The Economic Club of New York

Beth Ford

2026-10-06T20:48:28Z

Beth Ford

President & CEO
Land O'Lakes

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Beth Ford, a global thought leader and collaborator with a history of convening business and policy voices and conversations, is the well-tenured and influential president and CEO of Land O’Lakes, Inc. Bringing a valuable perspective on economic success and influence for both national business interests and rural America, Ford has led the Fortune 250 company and more than century-old farmer and retail member-owned cooperative since 2018.

Land O’Lakes, operating in all 50 states and 60 countries, touches half the harvested acres and 10,000 rural communities in the nation, and feeds 100 million animals each day. During her tenure, Land O’Lakes has focused on its members, the technology that enables them, and on ensuring the vibrance and connection of the communities in which they live and work, as recognized by the 60 Minutes piece “The Farmer’s Advocate.”

Ford, who was featured in the “Titans” category of TIME100 Most Influential Companies in the World and named one of the TIME100 Most Influential People, has brought her unique perspective to areas including trade, broadband access, immigration, global food security, and broad policy issues affecting working people. She is informed by her breadth of experience prior to Land O’Lakes in senior positions in seven companies in six industries.

Her time on the Boards of Directors for the Business Roundtable (chairing the Immigration Committee), Starbucks, BlackRock, Inc. and PACCAR, as well as numerous other industry, non-profit and university boards, have equipped her to address a wide array of issues. This perspective was noted specifically in numerous media recognitions, including being profiled in The New York Times, listed among Fortune’s 100 Most Powerful People in Business and landing No. 12 on their Most Powerful Women list in 2025.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from Iowa State University and a master’s degree in business from Columbia Business School. She is in the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Supply Chain Hall of Fame and holds a Doctor of Humane Letters honorary degree from Iowa State University.

Alan Guarino

2026-10-07T23:40:48Z

Alan Guarino

Vice Chairman
Korn Ferry

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Alan C. Guarino is Vice Chairman of Korn Ferry and the National Bestselling author of Greatness Code, The Formula Behind Unstoppable Success, and Smart Is Not Enough. He appears on CNBC, Bloomberg Radio, Forbes Media, Fox Business, and outlets as an expert commentator on leadership and careers. Alan has also published in Chief Executive Magazine, CNBC Online, and FastCompany.

David Booth

2026-10-07T23:44:13Z

David Booth

Founder and Chairman
Dimensional Fund Advisors

Moderator: Jill Slesinger

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David Booth is Chairman of Dimensional Fund Advisors, a firm he founded in 1981. Under David’s leadership, Dimensional has grown from a fledgling business operating out of the spare room of his Brooklyn brownstone apartment to a global investment manager with more than 1,600 employees and $1.1 trillion (USD) in assets under management. David led Dimensional as CEO and later Co-CEO until 2017, when he stepped back from the daily management of the firm. He remains closely involved in strategic initiatives at Dimensional.

A trailblazer in the financial world, David helped create one of the world’s first index funds in the 1970s and launched the first passively managed small company strategy in the early ’80s. He has spent his career applying groundbreaking financial theory and research to the practical world of asset management, working closely with renowned academics to develop innovative investment strategies that he believed could outperform index funds, pioneering what would later be called factor investing.

David received a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1968 and a master’s degree in business in 1969 from the University of Kansas. In 1971, he received an MBA from the University of Chicago. Over the years, David has been a benefactor to both schools. Upon announcing a gift from the Booth family to the business school at Chicago in 2008, David cited his education there as being instrumental to his later success with Dimensional. The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is named in David’s honor, and the gift has helped to advance its field-defining research and to support the school’s faculty, a number of whom have had close ties to Dimensional. David has also donated to support athletics at the University of Kansas—as a boy, he ushered there at football games—and he is a vocal advocate of the role sports play in keeping alumni connected to a school.

