Maria Bartiromo

Maria Bartiromo is anchor of CNBC's "Closing Bell with Maria Bartiromo" (M-F, 3-5 p.m. ET), and anchor and managing editor of the nationally syndicated "Wall Street Journal Report with Maria Bartiromo," recently rated the most watched financial news program in America. Both programs air globally on the CNBC network.

In 1995, Bartiromo became the first journalist to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on a daily basis. She has covered Wall Street for 20 years. Bartiromo joined CNBC in 1993 after five years as a producer, writer and assignment editor with CNN Business News.

Bartiromo has received numerous prestigious awards, including a 2008 News and Documentary Emmy for her "Bailout Talks Collapse" program, broadcast on NBC Nightly News; and a Gracie Award for "Greenspan: Power, Money & the American Dream," broadcast on CNBC.

She also won a second Emmy Award for her 2009 documentary, "Inside The Mind of Google," which aired on CNBC.

In 2009, the Financial Times named her one of the "50 Faces That Shaped the Decade."  She was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame Class of 2011, for her impact on the cable industry – the first female journalist to be inducted. Bartiromo is the author of several books, including "The Weekend That Changed Wall Street," published by Portfolio / Penguin, and "The 10 Laws of Enduring Success," published by Random House; both released in 2010.
Bartiromo writes a monthly column for USA TODAY. She has written a weekly column for BusinessWeek and Milano Finanza, as well as monthly columns for Individual Investor, Ticker and Reader's Digest magazines, and she has been published in the Financial Times, Newsweek, Town and Country, Registered Rep and the New York Post.

In addition to being a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University, Bartiromo is on the Board of Directors of the New York City Ballet, the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York and the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF). She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, and the Board of Governors of the Columbus Citizens Foundation.

Bartiromo graduated from New York University, where she studied journalism and economics. She served as an adjunct professor at NYU Stern School of Business in the fall semesters of 2010 and 2011.

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Elizabeth Economy

Elizabeth Economy is the C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Dr. Economy has published widely on both Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Her most recent book, The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future (Cornell University Press, 2004; Second Edition, 2010), was named one of the Top 50 Sustainability Books in 2008 by the University of Cambridge, won the 2005 International Convention on Asia Scholars Award for the best social sciences book published on Asia, and was listed as one of the top ten books of 2004 by the Globalist as well as one of the best business books of 2010 by Booz Allen Hamilton's strategy+business magazine.

She also coedited China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects (Council on Foreign Relations Press, with Michel Oksenberg, 1999) and The Internationalization of Environmental Protection (Cambridge University Press, with Miranda Schreurs, 1997). She has published articles in foreign policy and scholarly journals including Foreign Affairs, Harvard Business Review, and Foreign Policy; and op-eds in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and International Herald Tribune, among others. Her most recent piece, "The Game Changer: Coping with China's Foreign Policy Revolution," in the November/December 2010 issue of Foreign Affairs, examines the implications of China's rising influence overseas. Dr. Economy is a frequent guest on nationally broadcast television and radio programs, has testified before Congress on numerous occasions, and regularly consults for U.S. government agencies and companies. She is currently working on a new book focusing on China's rise and its geopolitical and strategic implications. She writes about topics involving China on CFR's Asia Program blog, Asia Unbound.

Dr. Economy is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on the Future of China. She also serves on the board of the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development. She has taught undergraduate- and graduate-level courses at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies.

Dr. Economy received her PhD from the University of Michigan, her AM from Stanford University and her BA from Swarthmore College. In 2008, she received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Vermont Law School. She lives in New York City with her husband and three children.

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Rebecca Jarvis

Rebecca Jarvis was named co-host of "CBS This Morning: Saturday" in January 2012. She continues as Business and Economics correspondent for CBS News.
 
  Jarvis had been news anchor for the "The Early Show on Saturday" and Business and Economics correspondent for CBS News since April, 2010.
 
