Aspen Ideas Festival

David Agus is a professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Viterbi School of Engineering and heads USC’s Westside Cancer Center and the Center for Applied Molecular Medicine. He is one of the world’s leading cancer... Read More →

Paula Broadwell is the author of the New York Times best-seller All In: The Education of General David Petraeus. Her book was named by Foreign Policy magazine as a “best read of 2012.” Broadwell has served over 15 years in intelligence, counterterrorism, and counterinsurgency... Read More →

Tyler Cowen is the Holbert C. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He is the author of numerous books, including The New York Times best-selling The Great Stagnation and his most recent book An Economist Gets Lunch. He writes frequently for many publications... Read More →

Peter Edelman is a professor of law at Georgetown Law Center. On the faculty since 1982, he has also served in all three branches of government. During President Clinton’s first term, he was counselor to health and human services secretary Donna Shalala and then assistant secretary... Read More →

Jonah Lehrer is author of New York Times best-seller Imagine: How Creativity Works and a contributing editor at Wired. Lehrer also wrote How We Decide and Proust Was A Neuroscientist. Lehrer is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker and WNYC’s “Radiolab.” He writes the Head... Read More →