Larry Summers was trying to prioritize hard science over social studies when he was forced to resign due to an outrage mob. https://www.quora.com/Why-was-Larry-Summers-fired-as-president-of-Harvard?share=1 Notable names at Harvard University Board of Overseers * (former) Lisbet Rausing of Yad Hanadiv and the Arcadia Fund, a major donor to Wikipedia * Sir Ronald Cohen of Yad Hanadiv and the Portland Trust * Cheryl Dorsey of Echoing Green and the Bridgespan Group * Linda Greenhouse, #IBelieveChristineFord https://archive.is/toHhK * Walter Isaacson of the Aspen Institute * Nicholas Kristoff of the New York Times * Michael Lynton of Sony ( Joi Ito -> Mimi Ito -> Jonathan McIntosh -> Anita Sarkeesian ) * Tracy Palandjian of Surdna Foundation and of Social Finance US (with Ronald Cohen and Sonal Shah of the White House Office of Social Innovation) Harvard Management Company * Glenn H. Hutchins - part of the same Hamilton Project as Alan Krueger * Robert Ettl - Treasurer and COO, formerly Managing Director at Allianz Global 2001-2007 Allianz's chief economic advisor Mohamed El-Erian has board memberships on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Berggruen Institute, Council for the Future of Europe, 21st Century Council, New America Foundation, and is managing director at Salomon Smith Barney, deputy director of the IMF, and head of President Obama's Global Development Council. Harvard Belfer Center * Gary Samore - Executive Director for Research - the former White House Coordinator for Arms Control and Weapons of Mass Destruction under Obama tried to convince the Argentinians to provide the Iranians with nuclear fuel in 2010. https://www.mediaite.com/online/argentine-president-claims-former-obama-official-pushed-for-nuclear-fuel-to-iran/ * Farah Pandith - named repeatedly in Concordia thread https://archive.is/oxh4K member of Office hours podcast https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/564 * Juliette Kayyem - UAE-financed AQ sympathizer implicated in OKBOMB/Trentadue cover-up https://archive.is/svIlx in Reflecting on Paris Attacks https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/eurmailid/1090 * Kelly Greenhill - member of Council on Foreign Relations panel on "combating disinformation and fake news" https://readingbetweenthelinesofdeception.wordpress.com/2018/05/10/reading-between-the-lines-of-political-disruptions-combating-disinformation-and-fake-news/ * R. Nicholas Burns - Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Atlantic Council * Nawaf Obaid - Visiting Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. From 2004 to 2007, he was Special Advisor for Strategic Communications to Prince Turki Al Faisal, while Prince Turki was the Saudi Ambassador to the United Kingdom & Ireland, and then the United States. And from 2007 to 2011, he worked with the Saudi Royal Court, where he was seconded as a Special Advisor to the Saudi Information Minister. Most recently, he served as the Special Counselor to the Saudi Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 2011 to 2015. http://www.belfercenter.org/person/nawaf-obaid https://archive.is/3O59N Nawaf Obaid helped set up #1MDB & served as the go between for Prince Faisal al Turki to get Tony Blair under contract to lobby the Chinese & African nations. https://twitter.com/DawsonSField/status/1124029062454943746? Visiting Fellow at Nabil Ayad's London Academy of Diplomcy with Joseph Mifsud https://web.archive.org/web/20150914162924/http://www.stir.ac.uk/londonacademyofdiplomacy/staff/ Harvard Shorenstein Center https://shorensteincenter.org/about-us/faculty-and-staff/ https://archive.is/DYs6w * Susan Crawford - ICANN board, President Obama's Special Assistant for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy, member of MacArthur Foundation's Data and Society Research Group, one of Anil Dash's "Leaders of the New School", member of Anil Dash's Expert Labs / Blue State Digital * David Eaves - Personal Democracy Media * Juliette Kayyem * First Draft - funded by Google Labs, partnered with Al Jazeera, managed by Mohamed Adel of Global Voices * Tarek Masoud - Muslim Brotherhood supporter https://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/files/documents/masoud%20final-revised.pdf funded by George Soros, member of CFR * Khalil G. Muhammad - great-grandson of Elijah Muhammad * Nick