
Biographies of Authors and Contributors
Class 1
- Martin Campbell-Kelly is Professor of Computer Science (Emeritus) at the University of Warwick (UK).
- Ed Catmull is a computer scientist who co-founded Pixar and served as president of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
- Jim Collins is a highly-regarded researcher, author, and speaker on leadership, management, and organizational change.
- Dan Currell is Managing Director at AdvanceLaw.
- Jordan Furlong is a lawyer, journalist, and legal sector analyst.
- James Gleick is an author and researcher.
- Robert Gordon is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Chancellor Kent Professor of Law and Legal History, and Professor of History, at Yale University (Emeritus).
- Beth Noveck is Professor in Technology, Society, and Culture at New York University and Director of the Governance Lab (GovLab).
- Gary Pisano is the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the author of Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation.
- Michael Sacasas is a writer about technology and society. Currently, he is the author of a Substack titled “The Convivial Society.”
- Langdon Winner is the Thomas Phelan Chair of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Class 2
- Laura DeNardis is Professor of Technology, Ethics, and Society at Georgetown University and the author of The Internet in Everything: Freedom and Security in a World with No Off Switch.
- Phil Jackson is a former professional basketball player and coach who won eleven NBA championship rings as head coach of the Chicago Bulls and the Los Angeles Lakers.
- Dave Logan is Lecturer in Management and Organization at the USC Marshall School of Business and the co-author of Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization.
- David Maister is a consultant and former professor at the Harvard Business School.
- Caitlin “Cat” Moon is Director of the PoLI Institute and Innovation Design and the Program on Law & Innovation, and Lecturer in Law, at Vanderbilt Law School.
- Bjarne Tellman is General Counsel and a Member of the Executive Committee at Haleon PLC.
Class 3
- Barbara Kellerman is the James McGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School.
- Daniel Kluttz was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Information and now works at Microsoft in the Office of Responsible AI.
- Thomas Kolditz is the Founding Director of the Ann and John Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University and a retired Brigadier General in the U.S. Army who led the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at West Point for 12 years. He is the author of In Extremis Leadership: Leading As If Your Life Depended On It.
- Deirdre Mulligan is Professor in the School of Information at UC Berkeley, a faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.
- Frank Pasquale is Jeffrey D. Forchelli Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School and the author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information.
- Harry Surden is Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School.
- Zeynep Tufecki (Zeynep Tüfekçi) is a sociologist and professor at Columbia University.
Class 4
- Kate Crawford is a Research Professor at the University of Southern California and a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR-NYC. She is the inaugural Visiting Chair for AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and the co-founder of the AI Now Institute at NYU. She is the author of The Atlas of AI.
- Cory Doctorow is a journalist and science fiction author who served as co-editor of the blog Boing Boing.
- Safiya Noble is Associate Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in the Department of Information Studies, where she serves as the Co-Director of the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry. She is the author of Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism.
- Jason Schultz is Professor of Clinical Law at New York University, Director of NYU’s Technology Law & Policy Clinic, Co-Director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy, and Area Lead in Law & Policy for the AI Now Institute. He is the co-author (with Aaron Perzanowski) of The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy.
- Daniel Susskind is a Fellow in Economics at Balliol College, Oxford University and the author of A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond.
- Richard Susskind OBE is an author, speaker, and independent adviser to professional firms and to national governments. His main area of expertise is the future of professional services and the way in which the work of lawyers is changing. He is the author of Online Courts and the Future of Justice.
- Anthony Thompson is Professor of Clinical Law Emeritus at New York University School of Law and the author of Dangerous Leaders: How & Why Lawyers Must be Taught to Lead.
- Shoshana Zuboff is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration Emereitus at the Harvard Business School and the author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.
Class 5
- Scott Armstrong is Emeritus Professor of Marketing at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School.
- Joseph Folkman is an author, speaker, and psychometrician specializing in leadership development.
