Economic Club of Minnesota

The Risky Business report, the first-ever analysis of its kind, summarizes the findings of an this independent risk assessment of the potential costs of climate change on coastal infrastructure, energy services, labor productivity, agriculture, and public health, combining existing data on the current and potential impacts of climate change with original research that quantifies potential future c...

Mark Penn, Pollster for President Bill Clinton Executive Vice President & Chief Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation Mark Penn is Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer at Microsoft Corporation, responsible for working on core strategic issues across Microsoft's products, value propositions, and investments and leading the company's competitive research and analysis. Penn reports t...

Doug Baker, 55, is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Ecolab Inc. A trusted partner at more than one million customer locations, Ecolab is the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services that protect people and vital resources. With 2013 sales of $13 billion and 45,000 associates, Ecolab delivers comprehensive solutions and on-site service to promote safe...

John S. Watson is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Chevron Corporation, a position he has held since 2010. Previously Watson served as vice chairman of the board from 2009 to 2010 and was responsible for business development; mergers and acquisitions; strategic planning; corporate compliance; policy, government and public affairs; procurement; and the Project Resources Company....

Narayana Kocherlakota took office as president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis on Oct. 8, 2009. In that capacity, Kocherlakota serves on the Federal Open Market Committee, the policymaking arm of the Federal Reserve System. In addition to his responsibilities as a monetary policymaker, Kocherlakota oversees all operations of the bank, including supervision an...

Patricia A. Woertz is chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Archer Daniels Midland Company. She joined ADM as CEO and president in April 2006. She was named chairman of the board in February 2007. Since joining ADM, Woertz has led the company to record financial results while growing its sourcing, transportation and processing networks through select acquisitions, strat...

Dr. Douglas W. Elmendorf is the eighth Director of the Congressional Budget Office. He was initially appointed on January 22, 2009, to complete the previous four-year term of office; he was later reappointed to serve through January 3, 2015. Before he came to CBO, Doug Elmendorf was a senior fellow and the Edward M. Bernstein Scholar in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He...

Former Senator Mark Kennedy, Former Congressman Tim Penny, Canadian and Mexican ambassadors, Mr. Mack McLarty, Ambassador Carla Hills, Mr. James Weekes, Dr. Luis de la Calle, Congressman Erik Paulsen, Former Congressman Bill Frenzel.

Washington DC, January 28th, 2014   Former Senator Mark Kennedy, Former Congressman Tim Penny, Canadian and Mexican ambassadors, Mr. Mack McLarty, Ambassador Carla Hills, Mr. James Weekes, Dr. Luis de la Calle, Congressman Erik Paulsen, Former Congressman Bill Frenzel.    

Tom Nides is a Managing Director and Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley, a leading global financial services firm. He focuses on the Firm’s global clients and other key constituencies around the world, serves as a member of the Firm’s Management Committee and Operating Committee, and reports to Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer James Gorman. Prior to rejoining the Firm in March 2013 in his curre...

Ambassador Mark Green is President & CEO of the Initiative for Global Development (IGD), a nonprofit organization that engages corporate leaders to reduce poverty through business growth and investment in Africa. A recognized leader in the foreign policy and business communities, Green served as the U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania from mid-2007 to early 2009. While there he led a mission of more than...

Timothy Beardson founded, majority-owned and ran Crosby, which became the largest independent investment bank in the Far East. He sat on the board of investment companies which were involved in most countries of South and East Asia from Pakistan through China to Indonesia. Eventually, Crosby employed 650 staff in 14 countries from New York to Beijing. It had an annual transaction volume of US $20...

Eric Rosengren has been president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston since July 2007 and is currently a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee. Previously he headed the Bank's supervision, regulation, and credit group, and was active in domestic and international regulatory policy. Rosengren joined the Bank in 1985 as an economist in the research departme...

United States Senator Amy Klobuchar On January 4, 2007, Amy Klobuchar became the first woman elected to represent the State of Minnesota in the United States Senate. Before being elected to public office, she served as a partner in Minnesota's Dorsey & Whitney and Gray, Plant, Mooty law firms. From 1998-2006, Senator Klobuchar served as the prosecutor for Hennepin County. During her eight years as...

Gregg Steinhafel is chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer of Target Corporation. Target, a Minneapolis-based discount retailer with more than $70 billion in annual revenues, serves guests at 1,778 retail stores in 49 states nationwide, online at Target.com, and by offering credit to qualified guests through branded proprietary credit and debit cards. Steinhafel was named pre...

John P. Surma was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1954. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1976 with a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting. Mr. Surma joined Price Waterhouse LLP in 1976, and in 1981 he served in the Manchester, England, office of the Price Waterhouse United Kingdom firm. In 1987, he was admitted to the partnership. In 1983, Mr. Surma participated in the President’...

Major Garrett is a White House correspondent for National Journal and also contributes to 2012 Decoded. Prior to National Journal, Garret reported for Fox News, where he was the Chief White House Correspondent. During his eight years at Fox, Garrett also covered Congress, two presidential elections, the war in Iraq and many other issues of national importance. Before joining Fox News, Garrett was...

Agustín Carstens was born June 9, 1958 in Mexico City. He holds a M.A. (1983) and a Ph. D. (1985) in economics from the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. in economics (summa cum laude) from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in 1982, with a thesis on determining the forward exchange rate in Mexico, for which he received the 1983 Tlacaelel National Prize in Economic Consu...

David Wessel is economics editor of The Wall Street Journal and writes the "Capital” column, a weekly look at the economy and forces shaping living standards around the world. He also appears frequently on National Public Radio and WETA’s Washington Week. His book, In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic, was selected by strategy+business magazine as one of the Best Business Books o...

Narayana Kocherlakota became president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis on October 8, 2009. Kocherlakota has served as a professor of economics at the University of Minnesota since 2005, where he chaired the department from 2006-2008. Since 1999 he has also served as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. From 1996-98, he was a research staff...

Pascal Lamy is the Director-General of the World Trade Organization since September 2005. Mr. Lamy holds degrees from the Paris based Ecole des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) and from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration (ENA). He began his career in the French civil service at the Inspection Générale des finances and at the Treasury. He then became a...

Kevin Brady considers it an honor to be representing the 8th District of Texas in the U.S House of Representatives. A pro-family, pro-small business conservative, Kevin’s strong belief in free enterprise guides him as the Vice Chairman and top Republican on the Joint Economic Committee. A Deputy Whip for the GOP Leadership team, Kevin is a senior member of the House Ways & Means Committee, conside...

His Excellency, Arturo Sarukhan Ambassador from Mexico to the United States

Michelle Rhee is Founder & CEO, StudentsFirst. She has been working for the last 18 years to give children the skills and knowledge they will need to compete in a changing world. On June 12, 2007, Mayor Adrian Fenty appointed Chancellor Rhee to lead the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), a school district serving more than 47,000 students in 123 schools. Under her leadership, the worst pe...

Dr. George Buckley, Chairman, President and CEO of 3M Corporation.