Professor Snowden received his Ph.D. from Oxford University in 1975. His books include Violence and Great Estates in the South of Italy: Apulia, 1900-1922 (1984); The Fascist Revolution in Tuscany,

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Dr. Eduardo Martí has served community colleges over thirty years, as interim president of Bronx Community College, Vice Chancellor for Community Colleges of the City University of New York,

Tim Shanahan has been a close and trusted friend of Muhammad Ali and his family for nearly forty years. He retired in 2013 as a regional sales manager covering five Western states for a medical pro

Ann Lee is a former Visiting Professor at Peking University and hedge fund partner of two multi-billion dollar hedge funds. She is a recognized authority on China's political economy and author of the

Brian Solomon has authored more than fifty books on railroads, including North American Railroad Family Trees, North American Railroads, Coal Trains, Railroads of California, Railroads of Pennsylvania

Don H. Doyle serves as McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina and has spent several years teaching and researching in Europe and Latin America. The author of several books

Dr. Kevin P. Gallagher is a Professor of Global Development Policy at Boston Universitys Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, where he co-directs the Global Economic Governance Initiative and

Gaia Vince is a journalist and broadcaster specializing in science and the environment. She has been the editor of the journal Nature Climate Change, and the news editor of Nature, and online editor o

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Multi Emmy Award winning composer/guitarist Brian Tarquin is an established top rate TVcomposer/recording artist and owner of Jungle Room Studios. In 2002, 2003 and 2005 he won anEmmy for Outstanding

Paul D. Spudis is a senior lunar scientist with a PhD in Geology who specializes in the histories and processes of the terrestrial planets. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the NASA

Salil Tripathi was born in Bombay, India. He is a contributing editor at Mint and at Caravan in India. He is currently Chair, PEN Internationals Writers in Prison Committee. In the UK, he was board me

Sean Ammirati is a partner at Birchmere Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Pittsburgh, PA, and Palo Alto, CA, and is an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon Uni

Sukumar Nandi is Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow.

Ted Seides, CFA, is the son of a teacher and a psychiatrist. Perhaps by genetic disposition, he is passionate about sharing his insights and investing in people.From 2002 to 2015, Ted was a founder of

Tejaswini Ganti is Associate Professor of Anthropology at New York University. She is the author of Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema.

Terry Mort is the author of Thieves' Road, The Wrath of Cochise, The Hemingway Patrols, a book on fly fishing, and edited anthologies of Mark Twain, Jack London, and Zane Grey. The Wrath of Cochise wa

Cynthia Nicoletti is a legal historian and professor of law at Virginia Law. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the William Nelson Cromwell Prize for the best dissertation

Edward B. Foley holds the Ebersold Chair in Constitutional Law at The Ohio State University, where he also directs its election law program. He is a contributing opinion columnist for the Washingto