Louise Eisenhardt Lectures

  2025 – Asma Khan, Restaurateur; Author; Chef Advocate for the United Nations World Food Programme Darjeeling Express

   2024 – Margaret Hoover, Host of A Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

  2023 – Anima Anandkumar, PhD, Bren Professor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences at California Institute of Technology

  2022 – Esther Duflo, PhD, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences

  2021 – Sarah Thomas, The NFL’s First Female Official 

  2020 – Cancelled

   2019 – Maria Konnikova, PhD, NYT’s best-selling author of The Biggest Bluff 

   2018 – Angela Duckworth, Founder & CEO of Character Lab, & author of the bestseller Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance

  2017 – Amy Cuddy, PhD, Social psychologist & Professor at Harvard Business School

  2016 – Petra Kaufmann, MD, MSc, Director of the Office of Rare Diseases Research & the Division of Clinical Innovation at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

  2015 – Sally Satel, MD, Practicing psychiatrist & author of multiple publications

  2014 – Anne Marie Slaughter, PhD, President & CEO of New America Foundation

  2013 – Carolyn M. Clancy, MD, Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality

   2012 – Cynthia Breazeal, ScD, Associate Professor of Media Arts & Sciences at MIT, Director of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Laboratory

   2011 – Kristen Iversen, Author of Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth

   2010 – Mary Sue Coleman, PhD, President of the University of Michigan

   2009 – Geraldine Brooks, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of People of the Book, Nine Parts of Desire, March, & others

   2008 – Marcia Angell, MD, Editor of New England Journal of Medicine

  2007 – Sally Ride, PhD, American Astronaut