Brian Kelly
Editor and Chief Content Officer, U.S. News & World Report(Jan 1998 - Till Now)
Brian Kellyis the Editor and Chief Content Officer of U.S. News & World Report, a publisher of news and consumer information products. Kelly is a member of the executive committee with primary responsibility for all the company’s content, which includes the website usnews.com, print and e-book guides on education and health care, and a conference and events business.
Kelly has led the transformation of U.S. News from a traditional print news magazine to a largely digital publishing company with a range of influential products including the Best Colleges and Best Hospitals rankings, and the new Best Countries rankings. Under his leadership, usnews.comhas gained an audience of more than 40 million monthly users. Kelly and his team also expanded U.S. News’ Money, Personal Finance, and Health content and launched new Car and Travel products as well as two national conferences.
He is the chairman the Healthcare of Tomorrow conference, as well as U.S. News STEM Solutions, a national forum that brings together corporations, educators and policymakers working to help the U.S. fill jobs by creating a more skilled and competitive workforce.
Kelly joined U.S. News in 1998 after serving as a senior editor at The Washington Post; he was named editor at U.S. News in April 2007.
Kelly is the author of “Adventures in Porkland” (Random House, 1992) a study of the congressional budget process. With Mark London, he co-authored “The Four Little Dragons” (Simon & Shuster, 1989), an exploration of the developing economies of Asia, and “Amazon” (Harcourt Brace, 1983), a look at the economic and cultural forces behind the clearing of the Amazon rainforest. They published a sequel, “The Last Forest,” in 2007.
Kelly has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including CBS This Morning, NBC’s Today Show, White House Chronicles and National Public Radio. He is a frequent speaker and panelist on issues related to media, national policy, politics and education. He is a Vice President of the Economic Club of Washington and a Board member of The Children’s Inn of The National Institutes of Health.
Ben Rose
Investment Advisor, Goldman Sachs
Ben is an investment advisor in the Investment Management Division of Goldman Sachs where he advises high-net-worth individuals, families and select foundations and endowments. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs’s Investment Management Division, Ben worked in a variety of roles throughout the firm, serving as an investment banker and later directly supporting the firm’s Chief Administrative Officer who was responsible for the firm’s infrastructure globally. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Ben spent time in the National Economic Council at The White House.
Ben has a BA with distinction in History from Yale University, where he was also a member of the Varsity Lightweight Crew Team. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School and was awarded a HBS Leadership Fellowship to work alongside the senior management team at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York following graduation. Ben serves on the Advisory
Board of the National Executive Service Corps, which recruits former executives to serve on consultant teams to deliver high-quality solutions to nonprofit organizations. He also serves on the Board of the Harvard Business School Club of Washington D.C. and the Board of the Holy Cross Hospital Foundation in Silver Spring, Maryland