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Julia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist at the independent news organization ProPublica. From 2000 to 2013, she was a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, where she led a privacy investigative team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting in 2011 and won a Gerald Loeb Award in 2010. Her book, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, was published by Times Books in February, 2014. In 2003, Ms Angwin was on a team of reporters at The Wall Street Journal that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for coverage of corporate corruption. She is also the author of Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (Random House, March 2009). Ms Angwin earned a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Chicago, and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. |
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Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of the MIT Center for Digital Business and one of the most cited scholars in information systems and economics. Andrew McAfee, a principal research scientist at MIT, studies how technology changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete. He also studies how progress with digital technologies affects economic growth, innovation, and employment. Mr McAfee has been named one of the “100 Most Influential People in technology” and one of the 50 people whose ideas are changing American politics. He received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT. He has held appointments as a professor at Harvard Business School and a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society. |
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Ed Catmull is co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios and president of Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios. He has been honoured with five Academy Awards®, including the Gordon E. Sawyer Award for lifetime achievement in the field of computer graphics. Mr Catmull received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah. Amy Wallace is a journalist whose work has appeared in GQ, The New Yorker, Wired, Vanity Fair, and the New York Times Magazine. Previously, she worked as a reporter and editor at the Los Angeles Times, and is a former columnist for the New York Times Sunday Business section. |
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Nick Davies writes investigative stories for the Guardian, and has been named Journalist of the Year, Reporter of the Year and Feature Writer of the Year in British Press Awards. Between July 2009 and July 2011, he wrote more than a hundred stories about crime in Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World. He has written five books: White Lies, which uncovered a racist miscarriage of justice in Texas; Murder on Ward Four, which examined the collapse of the NHS through the murder of children by Nurse Beverly Allitt; Dark Heart, a journey through the wasteland of British poverty; School Report, revealing chaos in government education policy; and Flat Earth News, exposing falsehood and propaganda in news media. |
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Atif Mian is Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at the Woodrow Wilson School. He holds a bachelors degree in Mathematics with Computer Science and Ph.D. in Economics from MIT. Professor Mian's work studies the connections between finance and the macro economy. His latest book, House of Debt, with Amir Sufi builds upon powerful new data to describe how debt precipitated the Great Recession. Amir Sufi is the Chicago Board of Trade Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He serves as an associate editor for the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Mr Sufi graduated with honors from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University with a bachelor's degree in economics. He earned a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the Solow Endowment Prize for Graduate Student Excellence in Teaching and Research. Mr Sufi's research focuses on finance and macroeconomics. |
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Thomas Piketty is a French economist who works on wealth and income inequality. He is professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales and professor at the Paris School of Economics. In 2013, Mr Piketty won the biennial Yrjö Jahnsson Award, for the economist under age 45 who has "made a contribution in theoretical and applied research that is significant to the study of economics in Europe. |
