Dr. Larry Brilliant is a physician and epidemiologist, CEO of Pandefense Advisory, Senior Counselor at the Skoll Foundation, and a CNN medical analyst. Previously, he served on the board of the Skoll Foundation and was chair of the advisory board of the NGO Ending Pandemics, president and CEO of the Skoll Global Threats Fund, vice president of Google, and founding executive director of Google.org. He co-founded the Seva Foundation, an NGO whose programs have given back sight to more than 5 million blind people in two dozen countries. In addition, he co-founded The Well, a progenitor of today's social media platforms.

Earlier in his career, Larry was an associate professor of epidemiology and international health planning at the University of Michigan. He lived in India for nearly a decade, where he was a key member of the successful WHO Smallpox Eradication Programme for SE Asia, as well as the WHO Polio Eradication Programme. He was the founding chair of the National Biosurveillance Advisory Subcommittee (NBAS), which was created by presidential directive. He was a member of the World Economic Forum's Agenda Council on Catastrophic Risk and a "first responder" for CDC's bioterrorism response effort and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Recent awards include the TED Prize, Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People, "International Public Health Hero," and four honorary doctorates. He has lectured at Oxford, Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford and many other colleges and spoken at the Royal Society, the Pentagon, NIH, the United Nations, and some of the largest companies and nonprofits all over the world. He has written for Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, Foreign Affairs, the Hill, and was part of the Global Business Network, where he learned scenario planning. Larry is the author of Sometimes Brilliant, a memoir about working to eradicate smallpox; and a guide to managing vaccination programs entitled "The Management of Smallpox Eradication."