For such a diminutive (4′ 11″) frame, character actor Leslie Jordan has a tall propensity for scene-stealing. He hails from the South, as his dead-giveaway drawl quickly exposes, and was raised in a highly conservative, deeply religious atmosphere in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His father, a Lieutenant Colonel with the Army, was killed in a plane crash when he was only 11. Uncertain about his direction in life, an inescapable talent for high camp, not to mention an impish mug and pocket-sized structure ideal for commercials, must have inspired Leslie enough to risk taking on Hollywood in 1982. Following training with acting coach Carolyn Barry, who ran the Professional Artist’s Group during the 80s, he…... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Erin McKean, editor and lexicographer for the New Oxford American Dictionary, tells Google the ten things she wishes people knew about dictionaries, how people go about making new words, and how lexicographers use Google.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Seth Godin is the author of six bestsellers, including Permission Marketing, an Amazon Top 100 bestseller for a year and a Fortune Best Business Book. His newest book, All Marketers are Liars , has already made the Amazon Top 100 and has inspired its own blog. Seth is also a renowned speaker, and was recently chosen as one of “21 Speakers for the Next Century” by Successful Meetings Magazine and is consistently rated among the best speakers by the audiences he addresses. Seth was founder and CEO of Yoyodyne, an interactive direct marketing company, which Yahoo! acquired in late 1998. He holds an MBA from Stanford, is a contributing editor to Fast Company magazine, and was called “the Ultimate…... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Bill Drayton, Chairman and CEO of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public and lifelong entrepreneur, helped build the field of social entrepreneurship 25 years ago and remains committed to shaping a dynamic, global citizen sector. He was recently selected as one of America’s Best Leaders by US News & World Report and Harvard’s Center for Public Leadership.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Razi Mohiuddin, a Google Enterprise Search Superstar, speaks about how he increased customer satisfaction and employee morale.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Wendy Spero is an actress, comedian, and writer who has performed on Comedy Central, VH1, NBC, and the Food Network. Her one woman show, “Microthrills”, won “Best Solo Show” at the ECNY awards. Her most recent solo show, “Who’s Your Daddy?”, which premiered at The NY International Fringe Festival in August 2003, had a year long run at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in NYC before being produced at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Keynote Address: Financing Global Health... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

Roger Frank is an emerging markets veteran, having traveled and worked in over 40 countries. He has been instrumental in raising over $1 billion in primary and secondary transactions for emerging markets companies in Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Pakistan and India.... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!

“Rough Crossings” is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova Scotia where many who had served the Crown were betrayed in their promises to receive land at the war’s end. Their fate became entwined with British abolitionists: inspirational figures such as Granville Sharp, the flute-playing father-figure of slave freedom, and John Clarkson, the ‘Moses’ of this great exodus, who accompanied the blacks on their final…... Read More إقرأ المزيد | Share it now!