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President Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas, three months after his father died in a traffic accident. When he was four years old, his mother wed Roger Clinton, of Hot Springs, Arkansas. In high school, he took the family name. Clinton was graduated from Georgetown University and in 1968 won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University. He received a law degree from Yale University in 1973, and entered politics in Arkansas. Clinton was elected Arkansas Attorney General in 1976, and won the governorship in 1978. After losing a bid for a second term, he regained the office four years later, and served until he defeated incumbent George Bush and third party candidate Ross Perot in the 1992 presidential race.

Bill Flanagan writes about music. His novels include *Evening's Empire, New Bedlam* and *A&R*, as well as the non-fiction books *Written in My Soul *and *UT At The End of the Wo*rld. He wrote for the *Boston Globe *from 1979 to 1984. He is the creator of VH1 Storytellers for MTV. He is an on- air essayist for CBS News *Sunday Morning*. He graduated from Brown University.

Bill is our lead Technical Director and oversees the studios and control rooms, technical planning, and execution of productions.

Bill George is Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, where he is teaching leadership and leadership development along with several executive education programs. He is the author of a new best-selling leadership book, *Finding Your True North: A Personal Guide*. His previous two books, *True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership* and *Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets to Creating Lasting Value*, were also best-sellers. Mr. George is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Medtronic. He joined Medtronic in 1989 as President and Chief Operating Officer, and was elected Chief Executive Officer in 1991, serving in that capacity through 2001. Under his leadership, Medtronic's market capitalization grew from $1.1 billion to $60 billion, averaging 35% a year. Mr. George currently serves as a director of ExxonMobil and Goldman Sachs, as well as Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, World Economic Forum USA, and Guthrie Theater. Mr. George received his BSIE with high honors from Georgia Tech, and his MBA with high distinction from Harvard University, where he was a Baker Scholar. He has received a honorary PhD from Georgia Tech and a honorary Doctorate of Business Administration from Bryant University. Mr. George was named Executive-of-the-Year by the Academy of Management (2001) and Director-of-the-Year by NACD (2001-02). In 2002 George was selected as one of "The 25 Most Influential Business People of the Last 25 Years" by *PBS Nightly News*.

Bill Greene joined the Boston Globe staff in 1985. Prior to that he was assistant photo editor at the Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Massachusetts.

Dr. Harris is the president and chief executive officer of Science Foundation Arizona (SFAz). Prior to joining SFAz, Dr. William C. Harris was in Ireland serving as director general of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), a new Irish agency that helped facilitate tremendous growth in Ireland’s R&D sector during Harris’ tenure. Immediately prior to going to Ireland, Dr. Harris was vice president of research and professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of South Carolina (USC). There, he oversaw research activities throughout the USC system, several interdisciplinary centers and institutes, the USC Research Foundation and sponsored research programs. Dr. Harris served at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1978 to 1996, including as the director for mathematical and physical sciences (1991-1996). He was responsible for federal grants appropriation of $750 million. He also established 25 Science and Technology Centers to support investigative, interdisciplinary research by multi-university consortia. Earlier in his career, he catalyzed the Research Experience for Undergraduates program in the chemistry division and it became an NSF-wide activity. In 2005, Dr. Harris was elected a member of the Irish Royal Academy, and received the Wiley Lifetime Achievement Award from California Polytechnic State University. He has authored more than 50 research papers and review articles in spectroscopy and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Harris earned his undergraduate degree at the College of William and Mary, and received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of South Carolina.

A 20+ year veteran of digital media, Bill is the Executive Chairman and co-founder of gen.video, a leading influencer marketing platform differentiated by its focus on analytics and ecommerce outcomes. Bill’s passion for the potential of consumer-to-consumer interactions to transform product discovery and research has led to breakthrough services and insights. Prior to gen.video, Bill was a Principal venture capitalist at General Atlantic Partners, and a technology banker at Morgan Stanley. Bill graduated with honors from both the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was Student Body President, and the Harvard Business School, where he spent time as a teaching assistant in the economics department at Harvard College. In his free time, he enjoys running and reading. Usually not at the same time.

**Bill Janovitz** is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band Buffalo Tom. The band formed at University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1986 and still records and tours internationally. Bill is the author of two books about the Rolling Stones. He lives in Lexington with his family and has been a real estate agent since 2001.

Bill Keller became Op-Ed columnist and senior writer for The New York Times Magazine as well as other areas of the newspaper in September 2001. Previously, he served as managing editor from 1997 to September 2001 after having been the newspaper’s foreign editor from June 1995 to 1997. He was the chief of The Times bureau in Johannesburg from April 1992 until May 1995. Before that, he had been a Times correspondent in Moscow from December 1986 to October 1991, the last three years as the newspaper's bureau chief. He won a Pulitzer Prize in March 1989 for his coverage of the Soviet Union. Mr. Keller joined The New York Times in April 1984 as a domestic correspondent based in the Washington bureau. Before coming to The Times, Mr. Keller had been a reporter for The Dallas Times Herald since October 1982. From 1980 until 1982, he was a reporter for the Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report in Washington, covering lobbyists and interest groups. He was a reporter for The Portland Oregonian from July 1970 until March 1979. Born on January 18, 1949, Mr. Keller graduated from Pomona College with a B.A. degree in 1970 and completed the Advanced Management Program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in July 2000. He is currently a member of the board of trustees of Pomona College. Mr. Keller is married to Emma Gilbey. Ms. Gilbey is a writer and the author of a biography of Winnie Mandela. He has three children, Tom, Molly and Alice.

