Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Philip Oldenburg, Research Scholar, Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University; author, India, Pakistan, and Democracy: Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths (2010) and India: A Question and Answer Book (2005); "India, Pakistan, and Democracy: Solving the Puzzle of Divergent Paths"
 

Ellen Galinsky, president and co-founder, Families and Work Institute; author, Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs (2010) and Ask the Children: What America's Children Really Think About Working Parents (1999); "Mind in the Making"
 

Angela Oh, attorney, Oh & Barrera, LLP, Los Angeles, Zen Buddhist priest, Rinzai sect; executive director, Western Justice Center Foundation; author, Open: One Woman's Journey (2002); "Time is of the Essence - Women and Change"
 

Louise Leakey, paleontologist; co-director, Koobi Fora Research Project; adjunct assistant professor of anthropology, SUNY, Stony Brook; "Secrets in the Sand"
 

Dan Ariely, James B. Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics, Duke University; founder, The Center for Advanced Hindsight; author, Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions (2009) and The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home (2010); "The Upside of Irrationality" (4:00 p.m. Mary Pickford Auditorium)
 

Ross Levine, James and Mary Tisch Professor of Economics; director, William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, Brown University; co-author, forthcoming The Guardians of Finance: Making Them Work for Us and Rethinking Bank Regulation: Till Angels Govern (2005); "The Guardians of Finance: Making Them Work For Us" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Heidi Nelson Cruz '94, Vice President, Investment Management Division, Goldman, Sachs & Co; Tiffany Kosch, Managing Director, Bayside Capital; Jill W. Mullen P'12, former Managing Director, GE Capital Services, Stamford, Connecticut; First Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Merrill Lynch & Co., New York; "Women in Finance: Can You Achieve Work/Life Satisfaction?"
 

James Fenton, poet; author, Selected Poems (2006) and Out of Danger (1994); "An Evening with the Poet"
 

Manning Marable, M. Moran Weston and Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American studies and professor of public affairs and history; Columbia University; author, forthcoming Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (2011) and The Great Wells of Democracy: The Meaning of Race in American Life (2003); "Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention"
 

Lois Frankel, psychologist; executive coach; president, Corporate Coaching International; author, See Jane Lead: 99 Ways for Women to Take Charge at Work (2007) and Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers (2004); "Women and Leadership: See Jane Lead" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Philip Norman Bredesen, Jr., former governor, Tennessee (2003-2011); author; "Fresh Medicine: How to Fix, Reform and Build a Sustainable Health Care System" (2011) (12:00 p.m.)
 

Adam Segal, Ira A. Lipman senior fellow for counterterrorism and national security studies, Council on Foreign Relations; author, Advantage: How American Innovation Can Overcome the Asian Challenge (2011) and Digital Dragon: High-technology Enterprises in China (2003); "Asian Innovation and American Competitiveness"
 

Zalmay Khalilzad P'05 P'13, United States Ambassador to the United Nations (2007 to 2009); United States Ambassador to Iraq (2003-2005) and United States Ambassador to Afghanistan (2005-2007); co-author, The United States and a Rising China: Strategic and Military Implications (1999) and author, From Containment to Global Leadership: America and the World After the Cold War (1995); "U.S. Foreign Policy: The Future of Afghanistan and Its Neighbors"
 

Robert Walters P'13, executive vice president and general counsel, Energy Future Holdings Corporation; "Powering America: The Big Technological, Cost, and Environmental Issues Confronting Electric Power in the Future"
 

Chris White, actor; Michael Parola, percussion; Hsiao-Ling Lin, piano; Tahirah Whittington, cello; "Core Ensemble: Of Ebony Embers-Vignettes of the Harlem Renaissance"