Dambisa Moyo

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Dr. Dambisa Moyo

Economist, author

Dr. Dambisa Moyo is a pre-eminent thinker, who influences key decision-makers in strategic investment and public policy. She is respected for her unique perspectives, her balance of contrarian thinking with measured judgment, and her ability to turn economic insight into investible ideas.

Dambisa is a Board member of Barclays Bank, Barrick Gold, and Chevron. She holds a PhD in Economics from Oxford, a Masters from Harvard, and is the author of three New York Times bestselling books: Winner Take All: China’s race for Resources and What it Means for the World, How the West Was Lost: Fifty Years of Economic Folly and the Stark Choices Ahead, and Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is a Better Way for Africa. Dambisa was named to the list of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World and has published in the Financial Times, WSJ, Barrons, and Harvard Business Review.

Moyo was hosted by The Common Good in 2012: Economist Dambisa Moyo on “Winner Take All: China’s Race for Resources and What It Means for the World”, and in 2018: Why Democracy is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth and How to Fix It: Dambisa Moyo.

Twitter: @dambisamoyo

Steve Coll

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Steve Coll

Author, journalist

Steve Coll was appointed Dean of Columbia Journalism School in 2013 after serving as president of New America Foundation from 2007-2013. He joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2005 and continues to write for the publication covering topics such as intelligence, politics, national security, and the media. Coll, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, is the author of eight nonfiction books, a former reporter, foreign correspondent, and senior editor at the Washington Post (1985-2005).

Coll was hosted by The Common Good in 2018: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan: Steve Coll.

Twitter: @SteveCollNY

Robert Hormats

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Robert Hormats

Vice Chairman of Kissinger Associates

Robert D. ‘Bob’ Hormats was sworn in as Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs on September 23, 2009. Hormats was formerly Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs (International). He joined Goldman Sachs in 1982. He served as Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary, from 1977 to 1979, and Assistant Secretary of State, from 1981 to 1982, at the Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs (now Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs).

He was Ambassador and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative from 1979 to 1981. He served as a senior staff member for International Economic Affairs on the United States National Security Council from 1969 to 1977, where he was senior economic adviser to Henry Kissinger, General Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski. He helped to manage the Nixon administration’s opening of diplomatic relations with China’s communist government. He was a recipient of the French Legion of Honor in 1982 and the Arthur S. Flemming Award in 1974.

Hormats has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and served on the Board of Visitors of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and the Dean’s Council of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Mr. Hormats was hosted by The Common Good in April of 2008: The State of the Economy and the Global Outlook, April 10, 2008.

Twitter: @BobHormats

Michael Morell

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Michael Morell

Former Acting Director and Deputy Director of the C.I.A.

Michael Joseph Morell is the former Acting Director and Deputy Director of the C.I.A. He worked in the C.I.A. for 33 years. Morell has received multiple awards including the CIA’s highest ranking award, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal. He is also a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, West Point’s Center on Combating Terrorism, and the Madison Policy Forum. Morell has served as a member of President Obama’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, and is currently Senior Counselor and the Global Chairman of the Geo-Political Risk Practice at Beacon Global Strategies LLC.

Morell was hosted by The Common Good alongside Jeh Johnson in a Special Discussion with Michael Morell - March 1, 2018.

Twitter: @MichaelJMorell

Alex Witt

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Alex Witt

Television news journalist

Alex Witt hosts the MSNBC show Weekends with Alex Witt on Saturdays and Sundays. Since joining the network in 1999, Alex has hosted across both dayside and primetime platforms, as well as reported from the field during Presidential election seasons and overseas. Alex contributes to NBC Nightly News, the Making a Difference series and Today.

In the wake of the September 11th terror attacks on America, Witt broadcasted from the World Trade Center and has continued to follow the war on terrorism in the Middle East and the War in Iraq. Alex is passionate about the issues of equality for women, education and gun control, and she welcomes those discussions on her broadcasts.

