A Curious Mind (25 page)

John C. Beck:
business expert in mobile communications, author

Yves Béhar:
industrial designer, entrepreneur, sustainability advocate

Harold Benjamin:
director of the Wellness Community centers for cancer patients

Steve Berra:
professional skateboarder, cofounder of popular skateboarding website The Berrics

Jeff Bewkes:
CEO and chairman of Time Warner

Jeff Bezos:
founder and CEO of Amazon.com, owner of the
Washington Post

Jason Binn:
founder of
DuJour
magazine, chief advisor to Gilt Groupe, editor of Getty WireImage

Ian Birch:
director of editorial development and special projects at Hearst Magazines, former editor of
US
magazine

Peter Biskind:
cultural critic, film historian, author, former executive editor of
Premiere
magazine

Edwin Black:
historian and journalist focusing on human rights and corporate abuse

Keith Black:
chairman of neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, specializing in the treatment of brain tumors

David Blaine:
magician, illusionist, endurance artist

Keith Blanchard:
founding editor of
Maxim

Alex Ben Block:
journalist, former senior editor of the
Hollywood Reporter

Sherman Block:
sheriff of Los Angeles County, 1982–1998

Michael Bloomberg:
mayor of New York City, 2002–2013, founder of Bloomberg financial information service

Tim Blum:
cofounder of contemporary commercial art gallery Blum & Poe

Adam Bly:
creator of
Seed
magazine, which focused on the intersection of science and society

Alex Bogusky:
designer, advertising executive, marketer, author

David Boies:
attorney who represented U.S. Justice Department in
U.S. v. Microsoft
and Al Gore in
Bush v. Gore

Mark Borovitz:
rabbi, ex-convict who runs a residential treatment center for ex-convicts and drug addicts

Anthony Bozza:
music journalist and author, writer for
Rolling Stone

William Bratton:
police commissioner of New York City

Eli Broad:
philanthropist, entrepreneur, art collector

John Brockman:
literary agent, author, founder of the Edge Foundation

Bradford Brown:
translator of
The Book of Five Rings,
a book written by a Japanese samurai on the art of confrontation and victory

Roy Brown:
musician, composer

Tim Brown:
CEO and president of design firm IDEO

Willie Brown:
former mayor of San Francisco who served fifteen years as Speaker of the California State Assembly

Tiffany Bryan:
contestant on reality TV show
Fear Factor

Jane Buckingham:
expert on forecasting trends

Ted Buffington:
expert on performance under pressure and on decision making in critical situations

Vincent Bugliosi:
deputy Los Angeles district attorney who prosecuted Charles Manson, cowrote
Helter Skelter

Ed Bunker:
career criminal and author of crime fiction

Tory Burch:
fashion designer

James Burke:
CEO of Johnson & Johnson during the 1982 Tylenol crisis

Cara-Beth Burnside:
pioneer of women's skateboarding and snowboarding

Chandler Burr:
journalist, author, curator of olfactory art at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City

Eugenia Butler, Sr.:
art dealer and collector

James T. Butts, Jr.:
mayor of Inglewood, former police chief of Santa Monica

David Byrne:
musician, founding member of the band Talking Heads

Naomi Campbell:
actress, supermodel

Adam Carolla:
podcaster, former host of syndicated radio call-in program
Loveline

John Carroll:
journalist, former editor of the
Los Angeles Times
and the
Baltimore Sun

Sean B. Carroll:
evolutionary development biologist, geneticist

Mr. Cartoon:
tattoo and graffiti artist

Carlos Castaneda:
anthropologist, author of books describing his shamanism training

Celerino Castillo III:
DEA agent who revealed the CIA-backed arms-for-drugs trade in Nicaragua

Brian Chesky:
cofounder and CEO of Airbnb

Deepak Chopra:
author, physician, alternative medicine advocate

Michael Chow:
restaurateur

Chuck D:
musician, music producer, former leader of Public Enemy

Steve Clayton:
research futurist for Microsoft

Eldridge Cleaver:
leader of the Black Panther Party, author of
Soul on Ice

Johnnie Cochran:
defense attorney who represented O. J. Simpson

Jared Cohen:
director of Google Ideas

Joel Cohen:
population specialist, mathematical biologist

Kat Cohen:
university admissions counselor, author of
The Truth About Getting In

William Colby:
CIA director, 1973–1976

Elizabeth Baron Cole:
nutritionist

Jim Collins:
management consultant, expert on business and management, author of
Good to Great

Robert Collins:
neurologist, former chairman of neurology at UCLA School of Medicine

Sean Combs:
musician, music producer, fashion designer, entrepreneur

Richard Conniff:
author who specializes in human and animal behavior

Tim Cook:
CEO of Apple, Inc.

