Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Michael Genovese, professor of political science, director, Institute for Leadership Studies, Loyola Marymount University; author, Memo to a New President: The Art and Science of Presidential Leadership (2007) and The Power of the American Presidency: 1789-2000 (2000); "Sisyphus and Leviathan Meet Goldilocks and the Three Bears: The Dilemmas of Presidential Leadership"
 

Robert Beyer, CEO, Trust Company of the West; "Lunch with a Leader: The Asset Management Industry" (12:30 p.m.)
 

Janet Judge, attorney and president, Sports Law Associates, LLC; "Hazing, Harassment, Alcohol, and the Internet"
 

Eric Helland, Robert J. Lowe Professor of Economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, forthcoming The Impact of Liability on the Physician Labor Market and The Optimal Jury Size when Jury Deliberation Follows a Random Walk (2008); "Funding the Judiciary: The Neglected Branch"
 

Ta-Nehisi Coates, TheAtlantic.com blogger; author, The Beautuful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood (2008); "Straight Talk: What Are the Presidential Candidates Really Trying to Say?"
 

David Morgan, professor of history and religious studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison; author, The Mongols (1986) and Medieval Persia, 1040-1797 (1988); "How Mongol Was the Mongol Empire?"
 

Henry Kravis '67, founding partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company (KKR); "2008 Claremont Finance Conference/Lunch with a Leader: The Private Equity Industry and KKR" (12:30 p.m.)
 

Gregory Hess, vice president for academic affairs, Dean of Faculty, Russell S. Bock Chair of Public Economics and Taxation, professor of economics, CMC; co-author, International Terrorism: Causes, Consequences, and Cures (2008) and All in the Family: Why Do Non-Democratic Leaders Have More Children than Democratic Ones? (2008); Marc Weidenmier, William F. Podlich '66 professor of economics, associate professor of economics, George R. Roberts Fellow; director, Lowe Institute for Political Economy, CMC; co-author, forthcoming Competing with the NYSE and Volatility in an Era of Reduced Uncertainty: Lessons from Pax Britanica (2006); Tom Willett, Horton professor of economics , CGU and CMC; Dean, School of Politics and Economics, CGU; Director, Claremont Institute for Economic Studies; co-editor, Neoliberalism: National and Regional Experiments with Global Ideas (2006) and The Dollarization Debate (2003); Fan Yu, associate professor of economics, CMC; co-author, Risk and Return in Fixed Income Arbitrage: Nickels in Front of a Steamroller? (2007) and author, Correlated Defaults in Intensity-Based Models (2007); Philip Flynn '79, vice chairmen, Union Bank of California; Alan Heuberger '96, investment analyst, Cascade Investment, LLC; S. Brock Blomberg, Peter K. Barker '70 professor of economics and George R. Roberts Fellow, co-author, How Much Does Violence Tax Trade (2006) and The Impacts of Terrorism on Urban Form (2007); moderator; "Financial Crisis Panel Discussion" (12:30 p.m.)
 

Marc Weidenmier, William F. Podlich '66 professor of economics, associate professor of economics, George R. Roberts Fellow; director, Lowe Institute for Political Economy, CMC; co-author, forthcoming Competing with the NYSEM and Volatility in an Era of Reduced Uncertainty: Lessons from Pax Britanica (2006); "To Drill or Not to Drill? Lessons from Brazil for the U.S. Alternative Energy Debate"
 

Victor Cha, D.S. Song-Korea Foundation chair and director of Asian Studies, Georgetown University; Freeman Foundation visiting professor of Asian Affairs, CMC; author, forthcoming Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia (2008) and co-author, Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (2005); "The Future of America's Preeminence in Asia"
 

David Mgrublian '82 P'11, CEO, IDS Real Estate Group; "Lunch with a Leader: The Real Estate Industry" (12:30 p.m.)
 

Peter Henry, Konosuke Matsushita professor of economics, John and Cynthia Fry Gunn faculty scholar, associate director, Center for Global Business and the Economy, Stanford University; author, Do Stock Market Liberalizations Cause Investment Booms? (2007) and co-author, Domestic Capital Market Reform and Access to Global Finance: Making Markets Work (2007); "Great Expectations: The Stock Market, the Washington Consensus, and the Promise of Prosperity in the Developing World"
 

Leonard Smith, Frederick B. Artz Professor of History, Oberlin College; William F. Podlich distinguished fellow, CMC; author, The Embattled Self: French Soldiers' Testimony of the Great War (2007) and co-author, France and the Great War, 1914-1918 (2003); "The Wilsonian Imagination in the Middle East: The King-Crane Commission Report of 1919"
 

Joseph Mendelson III, curator of herpetology, Zoo Atlanta; adjunct associate professor of biology, Utah State University; co-author, Systematics of the Bufo coccifer Complex of Mesoamerica (2005); "The Global Amphibian Crisis: The Scope and Scale of the Problem and the Response"(12:00 p.m.)
 

Beth Burkhart '94, marketing manager, The Clorox Company; "A Personal Journey"