Senator Alan Simpson

Retired Senator, Alan Simpson talked about his experiences as the Co-Chairman of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform at the Economic Summit.

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Session 1:  Four Ideas for the War on Drugs

George Shultz, Hoover Distinguished Fellow and  SIEPR Honorary Chairman along with Gary Becker, Professor of Economics and Sociology, University of Chicago; and 1992 Nobel Laureate (Economics) spoke about Four Ideas for the War on Drugs.

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Session 2: A Conversation with Corporate Leaders on the Business Climate

Mervyn King, Stability of the International Monetary and Financial System 

Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King spoke to the SIEPR Economic Summit audience about growing imbalances and how they should motivate governments to tackle instabilities in the global economy to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis.

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Session 3:   Education and Economics

Session 4:  The Great Recession: The Missing remedy from a Third-World Perspective 

Hernando de Soto, the President of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Peru shared his views on The Great Recession: the Missing Remedy from a Third-World Perspective.


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Session 1: The Long-Run Fiscal Outlook

Meg Whitman, SIEPR Advisory Board Member moderated a Critical Issue Session on the Long Run Fiscal Outlook. The panelists included Henry Aaron, the Bruce and Virginia MacLaury Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at Brookings Institution and SIEPR Board member as well as Donald Marron, Director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.

Session 2: Financial Reform

Sandy Smith, Senior Partner at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC and SIEPR Advisory Board member moderated a panel on Financial Reform. Joseph Grundfest, Senior Facult at the Arthur and Toni Rock Center for Corporate Governance and SIEPR Senior Fellow along with Eugene Shanks, member of Freddie Mac Board of Directors and SIEPR Board member were the panelists.

Session 3: Inflation/Deflation

Robert Hellman, CEO and Managing Directorof the American Infrastructure MLP Fundand SIEPR Advisory Board member moderated the panel on Inflation/Deflation. He was joined by two former Fed members Donald Kohn, Senior Fellow at the Economic Studies Program, Brookings Institution and Robert Heller, former member, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System.

Session 4: Cyber Security

Gregory Rosston, Deputy Director, SIEPR was the panel moderator for the session on Cyber Security. His panelists included John Mitchell, the Mary and Gordon Crary Family Professor and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering; Andy Ozment, Director of Cybersecurity for the National Security Staff at the White House and Ingrid Beierly, Business Leader, Cyber Security and Investigations for Visa Inc.


For more see section 2  and Q/A

Mayor Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York, talked about his city and shared his views on immigration as the keynote speaker of the 2011 SIEPR Economic Summit.

For more see section 2  and Q/A