Present: Combating Memory Loss

Brenda Milner is the Dorothy J. Killam Professor at the Montreal Neurological Institute, and a professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University.

Present: Combating Memory Loss

Prof. John A. Hardy is the Head of the Department of Molecular Neuroscience and Chair of Molecular Biology of Neurological Disease at the University College London Institute of Neurology.

Past: History & Memory

Mr. Krysztof Czyzewski is a renowned Polish publisher, writer and theater director, public intellectual and social activist.

Future: Artificial Intelligence, the Digital Mind

Prof. Marvin Minsky was one of the founders of the field of artificial intelligence and is among the most influential figures of the twentieth century in a variety of disciplines, including artificial intelligence, robotics, computation, learning, cognition, philosophy and optics.

Present: Combating Memory Loss

Prof. Peter St. George-Hyslop was the first to discover key mutations in proteins involved in the early onset of Alzheimer’s disease and implicated in late onset of this disease.

Past: History & Memory

Mr. Pierre Nora is a public intellectual and publisher who helped establish the new historiographic interpretive category "Les lieux de mémoire".

Past: History & Memory

Prof. Saul Friedlander is considered one of the world's premier historians in the study of the Holocaust and is the author of the definitive book in the field - Nazi-Germany and the Jews 1933-1945. 

Future: Preventive Medicine

Alfred Sommer, Professor of Epidemiology and International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discovered that vitamin A has the power to save children's lives.

Future: Preventive Medicine

Renowned French economist Esther Duflo is Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at MIT.

Past: Classics, the Modern Legacy of the Ancient World

Scholar in Residence at the Needham Research Institute and Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge.

Present: Ideas, Public Intellectuals and Contemporary Philosophers

Noted American intellectual and philosopher and former Literary Editor of The New Republic, a foremost writer and thinker who confronts and engages with the central issues of our times.

Present: Ideas, Public Intellectuals and Contemporary Philosophers

Prof. Michel Serres, one of modern France's most gifted thinkers, explored parallel developments of scientific, philosophical and literary trends.