SADE BADERINWA is co-anchor of WABC-TV’s top-rated Eyewitness News at 5 and 11 p.m. She joined the Eyewitness News team in 2003 as a reporter and co-anchor of Eyewitness News at noon.

Ms. Baderinwa came to Channel 7 from Baltimore’s WBAL-TV, where she anchored the morning and noon newscasts and hosted a weekly community affairs show. Before that, she worked as a production assistant for This Week with David Brinkley, Nightline, World News Tonight, and ABC NewsOne.

Ms. Baderinwa is a strong believer in giving back to her community. She developed and leads a successful mentoring program called “Get Reel with Your Dreams,” exposing New York inner-city high school students to top professionals in film and television. She was recognized with the NJ Governor’s Representative Award for Traffic Safety for her efforts to address the problem of hit-and-run accidents. While in Baltimore, Ms. Baderinwa testified before the Maryland State Legislature to help pass lead safety laws, worked to enact childhood eye safety laws to help protect Little League players from serious eye injuries, and developed a program to promote self-esteem, personal responsibility, and the importance of education at the Boys and Girls Clubs.

KIRAN BIR SETHI is the Founder/Director of the Riverside School in Ahmedabad, India. She is also the founder of aProCh, an initiative attempting to make our cities more child-friendly, for which she was awarded the Ashoka Fellowship in 2008. In 2009, she founded Design for Change, the world’s largest movement for change, in which children design solutions for some of the world’s greatest challenges; it operates today in over 30 countries.

She has been awarded the Call to Conscience award by the King Centre at Stanford and was a speaker at TEDIndia. Most recently she was invited to be one of the global thought leaders for the initiative One for Peace.

MATTHEW BISHOP is U.S. Business Editor and New York Bureau Chief of The Economist. He is the co-author of Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World—described as an “important book” by President Clinton—and The Road from Ruin: How to Renew Capitalism and Put America Back on Top.

As well as chairing the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Philanthropy and Social Investing, he has served as a member of the Sykes Commission on the 21st-century investment system, and the Advisors Group of the United Nations International Year of Microcredit 2005.

Before joining The Economist, Mr. Bishop was on the faculty of London Business School, where he co-authored books for the Oxford University Press on subjects ranging from privatization and regulation to mergers.

SANDRA BOND CHAPMAN, founder and chief director of the Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas, is committed to maximizing human cognitive potential across the entire human lifespan. As a cognitive neuroscientist with more than 40 funded research grants, Ms. Chapman’s scientific study elucidates and applies novel approaches to advance creative and critical thinking, strengthen healthy brain development, and incite innovation throughout life.

Ms. Chapman collaborates with scientists across the country and around the world to solve some of the most important issues concerning the brain and its health. On the frontier of brain research, her scientific study melds interdisciplinary expertise to better understand how to evaluate and achieve optimal brain performance through preserving frontal lobe function, the area of the brain responsible for reasoning, planning and decision making. Ms. Chapman coined the term “brainomics” to define the high economic cost of poor brain performance, and she sees the brain as the most significant path to raise the standard of living globally. Committed to developing, testing and implementing training regimens that maximize brain function, Ms. Chapman is dedicated to promoting brain health fitness, developing futuristic thinkers, and helping individuals, young or old, think smarter.

DEEPAK CHOPRA Time magazine heralds Deepak Chopra as one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century and credits him as “the poet-prophet of alternative medicine.” Mr. Chopra is the Founder and Chairman of the Chopra Foundation, and Founder and Co-chairman of the Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, California. Chopra’s Wellness Radio, which airs weekly on Sirius/XM Stars, Channels 102 and 155, focuses on success, love, sexuality and relationships, well-being, and spirituality. He is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and The Washington Post and contributes regularly to Oprah.com, Intent.com, and The Huffington Post.

Mr. Chopra has published nearly 60 books, with 18 New York Times best sellers, on mind-body health, spirituality, and peace. The Wall Street Journal’s financial jobs website, FINS, mentioned his latest book, The Soul of Leadership, as one of the five best business books to read for one’s career.