Witt moderated the discussion between Sabine Krayenbühl, Zeva Oelbaum, and Mohamad Bazzi in Special Screening of “Letters from Baghdad” and Panel Discussion at The Common Good in 2018, and a Screening and Discussion on "Best of Enemies" with Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville, and Dick Cavett at The Common Good in 2015. She also introduced Patricia Duff at The American Spirit Awards 2015.

Twitter: @AlexWitt

Rob Riemen

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Rob Riemen

Founder, President and CEO of the Nexus Institute and Author

Rob Riemen, a European public intellectual and cultural critic, is the founder, president and CEO of the Nexus Institute, a leading international center for philosophical debate and and intellectual discourse. The Nexus Institute was founded in 1994 by Riemen to stimulate intellectual debate in the European tradition of humanism. The Nexus Institute is widely acknowledged for the quality of its insight into contemporary issues and an approach that offers the appreciation of the humanistic culture and philosophy as a counterweight to the dominance of commercial values in today’s society. Riemen has lectured around the world and is also an international best-selling author with a number of critically acclaimed publications.

Riemen spoke at The Common Good in 2018: A Conversation with Rob Riemen, “To Fight Against This Age: On Fascism and Humanism, and partnered with The Common Good in hosting a conversation on Art and Activism in Amsterdam with Ai Weiwei.

Dana Perino

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Dana Perino

Political commentator

Former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino is anchor of The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino and a co-host of The Five on Fox News Channel.  She also appears as part of the political and election coverage teams on the Fox News Channel, and has a weekly political podcast, I'll Tell You What with Chris Stirewalt.  Prior to this, Dana served for seven years in the administration of President George W. Bush and became the first Republican woman to be named as the White House Press Secretary.  Dana joined the Bush Administration following the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001 as a spokesperson at the U.S. Department of Justice.

Perino had her first experience in Washington working for Congressman Scott McInnis (R-CO).  She later served as the press secretary for Congressman Dan Schaefer (R-CO).  Dana also spent time working at a public relations firm in San Diego.

Her first book, And the Good News Is…, was published in 2015.

The Common Good hosted Dana Perino along with a panel of specialists in January of 2018: “Trump – Year One” Panel.

Twitter: @DanaPerino

Honorary Advisory Board Member: David Frum

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David Frum is a writer for The Atlantic, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, and the author or co-author of now ten books. He has begun work on an eleventh, a history of the United States since the end of the Cold War.

Frum has been active in Republican politics since the first Reagan campaign of 1980. From 2001-2002, he served as a speechwriter and special assistant to President George W. Bush. He is credited with helping to create the phrase "axis of evil” in Bush's 2002 State of the Union address. In recent years, Frum has been one of many prominent Republicans to openly criticize Donald Trump as not representing Republican or foundational democracy values.

Frum’s first book, Dead Right, won praise from William F. Buckley as “the most refreshing intellectual experience in a generation” and from Frank Rich in the New York Times as “the smartest book written from the inside about the American conservative movement.” In National Review, John Podhoretz hailed Frum’s history of the 1970s, How We Got Here, as “an audacious act of revisionism, written in a voice and style so original it deserves to be called revolutionary.” Frum’s memoir of his service in the George W. Bush administration, The Right Man, was a New York Times bestseller, as was his 2018 book, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic. His more recent book, Trumpocalypse: Restoring American Democracy looks at the causes of America’s national fragmentation and lays out a plan to restore democracy. Frum has also penned political novels. Arianna Huffington said of Frum’s 2012 novel, Patriots, “Frum is someone who fearlessly speaks his mind, regardless of where the chips may fall, so it’s no surprise he’s able to convey so much truth in his fiction

He is a frequent commentator on MSNBC, CNN, and BBC.  From 2014 through 2017, Frum served as chairman of the board of trustees of the leading UK center-right think tank, Policy Exchange.

Frum is the son of prominent Canadian journalist Barabra Frum and of the Canadian businessman and philanthropist, Murray Frum. David Frum holds both BA and MA degrees in history from Yale and a law degree from Harvard, where he served as President of the Federalist Society. He and his wife Danielle Crittenden Frum live in Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario. Danielle is the author of four books and now hosts the popular Femsplainers podcast. They have three adult children.

