Walter Isaacson opens the 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival by explaining the innovative power of great ideas.
David Bradley follows with a summary of the interesting origins of the Aspen Ideas Festival.
Bio
David Bradley
David G. Bradley is the chairman and owner of several publishing, news, and media properties along the East Coast, including his best-known, The Atlantic magazine and the National Journal.
Before entering media, Bradley founded and owned two (now public) think tanks the Advisory Board Company and the Corporate Executive Board. With 50,000 applicants each year, the enterprises are the largest employers of young professional talent in the Washington region.
Before founding his companies, Bradley worked for the White House, the White House Conference on Children and Youth, and the Wall Street law firm of Cravath, Swaine, & Moore.
Walter Isaacson
Walter Isaacson is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute. He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of Time Magazine.
He is the author of Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (2003) and of Kissinger: A Biography (1992) and is the coauthor of The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1986). His biography of Albert Einstein - Einstein: His Life and Universe - was released in April 2007.
Isaacson is a graduate of Harvard College and of Pembroke College of Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.