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AGENDA
Moderator: Steve Kohlhagen, SIEPR Advisory Board member

7:30-8:00 Breakfast

8-9:00 Opening Remarks: The Global Economic Outlook
, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, School for Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC; former First Deputy Managing Director, IMF and Member, SIEPR Advisory Board

9-10:20 SESSION I: Perspectives on Economic Policy and the Economy
Laura D. Tyson, S.K. and Angela Chan Chair in Global Management, Haas Business and Public Policy Group, UC Berkeley; former Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors 
Michael Boskin, Tully M. Friedman Professor of Economics; Hoover Institution Senior Fellow; SIEPR Senior Fellow and former Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors 

10:40-12 noon SESSION II: CEO Perspectives on the Economy 
John C. Martin, PhD, Chairman and CEO, Gilead Sciences 
Meg Whitman, President and CEO, Hewlett-Packard; Member, SIEPR Advisory Board

12:45-1:30 Lunch Remarks: The Skills Problem
Jim Heckman, Nobel Laureate in Economics and Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Chicago 

1:50-3:10 SESSION III: The Long-run Budget Outlook
, U.S. Senator from North Dakota and Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee
G. William Hoagland, Vice President, Federal Affairs, Cigna Corporation

3:10-4:10 SESSION IV: An Institutional Approach to the End of Western Ascendancy
Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University; author

4:30-5:45 Critical Issue Sessions

6-6:45 Reception and Dinner with KEYNOTE:

6:45-9:00 , Chairman and CEO, GE 



Critical Issue Sessions

Session I 
Currency Markets: Risk and Returns 
Moderator: Barnaby Levin, Partner, Managing Director, HighTower Advisers LLC; Chief Investment Officer, Levin & Lyon Wealth Management;SIEPR Advisory Board member 
, Tokai Bank Professor of International Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Martin Eichenbaum, Ethel and John Lindgren Professor of Economics;
Co-Director, Center for International Economics and Development, Northwestern University
Kieran Osborne, CFA, Merk Investments, LLC

Session II
US Government as a VC
Moderator: George McCown, Managing Director, American Infrastructure MLP Fund; SIEPR Advisory Board member 
, Managing Partner, The Westly Group 
Lenny Mendonca, Director, McKinsey & Company

Session III
US-China Economic Relations 
Moderator: , Co-founder and General Partner, DCM-Doll Capital Management; SIEPR Advisory Board member
Steve Krasner, Stephen D. Graham and H. Stuart Professor, International Relations »ÆÉ«µçÓ°; Senior Associate Dean, Social Sciences; Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at the Freeman Spogli Institute, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the »ÆÉ«µçÓ° Center for International Development (SCID)
Nick Hope, Director, »ÆÉ«µçÓ° Center for International Development (SCID) 

Session IV
Financial Innovation and the Economic Crisis
Moderator: , SIEPR Advisory Board member
, Chairman & CEO, SBCC Group Inc.
, Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, »ÆÉ«µçÓ° Graduate School of Business; Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences; and co-originator of the Black-Scholes options pricing mode.
Jeremy Bulow, Richard Stepp Professor of Economics