Global Creative Leadership Summit

I have just accepted to represent the chess community in a very special event next Tuesday: The Global Creative Leadership Summit. I will be in Seattle this weekend to visit Delilah and the Chess4Life Center. I will have to take a red-eye flight from Seattle to New York on Monday to make the summit Tuesday morning. The summit will take place at The Harold Pratt House at 58 East 68th Street in New York City.

Here are some of the confirmed impressive speakers:

* Henry Kissinger Nobel Peace Prize, 1973 and Chairman Kissinger Associates, Inc.
* Richard Axel Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2004, Professor of Biochemistry Columbia University, Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
* Eric Kandel Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2000, Professor of Physiology Columbia University
* James Watson Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1962 ChancellorCold Spring Harbor Laboratory

* Arianna Huffington Author; Co-founder and Editor The Huffington Post
* Esther Dyson Editor-at-Large CNET Networks, Inc.
* Chrystia Freeland U.S. Managing Editor Financial Times
* Matthew Bishop American Business Editor The Economist
* Michael Oreskes Executive Editor International Herald Tribune
* David Kirkpatrick Senior Editor, Internet and Technology Fortune Magazine
* Lally Weymouth Senior Editor and Special Diplomatic Correspondent Newsweek Magazine

* Bradbury Anderson Vice Chairman and CEO Best Buy Co., Inc.
* David Boies Chairman Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
* Kamran Elahian Chairman Global Catalyst Partners
* John Gage Chief Researcher and Vice President, Science OfficeSun Microsystems, Inc.
* Alexander Galitsky Entrepreneur and Partner Russian Technologies
* César Gaviria Trujillo Former President of Colombia – Chairman and Founder The Otun Group
* Michael Goldberg General Partner Mohr Davidow Ventures
* Robert M. Greenberg Chairman, CEO and Global Chief Creative OfficerR/GA
* Robert D. Hormats Vice Chairman Goldman Sachs (International)
* W. Randall Jones Chairman Avant Films
* Martin Lipton Founding Partner Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
* Oki Matsumoto President and CEO Monex, Inc.
* Ken Miller Senior Advisor Lehman Brothers
* Thomas Ryder Chairman The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc.
* Stephen A. Schwarzman Chairman, CEO and Co-founder The Blackstone Group
* Martin Sorrell Chief Executive WPP Group plc
* Jody R. Westby CEO and Founder, Global Cyber Risk LLC and Distinguished Fellow Carnegie Mellon Cylab

* Ellis Rubinstein President and CEO New York Academy of Sciences
* Jonathan Granoff President Global Security Institute
* Mahmud Ali Durrani Ambassador to the United States Islamic Republic of Pakistan
* HRH Turki Al-Faisal Ambassador to the United States Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
* Emil Skodon Ambassador to Brunei Darussalam United States of America
* Nasser bin Hamad M. Al Khalifa Ambassador to the United States State of Qatar
* Paulo Gomes Executive Director The World Bank
* Bianca Jagger Goodwill Ambassador Council of Europe
* Pat Mitchell President and CEO The Museum of Television & Radio
* Juan Carlos Murillo Director of the Presidential Office for Government Innovation Mexico
* Shi Yongxin Abbot of Shaolin Temple
* Theodore Zeldin President The Oxford Muse
* John Clippinger Senior Fellow, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society Harvard Law School
* Antonio Damasio Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience and Director, Brain and Creativity Institute University of California
* Howard Gardner Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education Harvard Graduate School of Education
* Mehmet Oz Vice-Chair and Professor of Surgery Columbia University New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia
* Pradeep Khosla Dean of Engineering Carnegie Mellon University
* Thomas Krens Director The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
* V.S. Ramachandran Director, Center for Brain and Cognition University of California, San Diego
* Lisa Randall Professor of Theoretical Physics Harvard University
* Alison Richard Vice-Chancellor Cambridge University
* Choon Fong Shih President National University of Singapore, etc.