An avid art collector and enthusiast, David has participated in and donated to artistic initiatives across the US, and the David Booth Conservation Center and Department is responsible for the preservation of the Museum of Modern Art’s collection in New York.

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Kevin A. Hassett

2026-10-06T04:45:28Z

Kevin A. Hassett

Director
White House National Economic Council

Kevin Hassett is the 15th Director of the White House National Economic Council. An acclaimed economist, he has over 300 published papers, and particularly is one of the world’s most preeminent scholars on relationship between tax policy and business investment.

In the first Trump administration, Kevin served as the 29th Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and later as a Senior Advisor to the President for the coronavirus pandemic response. More recently, Kevin was Managing Director at the Milken Institute and a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Prior to his service in the White House, he led economic studies at the American Enterprise Institute, taught at Columbia Business School and the NYU School of Law, and was a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board. He also served as a senior economic adviser on campaigns for John McCain, George W. Bush, and Mitt Romney.

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H.E. Javier Milei

2026-10-03T23:51:59Z

H.E. Javier Milei

President of the Argentine Republic

William D. Cohan

2026-09-29T19:37:17Z

William D. Cohan

Financial Journalist & Bestselling Author

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William D. Cohan is the New York Times bestselling author of Power Failure, which was named Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Financial Times, and The Economist. He is the author of seven nonfiction narratives, including Money and Power, House of Cards, and The Last Tycoons. He was a longtime special correspondent at Vanity Fair and is a founding partner of and Wall Street correspondent for Puck. A former Wall Street investment banker for seventeen years, he writes often for the opinion pages of The New York Times and Financial Times and appears regularly on CNN, MSNOW, and BBC. Cohan is a graduate of Duke University, the Columbia University School of Journalism, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

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Danny Meyer

2026-09-29T19:38:48Z

Danny Meyer

Founder & Chair
Union Square Hospitality Group

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Thanks to his father’s travel business, which designed custom European trips, Danny spent much of his childhood eating, visiting near and far-off places, and sowing the seeds for his future passion. In 1985, at the age of 27, Danny opened his first restaurant, Union Square Cafe, launching what would become a lifelong career in hospitality.

Forty years later, Danny’s Union Square Hospitality Group (USHG) comprises some of New York’s most beloved and acclaimed restaurants, including Gramercy Tavern, The Modern, Maialino, and more. Danny and USHG founded Shake Shack, the modern-day “roadside” burger restaurant, which became a public company in 2015. USHG also offers large-scale event services, foodservice solutions for public and private institutions, industry consulting, and educational programming.

Under Danny’s leadership, USHG is renowned not only for its acclaimed restaurants but also for its distinctive and celebrated culture of Enlightened Hospitality. This guiding principle of prioritizing employees first and foremost has driven and shaped USHG’s ongoing evolution from a small group of restaurants into a multi-faceted hospitality organization.

Danny and USHG’s diverse ventures have added to the hospitality dialogue in many contexts including dining options in museums, sports arenas, and cultural institutions, as well as prescient investments in burgeoning neighborhoods.

A celebrated speaker and educator, Danny has set industry standards in areas such as hiring practices, innovative leadership, and corporate responsibility and addresses a wide range of audiences on such topics around the country.

Danny has taken a leadership role in a handful of organizations, public, private, philanthropic, and academic. He is Chairman of the Board of Shake Shack (NYSE: SHAK) as well as Union Square Hospitality Group. He serves on the Board of Olo (NYSE: OLO), and previously served as a board member for OpenTable (NASDAQ: OPEN), Sotheby’s (NYSE: BID) and The Container Store (NYSE: TCS). He was Chairman of the New York Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), has served as a Trustee for Trinity College in Hartford, Ct., and as a board member for Share Our Strength, the Madison Square Park Conservancy, and Union Square Partnership.