Mr. Chopra participates annually as a lecturer at the Update in Internal Medicine event, sponsored by Harvard Medical School’s Department of Continuing Education and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Department of Medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, an Adjunct Professor of Executive Programs at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and Senior Scientist with The Gallup Organization.

PETER CUNNINGHAM is the assistant secretary for communications and outreach at the Department of Education. In this position, he leads the Office of Communications and Outreach (OCO), composed of more than 125 employees and charged with broadcasting the president and secretary's education agenda, as well as supporting federal education policy development and promotion. Using a range of resources, from the secretary of education's speeches to the Department's website and social media, OCO promotes the Department's effort to expand access to, and improve the quality of, our nation's education system to several interested parties, including national, regional and local press, education nonprofits and interest groups, elected officials, administrators at institutions of education, teachers, students, and the general public.

Prior to joining the Department, Cunningham was president of Cunningham Communications, a Chicago firm specializing in communications for local government, politics, and nonprofits. Cunningham began his career as a reporter and writer for business and general interest publications, including the Southampton Press. He went on to work for several years as a speechwriter for the Illinois attorney general's office, the Finance Committee of the Chicago City Council, and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley.

Cunningham earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy at Duke University, and a master's degree in journalism at Columbia University.

JOHN E. DEASY is the superintendent for the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest school district in the nation. LAUSD serves over 800,000 Pre-K-through-Adult Education students in over 1,000 school campuses.

Previously, he was the deputy superintendent for LAUSD. Before returning to the Los Angeles area Mr. Deasy served as a deputy director of education for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Prior to joining the foundation, Mr. Deasy served as superintendent of the Prince George’s County, Maryland, Public Schools. During his time there he launched a pay-for-performance plan that was approved by the Board of Education.

Previously, he served as superintendent of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District in California and of the Coventry Public Schools in Rhode Island, where he championed rigorous and ambitious learning opportunities for youth.

Mr. Deasy has been an Aspen Fellow, a Broad Fellow, an Annenberg Fellow, a State Superintendent of the Year, a presenter at numerous state and national conferences, and a consultant to school districts undertaking high school reform and district-wide improvement strategies.

RICHARD J. DEASY is the recently retired director of the Arts Education Partnership (AEP), a coalition of over 100 education, arts, business, philanthropic, and government organizations that demonstrates and promotes the essential role of arts education in enabling all students to succeed in school, life, and work. Under his leadership AEP published seminal research studies and reports that are credited with major advances in arts education in the United States. He commissioned and edited AEP’s widely acclaimed compendium of research, Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development, and subsequently commissioned the research for, and co-authored, the resulting book, Third Space: When Learning Matters, a study of the transformative effects of the arts in high-poverty schools. Upon his retirement from AEP in 2008, he was presented with the NEA Chairman’s Award for Distinguished Service to the American public through contributions to the arts. Prior to his leadership of AEP, Mr. Deasy had been a senior state education official in Maryland and Pennsylvania, president and CEO of the National Council for International Visitors, and a prize-winning reporter on politics and government in Philadelphia and the surrounding metropolitan area. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on slum housing conditions in suburban Philadelphia.

TONY DEROSE is currently a Senior Scientist and Lead of the Research Group at Pixar Animation Studios. He received a BS in physics from the University of California, Davis, and a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1998 he was a major contributor to the Oscar-winning short film Geri's Game, and in 2006 he received a Scientific and Technical Academy Award for his work on the mathematics of surfaces. For the past several years he has become passionate about finding ways that Disney and Pixar can help to inspire the next generation of mathematicians, scientists, and engineers.

JUDITH S. KAYE joined Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom as Of Counsel in February 2009, focusing largely on arbitration and litigation. Before joining the firm, for more than 25 years she served in the New York State Judiciary, appointed in 1983 by Governor Mario Cuomo as an Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals (New York State’s high court), and then in 1993 appointed by Governor Cuomo as Chief Judge of the State of New York. Judge Kaye is the first woman ever to serve on the Court of Appeals and to be appointed New York’s Chief Judge, a position she held for 15 years— longer than any other chief judge in New York’s history. She is a graduate of New York University School of Law and Barnard College.

