Introduced by Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau

George Soros
Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Institute, Financier, Philanthropist, and author of The Age of Fallibility: The Consequences of the War on Terrorism

Lowell Bergman
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for Public Service, and the Reva and David Logan Distinguished Professor of Investigative Reporting at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism

Dana Priest
Author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Security Correspondent for The Washington Post

Mark Danner
Author of “The Secret Way to War” and “Torture and Truth,” MacArthur Fellow and Professor of Journalism, UC Berkeley

Christopher Edley, Jr.
Dean, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley

Moderated by Orville Schell, Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley