CATIE MARRON
With a career that has encompassed investment banking, magazine journalism, and public service, Marron is currently chairman of the board of directors of Friends of the High Line; a trustee of the New York Public Library, where she was chairman of the board for seven years; and a contributing editor to Vogue. Also the editor of City Parks, she lives in New York City with her family.
DAVID ADJAYE, OBE
David Adjaye is the founder and principal architect of Adjaye Associates. He is the 2015 recipient of the Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT. Currently the John C. Portman Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard, he has previously taught at London’s Royal College of Art, where he had previously studied, and has held distinguished professorships at the universities of Pennsylvania, Yale, and Princeton. Awarded the OBE for services to architecture, he also received the W. E. B. DuBois medal from Harvard University. www.adjaye.com
ANNE APPLEBAUM
A columnist for the Washington Post and Slate, Applebaum directs the Transitions Forum at the Legatum Institute in London and is an adjunct fellow of the Center for European Policy Analysis. She is the author of Gulag: A History, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944–1956, which received the Cundill Prize in Historical Literature. Both books were nominated for the National Book Award and have been translated into multiple languages. www.anneapplebaum.com
ANN BEATTIE
Author of nine novels and ten story collections—most recently The State We’re In—Beattie has been featured in four O. Henry Award collections, John Updike’s The Best American Short Stories of the Century, and in Jennifer Egan’s The Best American Short Stories 2014. In 2000, she received the PEN/Malamud Award for achievement in the short story. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
CHRYSTIA FREELAND
Canadian minister for international trade, Freeland is also a journalist and author. She was a stringer in Ukraine, deputy editor of the Globe and Mail, and has held positions at the Financial Times ranging from Moscow bureau chief to U.S. managing editor. As an activist Ukrainian-Canadian, she is the author of Sale of the Century and the award-winning book Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else. Since 2013, Freeland has been a member of Canada’s Parliament.
ADAM GOPNIK
A staff writer for the New Yorker, Gopnik has won the National Magazine Award for Essays and for Criticism three times, as well as the George Polk Award for Magazine Reporting, and the Canadian National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Arts Writing. His work has been anthologized many times, and he is the author of the nationally bestselling Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life. He is a recipient of the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters from the French Republic. www.adamgopnik.com
ALMA GUILLERMOPRIETO
Born in Mexico City, Guillermoprieto is a journalist and essayist whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Newsweek, and the New York Review of Books. She is a MacArthur fellow, a recipient of the George Polk Award for Foreign Reporting, and the author of two memoirs, Samba and Dancing with Cuba, as well as two collected volumes of her work.
MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
The architecture critic for the New York Times, Kimmelman was its longtime chief art critic. He is the author of several books, including the national bestseller The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa, a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, and has been recognized with numerous honors including the Brendan Gill Prize.
JEHANE NOUJAIM
An Egyptian-American documentary director and cinematographer, Noujaim’s critically acclaimed films include Startup.com, Control Room, Rafea: Solar Mama, and The Square, which was nominated for an Academy Award and earned widespread praise at the Sundance and Toronto film festivals. She was the recipient of the 2006 TED Award. www.noujaimfilms.com
EVAN OSNOS
Author of Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, which won the National Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Osnos is a staff writer at the New Yorker and a fellow at the Brookings Institution. Previously, he worked as Beijing bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune, where he was part of a team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. His work has been widely anthologized, and he has also contributed to This American Life and PBS’s Frontline. www.evanosnos.com
GEORGE PACKER
A staff writer at the New Yorker, Packer is the author of five nonfiction books, including The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, which was among the New York Times’s ten best books of the year in 2005 and the winner of the New York Public Library’s Helen Bernstein Book Award, and The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, which won the National Book Award for nonfiction in 2013. He is also the author of two novels and a play, Betrayed, which won the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Play in 2008.
DAVID REMNICK
The editor of the New Yorker since 1998, Remnick’s books include Lenin’s Tomb, King of the World, and The Bridge.
ANDREW ROBERTS
A Visiting Professor at London’s King’s College, and the Lehrman Institute Lecturer at the New-York Historical Society, Roberts is also a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into eighteen languages. He appears regularly on radio and television around the world. His most recent book, Napoleon: A Life, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography and the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoléon. www.andrew-roberts.net
ELIF SHAFAK
An award-winning Turkish author with books published in more than forty languages, Shafak is also a political scientist, activist, and public speaker. She has written for major publications around the world, including the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Guardian, and other publications. A founding member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, she was awarded the Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Republic. www.elifshafak.com
ARI SHAVIT
A prominent Israeli columnist and writer, Shavit is the author of the New York Times bestseller My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel, which was one of the Economist’s best books of the year for 2013. He serves on the editorial board of Haaretz and is also a leading commentator on Israeli public television. www.arishavit.com
ZADIE SMITH
English writer Zadie Smith has written four award-winning novels, including White Teeth, On Beauty, and, most recently, NW. A professor at New York University, Smith is also the author of an essay collection, Changing My Mind.
RICHARD STENGEL
Stengel is U.S. undersecretary of the Department of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. He was previously managing editor of TIME. He has also taught journalism at Princeton University, his alma mater. He collaborated with Nelson Mandela on the South African’s autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, and then wrote his own book about the experience, Mandela’s Way: Lessons on Life, Love, and Courage.
RORY STEWART, OBE, FRSL
A British academic, author, diplomat, documentary maker, and politician, Stewart is the minister for the Environment in the British Government. The author of three books, including the New York Times bestseller The Places in Between, describing his solo walk across Afghanistan, and a recipient of the OBE, he also founded the nonprofit Turquoise Mountain in Kabul and served as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. www.rorystewart.co.uk
GILLIAN TETT
The U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times, Tett contributes weekly columns covering a range of economic, financial, political, and social issues. In 2014, she was named Columnist of the Year in the British Press Awards and was the first recipient of the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award. Her first book, Fool’s Gold, won Financial Book of the Year at the inaugural Spear’s Book Awards, and she has just published her second nonfiction book, The Silo Effect.
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