Aspen Institute Launches The Aspen Economic Strategy Group

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Aspen Institute today will hold the inaugural meeting of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, a bipartisan forum of respected leaders and thinkers to explore long-term structural issues facing the United States economy and to develop innovative policies to address them.

The group is co-chaired by Henry M. Paulson, Jr., former secretary of the Treasury and chairman of Goldman Sachs, and Erskine Bowles, former White House chief of staff and president of the University of North Carolina system. Lanhee J. Chen, PhD, the David and Diane Steffy Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Director of Domestic Policy Studies in Public Policy at Stanford University, serves as the group's director and Amy Ganz, formerly of Andreessen Horowitz, is the group's deputy director.

The Aspen Economic Strategy Group comprises 62 invitation-only members, including business leaders, policymakers, academics, journalists, and advocates. The Group will examine pressing economic issues, foster an open exchange of new and out-of-the-box ideas, socialize viable solutions in Washington, and influence policymaking through ideas that subsets of members may choose to support. Further, the Group seeks to foster bipartisan relationship-building between promising young thought leaders and more seasoned professionals.

"Improving the country's economic trajectory requires workable, politically feasible ideas," said Paulson. "America is not effectively addressing the fundamental and festering structural challenges facing our economy, and the Aspen Economic Strategy Group is aimed at surfacing smart approaches to policy that will help change that dynamic."

"For America to continue to be the world's leading economy, we must tackle economic challenges such as stagnant growth, income inequality and the shocks of globalization," Bowles said. "The Aspen Economic Strategy Group will provide valuable insights and policy ideas to move our nation's economy forward."

The Economic Strategy Group, which will convene annually, will take on a different set of issues each calendar year, allowing members to explore topics comprehensively, as well as to drill down on specific policy solutions and ideas. Along with its annual meeting, the Group will hold periodic public events featuring subsets of members.

The Group will consider a diverse range of economic policy concerns, such as how fast the economy can grow, why so many Americans feel like they are working harder but falling behind, and how automation and the rise of temporary work have impacted employers, workers, and livelihoods.

"America's economic policies are out of balance with the realities of the 21st century and are not working to advance the growth and the job-creation potential of our economy," said Aspen Institute President and CEO Walter Isaacson. "Given the Institute's long history of spearheading successful bipartisan efforts, we are delighted to be launching the Aspen Economic Strategy Group with an extraordinary and diverse group of leaders representing both sides of the aisle."

Below is the membership of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group:

Co-chairs:

Hank PaulsonChairman, Paulson Institute

Erskine Bowles Senior Advisor, BDT Capital Partners LLC

Members:

Wally AdeyemoSenior Adviser, BlackRock and Senior Adviser, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Kelly AyotteFormer U.S. Senator from New Hampshire

Mary BarraChairman and CEO, General Motors Company

Ben BernankeDistinguished Fellow, Brookings Institution

Joshua BoltenPresident & CEO, Business Roundtable

Ursula BurnsRetired Chairman and CEO, Xerox Corporation; Chairman of the Veon Group

Julian CastroFormer Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Lanhee ChenDavid and Diane Steffy Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

David CoteExecutive Chairman, Honeywell

Jim CrownPresident, Henry Crown & Company

Ray DalioFounder, Co-Chief Investment Officer and Co-Chairman, Bridgewater Associates

Mitch DanielsPresident, Purdue University

Brian DeeseSenior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School

Sue Desmond-Hellmann, M.D, M.P.HCEO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Laurence D. FinkFounder, Chairman, and CEO, BlackRock, Inc.

Kristin ForbesJerome and Dorothy Lemelson Professor of Management and Global Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Roland FryerHenry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Jason FurmanProfessor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Tim GeithnerPresident, Warburg Pincus LLC

Austan GoolsbeeRobert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, University of Chicago

Danielle GrayPartner, O'Melveny & Myers LLP

Reed HastingsFounder & CEO, Netflix

Keith HennesseyLecturer, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Marillyn HewsonChairman, President & CEO, Lockheed Martin

Fred HiattEditorial Page Editor, The Washington Post

Doug Holtz-EakinPresident, American Action Forum

Glenn HubbardDean, Columbia Business School

Neil IrwinSenior Economic Correspondent, The New York Times

Greg IpChief Economics Commentator, The Wall Street Journal

Joel KaplanVice President, Global Public Policy at Facebook

Neel KashkariPresident and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Melissa KearneyNeil Moskowitz Professor of Economics, University of Maryland

Ellen KullmanFormer Chair and CEO, DuPont

Maya MacGuineasPresident, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

Greg MankiwRobert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Sylvia Mathews BurwellPresident, American University

Jim McNerneyFormer Chairman, The Boeing Company

Magne MogstadGary S. Becker Professor in Economics, University of Chicago

Marc MorialPresident and CEO, National Urban League

Janet MurguíaPresident and CEO, UnidosUS

Phebe NovakovicChairman and Chief Executive Officer,General Dynamics

Michael NutterDavid N. Dinkins Professor of Professional Practice in Urban and Public Affairs, Columbia University

Jim OwensFormer Chairman and CEO, Caterpillar Inc.

John PodestaFormer Counselor to President Obama, Former Chief of Staff for President Clinton

Ruth PoratSVP & Chief Financial Officer, Alphabet and Google

Jim PoterbaMitsui Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Penny PritzkerFounder and Chairman, PSP Capital Partners

Bruce ReedCEO and Co-Founder, Civic LLC

Mitt RomneyFormer Governor, Massachusetts

Bob RubinFormer U.S. Treasury Secretary Chairman Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations

Stephen SchwarzmanChairman, CEO and Co-Founder, Blackstone Group LP

Margaret SpellingsPresident, University of North Carolina System

Gene SperlingFormer Director, National Economic Council

William SpriggsProfessor, Department of Economics at Howard University

Bob SteelCEO, Perella Weinberg Partners LP

Lawrence H. SummersCharles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus, Harvard University

Phill SwagelProfessor in International Economic Policy, University of Maryland School of Public Policy

Kevin WarshShepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics, Hoover Institution

Jeff ZientsFormer Director, National Economic Council

Bob ZoellickChairman, AllianceBernstein

Staff:

Director:

Lanhee ChenDavid and Diane Steffy Research Fellow, Hoover Institution

Deputy Director:

Amy GanzThe Aspen Institute

The Aspen Institute is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, DC. Its mission is to foster leadership based on enduring values and to provide a nonpartisan venue for dealing with critical issues. The Institute is based in Washington, DC; Aspen, Colorado; and on the Wye River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It also has offices in New York City and an international network of partners. For more information, visit www.aspeninstitute.org.

 

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