2012 Carmel Authors & Ideas Festival

Welcome to the Carmel Author's & Ideas Festival 2012
Please be patient while the slide show is loading!

DR ROBERT BALLARD is President, Ocean Exploration Trust and Explorer-in-Residence for the National Geographic Society. “I grew up wanting to be ...

DAVID BROOKS became an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times in September 2003. He has been a senior editor at ...

CHIP CONLEY is the world's most prolific boutique hotelier having overseen the conception, creation, and management of more than fifty unique properties ...

MARK CONROY, President of Regent Seven Seas Cruises, oversees all day-to-day operations, marketing and sales as well as forecastig revenue, profit goals ...

PAMELA A. EIBECK, PhD became the 24th President of University of the Pacific on July 1, 2009. Under her leadership, Pacific ...

SIR HAROLD EVANS is Editor at Large of Thomson Reuters. In this position, Evans moderates news-making conversations with global leaders and contributes ...

ALEX FILIPPENKO, Professor of Astronomy and Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor in the Physical Sciences at UC Berkeley, makes frequent use of ...

KATHY FRESTON is a New York Times best-selling author with a concentration on healthy living and conscious eating. Her books include Veganist: ...

ESTHER GOKHALE'S approach to back pain and sciatica evolved out of her own two-year struggle with a herniated disc, which surgery and ...

BRIAN GOLDMAN, MD is one of those rare individuals with success in two high pressure fields: medicine and broadcasting. He is a ...

After graduating in 1972 from Leeds College of Music in England, MIKE GREENSILL toured Europe and the Far East and lived in ...

ROBERT GREGG'S teaching and writing has centered in religious competition in the Mediterranean from the 1st century BCE – 12th century CE, ...

DR. RICHARD HAASS is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a position he has held since July 2003. The Council on ...

Born in Oxford, England, to parents from India, PICO IYER was educated at Eton, Oxford and Harvard, while officially growing up in ...

SCOTT JAMES is a veteran journalist and three-time Emmy award winner for his work in television news. In recent years he’s become ...

Many consider DONALD C. JOHANSON to be among the most important and accomplished paleoanthropologists of our time. Over the course of his ...

PROFESSOR STEVE JOORDENS is a cognitive psychologist with research specialization in Memory and Consciousness He has been a faculty member at the ...

DR. KAZEROONI one of the world’s leading experts in Robotics Human Augmentation, conducts research on robotics, control sciences, exoskeletons, human-machine systems and ...

ADAM LASHINSKY covers Silicon Valley and Wall Street for FORTUNE and is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street ...

SHELDON LAUBE consults with large enterprises around the world on creating internal innovation programs which inspire employees to create and implement new ...

MICHAEL DAVID LUKAS has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turkey, a night-shift proofreader in Tel Aviv, and a waiter at the Bread ...

MARTHA MUÑA is the National Student Director of KaeMe Foundation , a non-profit that works with Ghana’s Department of Social Welfare to support ...

PETER NORVIG is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery. At Google Inc. he ...

RAMON RESA never imagined he could become a doctor. Abandoned by his single mother, who had 5 kids before she was 20, ...

PETER RICCHIUTI (Ri-Shooty) is the business school professor you wish you had back in college! He teaches courses on the financial markets ...

TINA SEELIG is the executive director for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP) and the director of the National Center for Engineering ...

Juilliard faculty members and pianists MICHAEL SHINN and JESSICA CHOW SHINN perform regularly throughout the United States as the pianoSonoma Duo and ...

KATHRYN STOCKETT is the author of the 2009 debut novel and runaway hit THE HELP, which has spent over 100 weeks on ...

CAPTAIN CHESLEY B. “SULLY” SULLENBERGER, a true American hero whose expertise and actions saved the lives of his passengers and countless souls ...

BRIAN THOMAS SWIMME is a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from the ...

TAELEN THOMAS, known for his resonant delivery and powerful stage presence, portrays, in his own one-man plays, many well-known historical and literary figures, ...

DAMIAN WOETZEL is director of the Aspen Institute Arts Program. In addition to his role at the Institute, Woetzel is producer ...

Student Literary Days

Buy Tickets

Founders: Cynthia and Jim McGillen