Previous Speakers

The Future of Hedge Funds and Private Equity
January 29, 2009  

• Lawrence S. Bacow (Moderator) – President, Tufts University
• Bruce Grossman, A85 – Avenue Capital Group
• David Wachter, E85 – W Capital Partners
• Michael Karsch, A90, F91 – Karsh Capital Management
• James Wong, A86 – Paulson & Company Incorporated

Economic Upheaval and Financial Frauds
June 6, 2009 

• Dan Richards, A12P (Moderator) – Professor of Economics at Tufts
• Steven Feldman, A92 – White Collar Defense Practice of Henrick, Feinstein LLP
• Bruce Karpati, A92 – Enforcement Division in the New York Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission
• Michael Rogal, A91 – Enforcement Department at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority
• Steven Weiss, A92 – General Counsel at Roosevelt Investment Group, Inc.

Strong Finance Careers in a Weakened Economy: A Tufts Alumni Perspective
October 19, 2009 

• David Beck, A99 – Bain & Co.
• Michael Fung, A79, A12p – Chairman and Managing Director of JP Morgan Private Bank in Asia
• Jeff Moslow, A86 – Senior Coverage Officer in the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs
• Harry Segalas, A82 – Founded HS Management Partners in 2007
• Lynn Zuckerman Gray, J71 – Founder and CEO of Campus Scout, LLC.

Speaker Series: An Evening with Mort Zuckerman
December 10, 2009 

• Mort Zuckerman – Editor-in-Chief, U.S. News & World Report, Chairman and Co-Publisher of the New York Daily News, and Chairman, Boston Properties, Inc.
• David Faber, A85 – Anchor and Reporter, CNBC

The CEO Experience
April 5, 2010 

• Lawrence Bacow – President, Tufts University
• Ellen Kullman, E78, A12P – Chair, CEO, DuPont
• Andrew Liveris, A07P – President, Chairman and CEO, Dow Chemical Company
• Jonathan Tisch, A76 – Co-Chairman of the Board, and Chairman and CEO, Loews Hotels

The Current Market Environment
May 26, 2010 

• Peter Kamin, A84 (Moderator) – Partner, ValueAct Capital
• Samuel Byrne, A87 – Managing Partner & Co-Founder, CrossHarbor Capital Partners
• Dana Callow Jr., A74 – Managing General Partner, Boston Millennia Partners
• Michael Gordon, A87 – Partner, Vinik Asset Management

Real Estate In New York
November 8, 2010  

• Lawrence Bacow – President, Tufts University
• Jonathan Durst, E78, A12P – President, The Durst Organization

Global Finance: Risk, Reward, Regulation
April 13, 2011 

• David Puth, A79 – Executive Vice President and Head of State Street Capital Markets, State Street Corporation

The Opportunity of Crisis Series | Geopolitical Crisis: When the Front Page Converges with the Business Page
October 25, 2011 

• Bhaskar Chakravorti (Moderator) – Senior Associate Dean, International Business and Finance, and Executive Director, The Institute for Business in the Global Context, The Fletcher School
• Stephen Bosworth – Dean, The Fletcher School, Special Representative for North Korea Policy, U.S. Department of State
• Vail Nasr – Professor of International Politics, The Fletcher School, Senior Advisor, Kissinger Associates
• Gideon Rose – Editor, Foreign Affairs

The Opportunity of Crisis Series | Financial Crises: Disorder in the United States and the European Union
March 7, 2012 

• Bhaskar Chakravorti (Moderator) – Senior Associate Dean, International Business and Finance, and Executive Director, The Institute for Business in the Global Context, The Fletcher School
• Eileen Aptman, J90 – Chief Investment Officer, Belfer Management LLC
• Shumeet Banerji – CEO, Booz and Company
• Amar Bhide – Thomas Schmidheiny Professor of International Business, The Fletcher School
• Michael Klein – William Clayton Professor of International Economic Affairs, The Fletcher School, and Former Chief Economist, Office of International Affairs, U.S. Treasury

The Opportunity of Crisis Series | Food, Fuel, and Water Scarcity – The Coming Conflict and Implications for Multinational Business and Finance
April 4, 2012 