Danny has been generously recognized for his leadership, business achievements, and humanitarianism, including the 2017 Julia Child Award, the 2015 TIME 100 “Most Influential People” list, the 2012 Aspen Institute Preston Robert Tisch Award in Civic Leadership, the 2011 NYU Lewis Rudin Award for Exemplary Service to New York City, and the 2000 IFMA Gold Plate Award. Together, Danny and USHG’s restaurants and individuals have won an unprecedented 28 James Beard Awards, including Outstanding Restaurateur (2005) and Who’s Who of Food and Beverage in America (1996).

Danny and his wife, Audrey, live in New York City and have four children.

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Paul S. Atkins

2026-08-29T02:30:02Z

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Paul S. Atkins

Chairman
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Moderator: Larry Kudlow

Paul S. Atkins was sworn into office as the 34th Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 21, 2025, after being nominated by President Donald J. Trump on January 20, 2025, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 9, 2025.

Prior to returning to the SEC, Chairman Atkins was most recently chief executive of Patomak Global Partners, a company he founded in 2009. Chairman Atkins helped lead efforts to develop best practices for the digital asset sector. He served as an independent director and non-executive chairman of the board of BATS Global Markets, Inc. from 2012 to 2015.

Chairman Atkins was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a Commissioner of the SEC from 2002 to 2008. During his tenure, he advocated for transparency, consistency, and the use of cost-benefit analysis at the agency. Chairman Atkins also represented the SEC at meetings of the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets and the U.S.-EU Transatlantic Economic Council. From 2009 to 2010, he was appointed a member of the Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Before serving as an SEC Commissioner, Chairman Atkins was a consultant on securities and investment management industry matters, especially regarding issues of strategy, regulatory compliance, risk management, new product development, and organizational control.

From 1990 to 1994, Chairman Atkins served on the staff of two chairmen of the SEC, Richard C. Breeden and Arthur Levitt, ultimately as chief of staff and counselor, respectively. He received the SEC’s 1992 Law and Policy Award for work regarding corporate governance matters.

Chairman Atkins began his career as a lawyer in New York, focusing on a wide range of corporate transactions for U.S. and foreign clients, including public and private securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions. He was resident for 2½ years in his firm's Paris office and admitted as conseil juridique in France.

A member of the New York and Florida bars, Chairman Atkins received his J.D. from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1983 and was Senior Student Writing Editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review. He received his A.B., Phi Beta Kappa, from Wofford College in 1980.

Originally from Lillington, North Carolina, Chairman Atkins grew up in Tampa, Florida. He and his wife Sarah have three sons.

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Scott Bessent

2026-09-13T00:46:54Z

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

ECNY's USA 250th Anniversary Gala with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

On January 28, 2025, Scott Bessent was sworn in as the 79th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.

As Secretary, Mr. Bessent is responsible for the U.S. Treasury’s wide-ranging mission to maintain a strong economy, foster economic growth and create job opportunities for all Americans by promoting the conditions that enable prosperity at home and abroad as well as managing the U.S. Government’s finances. He is also responsible for strengthening U.S. national security by combating economic threats and protecting the financial system.

Mr. Bessent has been in the global investment management business for 40 years, visiting 60 countries, interacting with international leaders and central bankers. He is regarded as a currency and fixed income specialist. Mr. Bessent is a frequent contributor to economic journals and business publications.

Previously, Mr. Bessent served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Key Square Capital Management, a global hedge fund focused on macro investing that he founded in 2015. Prior to that time, Mr. Bessent was the Chief Investment Officer of Soros Fund Management. Mr. Bessent was an adjunct professor at Yale University, where he taught economic history. From 1991 to 2000, he was managing partner of Soros Fund Management’s London office.

His family was also involved in the agriculture, publishing and hospitality sectors.

A South Carolina native, Bessent received a B.A. from Yale University. Mr. Bessent and his family created the McLeod Rehabilitation Center at the Shriners Children’s Hospital in Greenville, South Carolina. He served as a Rockefeller University Trustee, Member of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Investment Committee. He also supported the Harlem Children's Zone in New York City. He is a Member of the Economic Club of New York and Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Bessent is a member of the French Huguenot Church in Charleston.

