Cohort, 2012, Industry, Business & Consulting, Sector, Private Sector, Ryan Ruskin serves as president and chief operating officer of the Ruskin Group, a 105-year-old family packaging company and industry leader in sustainability. He previously worked as a consultant with A.T. Kearney, focusing o...

Cohort, 2010, Industry, Government, Policy, & Public Affairs, Sector, Academia, Charles Wheelan is a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College. He's the author of "Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science," a monthly columnist on Yahoo! Finance, and a ...

Cohort, 2017, Industry, Science, Technology, & Innovation, Sector, Private Sector, Now at Rivian, Rebecca Delaney was the youngest engineering team leader for the design firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill’s (SOM) sustainable engineering studio in Chicago. Delaney led multidisciplinary sustain...

Cohort, 2016, Industry, Marketing, Communications, & Media, Sector, Private Sector, With a unique multicultural upbringing and an extensive entrepreneurial background, John Trainor was previously a publisher and general manager of the Chicago Tribune's Hoy newspaper. In this role, he oversaw the ...

The United States is perceived as a greater threat around the world, is unable to convince its own public of what it has deemed a threat (China) and will struggle to enlist the help of allies.

Cohort, 2020, Industry, Advocacy & International Development, Sector, Non-profit, At the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors (RPA), Jon Quinn works with individual, family, institutional, and corporate donors on the strategy and implementation of their charitable giving. In his time at RPA he has s...

October 1, 2019, RESEARCH Report by Christina D. Economos , Erin Hennessy , and Ariella R. Korn, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), This paper argues that combining two movements in obesity research could turn the tide on obesity., Introduction, Obesity is a growing pandemic. The complexity of the p...

October 1, 2018, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Karl Friedhoff, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), The US public views North Korea’s nuclear program as one of the top threats facing the country., Introduction, The 2018 Chicago Council Survey finds that the US public views North Korea’s nuclea...