Guest
Program
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Richard C. Breeden
is the founder and Chairman of Breeden Capital Management, which
was founded in 2005 to manage a group of affiliated investment
funds called Breeden Partners. The Breeden Partners funds today
have approximately $1.5 billion in assets invested in equities
in both the U.S. and Europe.
Mr. Breeden served as Chairman of the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission from 1989-1993. During that time he handled
the failure of Drexel Burnham Lambert and the restructuring of
Salomon Brothers without cost to taxpayers. He also
strengthened significantly the SEC’s enforcement program,
bringing more than 1,200 cases, seeking tougher penalties and
winning new legislation allowing stronger sanctions for
violations of the securities laws. During his tenure, the SEC
overhauled the federal proxy rules (the last time these rules
have been modernized) to expand shareholder rights
significantly.
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Arianna Huffington is the
co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, a
nationally syndicated columnist, and author of twelve books. She
is also co-host of "Left, Right & Center," public radio's
popular political roundtable program, and is a frequent guest on
television shows such as Charlie Rose, Real Time with Bill
Maher, Larry King Live, Countdown with Keith Olbermann and The
Rachel Maddow Show. In May 2005, she launched The Huffington
Post, a news and blog site that has quickly become one of the
most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands
on the Internet. In 2006, she was named to the Time 100, Time
Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people. In
2008, she was named Media Person of the Year by I Want Media,
and wrote the introduction to The Huffington Post Complete Guide
to Blogging.
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Daniel M. Kammen is the Class of 1935
Distinguished Professor of Energy at the University of
California, Berkeley, where he holds appointments in the Energy
and Resources Group, the Goldman School of Public Policy, and
the department of Nuclear Engineering. He works on energy and
environmental science, policy and analysis, and has extensive
field experience in Latin American, southeast Asia and China,
and in Africa, which has been a focal point of his work for two
decades.
Kammen is the founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate
Energy Laboratory, the Co-Director of the Berkeley Institute of
the Environment, and the Director of the Transportation
Sustainability Research Center.
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Kenneth G Lay is the Vice President and
Treasurer of the World Bank. In this capacity he leads the
teams of finance professionals that manage more than $70 billion
in reserves and other funds for the World Bank and other
official-sector investors, carry out the World Bank’s financing
program in international and domestic bond and derivatives
markets, conduct asset and liability management for the World
Bank’s balance sheet, oversee development and outreach related
to the financing and hedging products the Bank provides for its
developing-country clients and collaborate with World Bank
member countries to help build their capacity in public debt and
national wealth management.
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Mindy S. Lubber is the President of Ceres,
the leading U.S. coalition of investors and environmental
leaders working to improve corporate environmental, social and
governance practices. She also directs the Investor Network on
Climate Risk, an alliance of more than 70 institutional
investors representing approximately $7 trillion in assets. that
coordinates U.S. investor responses to the financial risks and
opportunities posed by climate change. In her position at Ceres,
Ms. Lubber has lectured on corporate sustainability issues at
the New York Stock Exchange, the World Economic Forum, more than
100 Fortune 500 companies and the American Bar Association. She
has led negotiating teams of investors, NGOs and CEOs of Fortune
100 companies who have taken far-reaching positions on corporate
practices relating to mitigating their impact on global warming.
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Howard Marks is the chairman of Oaktree
Capital Management. Since the firm's formation in 1995, he has
been responsible for ensuring the firm’s adherence to its core
investment philosophy, communicating closely with clients
concerning products and strategies, and managing the firm. From
1985 until 1995, Mr. Marks led the groups at The TCW Group, Inc.
that were responsible for investments in distressed debt, high
yield bonds, and convertible securities. He was also Chief
Investment Officer for Domestic Fixed Income at TCW and
President of TCW Asset Management Company, the largest of the
TCW companies. Previously, Mr. Marks was with Citicorp
Investment Management for 16 years, where from 1978 to 1985 he
was Vice President and senior portfolio manager in charge of
convertible and high yield securities. Between 1969 and 1978, he
was an equity research analyst and, subsequently, Citicorp’s
Director of Research. Mr. Marks holds a B.S.Ec. degree cum laude
from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a
major in Finance and an M.B.A. in Accounting and Marketing from
the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago.
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Mike Milken was called “The Man Who Changed
Medicine” by Fortune magazine for his three decades
medical-research initiatives. In 1982, he formalized his
previous philanthropy in the Milken Family Foundation.
Recently, he helped launch the Melanoma Research Alliance and he
heads FasterCures, which accelerates progress against all
life-threatening diseases. He also chairs the Milken Institute,
an economic think tank whose 13th annual Global Conference will
bring 3,000 thought leaders from 60 nations to Los Angeles April
26-28. As a financier, he is often said to have revolutionized
modern capital markets, making them more democratic by
innovating a wide range of financing techniques previously
unavailable to most companies. Starting in 1969, he financed
thousands of companies that created millions of jobs. He is a
graduate of UC Berkeley and the Wharton School. Mike and his
wife Lori and recently celebrated their 41st anniversary with
their fourth grandchild. Details are at
www.mikemilken.com.