The Common Good was proud to host Frum as a member in January of 2018 as a participant in our Town Hall at Hunter College,  “Trump – Year One” Panel, alongside historian Douglas Brinkley, New York Times columnist Roger Cohen, former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, and political strategist Edward Rollins. Frum currently serves as a member of The Common Good Honorary Advisory Board,

Twitter: @DavidFrum

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Roger Cohen

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Roger Cohen

New York Times columnist

Roger Cohen joined The New York Times in 1990. He was a foreign correspondent for more than a decade before becoming acting foreign editor on Sept. 11, 2001, and foreign editor six months later.

Since 2004, he has written a column for The International New York Times, formerly known as The International Herald Tribune. In 2009 he was named a columnist of The New York Times.

Mr. Cohen has written Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo, an account of the wars of Yugoslavia’s destruction, and Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis’ Final Gamble. He has also co-written a biography of Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, In the Eye of the Storm. His family memoir, The Girl From Human Street: Ghosts of Memory in a Jewish Family, was published in January 2015.

He spoke at The Common Good in January of 2018: “Trump – Year One” Panel and we are excited to have him back at our upcoming event: Athens Democracy Forum.

Twitter: @NYTimesCohen

Edward Rollins

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Edward Rollins

Political Advisor

Ed Rollins is a giant in the political world, having served as campaign consultant and advisor for numerous congressional, senatorial, gubernatorial and presidential campaigns and victories.

Mr. Rollins has served in the administrations and advised four United States Presidents. He was in charge of the White House Office of Political Affairs and the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, and was Deputy Chief of Staff during the Reagan administration.

In 1984, he managed President Ronald Reagan’s reelection campaign, winning 49 of 50 states. He was the first non-member of Congress to serve as the Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Chief Political Advisor to the House Republican Leadership. He also served as the Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Republican National Committee for four years. During the more than four decades Mr. Rollins has been in politics, he has counseled Cabinet officers, U.S. Senators, governors, members of Congress, state legislators and city officials. In addition to managing President Reagan’s campaign, Mr. Rollins has had major roles in 9 other Presidential campaigns. He has also had involvement in hundreds of campaigns at the state, congressional and local level. Prior to his Washington service, Mr. Rollins was the Republican Chief of Staff and Assistant to the Speaker of the California Assembly. He was inducted into the Political Consultants Hall of Fame in 2011, and was the 2010 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

Rollins has appeared regularly on television for over 30 years on shows such as Meet the Press, This Week, Face the Nation, Nightline, The Today Show, The CBS Early Show, Hardball, Crossfire, Larry King Live, CNN News Makers, and many other talk shows. His memoir, Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms, was the number-one selling political book in America in 1996 and made the top of The New York Times best-seller list.

Edward Rollins spoke at The Common Good in 2010: Election Insurrection: The Mid-Term Elections 2010, and in 2013: Assessing the Presidency with Lesley Stahl, Douglas Brinkley, Jonathan Alter and Ed Rollins – April 11th, 2013. Rollins was also part of the “Trump – Year One” Panel - January 17, 2018, along with Roger Cohen, David Frum, Dana Perino, and Douglas Brinkley.

Rollins joined TCG again on September 30 for The First Presidential Debate Panel alongside John Avlon and Doug Sosnick

Twitter: @EdRollins

Lawrence Rocks

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dr. Lawrence Rocks

Chemist, author

Lawrence Rocks is a world renowned chemist, energy expert, and author, and he was instrumental in the creation of the US Department of Energy during the Carter administration.

Dr. Rocks has been featured in Time Magazine, and National Review. He has addressed the United Nations, appeared on the Today Show, To Tell The Truth, The Mike Douglas Show and the column in King Features Syndicate.