  Before joining CBS News, Jarvis reported breaking stock, currency, and commodities market news from the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ, and the New York Mercantile Exchange for CNBC. She also contributed to MSNBC and NBC News programs, and regularly guest anchored the "Closing Bell," "Squawk on the Street," and "Power Lunch." Additionally, Jarvis covered prominent national events such as the Chrysler and General Motors bankruptcy, the Bernard Madoff scandal, the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers and the sale of Merrill Lynch as well as the 2008 Presidential election.   Prior to entering the field of television journalism, Jarvis wrote for numerous publications, including Crain's Chicago Business and Business 2.0. She also has worked in investment banking and foreign currency trading.
 
  Jarvis graduated from the University of Chicago in 2003 with a degree in Economics and Constitutional Law. A recipient of the University of Chicago Dean's Grant, she studied European banking and financial markets and the formation of the European Union at the Université Sciences Po in Paris, France.
 
  She has received national recognition for her work with Colin Powell to empower children and improve communities. In 2000, she was named "One of Twenty Teens Who Will Change the World" by Teen People magazine and also named a "National Point of Light," receiving accolades from Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.

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Edward Luce

Edward Luce is the Washington columnist and commentator for the Financial Times. He writes a weekly column, FT's leaders/editorials on American politics and the economy and other articles.

Ed has worked for the FT since 1995 as Philippines correspondent, capital markets editor, South Asia bureau chief in New Delhi and Washington bureau chief between 2006 and 2011. In 2000 Ed was the chief speechwriter for Lawrence H. Summers, the US Treasury secretary. His first book, In Spite of the Gods, The Strange Rise of Modern India remains a high seller.  

 

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Steven Pearlstein

  Steve Pearlstein started out in journalism in 1973 right out Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, where he was editor of the school newspaper. His first job was at Foster's Daily Democrat in Dover, N.H., an afternoon daily that is last newspaper in America to still bear the name of its owners (the Fosters were northern Democrats during the civil war). Six months later, he jumped to the Concord Monitor to cover local and federal court, but occasionally dipping into business and politics. One story caught the eye of John Durkin, the newly elected U.S. senator, who invited Steve to Washington to join his staff. For the next two years, Steve served as Durkin's press secretary and administrative assistant before jumping to the House side, where he served as administrative assistant to Rep. Michael Harrington in his Washington and Massachusetts office. Harrington retired in 1978.  

Boston public television at that time had a wonderful nightly news program at that time. On a lark, Steve telephoned the anchorman, Chris Lydon, and asked if he needed any help, and the next day he started a brief television career behind and in front of the camera. One day a fellow reporter, Janet Wu, and Steve were at a diner near the studio when a woman came up to say that she was a faithful viewer and loved Wu's reporting. Wu was kind enough to introduce Steve to her fan, but her fan allowed how she had never heard of Steve. It was at that point he realized it was time to get back into print. The Boston Observer, which Steve launched in 1982, was a monthly journal of liberal opinion for which he held the official title as editor and publisher but unofficially was also the ad salesman, circulation director and typesetter. The Observer was a critical success but not a financial one, and closed its doors, not coincidentally, on the day his first child was born.

Inc. magazine, the business monthly, rescued Steve from unemployment, where he worked happily as a senior editor for two years until an acquaintance from The Washington Post called to say the paper was looking for a deputy business editor. He got the job, did it well enough, but after three years returned to the typewriter as a defense industry reporter, Canadian correspondent and economics correspondent. In 2003, Steve was named the Post's business columnist, from which perch he has been offering edgy and unpredictable opinions three times a week on local, national and international topics. Steve grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he attended public schools. Later, while working in Boston, he lived in the small town of West Newbury, where he served two terms as the elected town moderator, He now lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, Wendy Gray. His daughter, Laura, works in advertising in New York, and his son Eli is a student at the University of Southern California.

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David M. Rubenstein

David M. Rubenstein is a co-founder and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group. Mr. Rubenstein is based in Washington, D.C.

Prior to forming the firm in 1987, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in Washington, D.C. with Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw Pittman). From 1977 to 1981, during the Carter administration, Mr. Rubenstein was Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy. From 1975 to 1976, he served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments. From 1973 to 1975, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in New York with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.

