Speaker Schedule

Winter 2024 Semester Schedule :

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

  • Friday, February 2, 2024
  • Friday, February 9, 2024
    • Joshua Friedman, CFA (He/Him); BA 2011; Vice President, Private Debt Product Strategy – US Direct Lending, BlackRock.
  • Friday, February 16, 2024
    • Kreg Keesee (He/Him); BA 1987, MBA 1992; Chief Operating Officer, Cold Jet LLC; Chair, Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority.
  • Friday, March 8, 2024
    • Austen Hufford (He/Him); BA 2015; National Economics Reporter, The Wall Street Journal.
  • Friday, March 22, 2024
  • Friday, March 29, 2024
  • Friday, April 5, 2024
    • April Bridgeman (She/Her); BA (Economics and German) 1992, MAE 1994, MHSA 1994; Senior Vice President, BCD Travel.
  • Friday, April 12, 2024
    • 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”.
  • Friday, April 19, 2024
    • Robert Patton (he/him), BA (Economics and History) 1994, Managing Director and Partner, NERA Economic Consulting

*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 February 9th). Please see our Canvas site for more details.

Recent Speakers from Past Semesters:

  • 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)
  • Lea-Rachel D. Kosnik (she/her), BA with Honors 1994, (PhD – UCLA), Professor of Economics, University of Missouri – St. Louis
  • Steven Miller (he/him), BA 1990, (MBA – UW), Sourcing Execution Manager for Global Supply Chain Operations, Intel Corporation
  • Alton Davis III (he/him), BA 2004, (MBA – Georgetown), Vice President Human Resources Finance and Legal, L’Oréal
  • Kyle Eggerding (he/him), BA 2012 (Economics and Political Science), (MBA – USC), Director, Customer & Market Intelligence, Shopper Insights and Analytics, Albertsons Companies
  • Kim Yapchai (she/her), BA 1989, (JD – Wayne State), Former – Senior Vice President, Chief Environmental, Social and Governance Officer, Tenneco Inc.
  • Robin Foley (she/her), BA 1986, (MBA – BU), Chief Investment Officer – Bonds, Fidelity Investments
  • Laura Ingle (she/her), BA 2008 (Economics and English), (JD – Columbia Law), Director, Legal, GOAT Group
  • Rebecca Sheinberg (she/her), BGS 2000, (JD – Brooklyn Law School), Deputy Chief Compliance Officer, Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (PIMCO)