Aspen Ideas Festival

Thomas A. Fanning is chairman, president, and CEO of Southern Company, one of America’s largest utilities. The company is leading the nuclear renaissance with the construction of the first nuclear units in more than 30 years. Southern Company partnered with Ted Turner and Turner... Read More →

Mitch Landrieu is the 61st Mayor of New Orleans, and was sworn into that position in May of 2010. Prior to that, he served as Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana from 2004 to 2010, where he served as an executive, managing a $127 million budget and 800 employees. He was a member of the... Read More →

Peter R. Orszag is vice chairman of Global Banking at Citigroup, Inc. He is also a contributing columnist at Bloomberg View and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to joining Citigroup in 2011, he served as a distinguished visiting fellow at the Council... Read More →

Andrew Ross Sorkin is a financial columnist for The New York Times and co-anchor of CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” He is the founder and editor-at-large of DealBook, a long-running online daily financial report. In 2011, HBO made Sorkin’s best-selling book Too Big to Fail into a film... Read More →