Speaker Schedule

Fall 2024 Semester Schedule :

(All sessions take place at 1pm; In-person sessions take place in Askwith Auditorium in Lorch Hall.)

• Friday, September 13, 2024
  • Nida Kia (She/Her); BA 2005; Vice President Consumer Pricing and Profitability, AT&T.
    • In-Person – Request a link to stream the session online*: https://forms.gle/44VjraMPV8L1Ercg8
• Friday, September 27, 2024
  • Elizabeth F. Mooney, CFA, CPA (She/Her); BA 1991; Accounting Analyst, Capital Group Companies.
    • In-Person – Request a link to stream the session online*: https://forms.gle/deyn8hjS4iVbgTMR8
      
• Friday, October 4, 2024
  • TBD
    • In-Person – Request a link to stream the session online*:
      
• Friday, October 18, 2024
  • Barbara Walkowski (She/Her); BA 1990 (JD 1992); Board Member, Investor, Advisor.
    • In-Person – Request a link to stream the session online*: https://forms.gle/GC65qZ7XKGFRYovJ9
• Friday, November 1, 2024
  • Seth Koch (He/Him); BA 2014; Director, Strategy, CarMax.
    • In-Person – Request a link to stream the session online*: https://forms.gle/cyEYRQTUGgGHBDaL7
• Friday, November 8, 2024
  • Swapnil Patel (He/Him); BA 2002; Managing Director, McKinney.
    • In-Person – Request a link to stream the session online*: https://forms.gle/cLXFyTWNSC6GvSk26
• Friday, November 15, 2024
  • Christopher T. Cramer (He/Him); BA 1993; CEO (Interim), CFO and COO, Claires.
    • In-Person – Request a link to stream the session online*: https://forms.gle/s7vLCdh98i2grtXi7
• Friday, November 22, 2024
  • Cynthia Lo Bessette (She/Her); BA 1991 (Honors East Asian Studies and Econ); Head of Digital Asset Management, Fidelity Investments.
    • In-Person – Request a link to stream the session online*: https://forms.gle/AkhKLU4yBtEwe3nm8
• Friday, December 6, 2024
  • TBD
    • In-Person – Request a link to stream the session online*:

*Zoom calls for in-person sessions will not allow for interaction with the speaker. Please consider attending in-person when feasible.
NOTE: Students enrolled in Econ 208 may only attend 1 in-person session virtually during the semester (this does not include sessions scheduled as online). Please see our Canvas site for more details.

Recent Speakers from Past Semesters:

• Ilana Ash (She/Her); BA 1992; Managing Director CIO Team, BNY Mellon.
• Joshua Friedman, CFA (He/Him); BA 2011; Vice President, Private Debt Product Strategy – US Direct Lending, BlackRock.
• Kreg Keesee (He/Him); BA 1987, MBA 1992; Chief Operating Officer, Cold Jet LLC; Chair, Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority.
• Austen Hufford (He/Him); BA 2015; National Economics Reporter, The Wall Street Journal.
• Chris Sonderby (He/Him); BA 1990; VP & Deputy General Counsel, Meta.
• Eva A. Temkin (She/Her); BA 1996; Partner, Paul Hastings LLP.
• April Bridgeman (She/Her); BA (Economics and German) 1992, MAE 1994, MHSA 1994; Senior Vice President, BCD Travel.
• Joe Holberg (He/Him); BS 2010; Managing Director, Financial Wellness, Mariner Wealth Advisors; Author of “Rogue Finances” and “A Brief Discourse on the Definition and Tenets of Financial Justice”.
• Robert Patton (he/him), BA (Economics and History) 1994, Managing Director and Partner, NERA Economic Consulting
• Sara Silverman (she/her), BS 2012, Head of Investor Relations & Corporate Communications, Azenta Life Sciences
• Stella Binkevich (she/her), BA (Economics and Psychology) 2008, Head of Operations, Brooklyn Investment Group
• Rocque Lipford (he/him), BA 1991, Senior Managing Director, Guggenheim Securities, LLC
• Colin Scantlebury (he/him), BA (Economics and English) 1993, Captain and Chief Pilot, Southwest Airlines
• Robbie Fang (she/her), BA 1992, formerly Senior Director of Operations, Checkr, Inc.
• Eric Andrew Finkelstein (he/him), BA (Economics and Mathematics) 1991, Professor of Health Services and Systems Research Program and Executive Director of Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School (Singapore)