As the President of the Kurdish region, Barzani seems more a plainspoken populist than a deep thinker on policy.
"Cyma is a deep thinker on a strategic level: 'What pieces do I need to gather to get where I want to go?' " Ms. McGrath says.
In all the excitement, he conveniently forgets to point out that he had a seat on Lehman Brothers' board when it sank last September.A deep thinker on the workings of markets, Mr Kaufman can be forgiven for not wanting to personalise the crisis.
For example, in February, Representative Paul Ryan, who is somewhat inexplicably regarded as the party's deep thinker on matters economic, harangued Mr. Bernanke on how terrible it is to "debase" a currency and pointed to a rise in commodity prices in late 2010 and early 2011 as evidence that inflation was finally coming.
This week on Technotopia I talked to Osama Hashmi, founder of Mocha 7 and a deep thinker on the topics of AI, blockchain, and the future.
And Vollmar won't be the only deep thinker on the future of food and the farm to take the stage at SF Disrupt 2015.
Warren Spector is a deep thinker on games, and feels that, a little shy of 60, he still has more to give to the industry.
He was a deep thinker on the game and critics believed him to be tactically advanced, but his pessimism, clashes with the selectors and inability to get the best out of his players led most commentators to rate him a poor leader.
Jaron Lanier, one of the deepest thinkers on the impacts of technology on society and an "innovator in residence" at the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California, worries about companies like Facebook and Twitter not paying their users while the people lucky enough to work for them become rich from free user-generated content.
TOWERING ABOVE THE ARCHES AND IVY, 13-story Fine Hall is home to the Department of Mathematics and to some of the deepest thinkers on campus.