Tatiana Cooley-Marquardt:
repeat winner of USA Memory Championship

Anderson Cooper:
journalist, author, TV personality, anchor of CNN's
Anderson Cooper 360

Norman Cousins:
medical guru, author of
Anatomy of an Illness
: As Perceived by the Patient

Jacques Cousteau:
oceanographer, pioneered marine conservation

Chris W. Cox:
chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association

Steve Coz:
former editor of
National Enquirer

Donald Cram:
professor of chemistry at UCLA, Nobel laureate in chemistry

Jim Cramer:
investor, author, TV personality, host of CNBC's
Mad Money

Clyde Cronkhite:
criminal justice expert, former police chief of Santa Ana, former deputy police chief of Los Angeles

Mark Cuban:
investor, owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks

Heidi Siegmund Cuda:
journalist, former music critic for the
Los Angeles Times

Thomas Cummings:
leading expert in designing high-performing organizations and strategic change at USC Marshall School of Business

Fred Cuny:
disaster relief specialist

Mario Cuomo:
governor of New York, 1983–1994

Alan Dershowitz:
attorney, constitutional scholar, professor emeritus at Harvard Law School

Donny Deutsch:
advertising executive, TV personality

Jared Diamond:
evolutionary biologist, author, professor at UCLA, winner of the Pulitzer Prize

Alfred “Fred” DiSipio:
record promoter investigated during payola scandal

DMX:
musician, actor

Thomas R. Donovan:
former CEO of the Chicago Board of Trade

Jack Dorsey:
cofounder of Twitter, founder and CEO of Square Inc.

Steve Drezner:
specialist in systems analysis and military projects for RAND Corporation

Ann Druyan:
author and producer specializing in cosmology and popular science

Marian Wright Edelman:
founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund

Betty Edwards:
author of
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

Peter Eisenhardt:
astronomer, physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Paul Ekman:
psychologist, pioneer in the study of emotions and their relation to facial expressions

Anita Elberse:
professor of business administration at Harvard Business School

Eminem:
musician, music producer, actor

Selwyn Enzer:
futurist, former director of USC Center for Futures Research

Susan Estrich:
lawyer, author, first female campaign manager of a major presidential campaign (for Michael Dukakis)

Harold Evans:
journalist, author, former editor of the
Sunday Times,
founded
Condé Nast Traveler

Ron W. Fagan:
sociologist, former professor at Pepperdine University

Barbara Fairchild:
editor of
Bon Appétit
, 2000–2010

Shepard Fairey:
artist, graphic designer, illustrator

Linda Fairstein:
author, former chief prosecutor of the sex crimes unit for the Manhattan district attorney's office

John Fiedler:
director of communications research for the 1984 Reagan-Bush presidential campaign

Louis C. Finch:
former deputy undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness for the U.S. Department of Defense

Henry Finder:
editorial director of the
New Yorker

Ted Fishman:
journalist, author of
China,
Inc.: How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World

John Flicker:
former president and CEO of the National Audubon Society

William Ford, Jr.:
chairman and former CEO of the Ford Motor Company and great-grandson of Henry Ford

Matthew Freud:
head of Freud Communications and great-grandson of Sigmund Freud

Glen Friedman:
photographer who does a lot of work with skateboarders and musicians, artist, author of
Fuck You Heroes

Bonnie Fuller:
journalist, media executive, editor of
HollywoodLife.com

Bob Garcia:
baseball card collector and expert

Howard Gardner:
developmental psychologist, developed theory of multiple intelligences

Daryl F. Gates:
police chief of Los Angeles, 1978–1992

Vince Gerardis:
entrepreneur

David Gibson:
philosopher, scholar of ancient Greek philosopher Plato

Françoise Gilot:
painter, author of
Life with Picasso

Malcolm Gladwell:
author, journalist, staff writer at the
New Yorker

Rebecca Glashow:
digital media executive involved in launching first video-on-demand system

Sheldon Glashow:
theoretical physicist, professor emeritus at Harvard University, Nobel laureate in physics

Bernard Glassman:
Zen teacher and cofounder of the Zen Peacemaker Order

Barry Glassner:
president of Lewis & Clark College, former executive vice provost at the University of Southern California

John Goddard:
adventurer, author, first man to kayak the entire Nile River

Russell Goldsmith:
CEO of City National Bank

Adam Gopnik:
staff writer for the
New Yorker
and author of
Paris to the Moon

Andrew Gowers:
former editor of the
Financial Times