Steve Forbes is chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media. His newest project is the podcast "What's Ahead," where he engages the world's top newsmakers, politicians, and pioneers in business and economics in honest conversations meant to challenge traditional conventions as well as featuring his signature views on the intersection of society, economy, and policy. Mr. Forbes helped create the highly acclaimed public television documentary, In Money We Trust?, which was produced under the auspices of Maryland Public television. The film was inspired by the book he co-authored, Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global Economy - and What We Can Do About It. His latest book is Inflation: What It Is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It, co-authored by Elizabeth Ames and Nathan Lewis. Mr. Forbes writes editorials for each issue of Forbes under the heading of "Fact and Comment." A widely respected economic prognosticator, he is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times. The prize was formerly given by US Steel Corporation to the financial journalist whose economic forecasts for the coming year proved most accurate. In both 1996 and 2000, Mr. Forbes campaigned vigorously for the Republican nomination for the Presidency. Key to his platform were a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security system for working Americans, parental choice of schools for their children, term limits, and a strong national defense.

Mark Mills is a co-founding partner in Montrose Lane, a software-centric energy-tech venture fund, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University's engineering school. He writes for numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, and his online PragerU videos have been viewed over 10 million times. Mr. Mills is the author of The Cloud Revolution (2021). His previous books include Digital Cathedrals: The Information Infrastructure Era, (2020), Work In The Age Of Robots (2018), and The Bottomless Well, (2005), about which Bill Gates said, "This is the only book I've ever seen that really explains energy." He served as Chairman/CTO of ICx Technologies helping take it public in a 2007 IPO. Mr. Mills served in President Reagan's White House Science Office, and earlier, was an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors and fiber optics, earning several patents at Bell Northern Research (Canada's Bell Labs) and RCA Semiconductor.

John McIntyre is one of the early new media political entrepreneurs, co-founding RealClearPolitics (RCP) in 2000. RealClearPolitics has become the go-to digital source for Washington news and information. The RCP Poll Average is considered the gold standard in political polling and is widely used by news organizations around the world. Mr. McIntyre is a long-time political commentator, having appeared on CNBC, FOX News, CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, Reuters, and the BBC to provide political insight and analysis. He is one of the few political analysts to have understood the impact of Donald Trump on US politics. As a weekly guest on Larry Kudlow's nationally syndicated radio program, Mr. McIntyre reported throughout the 2016 election that candidate Donald Trump had a very good chance to win the White House.

Lindsey Bell is chief strategist at 248 Ventures, where she provides insights and guidance on equity market investing strategies for institutional clients, advisors, and high net-worth clients. Prior to 248 Ventures, she was the chief markets & money strategist at Ally where she was responsible for the development of the firms investment outlook, as well as strategies for making smart money decisions. Ms. Bells unique ability to connect the dots between data and real life stems from her deep background as an analyst, researcher, and portfolio manager at organizations including J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank, and S&P Global (CFRA Research). She is a BetterInvesting board member, which is a non-profit that helps create investment clubs to teach individual investors how to become successful long-term investors. Finally, Ms. Bell was named one of American Bankers Most Powerful Women in Banking: Next 2021 and is an honoree of the 2020 Investment News 40 Under 40. Bell graduated from the University of Pittsburgh.