Date: Sep 24, 2020Time: 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM
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VIRTUAL – Lawrence H. Summers on the Post Covid-19 Economy: Managing the New Normal

Thu, 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM Zoom Webinar (Information to be sent to Registrants)
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Description

Please join Lawrence H. Summers for a virtual fireside chat as he discusses the long-term implications of the US’ Covid-19 pandemic on the economy, moderated by Mitchell Dong AB ’75, OPM ‘97.

What does our former University President and former US Treasury Secretary think about current and future economic policy? How should businesses and investors plan in a post-Covid 19 environment? What are the implications for US China relations and the global economy? As a former advisor to Presidents Clinton and Obama, what advice does Summers have for our current political leaders?

Participants must register by September 23rd to receive details on joining the discussion.

Please note that no refunds will be issued.

Bios

Speaker

Lawrence H. Summers

Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University

Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus of Harvard University. During the past two decades, he has served in a series of senior policy positions in Washington, D.C., including the 71st Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton, Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama and Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank.

He received a bachelor of science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975 and was awarded a Ph.D. from Harvard in 1982. In 1983, he became one of the youngest individuals in recent history to be named as a tenured member of the Harvard University faculty. In 1987, Mr. Summers became the first social scientist ever to receive the annual Alan T. Waterman Award of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and in 1993 he was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, given every two years to the outstanding American economist under the age of 40.

He is currently the Charles W. Eliot University Professor at Harvard University and the Weil Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government at Harvard’s Kennedy School. He and his wife Elisa New, a professor of English at Harvard, reside in Brookline with their six children.

Moderator

Mitchell Dong (AB ’75, OPM ‘97)

Mitchell Dong runs his family’s investment office and is a hedge fund manager. He has managed hedge funds which use quantitative methods to trade uranium, electric power, gold and mutual funds. Currently he runs a cryptocurrency trading fund which does arbitrage and trend following. In the past, Mitchell was a developer of solar, hydroelectric and cogeneration power plants. Mitchell is a graduate of Harvard College majoring in economics and the OPM program at Harvard Business School. Mitchell’s family philanthropy supports the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.

Date Time

Date: Sep 24, 2020Time: 5:30 PM to 6:30 PM

Location

Zoom Webinar (Information to be sent to Registrants)1460 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
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Price

  • 20 / Alumni Non-Members
  • 25 / General Public
  • 10 / Member/Member Guest (limit one)
  • Free / Patron Members (please contact programming@hbscny.org)

Attendees

Alexandra Aleskovsky, Lockie Andrews, Lynn Barber, Berna Barshay, Karen Barth, Bruce Batkin, Francois Baudu, Anders Brag, Peter Burnim, Vishal Chadha, Yi Ding Chen, Barry Cohen, Leo Corbett, Daniel Cunningham, LIN DU, Paige Daly, Alexander Daniels, Lisa Dare, Owen Davies, Patrice Derrington, Wendy Diller, Cieu Dong, May Dong, Mitchell Dong, Oylan Dong, Brian Dovey, Margaret Downs, Jonathan Epstein, Elizabeth Fairfax Brown, Douglas Feagin, John Ferrari, Martin Fridson, Marty Fridson, Irwin Friedman, Bradley Gendell, Oliver Goldstein, Jon Gordon, Jason Gray, Arlin Green, Edmund Grossman, Mary Hainsworth, Philip Hakim, Dennis Hallisey, F Han, E. Hardman, TD Hela, Brian Hoesterey, Samuel Hoffman, Jeffrey Houle, Jeffrey Houle, David Hsia, Asami Ishimaru, Ryan Jamboretz, Meng Jiang, Peter Jolly, Claire Kehuang, Lucy Kennedy, Stephen Ketchum, Jean Kim, Jessica Klee, Tracy Lai, Elizabeth Legris, John Leonard, Scott Lescher, Serena Lese, William Lese, Zheng Li, Douglas Libby, Kevin Lockhart, Lance Lundberg, Darsh Maheshwari, Scott Malkin, Jerry Marcus, Andrew Medvedev, Michael Meltz, Patron Member, Jill Monk, Pedro Mont, Barbara Moore, Joseph Morein, Barrie Moskowitz, William Noe, Ann O'Hara, Lucy O'Laughlin, Nyagaka Ongeri, Elina Onitskansky, Huiwei Pan, Kenneth Peskin, Arthur Petrou, Michael Posner, Jan Postma, Wilson Qin, Ilona Rand, Donella Rapier, Nathan Redmond, Marc Ricks, Edgardo Rivera, Paula Roberts, Paul Rogers, Stephen Rothschild, Patrick Ryan, Nicholas Sakellariadis, Samuel Schwab, Al Sharif, Agam Sharma, Alan Silberstein, Hardwick Simmons, Gurvinder Singh, Kevin Stewart, Richard Strasser, Lawrence H. Summers, Colleen Tapen, Earl Templeton, Charles Thomas, Richard Tiagi, Marian Tong, Kenneth Traub, Victoria Treyger, Teresa Uthurralt, Siby Vadakekkara, Jayaprada Viswanadha, Bernardo Vogel, Yuhang Wang, Leighton Welch, Tiao Wen, Harry Wilson, Harry Wilson, James Wilson, Leslie Wohlman-Himmel, Michael Woolfolk, Samuel Yates, Chin Z, Lili Zheng, Lili Zheng, Liliane Zreik, robin albin, mia de Kuijper, andrew sternlieb, Kwame van Leeuwen

Organizer

Mitchell Dong (AB '75, OPM '97)

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1460 Broadway, New York, NY, 10036