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SIEPR Economic Summit 2015

Event Details:

Friday, March 13, 2015
7:30am - 5:45pm PDT

Location

Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
McCaw Hall
326 Galvez St
Stanford, CA 94305
United States

SIEPR Economic Summit featuring Ben Bernanke and Ursula Burns.

Schedule

Friday, March 13, 2015

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    Registration and Breakfast

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    Opening Session: Preventative Medicine: The Way Ahead

    George Shultz, SIEPR Honorary Chairman
    Elizabeth Holmes, Founder and CEO, Theranos

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    Welcome Remarks

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    Session I: Perspectives from Engineering: What Ails Europe?

    Hans-Werner Sinn, Professor of Economics and Public Finance, University of Munich; President of the Ifo Institute; Director of the University of Munich’s Center for Economic Studies; Director of CESifo 

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    Break

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    Session II: Two Views of the Global Economy

    Lawrence H. Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University; Mark and Sheila Wolfson Distinguished Visiting Scholar

    John Lipsky, Senior Fellow, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; SIEPR Advisory Board Member

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    Lunch

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    Lunch Remarks: John Taylor interviews Arminio Fraga on The State of the World and the Brazilian Economy

    Arminio Fraga, Founding Partner, Gávea Investimentos; Former Chairman of the Board, BM&F Bovespa, Brazil's securities, commodities and derivatives exchange; Former President, Central Bank of Brazil

    John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics; George P. Shultz Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Former Director, SIEPR

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    Session III: The Challenges of Innovating in a Large Company Environment

    Urusula Burns, Charman and CEO, Xerox
    Steve Mollenkopf, CEO, Qualcomm

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    Moderator:  

    Susan L. Bostrom, SIEPR Advisory Board Member

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    Break

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    Session IV: San Francisco Giants’ Economic Impact on the Bay Area

    Steven Kohlhagen, SIEPR Advisory Board Member interviews

    Laurence Baer, President & CEO, San Francisco Giants 

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    Break

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    Session V: Critical Issue Sessions and Their Locations: Oil

    Panelist(s):

    Tom Stephenson, Partner, Sequoia Capital; SIEPR Advisory Board member  

    Douglas Michael Laxton, Economist, IMF  

    Frank Wolak, Holbrook Working Professor of Commodity Price Studies, Department of Economics, Stanford University; SIEPR Senior Fellow

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    Session V: Critical Issue Sessions and Their Locations: ISIL, Iran, and the Taliban: Assessing the Threats to American Security

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    Panelist(s):

    Brad Kapnick, Partner, Katten & Temple, LLP; SIEPR Advisory Board member  

    Martha Crenshaw, Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Professor, by courtesy, of Political Science  

    Karl Eikenberry, Consulting Professor, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; and William J. Perry Fellow in International Security, Center for International Studies  

    Scott Sagan, The Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science; The Peter and Mimi Haas Fellow in Undergraduate Education; Senior Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation

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