The Hamptons Institute, a forum for leading figures to discuss the most significant subjects of our time, returns in Summer 2026. Please check back in April for the line-up and dates.
Since 2025, The Hamptons Institute has been curated by Ellen Chesler and Patricia Duff and co-presented by Guild Hall and The Common Good.
About The Hamptons Institute
The Hamptons Institute was established in 2011 by Ellen Chesler and Guild Hall’s late Chairman Mickey Straus. It has featured leaders in their fields discussing ideas that shape the community and the world. Past moderators and panelists have included Ken Auletta, Kahlil Byrd, Robert Caro, Katie Couric, Paul Farmer, Leymah Gbowee, Kirsten Gillibrand, Jonathan Haidt, Kathy Hochul, Glenn Hutchins, Van Jones, Steven Kroft, Ken Miller, Perri Peltz, Cecile Richards, Anthony Romero, Lynn Sherr, Robert Smigel, Alex Soros, George Soros, Gillian Tett, Elizabeth Warren, and Jeff Zucker, among others.
View the full archive HERE.
Principal Sponsor: Lisa Rosenblum
Additional Support: Julie Raynor Gross
THE COMMON GOOD
The Common Good is a leading pro-democracy, nonprofit organization which features important leaders and experts to inform engagement in the political process. Here are just a few of their hundreds of past speakers: Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush; Secretaries John Kerry, Antony Blinken, Henry Kissinger, Leon Panetta, and Jeh Johnson; Majority Leaders Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer; Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Congressman John Lewis, Senators Lindsey Graham, Elissa Slotkin, and John McCain; Governors Ned Lamont, Kathy Hochul, Tim Kaine, and Larry Hogan; foreign affairs experts such as Richard Haass and Ian Bremmer, U.S. and foreign Ambassadors such as Frank Wisner and Martin Indyk, Ron Prosor (Is), François Delattre (Fr), activists like Gloria Steinem, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Lily Ledbetter, historians like Jon Meacham, Heather Cox Richardson, and H. W. Brands ,journalists, authors and editors such as Marty Baron, Harry Evans, and Jill Abramson, Fareed Zakaria, Carl Bernstein, Lawrence Wright, Steve Coll, and Gillian Tett; entertainment figures such as Denzel Washington, Jane Fonda, Kevin Costner and Chevy Chase; business leaders such as Mike Bloomberg, Ray Dalio, Glenn Hutchins and John Bogle, political strategists like Paul Begala, Tim Miller, and Donna Brazile, commentator/ broadcast journalists like Lesley Stahl, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Ari Melber, Jonathan Capehart, Molly Jong-Fast, and Gayle King, and many others. Thousands of audience members have gained invaluable insights about today’s current events from their distinguished roster of speakers.