Mr. Rubenstein is a 1970 magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. Following Duke, Mr. Rubenstein graduated in 1973 from The University of Chicago Law School.

Among other philanthropic endeavors, Mr. Rubenstein is the Chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, President of the Economic Club of Washington and on the Boards of Directors or Trustees of Duke University (Vice Chair), the Brookings Institution (Vice Chair), the Council on Foreign Relations and the Institute for Advanced Study.

Mr. Rubenstein is also a member of several advisory boards including the Harvard Business School Board of Dean's Advisors, the Board of Trustees of the Young Global Leaders Foundation, the Advisory Board of School of Economics and Management Tsinghua University and the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum.

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Gillian Tett

Gillian Tett is markets and finance commentator and an assistant editor of the Financial Times. In her previous roles, she was US managing editor and oversaw global coverage of the financial markets. In March 2009 she was Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Michael  Boyle

Michael Boyle is Chief Executive Officer of Boyle Energy Services and Technology (BES&T). Boyle found BES&T in 1990. After serving in the Navy, Mr. Boyle utilized the skills gained in his Naval training to provide pre-commissioning services to the power industry, a service previously performed only by the construction companies themselves. Mr. Boyle was one of the first to pioneer the pre-commission cleaning services industry in the United States, and BES&T is now an internationally recognized leader in the industry providing engineered services to the start-up of the world's largest industrial complexes and power plants.  The company's current focus is the continued global expansion of technically differentiated services and the development of the cultural relationships necessary for that expansion.  Mr. Boyle was nominated for Platts Energy 'CEO of the year in 2010'.  He completed the OPM Executive training program at Harvard Business School after 3 years of study in 2012.

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Ursula M. Burns

Ursula M. Burns is chairman and chief executive officer of Xerox. With sales approaching $23 billion, Xerox (NYSE: XRX) is the world's leading enterprise for business process and document management.
 
  When Burns joined Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineering summer intern, the company was the leader in the global photocopying market. As she later assumed roles in product development and planning, the company was securing its leadership position in digital document technologies. From 1992 through 2000, Burns, at a pivotal point in the company's history, led several business teams including the company's color business and office network printing business.
 
  In 2000, Burns was named senior vice president, Corporate Strategic Services, heading up manufacturing and supply chain operations. Alongside then-CEO Anne Mulcahy, Burns worked to restructure Xerox through its turnaround to emerge as a leader in color technology and document services. A key factor in the company's turnaround was its research and development of new products and technologies, and at the time Burns was responsible for leading Xerox's global research as well as product development, marketing and delivery. In April 2007, Burns was named president of Xerox, expanding her leadership to also include the company's IT organization, corporate strategy, human resources, corporate marketing and global accounts. At that time, she was also elected a member of the company's Board of Directors.
 
  Burns was named chief executive officer in July 2009 and shortly after, made the largest acquisition in Xerox history, the $6.4 billion purchase of Affiliated Computer Services, catapulting the company's presence in the $500 billion business services market and extending the company's reach into diverse areas of business process and IT outsourcing.
 
  On May 20, 2010, Burns became chairman of the company, leading the 140,000 people of Xerox who serve clients in more than 160 countries. Building on Xerox's legacy of innovation, they're enabling workplaces – from small businesses to large global enterprises -- to simplify the way work gets done so they can focus more on what matters most: their real business.
 
  Burns earned a bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of NYU and a master of science degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University.
 
  In addition to the Xerox board, she is a board director of the American Express Corporation. Burns also provides leadership counsel to community, educational and non-profit organizations including FIRST - (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), National Academy Foundation, MIT, and the U.S. Olympic Committee, among others. She is a founding board director of Change the Equation, which focuses on improving the U.S.'s education system in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). In March 2010, U.S. President Barack Obama appointed Burns vice chair of the President's Export Council.

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Enrique de la Madrid Cordero

Enrique de la Madrid Cordero is CEO of the National Foreign Trade Bank (Bancomext).  He has a law degree from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, and has a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy of Harvard University.