Dr. Rock’s book, The Energy Crisis, was widely acclaimed by both television and print media, and he was featured as an energy expert in the New York Times. His work has been cited by the Environmental Protection Agency, The Transportation Research Board, and academic journals, such as Ecology Law Quarterly. The Energy Crisis has been translated into French, Spanish, and Japanese. Recently, Dr. Rock’s was honored by Topps baseball cards with a 2019 official Lawrence Rocks Topps baseball card.

Dr, Rock spoke at The Common Good on Hurricanes, Climate, and Responsible Energy Policies for the Future in 2017.

Twitter: @LawrenceRocks1

Peter Maroney

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Peter Maroney

Financial advisor

Peter Maroney has served in senior strategic and advisory roles in the financial industry since 2005.  He began his financial services career in institutional hedge fund and private equity sales at Avenue Capital focusing on the global debt markets.  From Avenue, Peter joined Concordia Advisors, a quantitative hedge fund, where he headed business development for North America.  He then joined PennantPark, a middle-market investment management company, where he created and funded the firm's first private investment fund.  And before UBS, Maroney was an investment adviser at AllianceBernstein.

Prior to his experience in financial services, Maroney spent over a decade in national politics.  After directing national finances for U.S. Sen. John Kerry's re-election campaigns, Maroney was appointed by Sen. Kerry as National Finance Chairman for his 2004 presidential campaign, directing national fundraising at the Democratic National Committee.  Prior to this, and at the age of 23, he led national campaign finance efforts for then-Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II. 

Peter currently serves on the non-profit advisory boards of The Common Good and Run For America.

Maroney was has hosted many events with The Common Good, including: Discussion on Challenges and Opportunity in Congress in April of 2017, in September of 2017: The Russia Investigation with Congressman Adam Schiff and Secretary Jeh Johnson, and in October of 2017: The Press, Fake News and Politics: Chris Ruddy.

Mike Mullen

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Admiral

Michael Mullen

Former Chairman, Joint Chief of Staff

Admiral Michael Mullen is a retired United States Navy admiral, who served as the 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from October 1, 2007, to September 30, 2011.

Mullen was only the third officer in the Navy’s history to be appointed to four different four-star assignments, including the Chief of Naval Operations; Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe; Commander, Allied Joint Force Command Naples;, and Vice Chief of Naval Operation. He retired from the Navy after over 43 years of service. He serves on many boards and is now a Professor at Princeton University.

Admiral Mullen spoke at The Common Good in 2017: Conversation with Admiral (Ret.) Mike Mullen.

Mark Green

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Mark J. Green

Author

Mark Green currently hosts the nationally syndicated weekend radio program, Both Sides Now, and writes a weekly column for the Huffington Post. He was previously a public interest lawyer, working with Ralph Nader from 1970 to 1980, ultimately as director of Public Citizen's Congress Watch. He founded and ran The Democracy Project in NYC from 1981 to 2014. Green served for 11 years in citywide offices, first as the Commissioner of Consumer Affairs under Mayor David Dinkins (1990 to 1993); then as the twice-elected Public Advocate (1993 and 1997), before narrowly losing the mayorality to Michael Bloomberg in 2001. (1)

Green co-hosted an event at The Common Good on Citizen Action Sweeping the Country: INDIVISIBLE with Gail Furman and Richard Farley, and spoke at The Common Good on the The Primaries and the Presidential Election panel alongside Jonathan Alter, Kellyanne Conway, and Joel Benson, moderated by Cynthia McFadden.

Twitter: @markjgreen

(1) Material from the Bright Infinite Future website.

Ezra Levin & Leah Greenberg

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Ezra Levin & Leah Greenberg

Co-founders of INDIVISIBLE

Ezra Levin is co-founder and co-Executive Director of the Indivisible Project. Previously, Ezra worked as a poverty policy wonk and advocate. He most recently served as the Associate Director of Federal Policy at Prosperity Now, and was Deputy Policy Director for Congressman Lloyd Doggett and an AmeriCorps VISTA in the Homeless Services Division of the San Jose Housing Department.

