Frank H. McCourt, Jr., is a civic entrepreneur and executive chairman of McCourt Global, a private family company with a 130-year legacy and steadfast commitment to building a better future through its work across the real estate, sports & media, technology, and capital investment industries.

Frank is also the founder and executive chairman of Project Liberty, a far-reaching effort to build an internet where individuals have control over their data, a voice in how platforms operate, and more access to the economic benefits of innovation. Project Liberty is supported by a $500-million commitment and encompasses the work of the Project Liberty Foundation – a 501(c)(3) with an international partner network that includes Georgetown University, Stanford University, Sciences Po, and other leading academic institutions and civic organizations – and Amplica Labs, a technology business launched by McCourt Global that is focused on developing the next generation of digital infrastructure. In 2021, Project Liberty released a groundbreaking, open internet protocol – the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP) – to support a new, healthier internet era.

A proud Georgetown University alumnus, Frank has served on the school’s Board of Directors for many years. In 2013, he made a $100 million founding investment to create Georgetown’s McCourt School of Public Policy. He expanded on this in 2021 with a $100 million investment to catalyze an inclusive pipeline of leaders and put the school on a path to becoming tuition-free.

Frank owns the French football club Olympique de Marseille and formerly owned the Los Angeles Dodgers. With family roots in infrastructure development and construction, Frank’s real estate work includes the development of Boston’s Seaport and large, mixed-use projects worldwide.

His forthcoming book, Our Biggest Fight: Reclaiming Liberty, Humanity, and Dignity in the Digital Age, will be published by Crown on March 12, 2024.

Jennifer Strong is a journalist covering the impact of frontier technologies on the way we live and work. She’s the creator of several top science and tech podcasts for newsrooms that include ProPublica, The Wall Street Journal, and MIT Technology Review.

Her reporting has been recognized by awards juries dozens of times, including six Webby and three Ambie, or Podcast Academy Award, nominations. Her narrative podcasts were finalist selections at the New York Festivals for the last two years, and a finalist for Podcast of the Year by The Drum Awards in London for a taping she did inside an experimental fighter plane.

Strong previously led long-form audio for The Wall Street Journal where she created and hosted the first three seasons of WSJ’s The Future of Everything, and where she was also an architect of the paper’s first digital audio efforts in the mid-2000s. As a radio anchor for Dow Jones, she hosted one of the very first newsroom podcast series, WSJ’s Tech News Briefing.

Strong has also produced a business show for NPR and reported on national security topics for PRI. She’s been a keynote stage host and moderator at the United Nations General Assembly, SXSW, Web Summit, Bio, Emtech, AI for Good Global Summit, The Future of Everything Festival, and many others.