Mr. Bessent is a long-time advocate, supporter and mentor of financial literacy and education programs.

He, his spouse and two children reside in Washington, DC and Charleston, South Carolina.

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Laurence H. Tribe

2026-08-29T00:55:43Z

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Laurence H. Tribe

Carl M. Loeb University Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus
Harvard University

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Moderator: John Savarese

Laurence H. Tribe is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus at Harvard University and is Of Counsel to the law firm HeckerFink LLP. The title “University Professor” is Harvard’s highest academic honor, awarded to fewer than 75 professors in the University’s history. Tribe taught at Harvard Law School since 1968; received tenure at 30; and was voted the best professor by the graduating class of 2000. Born in China to Russian Jewish parents, Tribe entered Harvard at 16; graduated magna cum laude with a summa cum laude in Mathematics (1962) and magna cum laude in Law (1966); clerked for the California and U.S. Supreme Courts(1966-68); was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1979 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2010; helped write the constitutions of South Africa, the Czech Republic, and the Marshall Islands; has received eleven honorary degrees, most recently a degree honoris causa from the Government of Mexico in 2011 that was never before awarded to an American and a D. Litt. degree from Columbia University in 2013; has prevailed in three-fifths of the many appellate cases he has argued (including 35 in the U.S. Supreme Court); was appointed in 2010 by President Barack Obama to serve as the first Senior Counselor for Access to Justice and in 2021 by President Joseph R. Biden to serve on the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States; and has written 115 books and articles, including his treatise, American Constitutional Law, cited more than any other legal text since 1950. Former Solicitor General Erwin Griswold wrote: “[N]o book, and no lawyer not on the [Supreme] Court, has ever had a greater influence on the development of American constitutional law,” and former U.S. Court of Appeals Judge J. Michael Luttig tweeted in January 2023, “Laurence H. Tribe has been the Nation’s preeminent constitutional scholar for the past half century.”

Ruth Porat

2026-09-13T00:41:38Z

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Ruth Porat

President & CIO
Alphabet & Google

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Moderator: Arvind Krishna

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Ruth has been President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google since September 1, 2023. In this role, she is responsible for the Company’s corporate investments and investment vehicles, including GV and CapG, the Other Bets investment portfolio, Real Estate and Workplace Services, and other Company infrastructure. She regularly engages with policymakers and regulators about the Company’s business and impact across markets related to economic growth, job creation, and opportunity. She also oversees the Company's philanthropic efforts, including work to expand access to digital infrastructure, and support education and workforce development initiatives globally. She reports to Alphabet’s Chief Executive Officer.

Before assuming the role of President and Chief Investment Officer, Ruth served as Alphabet and Google’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from May 2015 until July 2024. Ruth started her career as a banker at Morgan Stanley, with her last position there as CFO.

Ruth is a member of the Board of Directors of Blackstone Inc., the Council on Foreign Relations, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and the Board of Trustees of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. She previously spent 10 years on Stanford University’s Board of Trustees and on the Board of the Stanford Management Company.

Ruth holds a BA from Stanford University, an MSc from The London School of Economics and an MBA from the Wharton School.

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Dina Powell McCormick

2026-09-11T14:53:58Z

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Dina Powell McCormick

President & Vice Chairman
Meta

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Moderator: Marie-Josée Kravis

Dina Powell McCormick is President and Vice Chairman at Meta. Dina brings more than 25 years of experience at the highest levels of global finance, national security and economic development.

Dina spent 16 years at Goldman Sachs as a partner in senior leadership roles, including serving on the firm’s Management Committee and leading its Global Sovereign Investment Banking business. During her tenure, she spearheaded some of the firm’s most influential and successful economic development initiatives, including 10,000 Women, 10,000 Small Businesses, and One Million Black Women, programs that have driven long-term economic growth and opportunity around the world.