• Bhaskar Chakravorti (Moderator) – Senior Associate Dean, International Business and Finance, and Executive Director, The Institute for Business in the Global Context, The Fletcher School
• Kelly Sims Gallagher – Associate professor of energy and environmental policy at the Fletcher School, Tufts University
• Richard Vogel – Professor of civil and environmental engineering at Tufts
• Peter Walker – The Irwin H. Rosenberg Professor of Nutrition and Human Security at the Friedman School and the Director of the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University

The European Financial Crisis and the Global Economy
October 5, 2012 

• Anthony Monaco – President, Tufts University
• John McCarthy, A68, AG73, A01P – Chairman, ING Bank A.S.
• Brian McCarthy, A75, A07P – Partner Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
• John Ball, A86 – Founder and Managing Partner, Steamboat Ventures

Economic and Market Outlook
January 10, 2013 

• Michael Cembalest, A84 — Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy, J.P. Morgan Asset Management

The Imagination of the Crisis: Are the Days of Revolutionary Innovations Over?
April 25, 2013 

• Bhaskar Chakravorti (Moderator) — Senior Associate Dean, International Business and Finance, and Executive Director, The Institute for Business in the Global Context, The Fletcher School at Tufts University
• Lynda Applegate — Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration and Head of Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Harvard Business School
• Steven Koltai, A76, FG78, E12P — Managing Director and Founder, Koltai & Company; Social Entrepreneur and Former Advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the U.S. State Department’s Global Entrepreneurship Program
• Navjot Singh — Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company, Head of McKinsey Boston

21^st Century Security and Its Impact on the Global Economy
March 3, 2014 

• James Stavridis, F83, FG84 — Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.) and Dean, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University

The End for Start-Ups: When to Sell, How to Sell
April 2, 2014 

• Steven Koltai, A76, FG78, E12P (Moderator) — Managing Director and Founder, Koltai & Company; Social Entrepreneur and Former Advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the U.S. State Department’s Global Entrepreneurship Program
• Diane Hessan, J76, A11P — Chairman, Communispace
• Arthur Papas, A97 — CEO and Co-Founder of Bullhorn Inc.
• Josef Volman, A88 — Co-Chair of Business Law Department at Burns & Levinson, LLP
• Loius Volpe, A 71 — Managing General Partner, Kodiak Venture Partners

The Future of the American Superpower and Its Implications for Security, Politics, and Markets
March 25, 2015 

• Ian Bremmer — President and Founder, Eurasia Group
• James Stavridis, F83, FG84 — Admiral, U.S. Navy (Ret.) and Dean, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University

Finance Professionals: Agents for Transformative Social Change
May 6, 2015

• Alan Solomont, A70, A08P (Moderator) — Dean and U.S. Ambassador (Ret.) Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service
• Steven Galbraith, A85 — Managing Member, Analyst & Portfolio Manager of Herring Creek Capital Management
• Lucy Kindred Galbraith — Vice President & Research Analyst of Bennett Management
• Janice Savin Williams, J79 — Co-Founder & Senior Principal, Williams Capital Group
• Christopher Williams — Chairman, CEO, & Founder, Williams Capital Group

View from the Corner Office: A Conversation with Jamie Dimon
April 28, 2016

• Jonathan Tisch, A76 (Moderator) — Co-Chairman, Loews Corporation and Chairman, Loews Hotels & Resorts
• Jamie Dimon, A78 — CEO, JPMorgan Chase & Company

The Trump Economy: What’s Next for Business and the Markets
February 23, 2017 (New York City)

• David Faber, A85 (Moderator) — Anchor, CNBC
• Richard Handler — Chairman and CEO, Jefferies Group and CEO, Leucadia National Corporation
• Jonathan Gray — Global Head of Real Estate and Board of Directors Member, Blackstone
• Antonia Weiss — Former Counselor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of the Treasury

The Tufts Finance Initiative:  From First Year to Finance Career 
May 3, 2018 (Chicago)

Chris Manos — Professor of the Practice, Finance, Tufts University
Chris Di Fronzo, E96, EG04 — Director of the Tufts Finance Initiative