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 person to hold those positions having also led the White House Council of Economic Advisers and the first woman to hold either post.
Pascal Lamy is a French political consultant and businessman. He was the Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) from 1 September 2005 to 1 September 2013 for 8 years. In April 2009,WTO members reappointed Lamy for a second 4-year term,beginning on 1 September 2009. He was then succeeded by Roberto Azevêdo. Pascal Lamy was also European Commissioner for Trade for 5 years,from 13 September 1999 to 22 November 2004 and is an advisor for the transatlantic think-tank European Horizons,as well as currently serving as the Honorary President of the Paris-based think tank,Notre Europe.
Peter Schwartz is an American business executive,innovator,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.
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is a council,chartered in each administration with a broad mandate to advise the president of the United States on science and technology. The current PCAST was established by Executive Order 13226 on September 30,2001,by George W. Bush,was re-chartered by Barack Obama's April 21,2010,Executive Order 13539,by Donald Trump's October 22,2019,Executive Order 13895,and by Joe Biden's February 1,2021,Executive Order 14007.
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.
The Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at the University of California's Berkeley,Davis,Irvine,and Los Angeles campuses are centers for research,education,and scholarship in the fields of transportation planning and engineering. Faculty members,staff researchers,and graduate students comprise this multidisciplinary institute network of more than 400 people,which administers an average of $20 million in research funds each year. ITS Berkeley is an organized research unit with nine affiliated organizations and an eight-member advisory council.
Jean Pisani-Ferry is a French economist and public policy expert. He is a fellow at think tanks Bruegel in Brussels and the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington,D.C. He is also a senior professor in economics and public management at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin,and a professor at the European University Institute near Florence.
The President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness,originally the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board (PERAB),was an ad hoc panel of non-governmental experts from business,labor,academia and elsewhere that President of the United States Barack Obama created on February 6,2009. The board reported to Obama and his economic team on possible ways to improve the nation's economy. Obama announced this new board on November 26,2008,and also announced that it would be chaired by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker with campaign economic adviser Austan Goolsbee as staff director and chief economist.
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.
Lucrezia Reichlin is an Italian economist who has been a professor at London Business School since 2008.
Clair Brown is an American economist who is Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Work,Technology,and Society at the University of California,Berkeley. Brown is a past Director of the Institute of Industrial Relations (IRLE) at UC Berkeley. Brown has published research on many aspects of how economies function,including high-tech industries,development engineering,the standard of living,wage determination,poverty,and unemployment.
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.
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.
