Name Occupation Country
Chinua Achebe Novelist Nigeria
Jean Baudrillard Sociologist, cultural critic France
Gary Becker Economist United States
Pope Benedict XVI Religious leader Germany, Vatican
Jagdish Bhagwati Economist India, United States
Fernando Henrique Cardoso Sociologist, former president Brazil
Noam Chomsky Linguist, author, activist United States
J.M. Coetzee Novelist South Africa
Gordon Conway Agricultural ecologist Britain
Robert Cooper Diplomat, writer Britain
Richard Dawkins Biologist, polemicist Britain
Hernando de Soto Economist Peru
Pavol Demes Political analyst Slovakia
Daniel Dennett Philosopher United States
Kemal Dervis Economist Turkey
Jared Diamond Biologist, physiologist, historian United States
Freeman Dyson Physicist United States
Shirin Ebadi Lawyer, human rights activist Iran
Umberto Eco Medievalist, novelist Italy
Paul Ekman Psychologist United States
Fan Gang Economist China
Niall Ferguson Historian Britain
Alain Finkielkraut Essayist, philosopher France
Thomas Friedman Journalist, author United States
Francis Fukuyama Political scientist, author United States
Gao Xingjian Novelist, playwright China
Howard Gardner Psychologist United States
Timothy Garton Ash Historian Britain
Henry Louis Gates Jr. Scholar, cultural critic United States
Clifford Geertz Anthropologist United States
Neil Gershenfeld Physicist, computer scientist United States
Anthony Giddens Sociologist Britain
Germaine Greer Writer, academic Australia, Britain
Jürgen Habermas Philosopher Germany
Ha Jin Novelist China
Václav Havel Playwright, statesman Czech Republic
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Politician Somalia, Netherlands
Christopher Hitchens Polemicist United States, Britain
Eric Hobsbawm Historian Britain
Robert Hughes Art critic Australia
Samuel Huntington Political scientist United States
Michael Ignatieff Writer, human rights theorist Canada
Shintaro Ishihara Politician, author Japan
Robert Kagan Author, political commentator United States
Daniel Kahneman Psychologist Israel, United States
Sergei Karaganov Foreign-policy analyst Russia
Paul Kennedy Historian Britain, United States
Gilles Kepel Scholar of Islam France
Naomi Klein Journalist, author Canada
Rem Koolhaas Architect Netherlands
Enrique Krauze Historian Mexico
Julia Kristeva Philosopher France
Paul Krugman Economist, columnist United States
Hans Küng Theologian Switzerland
Jaron Lanier Virtual reality pioneer United States
Lawrence Lessig Legal scholar United States
Bernard Lewis Historian Britain, United States
Bjørn Lomborg Environmentalist Denmark
James Lovelock Scientist Britain
Kishore Mahbubani Author, diplomat Singapore
Ali Mazrui Political scientist Kenya
Sunita Narain Environmentalist India
Antonio Negri Philosopher, activist Italy
Martha Nussbaum Philosopher United States
Sari Nusseibeh Diplomat, philosopher Palestine
Kenichi Ohmae Management theorist Japan
Amos Oz Novelist Israel
Camille Paglia Social critic, author United States
Orhan Pamuk Novelist Turkey
Steven Pinker Experimental psychologist Canada, United States
Richard Posner Judge, scholar, author United States
Pramoedya Ananta Toer Writer, dissident Indonesia
Yusuf al-Qaradawi Cleric Egypt, Qatar
Robert Putnam Political scientist United States
Tariq Ramadan Scholar of Islam Switzerland
Martin Rees Astrophysicist Britain
Richard Rorty Philosopher United States
Salman Rushdie Novelist, political commentator Britain, India
Jeffrey Sachs Economist United States
Elaine Scarry Literary theorist United States
Amartya Sen Economist India
Peter Singer Philosopher Australia
Ali al-Sistani Cleric Iran, Iraq
Peter Sloterdijk Philosopher Germany
Abdolkarim Soroush Religious theorist Iran
Wole Soyinka Playwright, activist Nigeria
Lawrence Summers Economist, academic United States
Mario Vargas Llosa Novelist, politician Peru
Harold Varmus Medical scientist United States
Craig Venter Biologist, businessman United States
Michael Walzer Political theorist United States
Florence Wambugu Plant Pathologist Kenya
Wang Jisi Foreign-policy analyst China
Steven Weinberg Physicist United States
E.O. Wilson Biologist United States
James Q. Wilson Criminologist United States
Paul Wolfowitz Policymaker, academic United States
Fareed Zakaria Journalist, author United States
Zheng Bijian Political scientist China
Slavoj Zizek Sociologist, philosopher Slovenia
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