Nobel Prize Summit
Speakers and panellists
The Nobel Prize Summit will bring together Nobel Prize laureates, scientists, policymakers, business leaders, and today’s youth leaders to explore the question: How can we build trust in truth, facts and scientific evidence so that we can create a hopeful future for all?
More speakers will be announced on an ongoing basis.
Flora Rebello Arduini
Flora Rebello Arduini is a business and international human rights law expert and focuses her work on the spread of disinformation on social media, its impacts on society at large and the efforts to regulate the industry.
Sanjiv Ahuja
Sanjiv Ahuja is a telecommunications entrepreneur & executive who founded Tillman Global Holdings in 2013. Tillman Global Holdings is a leading digital infrastructure firm.
Rana Ayyub
Rana Ayyub is an Indian investigative journalist and a global opinions writer at the Washington Post. She has worked as a reporter, editor and columnist with some of the leading publications in India and internationally.
Nobel Prize laureate
Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn is Professor Emerita in Biochemistry and Biophysics. She has been a leader in the area of telomere and telomerase research and was awarded the Nobel Prize for her work in this area.
Sylvie Briand
Sylvie Briand is Director in the Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness and Prevention (EPP), WHO Emergencies Programme, in Geneva, Switzerland.
Leslie Brooks
Leslie Brooks is a veterinarian and a current American Academy for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Robert Califf
Robert M. Califf, M.D., is the US Commissioner of Food and Drugs.
Roger Caruth
Roger Caruth is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Strategic, Legal and Management Communication (SLMC) of the Cathy Hughes School of Communications.
Nobel Prize laureate
Martin Chalfie
Martin Chalfie, the University Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, shared the chemistry prize for his introduction of green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a biological marker.
Wendy Chun
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Simon Fraser University’s Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media and leads the Digital Democracies Institute.
Gizem Ceylan
Gizem Ceylan is a behavioural scientist at the Yale University School of Management and the Yale Center for Customer Insights.
James Fishkin
James Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University where he is Professor of Communication, Professor of Political Science (by courtesy), Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford and Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab.
Melissa Fleming
Melissa Fleming leads the UN’s Department of Global Communications, which is responsible for informing global audiences about the state of the world and engaging them to build support for the organisation’s work and goals.
Carl Folke
Carl Folke is Director of the Beijer Institute, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and Founder, Science Director and Chair of the Board of the Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Nobel Prize laureate
Andrea Ghez
Nobel Prize in Physics 2020.
Andrea Ghez is professor of physics and astronomy and Lauren B. Leichtman & Arthur E. Levine chair in Astrophysics at University of California – Los Angeles (UCLA). Ghez is one of the world’s leading experts in observational astrophysics and heads UCLA’s Galactic Center Group.
Rachel Glennerster
Rachel Glennerster is an Associate Professor of Economics in the Division of Social Science at the University of Chicago.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Kathleen Hall Jamieson is the Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania and director of its Annenberg Public Policy Center.
Hahrie Han
Hahrie Han is the inaugural director of the SNF Agora Institute, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor of Political Science, and Faculty Director of the P3 Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University.
Tristan Harris
Tristan Harris is co-founder & executive director of the Center for Humane Technology (CHT), a nonprofit organisation whose mission is to align technology with humanity’s best interests.
David Hassler
David Hassler directs Kent State University’s Wick Poetry Center, which collaborated with poet Jane Hirshfield in 2017 to create the Poets for Science exhibit
Vidar Helgesen
Vidar Helgesen, Executive Director of the Nobel Foundation with a background as a lawyer, diplomat and politician.
Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield is known as one of American poetry's central spokespersons for the biosphere and is the founder of Poets for Science and the author of nine poetry books.
Sheldon Himelfarb
Sheldon Himelfarb has led the PeaceTech Lab since 2014 when it spun out from the U.S. Institute of Peace as an independent NGO.
Phil Howard
Phil Howard is a Professor at Oxford University and Director of the Programme on Democracy and Technology.
Alberto Ibargüen
Alberto Ibargüen is president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and is the former publisher of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald.
Nobel Prize laureate
Tawakkol Karman
Tawakkol Karman is a journalist, civil rights activist and Nobel Prize laureate. The first Arab woman to win a Nobel Prize, she has been recognised for her work building a culture of non-violence in the Middle East and once called “The Mother of the Revolution.”
Stephen King
As CEO, Stephen King leads Luminate's team and strategy and is responsible to its Board for the running of the organisation.
Anita Krishnamurthi
Anita Krishnamurthi is President at the Collective for Youth Empowerment in STEM & Society. She also serves on the boards of the National Girls Collaborative Project, STEM Education Coalition and Nobel Prize Outreach.
