SIEPR Economic Summit 2018

Friday, March 9, 2018

• 8:15am - 8:30am PST

  Welcoming Remarks

  Mark Duggan, The Trione Director of SIEPR; The Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics, Stanford University

• 8:30am - 9:30am PST

  First Session: A Changing World Order

  Condoleezza Rice, The Denning Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business; The Thomas and Barbara Stephenson Fellow at Hoover Institution; and a Professor of Political Science at Stanford University 

  Moderator: 

  Mark Duggan, The Trione Director of SIEPR; The Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics, Stanford University

• 9:30am - 10:45am PST

  Second Session: Robotics, AI, and the Future of Work

  Susan Athey, The Economics of Technology Professor, Stanford Graduate School of Business; SIEPR Senior Fellow

  James Manyika, Chairman and Director, McKinsey Global Institute; Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

  Reid Hoffman, Co-Founder, LinkedIn; Partner at Greylock Partners

  Moderator: 

  Richard Waters, West Coast Editor, Financial Times

   

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• 10:45am - 11:05am PST

  Break

• 11:05am - 12:20pm PST

  Third Session: The Economics of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (and the Importance of USA Swimming)

  Maya DiRado, 2016 Olympian; Business Analyst, McKinsey & Company

  Janet Evans, Vice Chairman, Director of Athlete Relations, LA 2028; 1988, 1992, and 1996 Olympian

  Gregory Meehan, Paul A. Violich Director of Women's Swimming, Stanford University

  Moderator: 

  Gene Sykes, CEO, LA 2028

• 12:20pm - 1:20pm PST

  Lunch

• 1:20pm - 2:20pm PST

  Fourth Session: Meeting the Needs of the 21st Century State

  Gina Raimondo, Governor of Rhode Island

  Moderator: 

  David Crane, Lecturer in Public Policy, Stanford University; President of Govern for California

   

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• 2:20pm - 3:35pm PST

  Fifth Session: Struggling America: Inside the Opioid Crisis

  Anne Case, Alexander Stewart 1886 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Emeritus, Princeton University

  Anna Lembke, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical Director of Addiction Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine

  Moderator: 

  Mark Cullen, Senior Associate Dean for Research, School of Medicine and Director, Center for Population Health Sciences, Stanford University; SIEPR Senior Fellow

   

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• 3:45pm - 4:00pm PST

  Break - Move to Critical Issue Session Locations

• 4:00pm - 5:15pm PST

  Critical Issue Sessions

  I. China’s New Normal Under President Xi

  Evan Feigenbaum, Vice Chairman, The Paulson Institute at the University of Chicago

  Yiping Huang, Jin Guang Chair Professor of Economics and Deputy Dean of the National School of Development and Director of the Institute of Digital Finance, Peking University

  Moderator: 

  Qian Wang, Chief Asia-Pacific Economist and Member, Vanguard Investment Strategy Group

   

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  II. What’s Next for Brexit, Britain, and the EU?

  Nicholas Bloom, Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University; SIEPR Senior Fellow

  Steve Hilton, Co-Founder and CEO, Crowdpac; Host, The Next Revolution on Fox News, and Former Senior Adviser to David Cameron

  Moderator: 

  Elizabeth Piper, Chief Political Correspondent, Reuters News UK

   

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  III. Cryptoassets and Digital Gold?

  Chris Burniske, Co-Founder, Placeholder

  Nathaniel Popper, Reporter, The New York Times

  Moderator: 

  Dan Boneh, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering and Co-Director of the Stanford Computer Security Lab, Stanford University

   

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• 5:15pm - 6:00pm PST

  Reception

• 6:00pm - 8:15pm PST

  Dinner and Keynote Speaker: Economics from the White House

  Kevin Hassett, Chairman, White House Council of Economic Advisers

  Moderator: 

  John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics, Stanford University; George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution; SIEPR Senior Fellow

   

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