Marian Miner Cook
Athenaeum

Jonathan Berk, A.P. Giannini Professor of Finance, Stanford University; co-author, Corporate Finance (2007) and Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (2009); "Are Mutual Fund Managers Skilled?" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Robert Reich, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy, U.C. Berkeley; former U.S. Secretary of Labor (1993-1997); author, Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future (2010) and Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life (2008); "Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future"
 

Samuel Sommers, associate professor of psychology, Tufts University; author, On Racial Diversity and Group Decision-making: Identifying Multiple Effects of Racial Composition on Jury Deliberations (2006) and co-author, Lay Theories about White Racists: What Constitutes Racism (and What Doesn’t) (2006); "Race and Juries"
 

Paul Farmer, Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard University; co-founder, Partners in Health; author, Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader (2010) and Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (2003); "Imagining a More Just World: Partnering with the Poor"
 

Weijian Shan, CEO, Pacific Alliance Group; author, Reforms of China's Foreign Trade System: Experiences and Prospects (2002) and Environmental Risks and Joint Venture Sharing Arrangements (1991); Wei Zhang, lecturer in the Chinese economy and management, University of Cambridge; author, Stepping Stones to National Market Integration: The Role of Special Economic Zones (2007) and Further Reform of Pension System in China: An Alternative Option to Fully Funded Individual Accounts (2007); Shaomin Li, professor of management, Old Dominion University; co-author, Modeling Privatization as a Firm Strategy (2005) and author, Why a Poor Governance Environment Does Not Deter Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of China and Its Implications for Investment Protection (2005); Yasheng Huang, professor of international management, Sloan School, MIT; co-editor, Financial Reform in China (2005) and author, Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics (2008), moderator; "Can China Innovate?" (12:30 p.m.)
 

Francis Fukuyama, Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University; author, forthcoming The Origins of Political Order (2011) and Falling Behind: Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States (2008); "Government in Asia, Then and Now"
 

Mary Evans, Jerrine and Thomas Mitchell '66 Associate Professor of Environmental Economics, George R. Roberts Fellow, CMC; co-author, forthcoming Bridging the Gap between the Field and the Lab: Environmental Goods, Policy Maker Input, and Consequentiality and Regulation with Direct Benefits of Information Disclosure and Imprefect Monitoring (2009); "The Role of Economics in Managing Environmental Health Risks"
 

Louise Glück, U.S. poet laureate consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (2003-2004); U.S. special bicentennial consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (1999-2000); Rosenkranz writer-in-residence, Yale University; author, A Village Life (2009) and Averno (2006); "An Evening with Louise Glück"
 

Richard Hasen, William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles; author, Remedies: Examples and Explanations (2007) and The Supreme Court and Election Law: Judging Equality from Baker v. Carr to Bush v. Gore (2003); "Beyond Citizens United: Campaign Finance Law and the Roberts Court" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Anne Harley, soprano; assistant professor of music, Scripps College; Michael Sponseller, harpsichord; Daniel Zuluaga, theorbo; adjunct professor of music, Claremont Graduate University; "Reunir les gouts: French and Italian airs de cours and arias from the Baroque"
 

David Krieger, founder and president, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation; former judge pro tem, Santa Barbara Superior Court; "Leadership for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Thomas Mann, W. Averill Harriman Chair, senior fellow of governance studies, Brookings Institution; co-author, The Broken Branch: How Congress Is Failing America and How to Get It Back on Track (2008) and Party Lines: Competition, Partisanship, and Congressional Redistricting (2005); "The Politics of Campaign Finance Reform"
 

Sheila Pinkel, professor of art, Pomona College; author, X-RAY PHOTOGRAMS (2010); "India in Transition, Varanasi 2010" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Vicky Colbert, 2011 Henry R. Kravis Prize in Leadership recipient; founder, Escueda Nueva (1975) and Escueda Nueva Foundation (1987); "Advancing Equity and Quality in Latin American Education" (12:00 p.m.)
 

Gary Vaynerchuk, video blogger; wine critic; author, Crush It! Why Now is the Time to Cash in on Your Passion (2009) and The Thank You Economy (2011); "The Thank You Economy" (12:00 p.m.)