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Steve Forbes is chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media. His newest project is the podcast "What's Ahead," where he engages the world's top newsmakers, politicians, and pioneers in business and economics in honest conversations meant to challenge traditional conventions as well as featuring his signature views on the intersection of society, economy, and policy. Mr. Forbes helped create the highly acclaimed public television documentary, In Money We Trust?, which was produced under the auspices of Maryland Public television. The film was inspired by the book he co-authored, Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy - and What We Can Do About It. His latest book is Inflation: What It Is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames and Nathan Lewis. Mr. Forbes writes editorials for each issue of Forbes under the heading of "Fact and Comment." A widely respected economic prognosticator, he is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times. The prize was formerly given by US Steel Corporation to the financial journalist whose economic forecasts for the coming year proved most accurate. In both 1996 and 2000, Mr. Forbes campaigned vigorously for the Republican nomination for the Presidency. Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system for working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits, and a strong national defense.

Liz Peek is a Fox News contributor, a columnist for The Hill and one of Fox News’ top opinion writers. She appears weekly on numerous Fox Business and Fox News shows and is a frequent guest on many leading radio talk news shows across the country.  Ms. Peek has written for The Fiscal Times, the New York Sun, the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications. She is past chairman of the Board of Trustees of FIT, a SUNY college; other non-profit roles include serving as president of the Board of Partnership with Children, a social services agency, and on the executive committees of the boards of School of American Ballet and the Women’s Committee of the Central Park Conservancy.    

Liz was one of the first women to become a partner of a so-called “major bracket” firm on Wall Street and was also the first woman to head the National Association of Petroleum Investment Analysts, a national organization of several hundred energy analysts. She was a frequent contributor to the Wall Street Journal, Oil and Gas Journal and other industry periodicals, and appeared on Wall Street Week and other financial programs. Ms. Peek has three children and is married to Jeffrey Peek, executive vice chair, Global Corporate & Investment Banking. 

Mark Mills co-founded Montrose Lane, an energy-software venture fund, is founder and Executive Director of the National Center for Energy Analytics, a contributing editor at Manhattan Institute’s City Journal, and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's engineering school. He writes for numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, and his PragerU videos have been viewed over 10 million times. Mr. Mills is the author several books: The Cloud Revolution (2021), Digital Cathedrals (2020), Work In The Age Of Robots (2018), and The Bottomless Well, (2005), about which Bill Gates said, "This is the only book I've ever seen that really explains energy." He served as Chairman/CTO of ICx Technologies helping take it public in a 2007 IPO. Mr. Mills served in President Reagan's White House Science Office, and earlier, was an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors and fiber optics at Bell Northern Research (Canada's Bell Labs) and RCA Semiconductor.

Louis Navellier is one of Wall Street's renowned growth investment advisors. He is the founder and chairman of Navellier & Associates, a money management firm. Mr. Navellier specializes in behavioral finance and utilizes extensive quantitative and fundamental analysis to identify market-beating stocks. he is the editor of five investing newsletters published through InvestorPlace.

Rich Karlgaard is the former publisher Forbes (1998-2018) and currently global futurist for Forbes Asia. He writes the “Tech Connector” column for Forbes Asia and is principal moderator at the annual Forbes Global CEO Conference. He is a speaker and panel moderator at business and financial events around the world. Mr. Karlgaard’s 2014 book on innovation culture, The Soft Edge, examined successful corporate cultures. It featured an afterword by the late Harvard Business School professor, Clayton Christensen. Rich’s 2015 book, Team Genius, was praised by Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella. His 2019 book, Late Bloomers, was favorably reviewed by National Public Radio’s Morning Edition, The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, Financial Times, and Wall Street Journal, which selected Late Bloomers for its C-Suite book club.

Catherine Forbes, daughter of Steve Forbes, has a unique depth and breadth of understanding when it comes to Forbes and its community. Although she does not have an official title at the company, she has been working there, as she likes to say, since birth. Ms. Forbes has spent much of her career in fashion and retail management, as well as working with her father, Steve, on the management of his projects, including books, social media, and operations. When not devoting her time to Forbes, she is a retail consultant and also has a career assisting archaeological excavations and research in the United States and abroad.