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Recent Milken Institute Speakers - PFIN 2023

Recent Public Finance Forum Speakers

Recent speakers at Public Finance Forum have included:

Christopher Ailman
Chief Investment Officer, California State Teachers’ Retirement System

Olivia Albrecht
Chief Sustainability Officer, Aspiration

Tammie Arnold
Founding Partner, Alphaledger

Donnel Baird
CEO, BlocPower

Jennie Bennett, Chief Financial Officer
City of Chicago, Illinois

Elaine Buckberg
Chief Economist, General Motors

Henry Cisneros
Former Secretary, US Department of Housing and Urban Development

Rob Day
Partner and Co-Founder, Spring Lane Capital

Brian Deese
Director, White House National Economic Council

Arne Duncan
Co-Founder, Chicago CRED; Former Secretary, US Department of Education

Lourdes Germán
Executive Director, The Public Finance Initiative; Co-Founder and Director, Civic Innovation Project

Austan Goolsbee
Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics, University of Chicago; Former Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers

Gary Hall
Partner, Head of Investment Banking—Infrastructure and Public Finance, Siebert Williams Shank

Michael Hancock
Mayor, City of Denver, Colorado

Christine Harada
Executive Director, Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council

Kathy Hochul
Governor, State of New York

Maurice Jones
CEO, OneTen

Mark Kim
CEO, Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board

Kim Lew
President and CEO, Columbia Investment Management Company

Lori Lightfoot
Mayor, City of Chicago, Illinois

Ben McAdams
Senior Fellow, Sorenson Impact; Former US Representative, Utah

Pat Meyers
Executive Director, Office of Economic Development and International Trade; Chief Economic Recovery Officer, State of Colorado

Hiromichi Mizuno
Special Envoy of UN Secretary-General on Innovative Finance and Sustainable Investments; Special Advisor, Milken Institute

Julie Monaco
Global Head, Public Sector Group, Correspondent Banking, Citi

Jenn Park
Executive Director, Opportunity Accelerator at Results for America

Richard Ravitch
Former Lieutenant Governor, State of New York

Elizabeth Reich
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Dallas Area Rapid Transit; Former Chief Financial Officer, City of Dallas, Texas

Emily Robare
Vice President, Credit Research and Muni ESG, PIMCO

Angela Rodell
Chair, Delphos; Former CEO, Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation

Stacy Swann
CEO, Climate Finance Advisors

Philip Washington
CEO, LA Metro

Mary Ellen Weiderwohl
President and CEO, Accelerator for America

Gretchen Whitmer
Governor, State of Michigan

Shawn Wooden
Treasurer, State of Connecticut

Haimera Workie
Vice President and Head of Financial Innovation, FINRA