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ERSKINE B. BOWLES began his business career at Morgan Stanley and went on to found and lead Bowles, Hollowell, Conner, which became the preeminent investment bank focused on middle market mergers and acquisitions. He subsequently co-founded the middle market private equity firm Carousel Capital, served as a senior advisor for Credit Suisse First Boston, was ...

TIMOTHY F. GEITHNER serves as Chairman of Warburg Pincus. Before joining Warburg Pincus, Geithner served as the 75th Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury from 2009 to 2013. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2003 to 2009. He began his U.S. ...

MELISSA S. KEARNEY is the Gilbert F. Schaefer Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame. She is also director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group; a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of ...

PENNY PRITZKER is the founder and Chairman of PSP Partners and its affiliates, Pritzker Realty Group, PSP Capital, and PSP Growth. From June 2013 through January 2017, she served as U.S. Secretary of Commerce in the Obama Administration. Ms. Pritzker is an entrepreneur, civic leader, and philanthropist, with more than 30 years of experience in ...

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 ...

JOHN WALDRON is president and chief operating officer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. He is a member of the Goldman Sachs Management Committee and co-chair of the Firmwide Enterprise Risk Committee. John is a member of the Executive Committee of the Institute of International Finance, a ...

PETER R. ORSZAG is the CEO and Chairman of Lazard, the global financial advisory and asset management firm renowned for independent, differentiated advice and solutions grounded in contextual alpha—the broad insight and judgment needed to navigate macroeconomic, geopolitical, and other factors, helping leaders see beyond what the world sees today. Peter joined Lazard in 2016 ...

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 ...