In public service, Dina has served two U.S. presidents. She was Deputy National Security Advisor to President Donald J. Trump and served as a Senior White House Advisor and Assistant Secretary of State for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice under President George W. Bush. Most recently, Dina was Vice Chair, President, and Head of Global Client Services at BDT & MSD Partners.

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Mike Pence

2026-09-02T16:16:00Z

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Mike Pence

Former Vice President of the United States

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Moderator: Annmarie Hordern

Mike Pence was born in Columbus, Indiana into a family that epitomized the American Dream, instilling in him values of hard work, faith, and family. After graduating from Hanover College and Indiana University School of Law, he embarked on a multifaceted career, including law practice, hosting a talk show, serving as a Congressman for six terms, and championing limited government and fiscal responsibility. Pence then was elected the 50th Governor of Indiana, focusing on tax cuts, job creation, education reform, and infrastructure investment while maintaining fiscal responsibility. His accomplishments in Indiana led to his selection as the 48th Vice President of the United States. Pence’s conservative philosophy, inspired by Ronald Reagan, led to his founding Advancing American Freedom which continues to advocate for faith, family, and liberty as foundational American values.

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David Solomon

2026-09-02T16:22:49Z

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

David Solomon

Chairman & CEO
Goldman Sachs

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Moderator: Leslie Picker

David is chairman of the Board of Directors and chief executive officer of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.

Previously, he served as the firm’s president and chief operating officer from January 2017 to September 2018. Prior to that, he was co-head of the Investment Banking Division from July 2006 to December 2016, and earlier in his career, he was global head of the Financing Group. He joined Goldman Sachs as a partner in 1999.

David is chairman of the Board of Trustees of Hamilton College. He also serves on the boards of The Robin Hood Foundation, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the Paley Center for Media and the US Olympic & Paralympic Foundation.

David earned a BA in Political Science from Hamilton College.

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Mark Carney

2026-09-02T16:28:10Z

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Mark Carney

Prime Minister of Canada

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Moderator: Nader Mousavizadeh

Mark Carney is Canada’s 24th Prime Minister. He was elected Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and sworn in as Prime Minister in March 2025. He leads a government that will take action to unite Canadians, defend Canada’s sovereignty, and build the strongest economy in the G7.

Born in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Prime Minister Carney is the son of teachers and grew up with a strong sense of community and hard work. After graduating from St. Francis Xavier High School in Edmonton, he earned a Bachelor of Economics from Harvard University in 1988, followed by a Master of Economics in 1993 and a PhD in Economics in 1995, both from Oxford University.

Prime Minister Carney started his career in finance before joining Canada’s public service to help ensure our economy supports the things that Canadians value – like health care, security, and a life you can afford. As Governor of the Bank of Canada during the 2008 financial crisis, he guided our country through one of the most turbulent economic periods in modern history, protecting jobs and helping ensure that Canada came out stronger. In 2013, he was recruited to lead the Bank of England, stewarding the United Kingdom’s economy through Brexit and the economic and political crises that followed. In 2020, he began serving as the United Nations Special Envoy on Climate Action and Finance, helping rally the world to build stronger economies as we fight climate change.

Prime Minister Carney’s government is focused on growing our great country, creating more higher-paying jobs, putting more money in Canadians’ pockets, and making Canada more secure.

Prime Minister Carney and his wife, Diana, are the proud parents of four children.

