Academic Freedom Conference

Jonathan Haidt

Professor, Ethical Leadership at New York University Stern School of Business

Anna Krylov

Professor, Chemistry at University of Southern California

Luana Maroja

Professor, Biology at Williams University

Mimi St Johns

Undergrad Student, Stanford University

Jerry Coyne

Professor Emeritus, Biology at University of Chicago

Moderator: Sergiu Klainerman

Professor of Mathematics, Princeton

Peter Thiel

Partner at Founders Fund

Richard Lowery

Associate Professor of Finance · McCombs School of Business

Dorian Abbot

Associate Professor of Geophysical Sciences, University of Chicago

John Hasnas

Professor of Business and Professor of Law (by courtesy) | Executive Director, Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, Georgetown University

Peter Arcidiacono

William Henry Glasson Professor of Economics, Duke University

Moderator: Anne Beyer

Professor of Accounting, Stanford

Lee Jussim

Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University

Solveig Gold

Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton

Joseph H. Manson

Professor of Anthropology, UCLA

John Rose

Associate Director of The Civil Discourse Project at Duke

Moderator: Jennifer Burns

Professor of History, Stanford

Niall Ferguson

Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution

John H. Cochrane

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Tyler Cowen

Professor of Economics at George Mason University and at the Center for the Study of Public Choice

Moderator: Rob Reich

Professor of Political Science, Stanford

John M. Ellis

Professor Emeritus of German Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz

Gad Saad

Professor of Marketing, Concordia University (Montreal)

Eric Kaufmann

Professor of Politics, University of London

Moderator: Ivan Marinovic

Professor of Accounting, Stanford

Noah Diffenbaugh

Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Bjorn Lomborg

Founding Director Copenhagen Consensus

Jay Bhattacharya

Professor of Health Policy, Stanford University

John Ioannidis

Professor of Medicine, Stanford University

Moderator: John H. Cochrane

Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Douglas Murray

Author and Journalist

Jordan Peterson

Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto (Emeritus)

Greg Lukianoff

President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)

Nadine Strossen

John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, Emerita, New York Law School and Senior Fellow, FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression)

Richard Shweder

Harold Higgins Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development, University of Chicago

Hollis Robbins

Dean, College of Humanities, University of Utah

Moderator: Brandice Cane-Wrone

Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution

Scott Atlas

Robert Wesson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution

Steven Pinker

Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University

Ilya Shapiro

Senior Fellow and Director of Constitutional Studies, Manhattan Institute

Michael McConnell

Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center, Stanford University

Eugene Volokh

Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California Los Angeles

Moderator: Jeffrey Zwiebel

Professor of Finance, Stanford

Joshua Katz

Senior Fellow American Enterprise Institute

Frances Widdowson

Independent Researcher

Amy Wax

Robert Mundheim Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania

Elizabeth Weiss

Professor of Anthropology, San Jose State University

Moderator: Harald Uhlig

Professor of Economics, University of Chicago