Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Anders Aslund, senior fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, adjunct professor, Georgetown University; author, The Russia Balance Sheet (2009) and How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy (2009); "Russia's Capitalist Revolution: Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed in Russia"
 

Hisham Melhem, journalist; Washington bureau chief, al-Arabiya TV; author, Dual Containment: The Demise of a Fallacy (1997); "The Changing Arab Media Landscape: Will the New Media Lead to New Politics?" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Scott Cook P'11, co-founder and chairman, Executive Committee, Intuit; "Lunch with a Leader: Finance Software" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Michael Larson '80, chief investment officer, BGI Group (Bill Gates Investments); "2010 Claremont Finance Conference/Lunch with a Leader- Investment Management" (12:45 p.m.)
 

Sarah Smith Orr, executive director, Kravis Leadership Institute, co-author, Improving Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations (2003) and author, Women Directors in the Boardroom: Adding Value, Making a Difference (2009); CMC; Kara Andrade, Ashoka Fellow, Guatemala; Marc Brody '83, founder and president, U.S.-China Environmental Fund; Marc Cooper, journalist; founder, Annenberg Digital News; Jack Edwards '66 P'01, senior advisor, Ashoka; Sunil Rajaraman '01, president and CEO, Scripped, Inc.; Rick Wartzman, director, Drucker Institute, Claremont Graduate University; "Entrepreneurship Across Sectors"
 

Matthew Crawford, research fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia; contributing editor, The New Atlantic; author, Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work (2009); "The Case for Working with Your Hands"
 

Kirby Daley, senior strategist, Newedge Prime Brokerage, Newedge Group (Hong Kong); "Lunch with a Leader: The Economic Outlook for Asia in the "New" Global Economic Environment" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Angelika Niemz, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Professor, director of research, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences; co-author, Specific versus Nonspecific Isothermal DNA Amplification through Thermophilic Polymerase and Nicking Enzyme Activities (2008) and Isothermal DNA Amplification with Gold Nanosphere-based Visual Colorimetric Readout for Herpes Simplex Virus Detection (2007); Nina Karnovsky, associate professor of biology, Pomona College; co-author, The Impact and Importance of Production in Polynyas to Top-trophic Predators: Three Case Histories (2007) and Foraging Behavior of Little Auks in a Heterogeneous Environment (2003); Jean Doble, research director, Amgen, Inc.; Stephanie Cropper, M.D.; obstetrician and gynecologist; "Women in Science and Medicine: Can You Achieve Work/Family Satisfaction?" (panel 12:15 p.m.)
 

Jeffrey Bergner, president and managing financial partner, Bergner Bockorny, Inc.; former staff director, Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs (2005-2008); author, The New Superpower: Germany, Japan and the United States in the New World Order (1991) and co-editor, The Taiwan Relations Act: A Decade of Implementation (1989); "The Rhetoric and Reality of the Obama Administration"
 

Ken Mehlman, partner and head of Global Public Affairs, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR); "Why Would A Global Industry-Leading Leveraged Buyout Firm Suddenly Go Green?"
 

James Fuller, professor emeritus of art, Scripps College; "Art Opening and Reception" (3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
 

Michael Eisner, former CEO, The Walt Disney Company (1984-2005); founder, The Tornante Company; co-author, Working Together: Why Great Partnerships Succeed (2010) and Work in Progress: Risking Failures, Surviving Success (1999); "A Conversation with Michael Eisner"
 

Robert Thies, piano; gold medal winner (1995), Second International Sergei Prokofiev Competition, St. Petersburg, Russia; artist on album Live in Recital (2006); Gary Bovyer, clarinet; music faculty, Cal Poly Pomona; Roger Lebow, cello; music faculty, Chapman University, Pomona College, Claremont Graduate University; "Brahms in His Final Years"
 

Haley Scott DeMaria, author, What Though the Odds- Haley Scott's Journey of Faith and Triumph (2008); "Swimming Back from Paralysis"
 

Whitney Buss Tidmarsh '88, chief marketing officer, Information Intelligence Group, EMC Corporation; "McKenna Scholar Speaker"