Sinai - deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States, partner at Insight Venture Partners with Jerry Murdock of the Aspen Institute * Jonathan Zittrain of MIT Media Lab, co-founder of Berkman Center Shorenstein Center Politics and Government Research https://shorensteincenter.org/research-publications/politics-government-research/ https://archive.is/gJbMU * Donna Brazile - former DNC chair * Wael Ghonim - Google, helped overthrow Egypt for the Muslim Brotherhood * Zack Exley - New Organizing Institute, led staffing at Wikipedia * Markus Prior of the Woodrow Wilson Center * Helen Boaden - BBC former head of news * Marilyn W. Thompson - Washington Post * Jackie Calmes - Los Angeles Times Others: * Vivek Kundra is a fellow with the Berkman Center and with the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. Vivek Kundra was appointed as the first United States Chief Information Officer by President Obama Shorenstein Center financiers include: http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/942/942975150/942975150_201412_990.pdf * Graham Allison, director of the Belfer Center * Glenn Shannon, Thomas W. Hart, Carole Shorenstein Hayes, Lydia Shorenstein of Shorenstein Properties * Doug Elmendorf of the Hamilton Project Berkman Center for Internet and Technology http://web.archive.org/web/20140724235037/http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/about/support Funded by, publicly: * Arcadia Fund of Peter Baldwin, Lisbet Rausing, and Jacob Rothschild * Craigslist * Ford Foundation * Interculture Foundation of Al-Husein Madhany of the Pacific Council on International Policy * Getty Trust * Google * MacArthur Foundation * Microsoft * Omidyar Network * Open Society Institute * USAID and US State Department Partnered with: * Digital Media and Learning network of David Theo Goldberg and Mimi Ito * Microsoft Research New England * MIT Media Lab * International Development Research Center (IDRC) of Canada * Riot Games * Women, Action, and the Media (Jaclyn Friedman, Jessica Valenti, Adria Richards, Jamia Wilson) Staff and Alumni include: * John Palfrey, co-director * Joey Ayoub - posted a report from Global Voices which cited Electronic Intifada * Mike Ananny, USC Annenberg * Chris Babbitt, WilmerHale * Elery Roberts Biddle - advocacy director at Global Voices * Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology * Catherine Bracy * John Collins - head of Red Flag USA * Amalia Deloney, Center for Media Justice / MAG-Net * Borja Echevarria de la Gandara, deputy managing editor of El Pais * Andy Ellis - chief technology officer, Akamai * Camille Francois - principal researcher at Google Jigsaw * Eric Gordon, DMLHub * Tim Hwang, Awesome Foundation (Ruth Harnisch), Public Policy Counsel for Government Affairs at Google * Vivek Kundra, Shorenstein Center fellow * Alexander Macgillivray, General Counsel and Trust and Safety lead at Twitter to 2013 * Amanda Michel, New Organizing Institute * Rebecca MacKinnon, Global Voices co-founder, Wikimedia Foundation board * Isaac Mao, Chinese billionaire, United Capital Investment Group * Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Microsoft Research * Kathryn Peters - Democracy Works * Karin Pettersson - political editor-in-chief at Aftonbladet which ran the bogus organ theft story * Dena T. Sacco, Kinder and Braver World Project, Multistate Working Group, MacArthur Foundation, California Endowment * Alvand Salehi - Senior Technology Advisor at the White House * Pamela Samuelson and Jillian York, Electronic Frontier Foundation * Doc Searls, Dave Winer * Molly Shaffer, Creative Commons * Elizabeth Stark and Henry Vehovec, Noank Media * Jessica Tatlock, Internet Safety Technical Task Force, Multistate Working Group on Social Networking * Jessica Valenti * Luis Villa, Wikimedia Foundation * Jillian York, EFF Anti-Hate Speech Initiative * Sascha Meinrath - New America Foundation * Farah Pandith * Shahed Amanullah Harvard Safra Center * Larry Lessig - director * Myisha Cherry - panelist with Soraya Chemaly of Women's Media Center (board includes Iran supporters and UC Annenberg's Stacy Smith) and Center for Democracy and Technology * Aaron Swartz - Reddit co-founder, died in police custody, Reddit afterwards heavily censored * Danielle Allen - board member of Mellon Foundation Harvard Kennedy School * Samantha Power