  His professional experience has developed as executive financial group HSBC, and has a career in the public sector have also made contributions to various publications.

He was CEO of Financiera Rural, federal deputy and general technical coordinator of the Presidency of the National Banking and Securities, where he had oversight of the development banks, as given experience in the financial sector.

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Daniel L. Doctoroff

Daniel L. Doctoroff is Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President of Bloomberg L.P., the leading provider of financial information. Mr. Doctoroff joined Bloomberg L.P. in January 2008 as President of the Company and was appointed CEO in August 2011.
 
  Doctoroff led the Company through the financial crisis by pursuing an ambitious investment strategy, which included major enhancements to its products, services and technology, starting up new businesses, and acquisitions such as Bloomberg Businessweek. Doctoroff also initiated Plan B, the vision for the future of Bloomberg and one of the biggest shifts in the Company's business organization and growth strategy since its founding.
 
  Prior to joining Bloomberg, Doctoroff was Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding for the City of New York. With Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Doctoroff led one of the city's most dramatic economic resurgences, spearheading the effort to reverse New York's fiscal crisis after the attacks of 9/11 through a five-borough economic development strategy. This plan included the most ambitious land-use transformation in the city's modern history; the largest affordable housing program ever launched by an American city; the formation of new Central Business Districts and Industrial Business Zones; and the creation of new destinations like the Harbor District, which will link together new parkland and miles of waterfront esplanades in Lower Manhattan, Governors Island, and Brooklyn. All told, Doctoroff helped lead New York to its strongest economic position in decades.
 
  Doctoroff also led the creation of PlaNYC, a 127-point plan designed to create the first environmentally sustainable 21st century city. The plan focuses on every facet of New York's physical environment – its transportation network, housing stock, land and park system, energy network, water supply and air quality – and sets the course for a 30% reduction in global warming emissions by 2030.
 
  Before joining the Bloomberg administration, Doctoroff was Managing Partner of Oak Hill Capital Partners, a major private equity investment firm. During his fourteen-year association with Oak Hill, Doctoroff led the purchases of companies in a wide variety of industries including information services, insurance, thrifts, cable television, hotels and leasing. While at Oak Hill, Doctoroff founded NYC2012, the organization dedicated to bringing the Olympic Games to New York. He continued to oversee New York City's bid as Deputy Mayor, ensuring that the Olympic effort spurred parks, housing, and economic development projects in all five boroughs.
 
  Prior to joining Oak Hill, Doctoroff was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers. Doctoroff received a B.A. degree from Harvard College and a J.D. degree from The Law School at the University of Chicago. Before attending law school, Doctoroff was a political pollster. He lives in New York City with his wife, Alisa, and their three children.
 
  Doctoroff serves on the Boards of the University of Chicago, World Resources Institute, Youth Inc., Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy, Human Rights First, Riverside Park Fund and National Academy Foundation.

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Richard N. Haass

Dr. Richard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a position he has held since July 2003. The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.

Dr. Haass is the author or editor of eleven books on American foreign policy and one book on management. His next book, Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America's House in Order, will be published by Basic Books in May 2013.

From January 2001 to June 2003, Dr. Richard Haass was director of policy planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal adviser to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Confirmed by the U.S. Senate to hold the rank of ambassador, Dr. Haass also served as U.S. coordinator for policy toward the future of Afghanistan and U.S. envoy to the Northern Ireland peace process. For his efforts, he received the State Department's Distinguished Honor Award.

Dr. Haass has extensive additional government experience. From 1989 to 1993, he was special assistant to President George H.W. Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. In 1991, Dr. Haass was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal for his contributions to the development and articulation of U.S. policy during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Previously, he served in the Departments of State (1981-85) and Defense (1979-80) and was a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate.

