairs on the White House Council of Economic Advisors and then the senior advisor to the undersecretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury Department, helping to resolve the Asian and global financial crises, among other issues.

Roubini has published over 70 theoretical, empirical and policy papers on international macroeconomic issues and co-authored the books Political Cycles: Theory and Evidence, Bailouts or Bail-ins? Responding to Financial Crises in Emerging Markets and Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance.  His views on global economic issues are widely cited by the media, and he is a frequent commentator on various business news programs. He has been the subject of extended profiles in The New York Times Magazine and continued coverage in The Financial Times, among other leading current-affairs publications. 

Roubini received his undergraduate degree from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy, and his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1988. Prior to joining Stern, he was on the faculty of Yale University's department of economics.

Roubini was hosted by The Common Good in Nouriel Roubini on the US & Global Economy - October 12, 2011. And in 2019 for Nouriel Roubini: Global EconomicOutlook: Upside and Downside Risks. He currently serves on The Common Good Honorary Advisory Board.

 Twitter: @Nouriel

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Mort Zuckerman

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Mort Zuckerman

U.S. News and World Report, New York Daily News, and Boston Properties Inc.

Mortimer B. Zuckerman is the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of U.S. News & World Report and is the Chairman and Publisher of the New York Daily News. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of Boston Properties Inc. and a regular commentator on The McLaughlin Group.

He is a trustee of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a member of the Bank of America Global Wealth & Investment Management Committee, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, the International Institute of Strategic Studies, the Bipartisan Policy Center and the Vice Chair and Treasurer of the International Peace Institute. He is a sponsor of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a former Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, a former lecturer of City and Regional Planning at Yale University, a past president of the Board of Trustees of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, a member of the Trilateral Commission and the former Chairman of the Principal’s International Advisory Board of McGill University. He is a former trustee of New York University and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton. He is a former Chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and served as President of the America-Israel Friendship League.

Mr. Zuckerman is a graduate of McGill University in Montreal where he received an undergraduate degree in 1957 with first class honors, a degree in law in 1961 and an honorary LLD in 2011. He received an MBA with distinction from the Wharton Graduate School, University of Pennsylvania, in 1961 and an LLM from Harvard University in 1962.

He has received honorary degrees from Colby College, Southampton College, Hebrew College, Berkeley College, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai   and an honorary Doctorate of Laws from McGill University and Columbia University. Mr. Zuckerman was awarded the Commandeur De L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France, the Lifetime Achievement Award from Guild Hall, the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architecture in New York, the Sy Syms Humanitarian award from Yeshiva University and a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal from the Canadian government.

Zuckerman was hosted by The Common Good in August of 2011: Special Screening of “Too Big To Fail”.

Ambassador Alon Pinkas

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Ambassador Alon Pinkas

Israeli politician

From 2000 to 2004, Ambassador Alon Pinkas was Consul General of Israel supplying services to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. In addition, he served as Chief of Staff to both Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami in 2000 and Foreign Minister David Levy from 1999 to 2000. Ambassador Pinkas was also the Foreign Policy Advisor to Ehud Barak in 1996 to 1999, when Barak was Chairman of the Labor party and the Opposition, and in 1995 to 1996 when Barak was a member of the delegation to the Middle East Economic Conference in Paris, France. He was Foreign Policy Advisor to then Labor Party Chairman Shimon Peres from 1991 to 1992. In addition to his government service, Mr. Pinkas is an experienced journalist. He was the Chief Military and Defense correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and Chief Diplomatic Correspondent for Ma’ariv, a Hebrew language daily newspaper. He is a frequent commentator on US affairs in Israeli media and is a FOX News contributor on the Middle East and International Affairs.

Pinkas was hosted by The Common Good in 2011: Breakfast Briefing with Ambassador Alon Pinkas.

Twitter: @AlonPinkas

Barnett Zitron

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Barnett Zitron

Founder, TENFOUR.NYC

Barnett Zitron is the founder of TENFOUR.NYC, a media, entertainment, fashion, and consumer product advisory. He was Vice President and Managing Director of MADE, which was an alternative fashion week that provided fashion shows free of charge and is now a festival platform. Zitron also founded wecando, a company that provided revolutionary ad technology, and was Project Director for VICE Media.

Zitron spoke in Social Media, Politics and Change on July 26th, 2011 at The Common Good.