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R. Glenn Hubbard & Alan S. Blinder

2026-09-24T20:50:12Z

Thursday, May 21, 2026

R. Glenn Hubbard & Alan S. Blinder

R. Glenn Hubbard
Dean Emeritus and Russel L. Carson
Professor of Finance and Economics
Columbia University

Alan S. Blinder
Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Princeton University

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R. Glenn Hubbard

Professor Glenn Hubbard is a specialist in public economics, managerial information and incentive problems in corporate finance, and financial markets and institutions. He has written more than 100 articles and books on corporate finance, investment decisions, banking, energy economics and public policy, including two textbooks, and has authored The Wall and the Bridge and coauthored Balance, The Aid Trap, and Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise. Hubbard has applied his research interests in business (as a corporate director consultant on taxation and corporate finance), in government (as a former Chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers and the OECD Economic Policy Committee, as well as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department and as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and many government agencies) and in academia (in faculty collaboration or visiting appointments at Columbia, University of Chicago and Harvard). He is co-chair the Committee on Capital Markets and Regulation and past chair of the Economic Club of New York and the Study Group on Corporate Boards.

Alan S. Blnder

Alan S. Blinder has been on the Princeton faculty since 1971, taking time off from January 1993 through January 1996 for service in the U.S. government–first as a member of President Clinton’s original Council of Economic Advisers, and then as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. In addition to his academic writings and his best-selling introductory textbook, he has written many newspaper and magazine; columns and op-eds and, in recent years, has been a regular columnist for The Wall Street Journal. He also appears frequently on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and elsewhere. Dr. Blinder was previously President of the Eastern Economic Association and Vice President of the American Economic Association. He has been elected a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS). In October 2023, he was awarded the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize by the AAPSS.

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Jon Haidt

2026-06-09T19:03:11Z

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Jon Haidt

Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership
NYU Stern School of Business

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Moderator: Thasunda Brown Duckett

Jonathan Haidt (pronounced “height”) is a social psychologist at New York University’s Stern School of Business. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992.

Haidt’s research examines the intuitive foundations of morality, and how morality varies across cultural and political divisions. Haidt is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis (2006), and of The New York Times bestsellers The Righteous Mind (2012), and The Coddling of the American Mind (2018, with Greg Lukianoff). He has given four TED talks and been named a TIME100 Health leader.

Since 2018 he has been studying the contributions of social media to the decline of teen mental health and the rise of political dysfunction.

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Orlando Bravo & Heidi Messer

2026-09-17T23:52:59Z

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Orlando Bravo & Heidi Messer

Orlando Bravo
Founder and Managing Partner
Thoma Bravo

Heidi Messer
Co-founder and Chair
Collective[i]

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Orlando Bravo is a Founder and Managing Partner of Thoma Bravo. He led Thoma Bravo’s early entry into software buyouts and built the firm into one of the largest software-focused investors in the world, with over $183 billion in assets under management.1 Today, Orlando directs the firm’s strategy and investment decisions in accordance with its principles of partnership, innovation and performance. He has overseen approximately 580 software and technology acquisitions conducted by the firm, representing approximately $305 billion of aggregate value.2

Orlando was born and raised in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from Brown University, and earned a JD from Stanford Law School and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

He is the Founder and Chairman of the Bravo Family Foundation, which aims to provide young adults in Puerto Rico with access to opportunity. In 2019, Orlando committed $100 million to the Foundation’s Rising Entrepreneurs Program (REP) with the goal of fostering entrepreneurship on the island. In addition, he has been personally involved in responding to the hurricanes that have devastated communities across Puerto Rico, providing millions in funding for humanitarian and relief efforts following Hurricanes Maria (2017) and Fiona (2022).

In addition to his commitment to Puerto Rico, Orlando is dedicated to supporting the next generation of scholars and future leaders. To further these efforts, he has been deeply involved in Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO), a nonprofit that seeks to create a more equitable society by closing the academic and career opportunity gap for young people from underserved communities. Orlando serves on the SEO board and spearheaded the 2024 expansion of the SEO Scholars program, a fully funded, eight-year academic program aimed at helping low-income high school students succeed in college, to Miami-Dade County.

