Arvind Krishna has led the building and expansion of new markets for IBM in artificial intelligence, cloud, quantum computing and blockchain over a 30-year career with the company. In 2016, Wired Magazine named him “one of 25 geniuses who are creating the future of business” for his foundational work on blockchain. He is a member of the boards of the New York Federal Reserve Bank and Northrop Grumman. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Marc Rowan is a co-founder and CEO of Apollo Global Management. He serves on the boards of directors of Apollo Global Management, Inc. and Athene Holding Ltd. Currently, Rowan is chair of the board of advisors of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, he is involved in public policy and is an initial funder and contributor to the development of the Penn Wharton Budget Model, a nonpartisan research initiative which provides analysis of public policy’s fiscal impact. An active philanthropist and civically engaged, he is chair of the board of UJA-Federation of New York. He is also a founding member and chair of Youth Renewal Fund and vice chair of Darca, Israel’s top educational network operating 47 schools with over 27,000 students throughout its most diverse and under-served communities. Rowan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business with a B.S.  and an M.B.A. in finance.

Neel Kashkari brings the Ninth District’s perspective to monetary policy discussions in Washington, D.C. Before joining the Minneapolis Fed, he spent four years at PIMCO and then, in 2014, ran for governor of California. Previously, as an assistant secretary of the Treasury, he oversaw the Troubled Assets Relief Program during the financial crisis. He began his career as an aerospace engineer at TRW (now Northrop Grumman). He holds degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Judy L. Shelton is a senior fellow at the Independent Institute. A former U.S. director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, she was an economic advisor for the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform chaired by Jack Kemp (1995–96). She is the author of “The Coming Soviet Crash: Gorbachev’s Desperate Pursuit of Credit in Western Financial Markets” (1989) and “Money Meltdown: Restoring Order to the Global Currency System” (1994). She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah.

Brian Schimpf is co-founder and CEO of Anduril Industries, where he drives the strategic direction and product roadmap of the defense technology company. An early hire at Palantir Technologies, he built Palantir’s Foundry product and led the engineering and product organizations as director of engineering. He earned a B.S. in operations research and industrial engineering from Cornell University, where he founded the autonomous vehicle research program.

Michel Doukeris is AB InBev's CEO since 2021. He is a Brazilian citizen and holds a degree in chemical Engineering from Federal University of Santa Catarina and a master's degree in marketing from Fundação Getulio Vargas. He has also completed post-graduate programs in marketing and marketing strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania. Doukeris joined AB InBev in 1996 and held a number of commercial operations roles in Latin America before moving to Asia, where he led AB InBev's China and Asia Pacific operations for seven years. In 2016 he moved to the US to assume the position of global chief sales officer. In 2018, Doukeris assumed leadership of Anheuser-Busch and the North American business.

Tony Spring assumed the role of CEO and chairman of Macy’s, Inc. in 2024. He previously held the role of president. Spring served as chairman and CEO of Bloomingdale’s from 2014 to 2023. In 2021, he became executive vice president of Macy’s, Inc. and assumed oversight of Bluemercury. He previously served as president and COO of Bloomingdale's (2008-2013); senior executive vice president and director of stores (2005-2008); and senior executive vice president of marketing, Bloomingdale's Direct and restaurants (2004-2008). Spring began his Bloomingdale's career in 1987. Spring serves on the executive committee of the National Retail Federation and is the board chair for the National Retail Federation Foundation. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.

Michael Mager is the co-founder and CEO of Precision Neuroscience, which is developing a brain–computer interface to restore connection and autonomy to people living with neurological disorders. The company has implanted its system in over 17 patients and counting, and is working toward its first FDA clearance. Mager has built, invested in, and managed companies across diverse geographies and industries, with a focus on technology and technology-enabled businesses. He is currently the co-chairman of Assembly Software, a legal case management SaaS company. Mager holds an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a master’s degree in economic history from the University of Cambridge. He is a CFA charterholder.

Rick Rieder is a senior managing director and BlackRock's chief investment officer of global fixed income, head of the fundamental fixed income business and head of the global allocation investment team. Responsible for managing roughly $2.4 trillion in assets, Rieder is a member of BlackRock’s global executive committee and its investment sub-committee. He also is chairman of the firm-wide BlackRock Investment Council.  Rieder currently serves on the Alphabet/Google investment advisory committee and the UBS research advisory board. Rieder has served as vice chairman and member of the borrowing committee for the U.S. Treasury and member of the Federal Reserve’s investment advisory committee on financial markets. Before joining BlackRock in 2009, Rieder was president and CEO of R3 Capital Partners. Previously, he was with Lehman Brothers where he was head of the firm's global principal strategies team, and with SunTrust Banks in Atlanta. Rieder holds a degree in finance from Emory University and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  

Christopher Licht is an award-winning producer and journalist. He served as chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide and showrunner and executive producer of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “CBS This Morning,” and MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” He also was an executive producer for Showtime’s “Our Cartoon President,” Paramount+’s “Tooning Out the News” and Comedy Central’s “Hell of a Week with Charlemagne Tha God.” Licht began his career at KNBC in Los Angeles before helping lead the transition of KNTV in the San Francisco Bay Area to an NBC owned and operated station. Licht served as executive producer of MSNBC’s “Scarborough Country“ and then went on to help create and launch the iconic “Morning Joe” program. At CBS, Licht created “CBS This Morning,” which achieved unprecedented ratings and cultural success for the network. He also served as CBS's executive vice president of special programming.  

