The University of California,Berkeley is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley,California. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley,it is the state's first land-grant university and is the founding campus of the University of California system. It has been regarded as one of the top universities in the world.
George Arthur Akerlof is an American economist and a university professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University and Koshland Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California,Berkeley. Akerlof was awarded the 2001 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences,jointly with Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz,"for their analyses of markets with asymmetric information."
Richard Charles Blum was an American investor and the husband of United States Senator Dianne Feinstein. He was the chairman and president of Blum Capital,an equity investment management firm. Blum was on the boards of directors of several companies,including CB Richard Ellis,where until May 2009 he served as the chairman of that board. He was a regent of the University of California from 2002 until his death.
Andrew Michael Spence is a Canadian-American economist and Nobel laureate.
The Walter A. Haas School of Business is the business school of the University of California,Berkeley,a public research university in Berkeley,California. It was the first business school at a public university in the United States.
Thomas John Campbell is an American academic,educator,and politician. He is a professor of law at the Dale E. Fowler School of Law,and a professor of economics at the George Argyros School of Business and Economics,at Chapman University,in Orange,California.
Janet Louise Yellen is an American economist serving as the 78th United States secretary of the treasury since January 26,2021. She previously served as the 15th chair of the Federal Reserve from 2014 to 2018. She is the first woman to hold either post,and has also led the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Yellen is the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business Administration and Economics at the University of California,Berkeley.
Robert D. Haas is the chairman emeritus of Levi Strauss &Co.,son of Walter A. Haas Jr.,and the great-great-grandnephew of the company's founder,Levi Strauss.
Li Choh-ming was a Chinese-born American economist and educator. He was the founding Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1963. He compiled The Li Chinese Dictionary (Cantonese-Mandarin). He was an economics professor at the University of California,Berkeley and at Nankai University in Tianjin during his academic career.
Peter Schwartz is an American business executive,futurist,author,and co-founder of the Global Business Network (GBN),a corporate strategy firm,specializing in future-think and scenario planning. In 2011,Schwartz became an executive at Salesforce.com,where his roles include Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning and Chief Futures Officer.
David John Teece is a New Zealand-born US-based organizational economist and the Professor in Global Business and director of the Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital at the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California,Berkeley.
Richard Kent Lyons is an American economist and academic. He was the 14th Dean of the Haas School of Business,University of California,Berkeley,until 2018. In 2020,he became UC Berkeley's first Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer. In 2024,he was named to succeed Carol T. Christ as Chancellor of UC Berkeley.
The Summer Palace Dialogue (SPD) is an economic forum which brings together economists from both China and the United States to discuss economic cooperation between the two largest economies in the world. SPD is co-hosted by Chinese Economists 50 Forum and the Columbia Global Centers East Asia,and was formerly co-hosted by the Brookings Institution. It was founded in 2009 by former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and current Chairman of AEA Investors Admiral Bill Owens and Vice Minister Liu He of the Chinese Central Leading Group on Financial and Economic Affairs. The forum extends for two days. Participants spend the first day in private discussions and then convene a half-day public session to summarize their observations,analyses,and conclusions with the press and a broader audience. The Summer Palace Dialogue is scheduled annually in mid-September in Beijing,right before the Summer World Economic Forum in Dalian. The third annual Summer Palace Dialogue was held on September 12–13,2011.
Berkeley Research Group,LLC (BRG) is a global consulting firm that helps organizations with assistance in disputes and investigations,corporate finance,and performance improvement and advisory. BRG is headquartered in Emeryville,California,with offices across the United States and in Asia,Australia,Canada,Latin America,the Middle East and the United Kingdom. As of January 2023,it has more than 1,300 employees across more than forty offices.
Ulrike M. Malmendier is a German economist who is currently a professor of economics and finance at the University of California,Berkeley. Her work focuses on behavioral economics,corporate finance,and law and economics. In 2013,she was awarded the Fischer Black Prize by the American Finance Association.
John Morgan was the Oliver E. Williamson and Dolores J. Williamson Chair in the Economics of Organizations at the University of California,Berkeley.
Annette Vissing-Jørgensen is a Danish financial economist who holds the Arno A. Rayner Chair in Finance and Management in the Haas School of Business at the University of California,Berkeley. Topics in her research include monetary policy,household economics,and entrepreneurial finance. She was director of the American Finance Association for 2010 and 2012,of the European Finance Association for 2013,and of the Western Finance Association for 2017.
Don Andrew Moore is an author,academic,and professor. He is the Lorraine Tyson Mitchell Chair I of Leadership and Communication at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business where he teaches classes on leadership,negotiation,and decision making.
Catherine D. Wolfram is an American micro-economist,academic and researcher. Catherine Wolfram was named in March 2021 as the United States Department of the Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Climate and Energy Economics She is the Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration and associate dean for academic affairs at the Haas School of Business at University of California,Berkeley where she also serves as a faculty director of The E2e Project and as scientific director for energy and the environment at Center for Effective Global Action. She also directs the National Bureau of Economic Research's Environment and Energy Economics Program.
