Confirmed Speakers
This list is partial and is actively being updated, please check back often.
Dr. Kenneth Rogoff
Former Chief Economist and Director of Research, International
Monetary Fund [IMF]
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of
Economics
Harvard University
Dr. Jorge Dominguez
Vice Provost for International Affairs
Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and
Economics
Harvard University
Dr. Anthony Saich
Daewoo Professor of International Affairs
Victor and William Fung Director of Harvard University Asia Center
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Dr. Jeffrey Frankel
James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth
Former Chief Economist, U.S. President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Dr. Martin Whyte
Professor of Sociology
Acting Director of the Harvard University Fairbank Center for East
Asian Research
Harvard University
Dr. Yuanli Liu
Founding Director of the HSPH China Initiative
Senior Lecturer on International Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Dr. David Der-Wei Wang
Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Chair of the University Committee on Asia and the Middle East
Harvard University
Dr. Richard Cooper
Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics
Former Chairman, U.S. National Intelligence Council
Former Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Former U.S. Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs
Harvard University
Dr. Peter Petri
Carl J. Shapiro Professor of International Finance
Founding Dean of the International Business School at Brandeis
University
Brandeis University
Dr. Daniel Schrag
Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard University
Dr. Kelly Gallagher
Director of the Project on Energy Technology Innovation Policy
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Mr. Richard Kum-Yew Lai
Director of Intellectual Property office, Singapore Government
Former chief executive of dollarDEX Investments
Former co-head of Bain & Company's Asia Financial services
Practice
Dr. Thomas Bossert
Director of International Health Systems Program
Lecturer on International Health Policy
Harvard School of Public Health
Dr. Richard Cash
Senior Lecturer on International Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Dr. Lora Sabin
Assistant Professor of International Health
Boston University School of Public Health
Dr. Alice Tseng
Assistant Professor of Japanese History
Boston University Department of Art History
Dr. Yuexuan Wang
Associate Director - Institute for Theoretical Computer Science
Tsinghua University
Dr. Michael Plummer
Professor of International Economics
John Hopkins University
Dr. Gary Jefferson
Carl Marks Professor of International Trade and Finance
Brandeis University
Dr. David Dapice
Associate Professor of Economics
Tufts University
Dr. Nader Habibi
Henry J Leir Chair in Economics of the Middle East
Former Managing Director, Global Insight Inc.
Brandeis University
Dr. Xudong Zhang
Chair, East Asian Studies Department
Professor of Chinese Literature and Comparative Literature
New York University
Dr. Jay Rosengard
Director, Financial Sector Program at Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Lecturer in Public Policy
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Dr. Lora Sabin
Assistant Professor of International Health
Boston University School of Public Health