Dr. Haass also was vice president and director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, the Sol M. Linowitz visiting professor of international studies at Hamilton College, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. A Rhodes scholar, Dr. Haass holds a BA from Oberlin College and Master and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University. He has received honorary degrees from Hamilton College, Franklin & Marshall College, Georgetown University, Oberlin College, Central College, and Miami Dade College. Dr. Richard Haass was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1951. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

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James A. Hughes

James A. Hughes joined First Solar in March 2012 as Chief Commercial Officer and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in May 2012. Prior to joining First Solar, Mr. Hughes served, from October 2007 until April 2011, as Chief Executive Officer and Director of AEI Services LLC, which owned and operated power distribution, power generations (both thermal and renewable), natural gas transportation and services, and natural gas distribution businesses in emerging markets worldwide. From 2004 to 2007, he engaged in principal investing with a privately held company based in Houston, Texas that focused on microcap investments in North American distressed manufacturing assets. Previously, he served, from 2002 until March 2004, as President and Chief Operating Officer of Prisma Energy International, which was formed out of former Enron interests in international electric and natural gas utilities. Prior to that role, Mr. Hughes spent almost a decade with Enron Corporation in positions that included President and Chief Operating Officer of Enron Global Assets, President and Chief Operating Officer of Enron Asia, Pacific Africa and China and as Assistant General Counsel of Enron International. Mr. Hughes is a Non‐ Executive Director of APR Energy plc, a London Stock Exchange‐listed energy company participating in the global market for gas and diesel fired temporary power plants.

Mr. Hughes holds a juris doctor degree from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, a Certificate of Completion in international business law from Queen Mary's College, University of London, and bachelor's degree in business administration from Southern Methodist University.

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Jon Huntsman

Jon Meade Huntsman, Jr. (born March 26, 1960) is an American politician, businessman, and diplomat who served as the 16th Governor of Utah from 2005 to 2009, and as United States Ambassador to Singapore from 1992 to 1993, and China from 2009 to 2011. He has served in the administrations of four U.S. Presidents and was a candidate for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.[1]
 
  Huntsman began his career as a White House staff assistant for Ronald Reagan, and he was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce and United States Ambassador to Singapore by George H.W. Bush. Later as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative, Huntsman launched global trade negotiations in Doha in 2001 and guided the accession of China into the World Trade Organization. He has also served as CEO of his family owned, Huntsman Corporation and chairman of the Huntsman Cancer Foundation.
 
  While governor, Huntsman was named chairman of the Western Governors Association, and joined the Executive Committee of the National Governors Association. Under his leadership, Utah was named the best managed state in America by the Pew Center on the States. He won re-election in 2008 with nearly 78 percent of the vote and left office with approval ratings over 80 percent.

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Nancy Mercolino

Nancy Mercolino is the founder of Ceilings Plus, a women-owned business created from merging two small companies with revenues of less than $1 million and has grown it into a company currently worth over $30 million.  As CEO of the company she introduced CNC equipment, creative designs and grew the engineering department to accommodate the growth of the business.  The last five years her company has exported products to Europe and the Middle East. 

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Luis Alberto Moreno

Luis Alberto Moreno assumed the presidency of the Inter-American Development Bank on October 1, 2005. He was re-elected to a five-year term during a special meeting of the Bank's Board of Governors on July 6, 2010.

As President of the Bank, Moreno also serves as Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) and Chairman of the Donors' Committee of the Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF).

Previous to joining the IDB, Moreno served as Colombia's Ambassador to the United States for seven years. Ambassador Moreno oversaw a dramatic improvement in Colombian-U.S. relations during his tenure in Washington. His most notable achievement was the successful effort to build strong bipartisan support in the United States Congress for passage of more than US$6 billion in U.S. assistance programs for Colombia. These resources have contributed to a material positive transformation of the security and economic situation in Colombia.

Prior to his post as Ambassador, Moreno served a distinguished career in both the public and private sectors in Colombia. Immediately prior to his appointment in Washington, he served as representative for the Andean Region of WestSphere Capital, a private equity firm focusing on investment opportunities in Latin America, from August 1997 to July 1998. Previously, he served as senior advisor to the Luis Carlos Sarmiento Organization, the leading banking & financial group in Colombia with over US$10 billion in assets, from November 1994 to August 1997.

