Bakari Sellers Youngest Black Elected Official in US; CNN Contributor
Bakari Sellers is an attorney and one of the youngest State Representatives and the youngest black elected official in the United States. Viewing himself not as a politician, but a public servant, Sel... Read More
Ban Ki-moon Former Secretary-General of the United Nations
Ban Ki-moon was the eighth Secretary-General of the United Nations. His priorities have been to mobilize world leaders around a set of new global challenges, from climate change and economic upheaval... Read More
Barack Obama 44th President of the United States
Barack H. Obama was the 44th President of the United States. Few presidents have walked a more improbable path to the White House. Born in Hawaii to a mother from Kansas and a father from Kenya,... Read More
Barbara Mikulski Former Democratic Senator from Maryland
Mikulski started out in local politics, winning a seat on the Baltimore City Council in 1971. During her five years with the council, she made her first attempt at national office. Mikulski failed in... Read More
Barney Frank U.S. Congressman (1981-2012) Chairman, House Financial Services Committee
First elected to Congress in 1980, Barney Frank is known as a superb legislator and a pragmatic politician whose sharp intellect and sense of humor has made him one of the most influential and colorfu... Read More
Barry C. Lynn Business and Political Journalist
He is the author of the groundbreaking work End of the Line: The Rise and Coming Fall of the Global Corporation (Doubleday, 2005), and has published major articles in Harpers Magazine, The Financial T... Read More
Ben Rhodes Foreign Policy Speechwriter & Current Deputy National Security Adviser at the White House
Ben is a formerWhite Housestaff member who served as theDeputy National Security Advisorfor Strategic Communications forU.S. PresidentBarack Obamaand as an Advisor on theJoint Comprehensive Plan of Ac... Read More
Ben Wizner Legal Advisor to NSA Whistleblower, Edward Snowden; Director, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project
Ben Wizner is the director of the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. For nearly fifteen years, he has worked at the intersection of civil liberties and national security, litigating numerou... Read More
Benedetta Berti International Policy & Security Consultant, Lecturer, Author
A native of Italy, Benedetta Berti is currently a fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), a TED Fellow, and a Kreitman post-doctoral fellow at Ben Gurion University. In addition,... Read More
Berbard Kouchner Former French Minister of Foreign & European Affairs
A medical doctor by training, Bernard Kouchner is best known as the co-founder and former president of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders), the Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian or... Read More