Thomas Sargent

A leader in the field of macroeconomics, Thomas Sargent is a Professor of Economics at NYU where he is an expert in monetary and time series economics. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1968 and was a First Lieutenant and Captain in the U.S. Army. He was also an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and is currently a Research Associate for the National Bureau of Economic Research. Professor Sargent has been the Associate Editor of numerous journals and served as the President of the Econometric Society Council and the Society for Economic Dynamics and Control. He will be the President of American Economic Association in 2007.

Event - "Macroeconomic Features of the French Revolution"
Date - October 18, 2003

Domingo Cavallo

An Argentine Economist and Politician, Domingo Cavallo is currently Robert Kennedy Visiting Professor in Latin American Studies at the Department of Economics of Harvard University. He has a long history of public service and is known for implementing the Convertibilidad plan in Argentina that fixed the dollar-peso exchange rate at 1:1, and the Corralito that restrained savers from withdrawing their own money from bank accounts. Professor Cavallo was born in the city of San Francisco and holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. In 1982, during the military dictatorship, Professor Cavallo was appointed to the presidency of the Central Bank. As the Former Minister to Argentina, Professor Cavallo has received decorations from the governments of more than 20 countries.

Event - "Latin America & the Washington Consensus"
Date - February 13, 2004

Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson is a well-known and widely published British historian of modern imperialism and is a specialist in Financial and Economic History. He is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, a Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Professor Ferguson is best known for his 1998 revisionist book, The Pity of War, which is an analytic account of what he considers to be the ten great myths of the Great War. He suggested that it would have been for the best for everyone if Britain had stayed out of the First World War in 1914 and allowed Germany to win the war. Professor Ferguson challenges many of the long-standing orthodoxies in history and is a regular contributor to television and radio.

Event - Moderator for the EHS UN Summit
Date - April 29, 2004

Edward Gramlich

Edward Gramlich is a Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan. He joined the Federal Reserve as a Research Economist from 1965-1970 and was a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution from 1973-1976. Professor Gramlich then taught Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan from 1976-1997, including a term as Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and returned to Michigan as a Professor in 2005. He was appointed to the Federal Reserve by President Clinton in 1997 and resigned in August 2005. Professor Gramlich graduated from Williams College and received a Master's Degree and a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.

Event - "Budget and Trade Deficits: Linked, but not Twins"
Date - April 8, 2004

Anne Krueger

Anne Krueger has been the First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF since September 2001. Previously, she was a Professor in Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. Professor Krueger was also the founding Director of Stanford's Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform and a Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution. From 1982-1986, she was the World Bank's Vice President for Economics and Research. Professor Krueger is a Distinguished Fellow and past President of the American Economic Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. In a 1973 paper, Professor Krueger coined the term "rent-seeking." She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin.

Event - "Meant well, tried little, failed much: policy reforms in emerging market economies."
Date - March 23, 2004

Joseph Moglia

Joseph Moglia became CEO of TD Ameritrade in March 2001 and has orchestrated at least 7 M&A opportunities including the recent acquisition of TD Waterhouse in January 2006. He joined the company after having spent 17 years at Merrill Lynch. Prior to entering the financial services industry, Mr. Moglia was the defensive coordinator for Dartmouth College's football team. He coached various teams for 16 years, authored a book on football and wrote 11 articles that were published in national coaching journals. In 2005, Mr. Moglia authored another book entitled Coach Yourself to Success: Winning the Investment Game, that explains the essential principles of investing through in-depth insight and practical advice. He holds a Master's degree in secondary education from the University of Delaware and a Bachelor's in Economics from Fordham University.

Event - Roundtable with Joseph Moglia
Date - February 18, 2004

Robert Mundell

Robert Mundell is a Professor of Economics at Columbia University and the recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Economics. He has been an adviser to a number of international agencies and organizations including the UN, the IMF, the World Bank, governments in Latin America and Europe, the Federal Reserve Board and the US Treasury. Professor Mundell has written extensively on the history of the international monetary system and played a significant role in the founding of the Euro. In 1970, Professor Mundell was a consultant to the Monetary Committee of the European Economic Commission, and in 1972-3 a member of the nine consultants to the Commission that prepared a report in Brussels on European monetary integration. He is known as the father of the theory of optimum currency areas, was a pioneer of the theory of the monetary and fiscal policy mix, and an originator of supply-side economics. Professor Mundell studied at the University of British Columbia and the London School of Economics before receiving his Ph.D. from MIT.

Date - April 12, 2004

Nassim Taleb

Nassim Taleb is an essayist and mathematical trader. He is interested in the epistemology of randomness and the multidisciplinary problems of uncertainty and knowledge, particularly in large-impact hard-to-predict rare events ("Black Swans"). Besides being the owner of Empirica LLC, a firm that holds economic interests in like-minded hedge funds, Mr. Taleb serves as the Dean's Professor in the Sciences of Uncertainty at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, as well as Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at the Courant Institute of NYU. Professor Taleb holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a Ph.D. in Financial Mathematics from the University of Paris. He is the author of Dynamic Hedging and Fooled by Randomness.

Event - Roundtable with Nassim Taleb
Date - November 3, 2003

Sean Bratches

Sean Bratches is the Executive Vice President overseeing all advertising sales, research, and marketing for ESPN and ABC Sports and is responsible for creating affiliate value for the networks of The Walt Disney Company. His leadership helped ESPN become the industry leader in creating affiliate value by strategically leveraging its core brand, while integrating a number of high-profile brand extensions. In 2001, Mr. Bratches was presented the Vanguard Award for Young Leadership, the cable industry's most prestigious award, by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association. Mr. Bratches graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1984 with a BA in Business Administration.

Event - Roundtable with Sean Bratches
Date - October 22, 2003