Illuminating the Arts-Policy Nexus 

AROUND THE TABLE

The world needs people with fresh ideas and global perspectives to be seated "around the table" in order to catalyze innovative thinking on challenges that span borders:

Sustainable Global Cities
Entrepreneurship Ecosystems
Closing the Gender Gap
Security Across Borders
Heading Off Financial Crisis
and the Arts-Policy Nexus across all of these topics.

At each table, hosts including World Policy Fellows and eminent friends will engage guests in dynamic conversation around these themes, generating insights and connections that will help inform our work in the coming year.

Discussion leaders by theme:
List in formation

Sustainable Global Cities

Entrepreneurship Ecosystems

Closing the Gender Gap

Security Across Borders

Heading Off Financial Crisis

The Arts-Policy Nexus

Sustainable Global Cities

William Powers, World Policy Institute*

Greg Lindsay, World Policy Institute

Jacques-Philippe Piverger, The Soleil Group

Kavitha Rajagopalan, World Policy Institute

Michael Wildes, Wildes and Weinberg PC

Todd Lester, Global Arts Council & World Policy Institute*

Oliver Niedermaier, Tau Investment*

Tess Mateo, CXCatalysts*

Ken Biberaj, The Russian Tea Room*

Lisa Schubert, Cathedral of St. John the Divine*

Martin Rosengaard, Wooloo*

Diana Glassman, TD Bank & World Policy Institute

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Entrepreneurship Ecosystems

Elmira Bayrasli, World Policy Institute

Oliver Niedermaier, Tau Investment*

Yxa Bazan, J. P. Morgan*

Sergio Fernández de Córdova, PVBLIC Foundation

Tess Mateo, CXCatalysts*

John Frankel, ff Venture Capital

Rossanna Figuera, Wafels & Dinges

Michel Zaleski, Soros Economic Development Fund & DREAM

Ken Biberaj, The Russian Tea Room*

Michelle Fanzo, World Policy Institute*

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Closing the Gender Gap

Katie Orenstein, The OpEd Project

Analisa Balares, Womensphere

Rosemary Werrett, ProMujer & World Policy Institute

Beverly Neufeld, New York Women’s Agenda

David Boehmer, Heidrick & Struggles

Lorena Vazquez Ordaz, Hunger Project*

Herminia Ibarra, INSEAD

Yxa Bazan, J. P. Morgan*

Shari Cohen, Next Step Partners*

Trevor Gandy, Chubb

Ilene H. Lang, Catalyst

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Security Across Borders

Bryan Cummings, CENSA

Lara Setrakian, Syria Deeply

Belinda Cooper, World Policy Institute

Craig Charney, Charney Research

David Andelman, World Policy Institute

Shari Cohen, Next Step Partners*

Lorena Vazquez Ordaz, Hunger Project*

Wendy Dent, filmmaker*

Ben Skinner, author, A Crime So Monstrous

Michael Lessac, Global Arts Corps*

Scott FitzGerald, Fragomen

Lissa Weinmann, World Policy Institute

Allison Trowbridge, Not For Sale

Michelle Fanzo, World Policy Institute*

Rahul Sagar, Princeton University

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Heading Off Financial Crisis

Constance Hunter, economist

Jose Barrionuevo, StormHarbour Partners

Richard Goldberg, Columbia University

Dan Alpert, Westwood Capital/Century

Bruce Wolfson, Bingham

Sherle Schwenninger, World Policy Institute

Hans Humes, Greylock Capital & World Policy Institute

Ed Greene, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP & World Policy Institute

Robert Brusca, FAO Economics

Kathleen Hays, Bloomberg

John Lipsky, International Monetary Fund & Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

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The Arts-Policy Nexus

George Smith, IDSVA

Vida Mulec, 15 Foundation

William Powers, World Policy Institute*

Todd Lester, Global Arts Council & World Policy Institute*

Wendy Dent, filmmaker*

Lisa Schubert, Cathedral of St. John the Divine*

Michael Lessac, Global Arts Corps*

Martin Rosengaard, Wooloo*

Jacqueline Bertrand Lessac, Global Arts Corps

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* - indicates expertise in more than one theme