Academic Speakers

Expertise and Inspiration: Engage Audiences with Top Academic Keynote Speakers

List of Academic Speakers

The academic keynote speakers in this category include professors, bestselling authors, scholars, education experts, and learning advocates across a broad range of industries. Whether in the classroom, on a conference stage, on social media and television, or through their award-winning writing, these academic speakers are inspiring educators who use their platforms to advance research and spark important conversations in science, business, philosophy, politics, social issues, and history.

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Kumu Hina
(1 rating)

Native Hawaiian Transgender Teacher, Award-Winning Filmmaker, Cultural Practitioner & Community Leader

Ronald A. Heifetz

Foremost Authority on Leadership & Organizational Adaptability; Founding Director of Center for Public Leadership; Senior Lecturer in Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School

Arie Kapteyn

Professor of Economics & Executive Director of the USC Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research

Kanya Balakrishna
(2 ratings)

Co-Founder & CEO of The Future Project; Youth Empowerment & Education Advocate

Ankur Nagpal

Investment Advisor; Investor at Vibe Capital; Founder of Carry; Former Founder and CEO of EdTech Company Teachable

Craig Mello
(1 rating)

Nobel Prize Winner, Known for His Research on RNA Interference; Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School & Co-Director of the RNA Therapeutics Institute

Grace Chenxin Liu
(1 rating)

UN & TEDx Speaker; Founder of Sharing to Empower; Researcher, Advocate & Changemaker for Gender Equality

Joanne Freeman

Professor of American History and of American Studies, Yale University

William Howell

Professor in American Politics, Author & Podcaster

Josep Colomer

Political Scientist & Economist; Professor at Georgetown University

Max Rashbrooke

Author, Academic, Journalist, Economic & Political Commentator

Propaganda

Poet, Political Activist, Academic & Emcee

Louka Parry

Education Futurist & Learning Strategist; Australian Top 100 Innovator; CEO & Founder of The Learning Future

Dr. Christina Maslach
(1 rating)

Professor of Psychology, Emerita, at University of California, Berkeley; Wife Of Dr. Philip Zimbardo

Robert P. George
(1 rating)

Founding Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; Professor at Princeton University

Wendy Osefo, PhD
(1 rating)

Professor | Media Personality | Political Commentator | CEO

David Blight
(1 rating)

Professor of History; Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at Yale University