Established in 2010 at Guild Hall, the Hamptons Institute (HI) began as a weekend symposium featuring leaders in their fields discussing ideas that shape the community and the world.
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2010
Restoring the Integrity of the U.S. Financial Markets
Moderated by Joe Nocera, with Michael Greenberger, George Soros, and Elizabeth Warren
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Building the Infrastructure for a New Economy
Moderated by Jeff Madrick, with Robert Johnson, Van Jones (CNN Host), and Bernard Schwartz
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Investing in Arts and Culture
Moderated by Lisa Dennison (Sotheby’s North and South America), with Eric Fischl, Margo Lion (The President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities), and Damian Woetzel (former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet).
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The Future of News and Media
Moderated by Ken Auletta, with Jeff Zucker (President and CEO of NBC Universal), Mort Zuckerman (chairman and editor in chief of U.S. News and World Report), and Craig Newmark (Founder of Craigslist)
Mercedes Matter in the 1930s and 1940s
Joan Marter (Editor of Woman’s Art Journal)
The Good, the Bad, and the Very Bad: An Art Critic Talks About Art, Demons, and Other Things That Have to Do With Making Art Today
Jerry Saltz (art critic)
2011
American Fiscal Fitness: Where Do We Go From Here
Peter Orszag (President Obama’s Budget Director), Jeff Madrick, Senior Fellow, Roosevelt Institute)
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Conversation on Global Challenges in Health and Human Rights
Paul Farmer (Harvard Physician and Social Anthropologist) in conversation with Ellen Chesler (Senior Fellow, Roosevelt Institute)
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The Producers
Bob Balaban (actor), Roy Furman (theater producer), James Nederlander (theater producer), and Daryl Roth (theater producer)
Jobs, Debt, and China: America’s Top Economic Challenges
Byron Wein, Jared Bernstein (Chair of United States Council of Economic Advisers), and Zachary Karabell
The Outlook in the Middle East
Karen Greenberg, Daniel Yergin (Vice Chairman of S&P Global), Jane Harman (Former Congresswoman), and Hisham Melhem
The Obama Presidency
Lynn Sherr, Robert Caro, George Packer (New Yorker magazine), and H.W. Brands (Professor, UT Austin)
The Evolution of Digital
Michael Gutkowski (LMK Mobile), Christine Cook (The Daily), Michael Kelley (AdGenesis), Anthony Riscato (Tremor Media), Chris Cunningham (Appsavvy), David Stewart (Jen Beckman Projects)
2012
Perspectives on New York as a 21st Century City
Paul Goldberger (Pulitzer Prize winner for journalism), Robert Hammond (Co-founder and Executive Director of Friends of the High Line), Leslie Koch, and Joe Rose
Politics and Policy Scorecard: A Bipartisan Conversation
Steven Kroft, interviewing Kirsten Gillibrand
Women Rising in the World: Implications for Global Peace and Prosperity
Ellen Chesler, Leymah Roberta Gbowee (2011 Nobel Peace Prize laureate), Dina Habib Powell (President of the Goldman Sachs Foundation), and Kati Marton (author and human rights activist)
America’s Economic Future: A Bipartisan Conversation
Ken Miller (Ken Miller Capital), Cyrus Amir-Mokri (Assistant Secretary, Department of the Treasury), Joe Nocera (The New York Times), Joseph Perella (Morgan Stanley)
Forensic Connoisseurship: Jackson Pollock and the Authentic Eye
Francis O’Connor
2013
Innovations in Education
Jacqueline Adams, Kahlil Byrd, Priscilla Campbell, Josh Zoia, and Reena Bhatia
After Sandy: What Can We Do About Climate Change?
Steve Cohen, Sabine Marx, Adam Sobel (Columbia University’s Earth Institute and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory)
United States & China: Future Prospects
Elizabeth Economy, James Steinberg, Frank Newman
2014-2015
The Hamptons Institute went on hiatus following the passing of HI founder and Guild Hall Chair, Mickey Straus.
