The Emerging Issues Forum:  24 Years of Innovation in Action

2009
Changing Landscapes: Building the Good Growth State?
Chris Dodd, United States Senator
David Brooks, The New York Times
Bruce Katz, The Brookings Institution
Wayne Klotz, The American Society for Civil Engineers

2008
North Carolina’s Energy Futures: Realizing a State of Opportunity
Thomas Friedman, The New York Times
Amory Lovins, Cofounder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
Jeffrey Immelt, Chair and CEO, General Electric
Kenneth Lewis, Chairman, CEO and President, Bank of America
Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

2007
Transforming Higher Education: A Competitive Advantage for North Carolina
Margaret Spellings, U.S. Secretary of Education
Ja Song, Former Minister of Education, South Korea
Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University

2006
Financing the Future
Paul O’Neill, former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
Paul Krugman, The New York Times
Steve Forbes, Forbes, Inc.

2005
My Health Is Your Business: Making Healthcare Work in North Carolina
William J. Clinton, 42nd President of the U.S.
Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives
Peter Peterson, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce
Steven Reinemund, Chairman and CEO, PepsiCo
Phil Bredesen, Governor, State of Tennessee

2004
Creative Responses for Global Economic Change
Richard Wagoner, Chairman and CEO, General Motors
Edward Rendell, Governor, State of Pennsylvania
Mario Rubert, City of Barcelona
Richard Moore, Treasurer, North Carolina Department of State Treasurer

2003
Jump Starting Innovation: Government, Universities & Entrepreneurs
Louis Gerstner, Jr., Former Chairman, IBM Corporation
Mary Harney, Deputy Prime Minister, Ireland

2002
Biotechnology and Humanity at the Crossroads of a New Era
Tommy Thompson, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
John Edwards, Former U.S. Senator, State of North Carolina
Robert Ingram, Former CEO and President, Pharmaceutical Operations, GlaxoSmithKline
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Former Lt. Governor, State of Maryland

2001
First in America: Charting the Course for Excellent Schools
William Raspberry, The Washington Post
Tom Vander Ark, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

2000
Shaping our Common Future
Roy Barnes, Former Governor, State of Georgia
Dan Glickman, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Hugh McColl, Former Chairman and CEO, Bank of America

1999
Global Economic Storms
Robert Rubin, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Treasury
John Rockefeller IV, U.S. Senator, State of West Virginia

1998
People and Planet: A Fragile Partnership
Sylvia Earle, National Geographic Society
Daniel Goldin, NASA
Michael Robinson, Director, National Zoological Park

1997
Economic Forces: Shaping the Next Half-Century
Erskine Bowles, Former White House Chief of Staff
William Weld, Former Governor, State of Massachusetts
Alice Rivlin, Vice Chair, Federal Reserve Board
Richard A. Gephardt, Former U.S. House Minority Leader

1996
The Knowledge Explosion: What is the Payoff for Americans?
Al Gore, Former Vice President of the U.S.
Bill Bradley, Former U.S. Senator, State of New Jersey
Richard Riley, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President, Children’s Defense Fund

1995
Conflict, Competition and Cooperation: Power Politics in a Changing World
Sam Nunn, Former U.S. Senator, State of Georgia
Mickey Kantor, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce

1994
Investing in Health: An American Agenda
Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Senator, State of New York
Joycelyn Elders, Former US Surgeon General
Lawton Chiles, Former Governor, State of Florida

1993
Strengthening America: New Economic Strategies
Robert B. Reich, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor
Janice Faulkner, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Revenue

1992
Priorities for America’s Future
Diane Ravitch, U.S. Department of Education
Kent Hughes, Council on Competitiveness

1991
Changes in Europe: Challenges for America
Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the U.S.
Sam Nunn, Former U.S. Senator, State of Georgia
Madeline Albright, Center for National Policy

1990
Global Changes in the Environment: Our Common Future
Al Gore, 45th Vice President of the U.S.
Carl Sagan, Former Director, Laboratory of Planetary Studies, Cornell University
Steve Cowper, Former Governor, state of Alaska
Madeline Kunin, Former Governor, state of Vermont

1989
Education for a Competitive Economy
David Kearns, Former Chairman and CEO, Xerox
Tom Kean, Former Governor, State of New Jersey

1988
Taking Control of the Future
Paul Volker, Former chairman, Federal Reserve Board
Don Peterson, Former chairman and CEO, Ford Motor Company
Bill Clinton, 42nd President of the U.S.

1987
Winning in the Global Economy
Ross Perot, Founder, Electronic Data Systems, Inc.
Michael Dukakis, Former Governor, State of Massachusetts

1986
The Challenge of Innovation and Competition
John Young, Former President, Hewlett-Packard
Richard Thornburgh, Former Governor, State of Pennsylvania
Jim Goodnight, President and CEO, SAS Institute, Inc.