Licht is a multiple Emmy, Peabody and DuPont award-winner. Licht holds a degree in broadcast journalism and political science from Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications. 

Deena Shakir's investments span stages and sectors, and include women's health, digital health infrastructure, health equity, foodtech, and fintech. Above all, she seeks out extraordinary, often underdog, founders on a mission. Prior to Lux, Shakir was a Partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures), led product partnerships at Google for health, search, and AI/ML, and directed social impact investments at Google.org. She also served as a presidential management fellow at The U.S. Department of State under Secretary Hillary Clinton, where she helped launch President Obama’s first Global Entrepreneurship Summit. Shakir holds an undergraduate degree in social studies and Near Eastern languages and civilizations from Harvard and a master’s from Georgetown. She is a lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a board director for the National Venture Capital Association, and a member of Kauffman Fellows, Aspen Finance Fellows, and The Council on Foreign Relations. 

Brian Moynihan leads a team of more than 210,000 employees dedicated to people, companies of every size, and institutional investors across the United States and around the world. Bank of America was named 2023 World’s Best Bank by Global Finance and has been selected as World’s Best Bank by Euromoney magazine twice in the last six years. Moynihan participates in several organizations that focus on economic and market trends, including the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics Initiative (chair), the Financial Services Forum, the Bank Policy Institute, the Business Roundtable, The Clearing House Association (chair), and the Business Council. He also is chair of the Sustainable Markets Initiative, which was founded by His Majesty King Charles III.

Karen Karniol-Tambour is co-chief investment officer at Bridgewater Associates, responsible for managing the company’s investment process. She oversees the systemization of Bridgewater’s research into trading strategies, manages the development of proprietary investment management models, directs the design and implementation of client investment strategies, and publishes timely market understanding to clients and global policy makers via Bridgewater’s Daily Observations. Karniol-Tambour also co-leads the firm’s sustainable investing efforts, overseeing the design of new investment solutions with both financial and sustainability objectives. She joined Bridgewater in 2006 after graduating from Princeton University. Karen is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and has been named to Barron's list of "Most Influential Women in US Finance" for five years in a row.

Margaret Anadu is a senior partner at The Vistria Group, where she heads real estate. Anadu is widely recognized as one of the foremost experts on equitable access to capital having invested over $10 billion across hundreds of transactions throughout the United States. As an experienced investor and thought leader on public-private partnerships she has been a trusted advisor to government officials at the federal, state, and local levels. Prior to joining Vistria, Anadu was a partner at Goldman Sachs, where she was the global head of sustainability and impact for asset management and chair of the Urban Investment Group, the first impact investing platform at a major U.S. financial institution. In 2022, Margaret was appointed chair of the board of directors of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. She is a graduate of Harvard College.

Gary Gensler was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden to serve as chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 3, 2021, confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 14, 2021, and sworn into office on April 17, 2021. Before joining the SEC, Gensler was professor of the practice of global economics and management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-director of MIT’s Fintech@CSAIL, and senior advisor to the MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative. From 2017 to 2019, he served as chair of the Maryland Financial Consumer Protection Commission. As chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Gensler led the Obama administration’s reform of the $400 trillion swaps market. He also was senior advisor to U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes in writing the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (2002), and was undersecretary of the Treasury for domestic finance and assistant secretary of the Treasury from 1997 to 2001. Prior to his public service, Gensler worked at Goldman Sachs, where he became a partner in the mergers & acquisition department, headed the firm’s media group, led fixed income & currency trading in Asia, and was co-head of finances. Gensler holds an undergraduate degree in economics and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Tom Steyer is the co-executive chair of Galvanize Climate Solutions, a multi-strategy climate investment firm designed to unlock the generational opportunity of the energy transition. In 1986, Steyer founded Farallon Capital Management, a San Francisco-based hedge fund that pioneered the multi-strategy approach to investing and grew to $36B in assets. During this time, he also served as a partner at Hellman & Friedman, a private equity firm. In 2012, Steyer left both roles in order to give his time, money, and energy to fight for climate issues. Before California firmly established itself as a leader in climate policy, he worked to help make it the largest jurisdiction in the world with a 100% clean energy law and prevented the oil and gas industry’s effort to roll back the state’s climate protections. He also co-founded Beneficial State Bank, a triple bottom line community development bank dedicated to economic justice and environmental sustainability. Steyer is also the founder of NextGen America, the largest youth voter engagement organization in American history, and NextGen Policy. Steyer was a Democratic candidate in the 2020 presidential election, and later co-chaired Vice President Biden's Climate Engagement Advisory Council. Steyer is a graduate of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Yale University. 

Joseph E. Stiglitz is an American economist and a professor at Columbia University. He is also the co-chair of the High-Level Expert Group on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress at the OECD, and the chief economist of the Roosevelt Institute. Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001 and the John Bates Clark Medal in 1979. He is a former senior vice president and chief economist of the World Bank and a former chair of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue, a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. In 2011 Stiglitz was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Known for his pioneering work on asymmetric information, Stiglitz's research focuses on income distribution, climate change, corporate governance, public policy, macroeconomics and globalization. He is the author of numerous books including, most recently, The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society.