Scott Griffith, Former Chairman and CEO at Zipcar, Karen Gordon Mills, Institute of Politics Fellow, Fall 2013 and Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, 2009-2013, Tracy Palandjian, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, Social Finan ...

Meredith Bagby, founder of the American Education Foundation, Linda Bimes, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Robert G. Romasco, President of the American Association of Retired Persons, Nick Troiano, co-founder of The Can Kicks Back, and Joan Woodward, Pr ...

Alex Keyssar, professor of history and social policy, Mark McKinnon, co-founder of No Labels, Theda Skocpol, professor of government and sociology, and Hilda Solis, former US Secretary of Labor joined moderator Karen Gordon Mills, former administrator of ...

Raymond. T Odierno, United States Army Chief of Staff, joined David Gergen, Co-Director of the Center for Public Leadership for a conversation on leadership and the US Army. Topics covered ranged from the General’s formative experience at West Point to th ...

Former Senator Alan K. Simpson presented the 2013 Theodore H. White Lecture on Press and Politics. He addressed the federal budget process and the growth in entitlement spending. Senator Simpson also discussed the barriers to budget reform he experienced ...

Clay Shirky, Associate Professor in the Interactive Telecommunications Program and Journalism Department at NYU, Fellow at the Berkman Center, and Edward R. Murrow Visiting Lecturer at Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public P ...

Republican political consultant and strategist Frank Luntz led a panel discussion on campaign advertising with Jim Margolis, Senior Advisor for Obama for America, and Larry McCarthy, Media Advisor for Restore our Future. The speakers used video clips of s ...

Gary Gensler, chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission presented the 2013 Annual Glauber Lecture on Financial Regulation. Gensler elaborated on the changing and expanding roles of his commission and the recent achievements of the institutio ...

Antonio Villaraigosa, former Mayor of Los Angeles and Chairman of the 2012 Democratic National Convention, joined Ana Navarro, CNN Political Commentator, for a conversation on his experience as a leader and the future of Hispanic leadership in the United ...

Paul Begala, CNN political contributor and Democratic strategist, Robert Costa, Washington Editor of the National Review, Karen Finney, host of the MSNBC show “Disrupt with Karen Finney”, and Ana Navarro, Institute of Politics Fellow and political contrib ...