
Steve Cortes
CNN Political Commentator, Financial Market Expert and Author
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CNN Political Commentator, Financial Market Expert and Author

President and CEO, Women’s World Banking; Author of There’s Nothing Micro About a Billion Women: Making Finance Work for Women

Award-Winning Leadership, Diversity and Inclusion Strategist

Emmy-Award Winning TV Personality, Style Expert, Fashion Designer, and NYT Bestselling Author

17th U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health (2021-2025); Admiral, United States Public Health Service (2021-2025); Pennsylvania Secretary of Health (2018-2021), acting capacity (2017-2018); Pennsylvania Physician General (2015-2017); Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine (1996-2021)

Founder and CEO, hellohive; Champion of Diversity and Next-Gen Talent

Bestselling Author, Singlehandedly. Learning to Unhide and Embrace Connection; Former CEO, Harlem Educational Activities Fund; Former Associate Executive Director, Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC

New Orleans Saints Legend Living with ALS; Founder of Team Gleason; Congressional Gold Medal Recipient

Former Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, 3M

Founding Partner, Shatter Fund and Investor and Advisor

American Storyteller; Cable News Commentator; Journalist

Harvard Researcher; Author; Gender Equity Expert

Afghanistan's first female fix-wing Pilot; Aviator; Besselling Co-author of Open Skies: My Life as Afghanistan's First Female Pilot

Expert on Entrepreneurship; Diversity Leadership; African American Consumer Market; Change Agent; Author

Founder, Shared Sisterhood; Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School

Edward R. Murrow Professor and Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Former Editor in Chief, TIME Magazine

U.S. Ambassador to The Kingdom of the Netherlands (2022-2025)

Author of The Necessary Journey ; Diversity and Inclusion Strategist; CEO, Ellavate Solutions

Sociology Professor, University of Maryland and Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Author and Educator

Founder and CEO, Brud

Founder and Principal Consultant, Change for Social Good

CBFW Founder, Philanthropist, Chancellor of Asian University for Women, Best-Selling Author

Founder and Former CEO, Future Caucus (formerly Millennial Action Project)
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