Economic Development Speakers

President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics

Former Mayor, City of Compton

Economist, Chief Executive Officer of Lazard & Former Director of the Office of Management and Budget in the Obama Administration

TV & Radio Anchor at Bloomberg Media

World-Renowned Economist, Award-Winning Author & Professor of Finance at The University of Chicago

Global Leader in Healthcare, Finance & Academia; TEDGlobal Fellow; CEO of CarePoint; Executive Chairman of Golden Palm Investments

Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor of City & Regional Planning & Sociology, University of Pennsylvania; Authority on Urban Planning & Housing Policy

Sports Journalist, VP of Content Development, Health Advocate

Futurist and Bestselling Author on the Future of Work, Automation & Human Capital

Senior Fellow for Global Health, Economics, and Development at the Council on Foreign Relations

Nobel Prize Winning Economist & Commissioner for the Global Commission on Internet Governance

Founder of UP & Partner at The Wiseman Group

Senior Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in the Department of Architecture & Design; Founding Director of R&D at MOMA; Architect Trained at the Polytechnic of Milan

Prominent Chinese Economist; Mansfield Freeman Professor of Economics & Director of the Center for China in the World Economy at Tsinghua University

Founding CEO of Centennial Asia Advisors; Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies in Singapore

Chief Strategic Officer & Chief Operating Officer at Trident

Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill; Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center

Executive Chairman of the Board at Procter & Gamble

Director of BBC Studios

President of the Swiss Confederation and Federal Councillor for Economic Affairs, Education and Research, Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research of Switzerland