From 1991 to 1994, during the administration of President César Gaviria, Moreno worked in the Colombian Government in a variety of leadership positions. From December 1991 to July 1992, Moreno was the President of the Instituto de Fomento Industrial (IFI), the Colombian government's industrial finance corporation, and a holding company for many of the largest state enterprises in the country. As head of IFI, Moreno led a successful privatization program and developed new financing instruments for private industry to take advantage of the Gaviria administration's economic liberalization policy. In July 1992, he was named Minister of Economic Development. During his tenure, he modernized the Ministry and its subordinated agencies, and led the design and implementation of Colombia's industrial policy and competitiveness strategy. He was also in charge of part of the Government's social investment portfolio, notably its low-income housing strategy. Upon leaving the Ministry in January 1994, he was tapped to chair Andrés Pastrana's Presidential Campaign.

Previously, Moreno was Executive Producer of "TV Hoy" news program. During his tenure, "TV Hoy" received the "King of Spain Prize" for journalistic excellence, the Spanish language equivalent of a Pulitzer.

Throughout his career, Moreno has received some of the highest decorations and distinctions awarded by the Colombian state and the country's private sector, including the "Orden de Boyacá en el Grado de Gran Cruz"—the highest distinction given by the Colombian state—, awarded by the President of Colombia on August 2, 2002.  President Moreno was also the recipient of the 2012 Clinton Global Citizen Award for Leadership in Public Service.

Moreno's writings have appeared in numerous newspapers and magazines, and he has been a guest speaker in a wide variety of academic, political and economic forums in the United States, Latin America, Asia and Europe.

Moreno obtained bachelor's degrees in Business Administration and Economics from Florida Atlantic University in 1975, and an MBA from the American Graduate School of International Management at Thunderbird University in 1977. For his distinguished work in the field of journalism, he was awarded a Neiman Fellowship by Harvard University to undertake studies at that institution from September 1990 to June 1991.

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Michael E. O'Neill

• Chairman, Citigroup Inc. - 2012 to present
• Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Director, Bank of Hawaii Corporation - 2000 to 2004
• Elected Chief Executive Officer, Barclay's PLC - 1999
• Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, Bank of America - 1995 to 1998
• Chief Financial Officer, Continental Bank - 1993 to 1995
• Director of Citigroup since 2009
• Director of Citibank, N.A. since 2009
• Other Directorships: FT Ventures (Advisory Board)
• Other Activities: Hawaii Pacific University (Trustee) and Honolulu Academy of Arts (Trustee)

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Sanjay Reddy 

Mr. Sanjay Reddy holds multiple positions and commands a key management role in various businesses of the Hyderabad based GVK.  As Vice Chairman of GVK Power and Infrastructure Ltd, he spearheads GVK's foray in key areas of infrastructure such as Energy, Resources, Airports and Transportation. As the Managing Director of Mumbai International Airport and Bangalore International Airport, he is working on expanding, consolidating and strengthening GVK's leadership position in the  airports business in India.

 

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Danny Roderick

Danny Roderick joined Westinghouse Electric Company as president and chief executive officer on Sept. 26, 2012. He joined Westinghouse with more than 30 years of proven performance within the nuclear   industry.
 
  Before his Westinghouse appointment, Mr. Roderick was senior vice president, Nuclear Plant Projects, with GE-Hitachi (GEH) Nuclear Energy, where he managed all facets of new and existing nuclear plant projects.
 
  Prior to that, Mr. Roderick held progressively responsible leadership positions at GEH within engineering and project management, outage and work controls, and operations. Mr. Roderick also was site operations director and plant general manager at Progress Energy's Crystal River Nuclear Plant. As the company's vice president of Nuclear Projects and Construction, he also managed a multibillion-dollar new-nuclear expansion program.
 
  Before joining Progress Energy, Mr. Roderick spent 13 years with Entergy's Nuclear Division working in plant operations and engineering. Also, he spent three years as a startup and field engineer with Johnson Controls and Howard S. Wright Contractors at the Perry Nuclear and Columbia Generating Stations.
 
  Mr. Roderick has a bachelor's degree from Lake Erie College and a master's degree in Operations Management from the University of Arkansas.