As a judge, Ms. Kaye gained a national reputation for both groundbreaking decisions and her innovative reforms of the New York State court system. She wrote notable decisions on a wide array of constitutional, statutory, and common-law issues. As Chief Judge she also left her mark on New York’s courts as a creative reformer, improving the jury system, establishing a Commercial Division of the State Supreme Court, streamlining procedures for permanency for children, and opening “problem-solving courts” to deal constructively with repeat offenders, offering on-site services for drug treatment, mental health counseling, and job training. She is the author of numerous publications, including articles on legal process, state constitutional law, women in law, and professional ethics.

REYNOLD LEVY has been President of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts since 2002. Prior to that, he has held several positions of note, including President of the International Rescue Committee, senior officer of AT&T in charge of government relations, and Executive Director of the 92nd Street Y.

Mr. Levy holds a law degree from Columbia University and a PhD in government and foreign affairs from the University of Virginia. He has served as a consultant, volunteer, and board member of numerous nonprofit and profit organizations. He has published three books, most recently Yours for the Asking: An Indispensable Guide To Fundraising and Management. He has spoken widely about philanthropy, the performing arts, humanitarian causes, and leadership. Mr. Levy has taught at the Harvard Business School, Columbia and New York Universities, and at the City University of New York.

He has received awards as diverse as the coveted Freedom Award for his work with the International Rescue Committee, the Design Patron Award for his stewardship of Lincoln Center’s $1.2-billion physical transformation, and the award by Sing for Hope for his contributions to the arts, humanitarian causes, and the city of New York.

ERIC LIU is the author of Guiding Lights: The People Who Lead Us Toward Our Purpose in Life, the Official Book of National Mentoring Month. He is also the author of The Accidental Asian: Notes of a Native Speaker, a New York Times Notable Book featured in the PBS documentary Matters of Race, and editor of the Norton anthology Next: Young American Writers on the New Generation. Mr. Liu served as a speechwriter for President Clinton in the first term and as White House deputy domestic policy adviser in the second. After the White House, he was an executive at the digital media company RealNetworks. He’s also been a frequent commentator on CNN, MSNBC and CNBC. In 2002, Mr. Liu was named by the World Economic Forum one of the 100 “Global Leaders of Tomorrow.” He lives in Seattle, where he teaches at the University of Washington’s Evans School of Public Affairs and hosts an acclaimed television interview program called Seattle Voices. In addition to organizing the annual Guiding Lights Weekend, Mr. Liu speaks regularly at conferences, corporations, and campuses around the country. He also serves on the boards of numerous civic organizations, including the Washington State Board of Education, the Seattle Public Library, the Seattle Center Fund, Common Cause, Demos, and the League of Education Voters.

VICE ADMIRAL MICHAEL H. MILLER became the 61st Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy on August 3, 2010. A native of Minot, North Dakota, he was commissioned at the Naval Academy in 1974 and earned his “Wings of Gold” at Pensacola in January 1976. Subsequent tours included flying the S-3A/B Viking on carrier deployments around the world, including combat operations against Libya, the Achille Lauro terrorist incident, and squadron command in the Arabian Gulf during Desert Shield/Desert Storm.

Throughout his 36-year naval career, Vice Admiral Miller has served in a cross section of forwarddeployed units and prominent commands in Washington, DC. Most notably, Vice Admiral Miller commanded the 3rd Fleet Flagship, USS Coronado (AGF-11); the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67); and Carrier Strike Group 7/USS Ronald Reagan Strike Group (on its maiden deployment to the Arabian Gulf and western Pacific). Vice Admiral Miller served as the deputy assistant to the President of the United States and has the distinction of being the first active-duty director of the White House Military Office. Prior to reporting to the Naval Academy, Vice Admiral Miller served as the Navy’s representative to Capitol Hill as the Chief of Legislative Affairs.