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Scott Minerd is Chief
Investment Officer of Guggenheim Partners, a diversified
financial services firm with more than $100 billion in assets
under supervision. Previously he was a managing director for
Morgan Stanley and later Credit Suisse, where he oversaw
fixed-income credit trading in the United States, Europe and
Asia. Early in his career, Minerd made significant contributions
to the development and use of derivative securities in the
global capital markets. During the 1993 European exchange rate
crisis, he orchestrated the restructuring of Italy's Eurobond
debt. By employing the largest debt exchange offer ever executed
by a G7 country, Italy was able to reestablish itself as a
credible capital markets borrower. Minerd began his career as a
CPA and worked for the public accounting firm of Price
Waterhouse. He received a bachelor's degree in economics from
the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and
completed graduate work at both the University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business and the Wharton School.
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Maria Fiorini Ramirez is President & Chief
Executive Officer of Maria Fiorini Ramirez, Inc., (MFR) an
independent global economic and financial consulting firm formed
in August 1992. Mrs. Ramirez and her colleagues are widely
respected for their unbiased analysis of economic trends and
other issues that affect markets and investment decisions. With
global reach and an international clientele, MFR has access to a
unique blend of economic expertise and market intelligence. Mrs.
Ramirez’s advice is held in high regard by a variety of
institutions around the globe. In February 2008, The Wall Street
Journal cited MFR’s 2007 U.S. economic forecast as being the
third most accurate of 60 participants in its survey.
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Alan Salzman co-founded VantagePoint
Venture Partners in 1996, and serves as CEO and Managing
Partner. He is experienced in every element of venture fund
management, including managing the industry’s largest CleanTech
team and nearly $4.5 billion of committed capital, including
over $1 billion committed to CleanTech. Mr. Salzman has hands-on
experience working with and funding more than 300 innovative,
entrepreneurial companies during his career. He is a graduate
(B.A., J.D., LLM) of the London School of Economics, the
University of Toronto, Stanford Law School and the University of
Brussels, Belgium. He also held a faculty appointment for more
than a decade as an Adjunct Professor for Venture Capital and
Entrepreneurial Companies at Stanford Law School. He is a member
of the International Leadership Council of The Climate Group and
was recently appointed to the World Economic Forum Technology
Pioneer Selection Committee.
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Peter Schwartz is a
cofounder and chairman of Global Business Network, a Monitor
Group Company. He is an internationally renowned futurist,
business strategist and one of the world’s leading practitioners
of scenario planning, working with corporations, governments and
institutions to create alternative perspectives of the future
and develop robust strategies for a changing and uncertain
world.
Peter is
the author of several books, among them, his most recent,
Inevitable Surprises, is a provocative look at the dynamic
forces at play in the world today and their implications for
business and society. His first book, The Art of the Long
View, is considered a seminal publication on scenario
planning and has been translated into multiple languages. He
publishes and lectures widely and served as a script consultant
on the films "Minority Report," "Deep Impact," "Sneakers," and
"War Games."
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Terri A. Sexton is a Professor of Economics
at California State University, Sacramento. She holds a B.S. in
economics, a Bachelor of Mathematics, and a Ph.D in economics
from the University of Minnesota. Sexton’s research has focused
on the economic and fiscal impacts of various state and local
taxes including a comprehensive study of Proposition 13, with
Steven M. Sheffrin and Arthur O'Sullivan, that culminated in
Property Taxes and Tax Revolts: The Legacy of Proposition 13,
an examination of the impacts of electric utility deregulation
on property taxes in California and other western states,
analysis of various sales tax and property tax reforms including
the feasibility of implementing a single rate sales tax in
California, and evaluation of California’s telecommunications
tax policy. Her research has appeared in such publications as
National Tax Journal, Land Economics, Rand
Journal of Economics, and Journal of Urban Economics.
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Anne Sheehan
began serving as the Director of Corporate Governance for the
California State Teachers’ Retirement System in October 2008.
In this newly created position, she will be responsible for the
development and implementation of major corporate governance
initiatives approved by the Board of Directors of the second
largest pension fund in the United States. Ms. Sheehan has had
nearly three decades of management and leadership experience in
major policy positions at both the state and federal levels. In
August 2004, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger named her the Chief
Deputy Director for Policy of the California Department of
Finance. In this capacity, she represented the Governor on more
than 80 state boards, commissions, and public authorities.
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John Williams is Executive Vice President
and Director of Research in the Economic Research Department of
the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. John joined the San
Francisco Fed in 2002. Previously, he was a Senior Economist at
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and served
as Senior Economist at the President’s Council for Economic
Advisers, where he was responsible for issues related to the
macroeconomy, tax policy, and financial markets. He received an
AB degree from the University of California at Berkeley, an MSc
in Economics from the London School of Economics, and a PhD in
Economics from Stanford University. John has also been a
Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and was on
the Board of Editors of the American Economic Review
and was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control.
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