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Len Rodman

After graduating from Iowa State University with a degree in civil engineering, Len Rodman joined Black & Veatch. In the ensuing years, he served as process designer, project engineer, and project manager for more than 50 municipal water, wastewater, and industrial wastewater treatment projects. He was named an Executive Partner of the Environmental Group and later became a Managing Partner. He was named CEO and President in 1998 and added the role of Chairman of the Board in 2000, succeeding P. J. Adam.

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Sir Martin Sorrell

Sir Martin Sorrell is chief executive officer of WPP Group.  WPP is a world leader in advertising and marketing services. 

 

 

 

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Neera Tanden

Neera Tanden is the President of the Center for American Progress and Counselor to the Center for American Progress Action Fund. Tanden has served in both the Obama and Clinton administrations as well as presidential campaigns and think tanks. Most recently, Tanden served as the Chief Operating Officer for the Center, leading strategic planning of the organization, managing all operations including all of the organization's finance and fundraising efforts, and serving as a key member of CAP's executive team. Tanden focused the organization on measuring the impact of the Center's work and during her tenure as COO the Center's financial position has been strengthened.

Tanden previously served as senior advisor for health reform at the Department of Health and Human Services, advising Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and working on President Obama's health reform team in the White House to pass the bill. In that role she developed policies around reform and worked with Congress on particular provisions of the legislation.

Prior to that, Tanden was the director of domestic policy for the Obama-Biden presidential campaign, where she managed all domestic policy proposals. Tanden also served as policy director for the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign where she directed all policy work, ranging from domestic policy to the economy to foreign affairs, and managed day-to-day policy announcements. In that role she also oversaw the debate preparation process for then-Sen. Clinton (D-NY).

Before the presidential campaign, Tanden was Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at CAP. She was one of the first senior staff members at the Center, joining as Senior Vice President for Domestic Policy when CAP first opened its doors. In between, Tanden was legislative director for Sen. Clinton, where she oversaw all policy in the Senate office. In 2000 she was Hillary Clinton's deputy campaign manager and issues director for her Senate campaign in New York. Tanden also served as associate director for domestic policy in the Clinton White House and senior policy advisor to the first lady.

Tanden currently has a regular column for The New Republic online and has appeared on the "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," MSNBC, CNN, and Fox. She received her bachelor of science from UCLA and her law degree from Yale Law School.

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Laura Tyson

Laura D'Andrea Tyson is the S.K. and Angela Chan Professor of Global Management at the Haas School of Business, at the University of California Berkeley. She served as Dean of London Business School from 2002-2006, and as Dean of the Berkeley Haas School of Business from 1998-2001.

Tyson is a member of President Barack Obama's Council of Jobs and Competitiveness and a member of Secretary Hillary Clinton's Foreign Affairs Policy Board. From 2009 – 2011, she was member of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board. She served in the Clinton Administration and was the Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (1993-1995) and the President's National Economic Adviser (1995 – 1996).

She is a Senior Adviser to the McKinsey Global Institute and the Center for American Progress. Dr. Tyson is also a member of the Brookings Institution Hamilton Project Advisory Council and a member of Newman's Own Advisory Board. She is a Director of LECG (Law and Economics Consulting Group) and is a member of the Boards of Directors of Eastman Kodak Company; Morgan Stanley; AT&T, Inc.; the Peter G. Peterson Institute of International Economics; the New America Foundation; and Silver Spring Networks.  She has written books and articles on industrial competitiveness and trade. She has also written opinion columns for many publications including Business Week, the New York Times and the Financial Times and she has made numerous television appearances on economic issues.

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Richard Walker

Richard joins Zero Motorcycles from Control4 Corporation, a leading provider of personalized home automation and control solutions, where he served as Executive Vice President for Product Development and Product Operations. At Conrol4 he was responsible for overseeing product management, engineering, quality, customer training, customer support and supply chain operations. He comes to Zero with an extensive consumer products background having previously been General Manager of Hewlett Packard's $6B consumer desktop PC business unit comprising the HP Pavilion, Compaq Presario and HP TouchSmart product lines. Under his leadership and direction, profit improved significantly and revenues grew 15 percent.

