Philip Lader

Non-executive Chairman WPP Group and Founder of Renaissance Weekends

"Well it deserves 10,000,000 more suscribers if you will, but what is important is that it has become a significant journal to demonstrate ideas; the reality of ideas and to help people understand the personalities who are shaping and who are implementing those ideas and there is real power just in that."

Bill Emmott

Former Editor in Chief, The Economist

"It’s reassuring to be invited back a second time. I do see myself as a friend of PODER, Isaac Lee, and of the whole project."

- PODER Magazine, April 2004

Bruce Ramer

Chairman Emeritus American Jewish Committee and Chairman of the AJC Latino and Latin American Institute

"The people who planned the event were thoughtful and constructive. The design was excellent. Those who attended were diverse and fascinating."

- PODER Magazine, May 2005

Jack Devine

President of the Arkin Group and former Director of Worldwide Operations of the CIA

"Most of the discussion in the corridors, over lunch, and at cocktails related in one way or another to the substance of the panel discussions. There was a consistent commentary that the attendees were ‘real players’ and how much that added to the meaningfulness of the event"

- PODER Magazine, May 2005

Gustavo Cisneros

President and CEO of the Cisneros Group of Companies

I would like to express my thanks to Isaac Lee, editor in chief of PODER; Bill Emmott, editor in chief of The Economist and John Clarkeson, of the Boston Consulting Group. They deserve our gratitude for their outstanding professional and personal qualities, and for the excellent job they have done in organizing this forum.

- PODER Magazine, April 2004.