The Haas School of Business is the business school of the University of California,Berkeley. The first of its kind to be founded at a public university in the United States,it is ranked among the best business schools in the world by The Economist,Financial Times,QS World University Rankings,U.S. News &World Report,and Bloomberg Businessweek.
Paul Adolph Volcker Jr. was an American economist. He served two terms as the 12th Chair of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. He was nominated to the position by President Jimmy Carter and renominated by President Ronald Reagan. He was widely credited with having ended the high levels of inflation seen in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s. After his retirement from the Fed,he chaired the Economic Recovery Advisory Board under President Barack Obama from February 2009 until January 2011.
Susan Schmidt Bies was born in Buffalo,New York,and received a B.S. in education from Buffalo State College in 1967 and an M.A. (1968) and a Ph.D. (1972),both in economics,from Northwestern University,Bies was a member of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Donald Lewis Kohn is an American economist who served as the former Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve. He is considered a moderate dove on monetary policy. He retired after 40 years at the central bank in September,2010 and currently serves on the Financial Policy Committee for the Bank of England and as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Peter Bain Kenen was an American economist,who was the Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance at Princeton University,and senior fellow in international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
William Joseph McDonough was a former vice chairman and special advisor to the chairman at Merrill Lynch &Co. Inc.,responsible for assisting senior management in the company's business development efforts with governments and financial institutions. He retired in 2009.
Axel Alfred Weber is a German economist,professor,and banker. He is currently a board member and chairman of Swiss investment bank and financial services company,UBS Group AG.
Randall S. Kroszner is a former member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States. He was chairman of its Committee on Supervision and Regulation of Banking Institutions during the global financial crisis. He took office on March 1,2006 to fill an unexpired term,and stepped down on January 21,2009. Kroszner has been professor of economics at the University of Chicago since the 1990s,with various leaves,and named Norman R. Bobins Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business in 2009,and serves as a senior advisor for Patomak Partners.
C. Fred Bergsten is an American economist,author,and political adviser. He has previously served as assistant for international economic affairs to Henry Kissinger within the National Security Council and as assistant secretary for international affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He was director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics,formerly the Institute for International Economics,from its founding in 1981 through 2012 and is now senior fellow and director emeritus. In addition to his academic work,he makes his opinions known to the policy making community and engages with the public with television appearances,writing for influential periodicals such as Foreign Affairs magazine and by writing numerous books.
Dennis P. Lockhart is an American economist. He was the 14th President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta,serving from March 1,2007,through February 28,2017.
William Poole was the eleventh chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He took office on March 23,1998 and began serving his full term on March 1,2001. In 2007,he served as a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee,bringing his District's perspective to policy discussions in Washington. Poole stepped down from the Fed on March 31,2008.
Gary Hilton Stern is an American economist and banker. On March 16,1985,he took office as the eleventh chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis,and retired from the position on September 1,2009.
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.
Jerry L. Jordan is a former member of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers and former president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
Heinz Robert Heller was born January 8,1940,in Cologne,Germany. He has served as a governor of the Federal Reserve System and as president of VISA U.S.A. Inc.
Loretta J. Mester is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
The Bilderberg Conference 2012 took place from May 30 - June 3,2012 and was held in Westfields Marriott Hotel,Chantilly,Virginia,United States. Previous conferences had already held been there,in 2002 and 2008. Haifa in Israel had previously been proposed as a possible venue for 2012.
The Bilderberg Conference 2011 took place at June 9–12,2011,and were held in Sankt Moritz,Switzerland at the Suvretta House.
Thomas I. Barkin is an American central banker,who became the eighth president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond on January 1,2018. He worked at global management consulting firm McKinsey &Company for 30 years in increasingly senior positions,including as global chief financial officer (CFO) and chief risk officer,with oversight of finance,legal and information technology functions,among others. He also served on the executive committee of the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce,Emory University Board of Trustees member,and former board member and chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
