Year |
SPEAKER |
2019 |
Professor Exequiel Hernandez
Max and Bernice Garchik Family Presidential Assistant Professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Wissam Kahi '04
Co-Founder and COO, Eat Offbeat
Ninette Kelley
Director of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), New York Office
Moderated by Professor Alonso Martinez, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Columbia Business School
|
2018 |
Arianna Huffington
Founder and CEO of Thrive Global
Founder of The Huffington Post
Moderated by Professor Gita Johar, Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business in Marketing at Columbia Business School
|
2017 |
Jim Rogers
Former CEO and President of Duke Energy
Professor Geoff Heal
Donald C. Waite III Professor of Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School
Moderated by Professor Elke Weber, Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor at Princeton University
|
2016 |
Stephen Girsky
President of S.J. Girsky & Co.; Board Member of General Motors |
2015 |
Gary Gensler
Former Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
2014 |
Ms. Denise Morrison
CEO of Campbell Soup Company
Ms. Ellen Oran Kaden
Chief Legal and Government Affairs Officer of Campbell Soup Company
Moderated by Professor Bruce Kogut, Director of the Bernstein Center at Columbia Business School
|
2013 |
William Lauder
Executive Chairman of the Estée Lauder Companies |
2012 |
Sir Ronald Cohen
Chairman of The Portland Trust and Bridges Ventures |
2011 |
Patricia M. Cloherty
Chairman and CEO of Delta Private Equity Partners, LLC and manager of The US Russia Investment Fund and Delta Russia Fund, L.P. |
2010 |
Moisés Naím
Editor in Chief of Foreign Policy |
2009 |
John Bogle
Founder and former CEO of The Vanguard Group, Inc., and President of the Bogle Financial Markets Research Center |
2008 |
Peter Cornelius
Chief Economist of AlpInvest Partners |
2007 |
Stanley Litow
Vice President of Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, and President of IBM International Foundation |
2006 |
Dan Reingold
Former Managing Director and telecom analyst at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse First Boston |
2005 |
Leo Hindery Jr.
Chairman of InterMedia Advisors and Executive-in-Residence at Columbia Business School |
2003 |
Paul Volcker
Former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board’s oversight committee |
2002 |
Jack T. Ciesielski
Publisher of The Analyst’s Accounting Observer
Laurence M. Downes
Chairman and CEO of the New Jersey Resources Corporation
Bevis Longstreth
Senior Partner at the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton
Marc Sternfeld
Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School
|
2001 |
Rosamond Rhodes
Director of Bioethics Education at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Richard Juelis
Chief Financial Officer of Cellegy Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Monsignor Maloney
Catholic Chaplain at Columbia and Pastor of the Church of Notre Dame
Professor Peter Juviler
Co-chair and Co-director of the Center for the Study of Human Rights
|
1999 |
Jens Neumann
Chairman of North American Operations of Volkswagen
Moderated by Professor David Beim, Professor of Professional Practice, Finance and Economics Division at Columbia Business School
|
1998 |
Richard B. Fisher
Chairman of the Executive Committee and Director of Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter, Discover & Co.
Moderated by Professor David Beim, Professor of Professional Practice, Finance and Economics Division at Columbia Business School
|
1997 |
Frank N. Newman
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bankers Trust Company
Moderated by Professor David Beim, Professor of Professional Practice, Finance and Economics Division at Columbia Business School
|
1996 |
Herbert F. Aspbury
Senior Managing Director of Chemical Bank
Richard Blackburn
President and Group Executive of NYNEX Worldwide Services
James Marpe
Partner at Andersen Consulting
Moderated by Mr. Robert Callander, Executive-in-Residence at Columbia Business School
|
1995 |
Anne Busquet
Executive Vice President of American Express
David Howe
Partner at Booz, Allen & Hamilton
Michael Novak
George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion & Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute
Moderated by Professor David Beim, Professor of Professional Practice, Finance and Economics Division at Columbia Business School
|
1994 |
Paul Van Orden
Executive-in-Residence at the Chazen Institute
Robert Callender
Executive-in-Residence at Chemical Bank
Wayne Cherner
President of Smokefree Services, and former VP of Kidder Peabody Co.
Carol Einiger
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
Schon Beechler
Professor of International Management at Columbia Business School
John Whitney
Professor of Quality Management at Columbia Business School
|
1993 |
Jack Welch
Former Chairman of General Electric Company
Dr. P. Roy Vagelos '54PS '83PS
Chairman of Regeneron, Former Chairman and CEO of Merck
|