Timothy and Sharon Ubben Lecturers
The history of the Ubben Lecture Series includes 37 years of speeches and class visits from some of the world's most recognized scholars, leaders and artists, with 120 programs presented since 1986.
| Ubben Lecture Series Archives 1986-2023 |
Brad Stevens President of basketball operations, Boston Celtics |
Maria Ressa Nobel Prize Recipient |
Tamika Catchings Olympian & Basketball Hall of Famer |
Ken Jennings Jeopardy! Champion and Author |
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Condoleezza Rice Educator, Author, Former US Secretary of State |
John Kasich Jr. Former Ohio Governor & Congressman, Author & Presidential Candidate |
Juan Manuel Santos Former Colombian President, Nobel Peace Prize Recipient |
Jenna Fischer Award-Winning Actress (The Office) & Author |
David Hanson & Sophia CEO of Hanson Robotics & His Creation |
Bill Rasmussen '54 Founder of ESPN, Entrepreneur |
Malala Yousafzai Activist, Author & Nobel Peace Prize Recipient |
David Cameron Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. '57 Civil Rights Legend & Presidential Adviser |
Leslie Odom Jr. Tony Award-Winning Hamilton Actor |
Arne Duncan Former US Secretary of Education |
Douglas Hallward-Driemeier '89 Attorney, Supreme Court Advocate |
Yeonmi Park North Korean Defector & Human Rights Activist |
Andrew Luck National Football League Quarterback |
Dan Quayle '69 The 44th Vice President of the United States, Chairman of Cerberus Global Investments |
Piper Kerman Author, Orange Is the New Black |
Jimmy Kimmel Host and Executive Producer, Jimmy Kimmel Live! |
David Brooks New York Times Columnist and Author |
Michio Kaku Theoretical Physicist and Author |
Martin Luther King III Human Rights Advocate and Community Activist |
Bret Baier '92 Fox News Channel Anchor |
Ron Paul Three-Time Presidential Candidate and Former Congressman |
Jane Goodall Primatologist, Ethologist, Anthropologist and UN Messenger of Peace |
Carl Bernstein Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Author |
Candy Crowley CNN Chief Political Correspondent |
Leymah Gbowee Activist and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient |
Bill Clinton The 42nd President of the United States, Founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation |
Jimmy Wales and Nicholas Carr Wikipedia Founder; Author of The Shallows |
Lee Hamilton '52 Former Congressman and Veteran Statesman |
Oscar Arias Former President of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize Recipient |
Rebecca Skloot Author, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks |
F.W. de Klerk Former President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize Winner |
Jason Reitman Award-Winning Director and Screenwriter |
Steven Levitt Economist and Co-Author of SuperFreakonomics |
Howard Dean and Karl Rove Former Governor and DNC Chair; Former Senior Adviser to President George W. Bush |
Jane Pauley Award-Winning Journalist |
Todd Rundgren Musician, Producer and Technology Pioneer |
David Plouffe Obama 2008 Campaign Manager |
Greg Mortenson Author of Three Cups of Tea |
Tony Blair Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
Frank Warren PostSecret Founder |
Ralph Nader Consumer Advocate & Presidential Candidate |
Jim Alling '83 President, Starbucks USA |
Mitch Albom Bestselling Author and Sportswriter |
E.O. Wilson Biologist and Pulitzer-Prize Winning Author |
Charles Fishman Author, The Wal-Mart Effect |
Mikhail Gorbachev Former Soviet Leader and Nobel Laureate |
Naomi Wolf Author and Feminist |
Paul Rusesabagina Real-Life Hero of Hotel Rwanda |
Liz Murray "Homeless to Harvard" |
Peyton Manning 2003 National Football League Co-MVP |
Sen. Richard G. Lugar Chair, Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III Former Presidential Envoy to Iraq |
William S. Cohen Former Defense Secretary, Senator & Congressman |
Eric Schlosser Author and Investigative Journalist |
Paul A. Volcker Former Federal Reserve Chairman |
Gen. Wesley K. Clark (Ret.) Presidential Candidate and Military Analyst |
Spike Lee Director, Producer and Writer |
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield Founders of "Ben & Jerry's" Ice Cream |
Mike Krzyzewski Head Basketball Coach, Duke University |
Harry Belafonte Entertainer and Human Rights Activist |
David McCullough Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author, Historian and Television Host |
Robert Gates Former Director, Central Intelligence Agency |
Robert H. Waterston, M.D., Ph.D. Director of the Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University |
John Major Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
Burton L. Gerber Retired CIA Officer |
Norman J. Ornstein Author, Columnist and CBS Election Analyst |
Samuel E. Mann Methodist Minister, Human Rights Spokesman |
William J. Bennett Former US Secretary of Education |
Andrew Young Former UN Ambassador and Atlanta Mayor |
Julian Bond NAACP Chairman, Civil Rights and Peace Activist |
Oliver Sacks Neurologist and Author, Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat |
Ferid Murad '58 1998 Nobel Laureate in Medicine |
George Gilder Economist, Technology Consultant and Commentator |
Doris Kearns Goodwin Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian and Bestselling Author and Commentator |
Alan Simpson Retired US Senator, Attorney and Author |
David R. Gergen Presidential Advisor, Journalist and Political Commentator |
Sam Donaldson Correspondent, ABC News |
Seymour Hersh Pulitzer Prize-Winner and Author, The Dark Side of Camelot |
Jonathan Kozol Educator, Writer and Activist |
Gloria Borger Columnist, US News and World Report, and CBS News Analyst |
Christopher Edley, Jr. Senior Adviser to President Clinton and Author |
Gwen Ifill Correspondent, NBC News |
Roger Wilkins Educator, Writer, NPR Commentator and Activist |
Bill Bradley Former US Senator and Basketball Hall of Famer |
Benazir Bhutto Former Prime Minister of Pakistan |
Sister Helen Prejean Prison Activist and Author of Dead Man Walking |
Dr. David Ho TIME's 1996 Person of the Year, AIDS Researcher |
Shimon Peres Former Prime Minister of Israel and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient |
H. Ross Perot Business Executive and Presidential Candidate |
Barbara Bush Former First Lady |
James Lovell Former Astronaut and Apollo 13 Commander |
Bob Woodward Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist, Assistant Managing Editor, The Washington Post |
General Colin Powell (Ret.) Former Chairman, US Joint Chiefs of Staff |
Lynne Cheney Former Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities |
Ken Burns Emmy Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker |
George Will Pulitzer Prize-Winning Columnist, Newsweek & The Washington Post |
Allen Neuharth Founder, USA Today |
Brian Mulroney Former Prime Minister of Canada |
David S. Broder Pulitzer Prize-Winning Political Commentator |
Paul Tsongas Former US Senator and Presidential Candidate |
Carl Rowan Journalist and Author |
Leon Lederman Physicist and Nobel Laureate |
Tom Wicker Author, Commentator and Former New York Times Columnist |
Jesse Jackson Civil Rights Leader and Two-Time Presidential Candidate |
William J. Bennett Former US Secretary of Education |
Margaret Thatcher Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
David R. Brower Environmentalist |
Willy Brandt Former Chancellor of West Germany and Nobel Peace Prize Winner |
Lester C. Thurow Economist and Author |
Elie Wiesel Author and Nobel Peace Prize Winner |
William J. Bennett Former US Secretary of Education |
Zbigniew Brzezinski Former National Security Adviser |
Mary Frances Berry Historian and Member of the US Commission on Civil Rights |
Allan Bloom Philosopher and Author, Closing of the American Mind |
Gov. Richard Lamm (D) Colorado |