Past Speakers at The Klion Forum

Year	SPEAKER
2021	Professor Laura Boudreau Assistant Professor of Business, Columbia Business School Jonathan Duskin CEO, Macellum Capital Management Chris Miller Head of Global Activism Strategy, Ben & Jerry's Tony Tjan CEO, Cue Ball Moderated by Professor Modupe Akinola, Associate Professor in Management and Bernstein Faculty Director, Columbia Business School
2020	Valerie Jarrett Former Senior Advisor, Obama Administration Moderated by Professor Modupe Akinola, Associate Professor of Management and Bernstein Faculty Director, Columbia Business School
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