2016
Presidential Politics
Moderator: Ken Auletta, author, journalist, media critic for The New Yorker
Panelists: Howard Dean, politician; former Chair, Democratic National Committee; former Governor of Vermont; Founder, Democracy for America John Podhoretz, author; editor, Commentary magazine; columnist, The New York Post; former speechwriter to Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush Katrina vanden Heuvel, author; editor and publisher, The Nation; member, Council on Foreign Relations; political commentator for ABC, MSNBC, CNN and PBS; web columnist, The Washington Post; contributing writer, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and The Boston Globe
The Supreme Court
Moderator: Alec Baldwin, actor, producer
Panelists: Michael Keegan, President, People for the American Way
Adam Liptak, journalist, lawyer, Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times
Michael Waldman, President, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
The Obama Legacy
Moderator: Katie Couric, journalist and author; Yahoo! Global News Anchor; former television host on all Big Three television networks
Monica Crowley, author; political/foreign affairs analyst, Fox News; columnist, Online
Opinion Editor, The Washington Times; former MSNBC anchor, radio host, and Foreign
Policy Assistant to Richard Nixon
Kurt Andersen, novelist, host of NPR’s Studio 360
2017
The New Normal in News: Ideology vs Fact
Panel Discussion moderated by Alec Baldwin featuring panelists Amy Goodman, Host and Executive Producer of Democracy Now! with Nicholas Lemann, Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism, Dean Emeritus Columbia Journalism School and Bob Garfield, Host, NPR’s On the Media.
The Trump Presidency & the Constitution
Jeffrey Rosen, President of the Constitution Center in conversation with Professor Michael J. Klarman, a Kirkland and Ellis Professor at Harvard Law School.
Climate Change in a New “Environment”
Panel Discussion moderated by: David Rattray, Editor, East Hampton Star with Naomi Oreskes, Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Alex Soros, Founder of the Alexander Soros Foundation, and Rhea Suh, President of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
2018
Plastics Pollution
Alec Baldwin, Moderator
Dr. Barbara Hendrie, Director, North America-UN Environment
Dune Ives, Director, Lonely Whale
Tierney Thys, PhD, Marine Biologist, Science Educator, and National Geographic explorer
#MeToo: We Are All Accountable
Torah Bontrager, The Amish Heritage Foundation, which advocates for the rights of woman and children and educates on Amish issues.
Don McPherson, activist, feminist, and College Football Hall-of-Famer
Nancy Schwartzman, documentary film director, producer, and media strategist
The Opioid Epidemic
Elizabeth Vargas, Author & Journalist
Admiral Sandy Winnefeld, Founder of S.A.F.E.
Dr. Joseph Garbely, D.O., FASAM, Vice President of Medical Services and Medical Director at Caron Treatment Centers
Patrick Radden Keefe, Staff Writer, The New Yorker
2019
The Youth Climate Movement Could Save the Planet
Alexandria Villaseñor, Co-founder of US Youth Climate Strike and founder of Earth Uprising
Jerome Foster II, student of Washington Leadership Academy, founder of TAU VR
Dr. Michael Mann, Director of the Earth System Science Center, Penn State University
Gordian Raacke, Executive Director of Renewable Energy Long Island
Moderator: Jessy Tolkan, Chief Campaigns Officer and Executive Director of Purpose Labs
Defining America: Beyond Immigration
Minerva Perez, Sag Harbor Person of the Year and Executive Director of Organizacion Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island (OLA)
Sandra Dunn, Associate Director of Organizacion Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island (OLA)
Carlos Sandoval, Filmmaker and Writer
Carlo Albán, Actor
Moderated by April Gornik, Artist
The Future of Women in Leadership
Cecile Richards, former President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Kathy Hochul, Lieutenant Governor of New York
Brette McSweeney, President of Eleanor’s Legacy
Kimberly Jean-Pierre, New York State Assembly
Taylor Darling, New York State Assembly
Avery Reed, Student Activist