Orlando remains connected to his alma maters. At Stanford Law School, he created the Bravo Family Public Interest Post-Graduate Fellowship Fund in 2018 to support students seeking full-time employment in public interest. In 2019, Brown University founded the Orlando Bravo Center for Economics Research to support innovative research, collaboration and training for faculty and students in the Department of Economics. In 2023, Orlando endowed a finance professorship and a research fund to support the professorship at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Orlando’s philanthropic interests also include causes in healthcare. He supports a wide range of medical research at Stanford Health Care, UCSF Health and The Mount Sinai Hospital. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

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Robyn Grew, Yana Watson Kakar, Ted Seides

2026-06-09T19:03:31Z

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Robyn Grew, Yana Watson Kakar, Ted Seides

Robyn Grew
CEO, Man

Yana Watson Kakar
Managing Director and Head of the Americas, La Caisse

Ted Seides
Founder and Host, Capital Allocators

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ROBYN GREW

Robyn Grew is CEO of Man Group, a global alternative investment management firm with USD 227.6 billion* assets under management that is listed on the London Stock Exchange. As CEO, she leads the firm’s Executive Committee and is an executive director on the Man Group Board.

Since joining Man Group in 2010 through its acquisition of GLG, Robyn has served as Group COO, Head of ESG, General Counsel, and most recently, President. Robyn led Man Group’s corporate reorganisation in 2019 and has also spearheaded the firm’s diversity programme.

YANA WATSON KAKAR

Yana Watson Kakar is Managing Director and Head of Americas. Based in New York, she is a member of the management team that develops and implements La Caisse’s international strategy. In addition to heading the New York office, Yana oversees La Caisse’s offices in Mexico and Brazil. She works closely with the heads of the asset classes in developing La Caisse’s investment strategy and partnerships across the Americas region while strengthening the existing portfolio of constructive capital invested in private equity, fixed income, real estate, infrastructure, technology, and equity markets.

A seasoned executive, Ms. Watson Kakar has dedicated her career to generating economic and financial returns through the application of inclusive and sustainable business and investment strategies. Before joining La Caisse, she was the CEO of Growth for Good, an investment company with a strategic focus on decarbonization of the global economy.

TED SEIDES

Ted is the founder of Capital Allocators, a platform that seeks to compound knowledge and relationships with asset owners and investment firms. He launched the Capital Allocators podcast in 2017. The show reached 20 million downloads in August 2024 and has been recognized as the top institutional investing podcast.

Ted created Capital Allocators Summits alongside Rahul Moodgal to bring together industry leaders, Capital Allocators University for rising professionals to learn key investment skills, Capital Allocators Advisory to work with managers on business strategy, and Capital Allocators Coaching with a team of retired asset management executives.

Ted previously worked under David Swensen at the Yale Investments Office, invested directly at three of Yale’s managers, co-founded and served as Co-CIO of Protégé Partners, and made a famous bet with Warren Buffett. He has authored three investment books. Ted graduated Cum Laude from Yale University and received an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Antony Blinken

2026-06-09T19:02:56Z

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Secretary Antony Blinken

Former United States Secretary of State

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Antony J. Blinken was confirmed by the United States Senate as Deputy Secretary of State on December 16, 2014. He was sworn in by Secretary Kerry on January 9, 2015. Mr. Blinken has held senior foreign policy positions in two administrations over two decades.

He most recently served as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor. In that capacity, he chaired the inter-agency Deputies Committee, the administration’s principal forum for formulating foreign policy. During the first term of the Obama Administration, he was Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President.

Mr. Blinken served for six years on Capitol Hill (2002 – 2008) as Democratic Staff Director for the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Mr. Blinken was a member of President Clinton’s National Security Council staff at the White House from 1994 to 2001. From 1999 to 2001, he was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs – President Clinton’s principal advisor for relations with the countries of Europe, the European Union and NATO. From 1994 through 1998, Mr. Blinken was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Speechwriting and then Strategic Planning, overseeing foreign policy planning, communications and speechwriting and serving as President Clinton's chief foreign policy speechwriter.

Mr. Blinken began his government service at the State Department where, from 1993 to 1994, he served as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs.

