Robert Wolf Robert Wolf is Chairman for UBS Americas and President for UBS Investment Bank. While at UBS, Robert has held several senior positions including Group Regional CEO, COO of UBS Investment Bank, Global Head of Fixed Income and Chair of the firm’s Diversity and Community Affairs Committee. He joined UBS in 1994 after spending approximately 10 years at Salomon Brothers. In addition to his roles at UBS, Robert was appointed as a member of President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness and prior to that was on the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board chaired by former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker, from 2009-2011. He is on the Undergraduate Executive Board of the Wharton School and on the Athletics Board of Overseers at the University of Pennsylvania. Robert sits on the Board for the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights as well as on the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation where he was honored with Lance Armstrong for his work on cancer awareness. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and on the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy and was on the Board of Directors of the Financial Services Roundtable from 2007-2010. Robert also serves on the boards of a number of non-profit institutions including the Children's Aid Society and the Partnership for NYC.
Austan Goolsbee Austan Goolsbee is the former chief economist for the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board. He also served as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers and a member of the Cabinet. Goolsbee is returning from leave from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, where he has researched tax policy, American industry, technology and innovation as the Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics. He was an economic adviser to Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign before serving as a senior economic adviser to Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Goolsbee was a member of the Panel of Economic Advisers to the Congressional Budget Office, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow at the American Bar Foundation. He was also a member of the U.S. Census Advisory Committee. He topped The New Yorker's list of the Ten Most Intriguing Political Personalities of 2010. Salon.com named him to its list of the 15 Sexiest Men of 2010. Additionally, the National Forensic League recognized Goolsbee, a former national champion in extemporaneous speaking, as the 2011 Communicator of the Year.
Economist Paul Volcker is perhaps best known for helping to end the country's stagflation crisis during his time as chairman of the Federal Reserve under Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. A vocal proponent of international solutions to economic problems and of stronger government regulation of banks, he chaired President Barack Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board from February 2009 until January 2011. Other highlights of his long career include several senior positions in the U.S. Treasury Department, presidency of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Chairman of the Trilateral Commission, and the Group of Thirty. Volcker has also negotiated an agreement between the Jewish community and Swiss banks about the disposition of funds of Holocaust victims placed with Swiss Banks. He more recently investigated corruption in the United Nations' Iraqi Oil-for-Food Program and proposed more effective anti-corruption policies for World Bank programs. He was educated at Princeton, Harvard and the London School of Economics.
Mortimer B. Zuckerman is the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of U.S. News & World Report and is the publisher of the New York Daily News. He is also the co-founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Boston Properties Inc. and a regular commentator on The McLaughlin Group. He is a trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering, a member and Treasurer of the International Peace Institute, the Bank of America Global Wealth & Investment Management Committee, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Washington Institute for Near East Studies, the International Institute of Strategic Studies and the Board of Directors for the Broad Center for the Management of School Systems. He is the Vice Chairman of The Fund for Public Schools, a former Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, a former lecturer of City and Regional Planning at Yale University and a past president of the Board of Trustees of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.