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As Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council (2017-2018), Gary Cohn managed the US economic policy agenda, stimulating economic expansion, job creation, and wage increases through historic tax and regulatory reform. Prior to that he was the President and Chief Operating Officer at Goldman Sachs where he worked for more than 25 years.

Throughout a nearly 20-year career at Credit Suisse, Lara Warner held several leadership roles, among them: Head of US Equity Research, Global Head of Fixed Income & Economic Research, and Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer of the firm’s Investment Banking division. As Group Chief Compliance and Regulatory Affairs Officer, Warner led the separation of Compliance from the Legal function and successfully launched a new 2,000+ employee risk management organization. She concluded her tenure in the role of Group Chief Risk & Compliance Officer and was a member of the firm’s Executive Board for six years. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, in 2002, Warner was a Senior Research Analyst at Lehman Brothers and, earlier, Director of Investor Relations at AT&T.

A trusted advisor, Lara has contributed her expertise and leadership to a number of various nonprofit boards, including the Women’s Leadership Board and Dean’s Executive Committee at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government; the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society and Communication and Society Programs; and The Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal College of Business Board of Directors.

Professor Edmondson studies psychological safety, organizational learning and leadership. She has published numerous influential articles in leading academic and management journals and her most recent book, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning Innovation and Growth, a practical guide for organizational success, has been translated into 11 languages.

Thomas W. Malone is the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and founding director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence. He is also a Professor of Information Technology, of Work and Organizational Studies, and was a founding co-director of the MIT Initiative on “Inventing the Organizations of the 21st Century.” He has published over 100 articles, research papers, and book chapters; is an inventor with 11 patents; and has been a cofounder of four software companies. In 2004, Professor Malone summarized decades of his research in the critically acclaimed book, The Future of Work and, in 2018, he did so again in his newest book, Superminds.

Nicholas Christakis directs the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. He is the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science, appointed in the Departments of Sociology; Medicine; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University. His current research focuses on our biology and health affect and are affected by social interactions and social networks. Other recent work has used experiments to examine the spread of altruism in social networks and the genetic and evolutionary determinants of social network structure.

Karen S. Cook is the past-Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Sociology and founding, and former Director of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRiSS). During her career her research focused on social interaction, social networks, social exchange, and trust. She has edited a number of books in the Russell Sage Foundation Trust Series, including Trust in Society (2001), Trust and Distrust in Organizations: Emerging Perspectives (with R. Kramer, 2004), eTrust: Forming Relations in the Online World (with C. Snijders, V. Buskens, and Coye Cheshire, 2009), and Whom Can Your Trust? (with M. Levi and R. Hardin, 2009). She is co-author of Cooperation without Trust? (with R. Hardin and M. Levi, 2005) and she co-edited Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology (with Gary Alan Fine and James S. House, 1995).

In 1996, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2007 to the National Academy of Sciences. In 2004 she received the ASA Social Psychology Section Cooley Mead Award for Career Contributions to Social Psychology. In 2018 she was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

Thomas J. Curry is a partner in Nutter’s Corporate and Transactions Department and a co-leader of the firm’s Banking and Financial Services group. He is a regulatory attorney who advises clients on a wide range of policy, financial services regulation, governance, and other issues. 

He chairs the Milken Institute’s Fintech Advisory Committee and is a foundation board member of the Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR), which helps regulators integrate technology into every stratum. Tom serves on the board of directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston (FHLBB) and serves on The Brookings Institution's Center for Regulation and Markets Policy Advisory Council, based in Washington, D.C. 

Tom served as the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency until May 2017. In 2012, Tom was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as Comptroller of the Currency – the head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the federal agency that charters, regulates, and supervises national banks and federal savings banks. As Comptroller, he launched the OCC’s Responsible Innovation Initiative, proposed the Fintech national bank charter, and established the OCC Office of Innovation, a first among federal financial regulators. In this role, Tom served as an ex-officio member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Financial Stability Oversight Council. He was also a member of the Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS), the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision.

Tom also served as Chairman of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) for a two-year term from April 2013 until April 2015.

Before becoming Comptroller in 2012, Tom served as a member of the Board of Directors of the FDIC. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2003. He continued to serve on the FDIC Board until May 2017.

Mr. Ketchum is the former Chairman of Board of Governors and Chief Executive Officer of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (2009 - 2016). Prior to joining FINRA, he was Chief Executive Officer of NYSE Regulation, Inc. (2006 - 2009) and the first Chief Regulatory Officer of the New York Stock Exchange (2004 - 2006). Before that, Mr. Ketchum held a twelve-year tenure at NASD and The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., where he served as President of both organizations.

Mr. Ketchum also served the United States Securities and Exchange Commission for 14 years, with eight of those years as Director of the Division of Market Regulation. In October 2010, he was appointed by President Obama to serve on the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability—a group established to promote and enhance financial literacy and capability among Americans. He also serves on the Joint Advisory Committee on Emerging Regulatory Issues, a committee created by the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission to review emerging regulatory issues, starting with the market events relating to the "Flash Crash" of May 2010.

Jim was the longest serving Director (2007-12) of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the lead U.S. Government official for AML/CFT requirements. He served concurrently as head of the U.S. Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). In June 2020, within a day of joining the Management Board of German FinTech darling, Wirecard, Jim exposed and reported on a massive fraud that later led to the collapse of the once high-flying global digital payments provider. From 2014-20, Jim was Managing Director, Chief Compliance Officer, and Group AntiMoney Laundering Officer for the Deutsche Börse Group in Frankfurt, where he oversaw global regulatory requirements for Europe’s leading provider of systemically significant financial market infrastructures.

Elizabeth (Betsy) Levy Paluck is a professor in the department of psychology and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, where she also serves as deputy director of the Center for Behavioral Science & Policy. 

She is known for her work on prejudice, social norms and conflict reduction. She is best known for creating large-scale field experiments utilizing theoretical social psychology strategies and tools to formulate effective and practical methods for reducing conflict and discrimination. Due to her extensive work investigating the influences of the Rwandan genocide and her work with high school bullying, Paluck is considered a leading authority on field-tested methods of changing intolerant and aggressive social behavior.

In 2017, Paluck won the MacArthur Fellow Award, known as the "Genius Grant" for "[u]nraveling how social networks and norms influence our interactions with one another and identifying interventions that can change destructive behavior."

Martin Wheatley was the first CEO of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) serving from 2012 until 2015.  Mr. Wheatly was appointed Managing Director of the UK Financial Services Authority, one of the precursor organizations that merged to form the FCA in 2012.

Prior to that he was the CEO of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), the market regulator which oversees the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the Hong Kong Futures Exchange.  Mr. Wheatley joined the SFC in 2004 as its executive director for market supervision in June 2004.