Present: Combating Poverty

Prof. Sir Anthony B. Atkinson, Centennial Professor, London School of Economics and Honorary Fellow Nuffield College, Oxford.

Past: Social History - New Directions

Prof. Arlette Farge is a Professor at the Center for historical research, Paris.

Future: Nanoscience

Prof. Chad A. Mirkin is the George B. Rathmann Prof. of Chemistry, Prof. of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Prof. of Biomedical Engineering, Prof. of Materials Science and Engineering, and Prof. of Medicine and the Director of the International Institute for...

Present: Combating Poverty

Prof. François Bourguignon, Professor of Economics, Paris School of Economics. He is one of the world's leading scholars on poverty and inequality.

Past: Social History - New Directions

Prof. Inga Clendinnen was an outstanding historian who focused on social history and the history of cultural encounters in the early modern period.

Present: Combating Poverty

Prof. James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago.

Future: Nanoscience

Prof. Sir John Pendry FRS, the Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, is a condensed matter theorist.

Future: Nanoscience

Prof. Paul Alivisatos is the University of California (UC) Berkeley's Samsung Distinguished Professor of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.