- Gillian Hadfield is the inaugural Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society at the University of Toronto, Professor of Law and Professor of Strategic Management, and Director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. She is the author of Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy.
- Todd Henderson is the Michael J. Marks Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School and the co-author (with Salen Churi) of The Trust Revolution: How the Digitization of Trust Will Revolutionize Business and Government.
- Roderick Kramer is the William R. Kimball Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus at Stanford Business School.
- David Levi is the Levi Family Professor of Law and Judicial Studies at the Duke University School of Law and Director of the Bolch Judicial Institute. He was previously the James B. Duke and Benjamin N. Duke Dean of the School of Law.
- Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy.
- Jack Zenger is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zenger Folkman, a professional services firm providing consulting and leadership development programs for organizational effectiveness initiatives.
Class 6
- Carol Dweck is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and the author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.
- William Henderson is the Stephen F. Burns Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, the editor of Legal Evolution, and the co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Law Practice (IFLP).
- Lawrence Lessig is the Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School, the former director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, and a co-founder of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He is the author of They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy.
- Elinor Ostrom was senior research director of the Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University, Distinguished Professor and Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences, and professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs. She received the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, the first woman to do so.
Class 7
- Michele DeStefano is Professor of Law at the University of Miami and Founder and Director, LawWithoutWalls (LWOW). She is the author of Legal Upheaval: A Guide to Creativity, Collaboration, and Innovation in Law.
- Tarleton Gillespie is a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University.
- Daniel Goleman is a psychologist and author.
- Ilsa Govan is co-founder of Cultures Connecting, a professional development consultancy.
- James Grimmelmann is the Tessler Family Professor of Digital and Information Law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
Class 8
- Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
- Lisa Webley is Chair in Legal Education and Research at the University of Birmingham.
- Keith Ferrazzi is an American author and entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Ferrazzi Greenlight. He is the author of Leading Without Authority: How the New Power of Co-Elevation Can Break Down Silos, Transform Teams, and Reinvent Collaboration.
Class 9
- David Epstein is an investigative reporter and the author of Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World.
- Jennifer Light is Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology, and Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, at MIT.
- Lisa Nakamura is the Gwendolyn Calvert Baker Collegiate Professor in the Department of American Cultures at the University of Michigan and the founding Director of the Digital Studies Institute at the University of Michigan.
- Julian Webb is Professor of Law and Director of the Legal Professions Research Network in Melbourne Law School and a member of Melbourne Networked Society Institute (MNSI).
Class 10
- Rebecca Knight is a journalist.
- Carolyn Lamm is a partner with White & Case, LLP.
- Lisa Leong is an Australian radio host, lawyer, and a former CEO of Ohten APAC, a leader in Client-Centred Innovation and Strategic Account Leadership.
- Orly Lobel is the Don Weckstein Professor of Law at the University of San Diego and the author of The Equality Machine: Harnessing Digital Technology for a Brighter, More Inclusive Future.
- Sylvia Moses works at NewPoint Real Estate Capital.
- Duc Trang is a a Managing Director with Major, Lindsay & Africa Transform Advisory Services.
- Fred Turner is a professor of Communication at Stanford University.
- Hugh Verrier is the Chaiman of White & Case LLP.
- Daryl Wycoff was a Professor at the Harvard Business School.
Class 11
- Brett Frischmann is the Charles Widger Endowed University Professor in Law, Business and Economics at Villanova University and the co-author (with Evan Selinger) of Re-Engineering Humanity.
- Susan Sturm is George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility at Columbia Law School
- David Weisbach is Walter J. Blum Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School.
Class 12
- The Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) is an independent research and public policy advocacy organization headquartered at the University of Denver.
- The ABA Center for Innovation is a research center that focuses on technology, innovation, design, and the legal services industry.
Class 13
- Brené Brown is a Professor of Social Work at the University of Houston, and a podcaster.
- Larry Robertson is a writer, speaker, and advisor to businesses.
- Abby Wambach is staying active in retirement. She is a legend.