Brian O'Donnell, Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists; Vance Ablott, Executive Director, Triangle Coalition for Science and Technology Education; Ed Potosnak, Congressional Candidate, teacher, and small business owner from New Jersey; Art Lebofsky, President of Science Education Services, retired Science/Math District Coordinator; Luke Laurie, RoboChallenge Director, Robotics and Science Teacher, Santa Maria, California; Lynn Campbell, NBCT, AEA Science Consultant in Iowa; Mike Lach, Special Assistant for STEM Education, U.S. Department of Education; Jodi Peterson, Assistant Executive Director Legislative and Public Affairs, National Science Teachers Association, Co-Chair, STEM Education Coalition; Kristina Peterson, 5th Grade Math and Science Teacher, Seattle; Kent Hughes, Director Program on America and the Global Economy, Woodrow Wilson Center

Inwon Choue, President, Kyung Hee University, Korea; James Duderstadt, University of Michigan; Kiyofumi Kawaguchi, Chancellor, Ritsumeikan University, Japan; John King, Vice Provost for Strategy, University of Michigan; Koïchiro Matsuura, Former Director-General, UNESCO; William Pepicello, President, University of Phoenix

Four Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellows discussed current education-related legislation including the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the America Competes Act.

David Wessel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal and author of In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic, provides a unique analysis of the crisis and what it means for financial services reform. What went wrong at the Federal Reserve and regulatory agencies that failed to prevent the financial crisis and during the key months in which the U.S. economy almost crashed?