Rachel Kuo
Rachel Kuo is an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Media and Cinema Studies and Institute of Communications Research
Laura Lindenfeld
Laura Lindenfeld is Dean of the School of Communication & Journalism and Executive Director of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University.
Elizabeth Loftus
Elizabeth Loftus is Distinguished Professor at the University of California - Irvine. She holds faculty positions in the Department of Psychological Science, the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and the School of Law.
Nat Kendall-Taylor
Nat Kendall-Taylor serves as Chief Executive Officer at the FrameWorks Institute.
Rebecca MacKinnon
Rebecca MacKinnon is Vice President, Global Advocacy at the Wikimedia Foundation, leading the Foundation’s efforts to promote and defend a legal and regulatory landscape essential to the future of free knowledge globally.
Maia Mazurkiewicz
Maia Mazurkiewicz is an expert on countering disinformation and behavioural changes. She has 15 years of experience in political management, foreign affairs, and communication in administration, business and CSOs.
Sabrina McCormick
Sabrina McCormick is a storyteller dedicated to addressing the climate crisis through powerful narratives.
DeRay Mckesson
DeRay Mckesson is the Executive Director of Campaign Zero, a social justice organisation leading nationwide structural change to create equity and justice in our criminal legal system.
Nobel Prize laureate
David MacMillan
David MacMillan shares the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Benjamin List “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis”.
Marcia McNutt
Marcia McNutt is a geophysicist and the 22nd president of the National Academy of Sciences.
Eric Mead
Eric Mead is a performing artist who defies categorisation. As an onstage travel guide, he conducts interactive tours of the fantastic—where imagination is king, laughter erupts at every turn, and everything you know about the world is called into question.
Danaë Metaxa
Danaë Metaxa is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Computer and Information Science department, with a secondary appointment in the Annenberg School for Communication.
Young Mie Kim
Young Mie Kim is a Professor of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
John Momoh
John Momoh, Officer of the Order of the Niger - OON, is chairman of the Channels Media Group and Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the award winning 24-hour news and media channel, Channels Television.
Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad
Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad is the Director of Digital Policy at the Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC), focusing on national and international issues related to privacy, IT security, competition, manipulative design and telecommunication.
Safiya Noble
Safiya Noble is an internet studies scholar and Professor of Gender Studies, African American Studies and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Eileen O’Connor
Eileen O’Connor is an attorney and award-winning former journalist and government official who oversees policy, advocacy, and communications at The Rockefeller Foundation designed to build partnerships, resources and policies to address climate change, economic and global health equity and food system change.
Sudip Parikh
Sudip Parikh is the CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and executive publisher of the Science family of journals in January 2020.
Nobel Prize laureate
Saul Perlmutter
Saul Perlmutter shared the physics prize for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe. He is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Alonzo Plough
Alonzo Plough joined the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as chief science officer and vice president, Research-Evaluation-Learning in January 2014.
Omri Preiss
Omri Preiss is the managing director of the non-profit Alliance4Europe and a founding board member of the DISARM Foundation.
Nobel Prize laureate
Maria Ressa
Journalist Maria Ressa co-founded Rappler, the top digital only news site that is leading the fight for press freedom in the Philippines. She was awarded the peace prize for her efforts to safeguard freedom of expression.
Michael Rich
Michael D. Rich is president emeritus at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organisation that helps improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis.
Nobel Prize laureate
Richard J. Roberts
Richard J. Roberts is the Chief Scientific Officer at New England Biolabs, Ipswich, Massachusetts. He received the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Nobel Prize laureate
Paul Romer
Prize in economic sciences 2018.
Paul Romer is an economist and policy entrepreneur that has spent his career at the intersection of economics, innovation, technology, and urbanisation, working to speed up human progress. Paul Romer will participate online.
Abdul El-Sayed
Abdul El-Sayed is a physician, epidemiologist, educator, and public communicator.
Sumi Somaskanda
Sumi Somaskanda is a chief presenter at BBC News. She previously served as a senior presenter and correspondent for DW News, Germany’s international broadcaster.
Nobel Prize laureate
Donna Strickland
Donna Strickland is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo and is one of the recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 for developing chirped pulse amplification with Gérard Mourou, her PhD supervisor at the time.
Kelly Stoetzel
Kelly Stoetzel works with impact-driven organisations to share knowledge and ideas through content and experiences; and to build, grow and nurture the communities around them.
Nicole Tisdale
For fourteen years, Nicole Tisdale has served as a national security expert at The White House - National Security Council (NSC) and the U.S. Congress’ House Committee on Homeland Security.
Sebastián Valenzuela
Sebastián Valenzuela is an Associate Professor and Director of Research in the School of Communications at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Åsa Wikforss
Åsa Wikforss is a Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Stockholm University, with a PhD from Columbia University.
