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AUSTAN GOOLSBEE is president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Prior to becoming president of the Chicago Fed in January 2023, Goolsbee served as the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where he first joined the faculty in 1995. Goolsbee served ...

JANET MURGUÍA is president and chief executive officer of UnidosUS, the largest national Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States. Since 2005, Murguía has sought to strengthen UnidosUS’s work and enhance its record of impact as a vital American institution. Murguía has also worked to amplify the Latino voice on issues affecting ...

MICHAEL A. NUTTER is a former two-term mayor of Philadelphia who previously spent nearly 15 years in the Philadelphia City Council. Since leaving public office in 2016, he has remained active in public policy, government, and civic life. He is the inaugural David N. Dinkins Professor of Professional Practice in Urban and Public Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and holds fellowships ...

SYLVIA MATHEWS BURWELL is the 15th president of American University, and the first woman to serve in the role. Under her leadership, AU became the first carbon-neutral university in the United States, was the first university to have an anti-racist research and policy center, and increased its endowment by nearly 40 percent. Burwell previously served ...

RAY DALIO is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, as well as a CIO mentor and member of the Bridgewater board. A global macro investor for more than 50 years, Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates out of his two-bedroom apartment in NYC and ran it for most of its 47 years, building it into the largest hedge ...

MITCHELL E. DANIELS, JR. is Chairman of the Purdue Research Foundation and served as a two-term governor of the state of Indiana from 2004 to 2012 as well as the 12th president of Purdue University from 2013 to 2022. He was elected governor in his first bid for any elected office, and then re-elected with more ...

BILL HASLAM is the former governor of the State of Tennessee. He was first elected in 2010 and was re-elected in 2014 with the largest victory in modern Tennessee history. Under his leadership, Tennessee became recognized as a national leader in education, economic development, efficient and effective government, and fiscal strength. During his two terms ...

VICKEE JORDAN is a Partner at FGS Global and leads the US Financial Services team. She is a top-notch adviser to C-Suite executives delivering media and executing coaching services for reputation and issues management, crisis situations, and advice on initiatives for underserved communities. Vickee’s experience in coaching clients for high-stakes communications situations focuses on message ...

KAYE HUSBANDS FEALING is Dean of the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts at the Georgia Institute of Technology and formerly served as the Chair of the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. She specializes in science and innovation policy, the public value of research expenditures, and the underrepresentation of women and minorities in ...