Richard brings a wealth of global business experience to Zero. He has lived and worked in Europe, North America and Asia. Having developed and executed growth plans for the emerging markets of China, India, Russia and Brazil while at HP, he not only understands the tremendous growth opportunities these countries represent, he also understands the unique challenges of each market. At Zero he takes on the leadership responsibility for establishing the company as the premier global provider of electric motorcycles to consumers and commercial customers.

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Steven P. Wilburn

Steven P. Wilburn, Chairman and CEO, FirmGreen, Inc., is a senior energy executive with over thirty years of experience in development and implementation of energy production technologies and alternative energy projects.  Mr. Wilburn combines in-depth industry expertise with broad business and entrepreneurial capability. He has had extensive and successful dealings with municipal entities, government agencies, and regulatory bodies.

In his capacity as CEO of FirmGreen, Mr. Wilburn has firsthand experience creating jobs through exports. FirmGreen's proprietary biogas-cleaning equipment and its patented VerdeControls™ operating software is the technology platform for the Novo Gramacho Landfill project near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, developed and operated by Gás Verde, S.A.  This USA-made equipment and the landfill gas cleanup project it supports is creating hundreds of jobs for American manufacturers and Brazilian workers for the next two decades.

Mr. Wilburn is married, the father of five children and seven grandchildren and resides in Newport Beach, California. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1967 to 1970 and is a decorated Vietnam War Veteran including the Purple Heart.

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Robert Wolf

Robert Wolf is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of 32 Advisors, LLC, a consulting and advisory firm and host of weekly webcast "Impact Players" on the Reuters Channel on YouTube TV.  Prior to forming 32 Advisors, Robert spent 18 years at UBS, a global financial services firm.  There he held several senior positions including Global Head of Fixed Income, Group Regional CEO and Chairman, and President and Chief Operating Officer of the Investment Bank.  He joined UBS in 1994 after spending approximately 10 years at Salomon Brothers in Fixed Income Sales and Trading.

In addition to his role at 32 Advisors, Robert is a member of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness chaired by GE CEO Jeff Immelt.  From 2009-2011 he was a member of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board chaired by former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker and was on the Homeland Security Advisory Council's Border Infrastructure Task Force.  He serves on the Undergraduate Executive Board of the Wharton School and on the Athletics Board of Overseers at the University of Pennsylvania. Robert also serves on the boards of a number of non-profit institutions including the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Social Justice & Human Rights, the Partnership for NYC, the Children's Aid Society and the Leadership Council for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.  He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy.

Robert graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics in 1984.  While at UPenn, he was a fullback on the varsity football team that won IVY League Championships in both the 1982 and 1983 seasons.  Robert grew up in Marblehead, Massachusetts and is in the town's Athletics Hall of Fame.  His wife, Carol, is a corporate attorney who is currently the Director of Special Projects for the RFK Center. They have 2 children and reside in Purchase, New York.

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Ray Zuckerman

Mr. Zuckerman is an experienced entrepreneur and business developer. Over the last 30 years he has, as a member of senior management, established and directed profitable and successful manufacturing companies and technology consulting firms.  Among his accomplishments, he revamped a 300-person commercial injection firm from a history of failure to profitability, reducing downtime by over 90 percent; increased the size of a manufacturing firm by 600 percent within 10 years, enabling a profitable sale; and revamped the procedures and technical design of a long-distance transport system company such that they competed successfully in a market previously dominated by foreign companies.

Currently Mr. Zuckerman is the Chairman and CEO of ServerLIFT Corporation, a firm focusing on product and technology development for the data center environment.  In its ten-year operating history, he has brought the company from a three-person startup to over four million dollars in sales annually.  In addition he regularly advises emerging corporations.  

Mr. Zuckerman earned his engineering degree while working in his field, and holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree with a specialty in Mechanical Engineering from CCNY.  He undertook advanced studies at Rutgers University and New York University in their MBA programs, specializing in finance.