KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Adi Ignatius
Editor, Harvard Business Review
Former Deputy Managing Editor of TIME Magazine

Adi Ignatius is editor in chief of the Harvard Business Review Group, a newly integrated unit of Harvard Business Publishing. In that role, he oversees the unified editorial activities of Harvard Business Review magazine, the book publisher Harvard Business Press, and the Web site, http://www.hbr.org/.

Prior to joining HBR, Ignatius was the deputy managing editor of TIME magazine, where he managed TIME's special editions. Before becoming deputy managing editor, Ignatius served as executive editor of TIME and was responsible for the magazine's business and international coverage. He joined TIME as deputy editor of TIME Asia in 1996, based in Hong Kong, and was named editor of that edition in 2000. Under his leadership, TIME Asia became an award-winning showcase for reporting, writing, photography and design. Before his 12 years with TIME, Ignatius worked for more than a decade at the Wall Street Journal, serving as the newspaper's bureau chief in Beijing where his work was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and later in Moscow.

He received his bachelor's degree in history in 1981 from Haverford College in Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asia Society and sits on the advisory board of the journalism school at SUNY Stony Brook.

GUEST SPEAKERS

Samir Husni
Director of the Magazine Innovation Center and Professor and Hederman Lecturer University of Mississippi School of Journalism

Samir Husni, aka "Mr. Magazine,"^TM is the director of the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi School of Journalism. He is "a world-renowned expert on print journalism" according to CBS News Sunday Morning, and The Chicago Tribune dubbed him "the planet's leading expert on new magazines."

Husni is the president and CEO of Magazine Consulting & Research, a firm specializing in new magazine launches, repositioning of established magazines, and packaging publications for better sales and presentations. Publications such as in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and many other newspapers world-wide, look to him for expert commentary on the magazine industry.

Thomas Levenson
Professor and Director, The Graduate Program in Science Writing
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Award-winning science writer and winner of the Peabody Award

Thomas Levenson is a professor and director of the Graduate Program in Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the winner of the Peabody Award (shared), New York Chapter Emmy, the AAAS/Westinghouse award, and the National Academies Science Communication Award. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Boston Globe, Discover and The Sciences. He is the winner of the 2005 National Academies Communications Award for Origins. Levenson is the author of four books, most recently Newton and the Counterfeiter, and has produced more then ten feature documentaries. Recently his writing has appeared in the Sunday Times and The Daily Telegraph.

Catherine Manegold
Professor of Journalism
Mount Holyoke College
Former Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter and author of Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North

C.S. Manegold is an award-winning journalist and author who covered international affairs, politics, social issues and wars for the New York Times, Newsweek and The Philadelphia Inquirer before turning her attention to longer works. Early in her career, Manegold worked as a foreign correspondent with The Philadelphia Inquirer and Newsweek Magazine. After joining the staff of the New York Times, she covered national and international politics, diverse cultural issues and wrote frequently for the Week In Review section and the Times' Sunday magazine.

Manegold was part of the New York Times' team recognized with a Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. Her first book, In Glory's Shadow: Shannon Faulkner, The Citadel, and a Changing America, was published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 2000. Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North, published this January, tells the story of 150 years of slavery on a Massachusetts farm first owned by John Winthrop.

Billy Howard
Award-winning Commercial and Documentary Photographer

Billy Howard is a commercial and documentary photographer with an emphasis on health, education and social themes. He is the author of Epitaphs for the Living: Words and Images in the Time of Aids; Portrait of Spirit: One Story at a Time, images and interviews of people with disabilities with an introduction by Christopher Reeve; and Angels and Monsters: A Child's Eye View of Cancer with an introduction by Jeff Foxworthy. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of The Library of Congress, the High Museum of Art, The Carter Presidential Center and The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

His work has been featured on "Good Morning America", "CBS This Morning", NPR's "Performance Today," in the HBO special "And the Band Played On, " and the TBS special "The Coming Plague." He has photographed in Africa, Latin America, Europe, India, the Middle East and Asia for corporations, government agencies and nonprofits and travels nationally for a diverse range of clients.

Howard was an artist in residence at the National School of Photography in France, has lectured throughout Japan, was a Distinguished Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and teaches a course in documentary photography at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography in Montana. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Southern Arts Federation, the Georgia Council for the Arts, The City of Atlanta, Fulton County, and The Lubo Fund. He received an Honorary Doctor of Literature Degree from St. Andrews College in North Carolina in 1996.