BILL MOGGRIDGE is the director of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. Mr. Moggridge designed the first laptop computer, the Grid Compass, launched in 1982. He describes his career as having three phases, first as a designer with projects for clients in ten countries, second as a co-founder of IDEO, where he developed design methods for interdisciplinary design teams, and third as a spokesperson for the value of design in everyday life, writing, presenting, and teaching, supported by the historical depth and contemporary reach of the museum.

A Royal Designer for Industry, Mr. Moggridge pioneered interaction design and is one of the first people to integrate human factors into the design of software and hardware. He has taught at the Royal College of Art and at Stanford University. His books, Designing Interactions (www.designinginteractions.com) and Designing Media (www.designing-media.com), reveal developments in the design of technology through interviews and commentary.

SCOTT NOPPE-BRANDON is the executive director of Lincoln Center Institute, the arts-andeducation branch of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.

A practicing educator and performer prior to taking the helm of the Institute in 1995, Mr. Noppe-Brandon is known internationally as a speaker, author on education, and advocate of imaginative learning. He has co-written, with Eric Liu, the influential Imagination First: Unlocking the Power of Possibility. Mr. Noppe-Brandon has served on numerous panels and committees, including for the National Endowment for the Arts, and recently spoke at the second UNESCO Conference on Arts Education in Seoul, Korea, on the importance of imagination in education.

Mr. Noppe-Brandon is the founder of the Imagination Conversations. He has led the campaign for all states to hold Conversations.

His leadership in the start-up and revitalization of public schools includes, most recently, the launching of 18 New York City charter high schools as part of an initiative with New Visions for Public Schools.

Mr. Noppe-Brandon is currently a member of the NASA Human Health and Performance Center, and looks forward to giving a major address at the Third Worldwide Meeting on Human Values (September 2011) in Monterrey, Mexico, and keynoting the National Network for Educational Renewal Annual Conference (October 2011) in New Haven, CT.

SIR KEN ROBINSON is an internationally recognized leader in the development of education, creativity, and innovation. The videos of his talks at the prestigious TED Conference have been seen by an estimated 200 million people worldwide.

He works with governments in Europe, Asia, and the USA, and with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and cultural organizations. In 1998, he led a national commission on creativity, education, and the economy for the UK government, and published All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education. He was the central figure in developing a strategy for creative and economic development as part of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. The resulting blueprint for change, Unlocking Creativity, was adopted by all. He was among the advisors to the Singapore Government for its strategy to become the creative hub of Southeast Asia.

Sir Ken was professor of education at the University of Warwick in the UK, and is now professor emeritus. His efforts on behalf of education and the arts have brought him numerous honorary degrees, a designation as one of Time/Fortune/CNN’s “Principal Voices,” and a knighthood. He speaks throughout the world on the creative challenges facing business and education in the new global economies.

He is the author of the classic texts Out of Our Minds: Learning to be Creative and The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, a New York Times bestseller translated into 21 languages.

CAMERON SINCLAIR is the co-founder and “chief eternal optimist” (CEO) of Architecture for Humanity, a charitable organization that builds architecture and design solutions to humanitarian crises, and provides pro-bono design and construction services to communities in need. Over the past 12 years the organization has worked in 44 countries and has over 70 city-wide chapters, including Newark. Projects range from schools, health clinics, and affordable housing to long-term sustainable reconstruction after the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, Hurricane Katrina, the 2004 South Asian tsunami, and the 2011 Japan tsunami and quake.

Mr. Sinclair was the recipient of the 2006 TED Prize and in 2008 was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. That same year, Architecture for Humanity and its co-founders, Mr. Sinclair and Kate Stohr, were named as recipients of the Design Patron Award for the 2008 National Design Awards. In 2009 Mr. Sinclair and Ms. Stohr were jointly awarded the Bicentenary Medal by the Royal Society of Arts for increasing people’s resourcefulness.

