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ROBERT K. STEEL has more than 40 years of experience. Prior to joining Perella Weinberg Partners in May of 2014, Mr. Steel was New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Economic Development where he was responsible for the Bloomberg Administration’s five-borough economic development strategy, job-creation efforts, and also led the applied sciences initiative, which established the ...

JANET L. YELLEN is a Distinguished Fellow in Residence with the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution. She served as the 78th Secretary of the United States Treasury from 2021 through 2025 and chaired the Federal Reserve Board from 2014 to 2018. Yellen also served as vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board, president ...

Wally Adeyemo served as the 15th Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury and chief operating officer of the 100,000 employee Department during the Biden Administration. Adeyemo led Treasury’s national security and economic inequality work, and implemented some of the Department’s top policy priorities. Adeyemo oversaw the Treasury Department’s use of economic tools ...

MICHAEL R. STRAIN is Director of Economic Policy Studies and Paul F. Oreffice Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute. An economist, Dr. Strain’s research and writing is in a wide range of areas, including labor markets, public finance, social policy, and macroeconomics. He has published over 40 articles in academic and policy ...

LUKE PARDUE is Policy Director at the Aspen Institute’s Economic Strategy Group (AESG). He obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Maryland and, before joining AESG, worked as an economist at Gusto, a small business payroll platform. Before Gusto, Luke held research positions at the US Census Bureau and Federal Reserve Board. His ...