A New Deal For This New Century: Making Our Economy Work For All

October 3 and 4, 2019
New York University’s Global Academic Center
1307 L Street NW
Washington, D.C.

This event is co-sponsored by NYU Law's Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance and Stanford's Rock Center for Corporate Governance.

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Thursday October 3, 2019

Investments in our Economic Future I:  Revitalizing our Physical Infrastructure | 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.

• Roy Swan | Moderator, Director, Mission Investments, Ford Foundation

• Kevin DeGood | Director, Infrastructure Policy, Center for American Progress

• Demond Drummer | Co-Founder & Executive Director, New Consensus

• Beth Osborne | Director, Transportation for America

• Larry Willis | President, Transportation Trades, AFL-CIO+

Investments in our Economic Future II:  Building Skills for the 21st Century Economy through Education and Training | 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.

• Angela Hanks | Moderator, Deputy Executive Director, Groundworks Collaborative 
• Jeff Dygert | Executive Director, Public Policy, AT&T
• Mary Alice McCarthy | Director, Center on Education & Skills, New America
• Mike Monroe | Chief of Staff, North America's Building Trades Unions
• Julie Morgan | Executive Director, Great Democracy Initiative

Improving the Pay, Benefits, and Competitiveness of American Workers | 3:45 – 5:00 p.m.

• Eduardo Porter | Moderator, Reporter, New York Times
• Vincent Alvarez | President, NY City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO+
• Maureen Conway | VP of Policy Programs, The Aspen Institute and Executive Director, The Aspen Institute Economic Opportunities Program
• Randi Weingarten | President, American Federation of Teachers
• Felicia Wong | President & CEO, Roosevelt Institute

Keynote Address by Mayor Frank Scott Jr., Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas | 5:00 – 5:15 p.m.

Reorienting Our Corporate Governance System to Support Sustainable Growth, Shared Prosperity, and the Best Interests of Working People | 5:15 – 6:15 p.m.

• Kara Stein | Moderator, Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
• Sabastian Niles | Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
• Elizabeth Pollman | Professor of Law, William M. Rains Senior Research Fellow, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
• David Webber | Associate Dean for Intellectual Life, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law

Friday October 4, 2019

Coffee and Continental Breakfast | 8:30 a.m.

The Global New Deal: Making Sure the Rules of International Trade Are Fair to Workers and the Environment | 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. 

• Beth Baltzan | Moderator, Fellow, Open Markets
• Cathy Feingold | Director of International Development, AFL-CIO
• Joel Paul | Professor of Law, UC Hastings Law
• Brad Setser | Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations 

CEO Roundtable 

How Can Government Investment and Policies Help Businesses Increase Worker Pay and Create Quality Jobs?  A Constructive Discussion Between Leading CEOs | 10:30 a.m – 11:45 a.m.   

• Zeynep Ton | Moderator, Professor of the Practice, Operations Mangement, MIT Sloan School of Management
• Barbara Humpton | Chief Executive Officer, Siemens USA
• James White | Former Chief Executive Officer, Jamba Juice

Providing for the Common Defense, Promoting the General Welfare and Incentivizing Socially Responsible Behavior:  How Sane Tax Policy Can Make Us All Better Off | 12:00 – 1:30 p.m 

• Jason Furman | Moderator, Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
• Heather Boushey | President and Chief Executive Officer, Washington Center for Equitable Growth
• Amy Matsui | Director of Income Security and Senior Counsel, National Women’s Law Center
• Kitty Richards | Strategic Advisor, Groundwork Collaborative