Mr. Sinclair and Ms. Stohr compiled a bestselling book, Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises, and are currently working on a second volume. As a strong believer in “cultural acupuncture,” Mr. Sinclair is working on a global project to develop micro-museums, starting in Amman, Jordan. Later this year they will launch [un]restricted access, a global competition to re-imagine decommissioning military facilities.

BRUCE VAUGHN serves as the co-executive leader of Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI), the creative delivery arm of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, in partnership with Chief Design and Project Delivery Executive Craig Russell. In his role as chief creative executive, he leads the integrated creative teams of WDI, Walt Disney Imagineering Creative Entertainment (WDICE), and WDI Research and Development to drive excellence in product development and innovation. The scope of his responsibilities includes theme park attractions and special effects, innovative theater experiences, and new business opportunities that leverage invented and emerging technologies.

Mr. Vaughn joined WDI in 1993 as a senior technical specialist. He spent time working as a writer for Theme Park Productions and was associate media producer on the Spaceship Earth renovation project at Epcot. Since then, he has been involved in many synergy initiatives with various divisions of The Walt Disney Company, including Feature Animation, Television, Theatrical, Music, Internet, Consumer Products, and Location-Based Entertainment.

Mr. Vaughn graduated cum laude from Colgate University in 1988 with a major in English literature and a minor in art history.

GENERAL CHARLES F. WALD (USAF, Ret.), Department of Defense (DoD) Director, serves as a director and senior advisor to the DoD and the Aerospace & Defense Industry for Deloitte Services LP and is responsible for providing senior leadership in strategy and relationships with defense contractors and Department of Defense program executives. He is a subject matter specialist in weapons procurement and deployment, counter-terrorism, and energy security, as well as national and international security policy.

General Wald retired from the U.S. Air Force as a four-star general, after serving over 35 years in the U.S. military as a command pilot with more than 3,600 flying hours, and 430 combat hours. In his last position, he served as deputy commander of U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) from 2002 until his retirement from the U.S. Air Force in July 2006. In that role he was responsible for U.S. forces operating across 91 countries in Europe, Africa, Russia, parts of Asia, the Middle East, and most of the Atlantic Ocean. During his command, he developed the European Command Strategic plan that included energy assurance and sustainment for the EUCOM area of responsibility.

JOHN I. WILSON serves as executive director of the National Education Association. With over 3.2 million members, NEA is the nation's largest teachers union, representing education support professionals, higher education faculty, school administrators, retired educators, and education students who plan to become teachers.

Mr. Wilson has chaired the Partnership for 21st Century Skills, a coalition of businesses and education groups that advocates for every child in America to graduate from high school with 21st century skills. Mr. Wilson has also chaired the Learning First Alliance, a partnership of leading education organizations with more than 10 million members dedicated to improving student learning in America’s public schools.

Mr. Wilson previously served the Association as executive director of the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE), where he gained an outstanding reputation for successfully championing statewide education reforms.

Prior to his appointment as NCAE executive director, Mr. Wilson was the chief lobbyist for NCAE and was repeatedly rated by the North Carolina Center for Public Policy as one of the most influential lobbyists in Raleigh. Before joining the NCAE staff, he spent 20 years in the Raleigh and Wake County Public School Systems as a middle school teacher of special needs students.

DEBORAH WINCE-SMITH is the president & CEO of the Council on Competitiveness, a group of CEOs, university presidents, and labor leaders committed to driving U.S. competitiveness. She has more than 20 years of experience as a senior U.S. government official, including as the first Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy in the Department of Commerce.

She is a Senate-confirmed member of the IRS Oversight Board and a member of the Board of Directors of the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. Ms. Wince-Smith also serves on the Board of Governors for the Argonne National Laboratory, the Smithsonian National Board, and the boards of several other public and private organizations. Ms. Wince-Smith is the president of the newly formed Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils, whose creation she led. Ms. Wince-Smith is chairman of the World Economic Forum’s Global Council on Global Competitiveness and is a member of the Science & Technology in Society Forum Council.

Ms. Wince-Smith earned a degree in classical archaeology and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College. She earned her master’s degree from King’s College, Cambridge University. In December 2006 she received an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Michigan State University.