Notable speakers from past Summer Institute programs.

Politics

  • Amb. Daniel Ayalon, Israeli Ambassador to the United States from 2002-2006. (2008)
  • Bay Buchanan, conservative commentator and former Treasurer of the United States under President Reagan. (2010)
  • R. Nicholas Burns, leading Middle East policy expert, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and to Greece. (2011)
  • Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush and co-author of the federal Patriot Act. (2010)
  • Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master of the U.S. government’s September 11 Victims’ Compensation Fund. (2004)
  • Barney Frank, 16-term Congressman from Massachusetts, and former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. (2011)
  • David Gergen, former advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton and editor-at-large for U.S. News & World Report. (2008)
  • Amb. Martin Indyk, United States Ambassador to Israel and vice president for foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. (2010)
  • Kiki McLean, Democratic political commentator and advisor to Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore and Barack Obama. (2010)
  • Bruce Reidel, former CIA analyst and counter-terrorism expert, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. (2010)


Science

  • Stuart Altman, chairman of the Health Industry Forum and member of President Clinton’s Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. (2002)
  • Dr. David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Robert Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech. (2002)
  • Dr. Jerome Groopman, the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and staff science writer at The New Yorker since 1998. (2002)
  • Dr. Craig J. Venter, founder of Celera Genomics, best known as one of the first to sequence the human genome. (2003)


The Media

  • Lawrence K. Altman M.D., science correspondent for the New York Times. (2010)
  • Randy Cohen, Emmy Award-winning writer and author of the Ethicist column for the New York Times Magazine since 1999. (2007)
  • Linda Greenhouse, Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times and senior fellow at Yale Law School. (2005)
  • David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist best known for his work on the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. (2002)
  • Sebastian Junger, author, journalist and filmmaker, whose book War and film Restreppo chronicle the war in Afghanistan. (2011)
  • Anthony Lewis, columnist for the The New York Times for more than four decades and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1963. (2002)
  • Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of the Great Migration. (2011)


The Arts

  • Larry Kasdan, producer and screenwriter whose credits include Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back and The Big Chill. (2009)
  • Dr. Richard Kogan, psychiatrist and concert pianist. (2006)
  • Daniel Libeskind, architect, artist and designer of such noted buildings as the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Denver Art Museum. (2006 & 2011)
  • Joe Morgenstern, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for The Wall Street Journal. (2010)
  • Yuval Waldman, conductor and violin soloist with orchestras around the world. (2009)

Notable speakers from past Summer Institute programs.

Politics

  • Amb. Daniel Ayalon, Israeli Ambassador to the United States from 2002-2006. (2008)
  • Bay Buchanan, conservative commentator and former Treasurer of the United States under President Reagan. (2010)
  • R. Nicholas Burns, leading Middle East policy expert, former U.S. Ambassador to NATO and to Greece. (2011)
  • Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush and co-author of the federal Patriot Act. (2010)
  • Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master of the U.S. government’s September 11 Victims’ Compensation Fund. (2004)
  • Barney Frank, 16-term Congressman from Massachusetts, and former chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. (2011)
  • David Gergen, former advisor to Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton and editor-at-large for U.S. News & World Report. (2008)
  • Amb. Martin Indyk, United States Ambassador to Israel and vice president for foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. (2010)
  • Kiki McLean, Democratic political commentator and advisor to Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Al Gore and Barack Obama. (2010)
  • Bruce Reidel, former CIA analyst and counter-terrorism expert, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. (2010)


Science

  • Stuart Altman, chairman of the Health Industry Forum and member of President Clinton’s Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. (2002)
  • Dr. David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Robert Millikan Professor of Biology at Caltech. (2002)
  • Dr. Jerome Groopman, the Dina and Raphael Recanati Chair of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and staff science writer at The New Yorker since 1998. (2002)
  • Dr. Craig J. Venter, founder of Celera Genomics, best known as one of the first to sequence the human genome. (2003)


The Media

  • Lawrence K. Altman M.D., science correspondent for the New York Times. (2010)
  • Randy Cohen, Emmy Award-winning writer and author of the Ethicist column for the New York Times Magazine since 1999. (2007)
  • Linda Greenhouse, Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. Supreme Court correspondent for the New York Times and senior fellow at Yale Law School. (2005)
  • David Halberstam, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist best known for his work on the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement. (2002)
  • Sebastian Junger, author, journalist and filmmaker, whose book War and film Restreppo chronicle the war in Afghanistan. (2011)
  • Anthony Lewis, columnist for the The New York Times for more than four decades and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1954 and 1963. (2002)
  • Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of the Great Migration. (2011)


The Arts

  • Larry Kasdan, producer and screenwriter whose credits include Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back and The Big Chill. (2009)
  • Dr. Richard Kogan, psychiatrist and concert pianist. (2006)
  • Daniel Libeskind, architect, artist and designer of such noted buildings as the Jewish Museum in Berlin and the Denver Art Museum. (2006 & 2011)
  • Joe Morgenstern, Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for The Wall Street Journal. (2010)
  • Yuval Waldman, conductor and violin soloist with orchestras around the world. (2009)