Keynotes by:
- Ronald J. Angel, Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
- Mark Hayward, Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
- Luis Miguel Gutierrez, Director, National Mexican Institute on Aging

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Hayward
Gutierrez

Ali A. Allawi, former Iraqi Minister of Defence and Finance;  Senior Associate Member of St. Antony`s College, Oxford.

A talk by authors Jim Shultz and Melissa Crane Draper. (Moderated by Jerome McDonnell, host of Chicago Public Radio`s Worldview.)

Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, Aspen Institute; biographer (Benjamin Franklin: An American Life and Einstein: His Life and His Universe)

Amitai Etzioni, University Professor at The George Washington University, former President of the American Sociological Association, and founder of the Communitarian Network. He is the author of several books including The Active Society, Genetic Fix, The Moral Dimension and Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy.  Respondent: Rt Hon Liam Byrne MP, Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Chair: Steve Broome, director of research, RSA