Leah Greenberg is co-founder and co-Executive Director of the Indivisible Project. She most recently served as Policy Director for the Tom Perriello for Governor of Virginia campaign. Previously, she managed the Partnership for Freedom, a $6 million public-private partnership on human trafficking, served as an Advisor to the State Department’s Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review process, coordinated interagency engagement for the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, and worked on the Hill for Congressman Tom Perriello.

Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg gave a joint presentation at The Common Good in 2017: Citizen Action Sweeping the Country: INDIVISIBLE.

Twitter: @ezralevin and @Leahgreenb

Brian Knappenberger

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Brian Knappenberger

Filmmaker, director

Brian Knappenberger is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, best known for The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, and his work on Bloomberg Game Changers.

Knappenberger spoke at The Common Good at a Special Screening and Conversation on “Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press”, on July 11, 2017, alongside James Goodale.

Twitter: @knappB

Jim Hoge

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James Hoge Jr.

Editor

James Fulton Hoge Jr. was the editor of Foreign Affairs and was the Peter G. Peterson Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations. Hoge is currently a senior advisor in Teneo's intelligence division. (1)

Hoge was editor in chief of the Chicago Sun-Times and served concurrently as editor in chief of the Sun-Times's sister publication, the Chicago Daily News. He was later appointed president and publisher of the New York Daily News. The Sun-Times won six Pulitzer Prizes during his tenure there, and the Daily News won one during his presidency. (1)

He has previously served as the chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board, Human Rights Watch and the Foundation for a Civil Society, and is the vice chair of the International Center for Journalists. (1)

Hoge was the moderator of the Global Threats & Opportunities portion of The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017.

(1) Material from Wikipedia.

Max Read

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Max Read

Senior editor for New York Magazine

Max Read is a writer and editor at New York magazine, where he writes Life in Pixels, a column about the internet and other signs of the apocalypse. He also writes and edits feature stories and packages about the culture of technology for print and web. He was previously editor-in-chief at Gawker, and is a founder of IRL Club. (1)

Read spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017 on the panel “Protests, Populism, & New Political Landscape” alongside Ari Melber, David Burstein, and Shauna Thomas.

Twitter: @max_read

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(1) Material from Max Read’s website.

Mary Boies

Mary Boies

Lawyer

Mary Boies is Counsel to Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP where she specializes in antitrust and corporate commercial litigation. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations and chairs its Committee on Nominations and Governance. She has served on the Board of MIT’s Center for International Studies and the Board of Visitors that oversees the U.S. Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies; the Air Force Research Institute, the Air War College, the National Security Space Institute and the Air Force Institute of Technology. She is Vice Chairman of Business Executives for National Security, a private sector group that connects best business practices to government agencies in the national security space. She is on the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee and has served on the Board of the International Center for Journalists.

Previously, she was founder and managing partner at Boies & McInnis LLP. She has served as Vice President at CBS Inc., General Counsel of the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board, Assistant Director of the Domestic Policy Staff at the White House, and Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce.

Mrs. Boies was hosted by The Common Good in 2017: The Common Good Forum - May 12, 2017.

Shaunna Thomas

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ShaunNa Thomas

Co-founder, Executive Director of UltraVoilet

Shaunna Thomas is co-founder and Executive Director of UltraViolet. Shaunna has had a fifteen year career in progressive organizing, building progressive infrastructure projects and winning critical policy fights at the national level. Shaunna has appeared numerous times on network and cable TV including NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and CNBC as a political commentator. (1)

Before founding UltraViolet, Shaunna was the Executive Director of the P Street Project, a 501c4 nonprofit dedicated to organizing progressive members of Congress and connecting federal legislative strategy with online grassroots mobilization efforts. Prior to that, Shaunna was the COO of Progressive Congress, a nonprofit supporting the policy and organizing work of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. (1)

Thomas spoke at The Common Good Forum & American Spirit Awards 2017 on the panel “Protests, Populism, & New Political Landscape” alongside Ari Melber, David Burstein, and Max Read.

Twitter: @SLThomas

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(1) Material from the UltraViolet website.