William Francis Lee III (born December 28, 1946), (nicknamed "Spaceman"), is an American athlete and retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He played for the Boston Red Sox from 1969-1978 and the Montreal Expos from 1979-1982. On November 7, 2008, Lee was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame as the team's record holder for most games pitched by a left-hander (321) and the third-highest win total (94) by a Red Sox southpaw. In addition to his baseball success, Lee is known for his adherence to counterculture behavior, his antics both on and off the field, and his use of the Leephus pitch, a personalized variation of the eephus pitch. Lee has written four books: *The Wrong Stuff; Have Glove, Will Travel; The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History; and Baseball Eccentrics: the Most Entertaining, Outrageous, and Unforgettable Characters in the Game*.

Bill Linehan is a life-long resident of South Boston elected to the Boston City Council in May 2007 and re-elected four times. After being re-elected last term Bill was elected President of the Council by his colleagues on the Council. He has served as the chairman of the City of Boston Economic and Planning Committee and served as the Chairman of the Redistricting Committee. Bill formed and chaired the Special Committee for the 2024 Olympics. For the past twenty years, Bill has been working to improve the quality of life for Boston residents. Prior to his election, Bill had served as the Director of Operations for the City of Boston’s Parks Department and after that as the Special Assistant to the Chief Operating Officer of the City of Boston. The oldest of eight children, Bill has been active in politics since his teenage years and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Massachusetts at Boston. He and his wife Judy have four children and six grandchildren.

Bill Littlefield, nationally known author and veteran sports commentator, hosts WBUR and National Public Radio's *Only A Game*, a weekly one-hour sports magazine. Littlefield has provided audiences with a weekly tour through the world of sports since 1993 from WBUR in Boston. The show has covered a wide range of sports topics, from the basics of who wins and loses to issues such as racism and career opportunities for the disabled. Littlefield has been a commentator for National Public Radio since 1984. Bill Littlefield's publications include: *Keepers: Radio Stories from Only A Game and Elsewhere; Baseball Days, a collection of essays with photographs by Henry Horenstein; Champions: The Stories of Ten Remarkable Athletes; a piece entitled "A Storied Career" in Ted Williams: A Portrait in Words and Pictures*; and *the novel Prospect*, for which he also wrote a screenplay. He is the editor of Houghton Mifflin's The Best American Sports Writing, 1998. In addition to writing books and essays, Littlefield has regularly contributed commentaries to *Monitor Television's Opinion Page*, as well as in *The Atlanta Constitution, The Los Angeles Times,* and *Newsday*. Bill Littlefield has won six Associated Press Awards, and has been celebrated as one of Boston's "Literary Lights" by the associates of the Boston Public Library. He is a graduate of Yale University (cum laude) and the Harvard University of Education.

Bill McInturff is a partner and co-founder of Public Opinion Strategies, a national political and public affairs survey research firm. Since its founding in 1991, the firm has completed more than 5 million interviews with voters and consumers in all 50 states and over a dozen foreign countries, and conducted more than 3,500 focus groups. Bill is actively engaged in American politics, conducting national survey research on behalf of the Republican Governors Association. Most recently, Bill served as the lead pollster for John McCain 2008. Bill, along with Peter Hart of Peter D. Hart Research Associates also conducts The NBC News/The Wall Street Journal Poll. Much of his work has been devoted to what he describes as "combat message development," not simply monitoring public opinion, but developing messages to defend and promote client interests on complex public policy issues. Bill has conducted groundbreaking research on Medicare reform, creating Social Security private retirement accounts, juvenile justice reform, genetic testing, school choice, tort reform, health care policy, and a host of other policy issues. The focus of much of Bill's work has been health care, having completed more than 350 focus groups and more than 80 national surveys on this topic alone. Bill's health care clients include the American Hospital Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, America's Health Insurance Plans, the Kaiser Family Foundation, Pfizer, Inc., and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Bill McKibben is the author of ten books, including *The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information*, and E*nough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age*. McKibben's book "Falter" draws upon McKibben's years of experience in building 350.org, a global citizens movement to combat climate change, and provides some advice on possible ways out of the trap of conflicting interests that keep us from solving the climate crisis. A former staff writer for *The New Yorker*, McKibben writes regularly for *Harper’s, The Atlantic Monthly*, and *The New York Review of Books*, among other publications. He is a scholar in residence at Middlebury College and lives in Vermont. Photo: Nancie Battaglia