After leaving the Clinton Administration, he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies between 2001 and 2002.

Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, Mr. Blinken practiced law in New York and Paris. He has been a reporter for The New Republic magazine and has written about foreign policy for numerous publications including the New York Times, The New York Times Magazine and Foreign Affairs. He is the author of Ally Versus Ally: America, Europe and the Siberian Pipeline Crisis (Praeger, 1987). He appears frequently on cable and network television on behalf of the Obama administration. Mr. Blinken attended grade school and high school in Paris, France where he received a French Baccalaureat degree with high honors. He is a graduate of Harvard College Magna cum Laude and Columbia Law School.

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The Economic Club of New York

Beth Ford

Beth Ford

President & CEO Land O'Lakes

Alan Guarino

Alan Guarino

Vice Chairman Korn Ferry

David Booth

David Booth

Founder and Chairman Dimensional Fund Advisors

Kevin A. Hassett

Kevin A. Hassett

Director White House National Economic Council

H.E. Javier Milei

H.E. Javier Milei

President of the Argentine Republic

William D. Cohan

William D. Cohan

Financial Journalist & Bestselling Author

Danny Meyer

Danny Meyer

Founder & Chair Union Square Hospitality Group

Paul S. Atkins

Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Paul S. Atkins

Chairman U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Scott Bessent

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

ECNY's USA 250th Anniversary Gala with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent

Laurence H. Tribe

Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Laurence H. Tribe

Carl M. Loeb University Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus Harvard University

Ruth Porat

Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Ruth Porat

President & CIO Alphabet & Google

Dina Powell McCormick

Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Dina Powell McCormick

President & Vice Chairman Meta

Mike Pence

Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Mike Pence

Former Vice President of the United States

David Solomon

Tuesday, June 2, 2026

David Solomon

Chairman & CEO Goldman Sachs

Mark Carney

Thursday, May 28, 2026

Mark Carney

Prime Minister of Canada

R. Glenn Hubbard & Alan S. Blinder

Thursday, May 21, 2026

R. Glenn Hubbard & Alan S. Blinder

R. Glenn Hubbard Dean Emeritus and Russel L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics Columbia University

Alan S. Blinder Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs Princeton University

R. Glenn Hubbard

Alan S. Blnder

Jon Haidt

Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Jon Haidt

Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership NYU Stern School of Business

Orlando Bravo & Heidi Messer

Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Orlando Bravo & Heidi Messer

Orlando Bravo Founder and Managing Partner Thoma Bravo

Heidi Messer Co-founder and Chair Collective[i]

Robyn Grew, Yana Watson Kakar, Ted Seides

Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Robyn Grew, Yana Watson Kakar, Ted Seides

Robyn Grew CEO, Man

Yana Watson Kakar Managing Director and Head of the Americas, La Caisse

Ted Seides Founder and Host, Capital Allocators

ROBYN GREW

YANA WATSON KAKAR

TED SEIDES

Antony Blinken

Thursday, April 23, 2026

President & CEO
Land O'Lakes

Vice Chairman
Korn Ferry

Founder and Chairman
Dimensional Fund Advisors

Director
White House National Economic Council

Founder & Chair
Union Square Hospitality Group

Chairman
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Carl M. Loeb University Professor of Constitutional Law Emeritus
Harvard University

President & CIO
Alphabet & Google

President & Vice Chairman
Meta

Chairman & CEO
Goldman Sachs

R. Glenn Hubbard
Dean Emeritus and Russel L. Carson
Professor of Finance and Economics
Columbia University

Alan S. Blinder
Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Princeton University

Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership
NYU Stern School of Business

Orlando Bravo
Founder and Managing Partner
Thoma Bravo

Heidi Messer
Co-founder and Chair
Collective[i]

Robyn Grew
CEO, Man

Yana Watson Kakar
Managing Director and Head of the Americas, La Caisse

Ted Seides
Founder and Host, Capital Allocators