HAMPTONS INSTITUTE: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY: WHERE IS IT HEADED?

Lloyd Blankfein is senior chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. He joined the J. Aron Currency and Commodities Division of Goldman Sachs in 1982 after working as an attorney in a law firm. Lloyd was named partner in 1988 and co-head of the J. Aron Division in 1994. He became co-head of the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Division as of its formation in 1997 and was based in London from 1997 to 1999 in that capacity.

Lloyd served as vice chairman of Goldman Sachs from 2002 through 2003, with management responsibility for the FICC and Equities Divisions. Prior to assuming his current responsibilities, he served as the firm’s president and chief operating officer from December 2003 through June 2006. He served as the firm’s chairman and chief executive officer from 2006 through September 2018, and remained as chairman through December 2018.

Among his affiliations with nonprofit organizations, Lloyd is a member of several Harvard advisory boards, a member of the Executive Committee of the UJA Federation of New York, a Board Fellow of Weill Cornell Medical College and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Lloyd earned a JD from Harvard Law School in 1978 and anAB from Harvard College in 1975.

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Steven Rattner is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Willett Advisors LLC, the investment arm for former New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s personal and philanthropic assets. In addition, he serves as the Economic Analyst on MSNBC’s Morning Joe and is a contributing writer to The New York Times Op Ed page. He previously served as Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury and led the Obama Administration’s successful effort to restructure the automobile industry, which he chronicled in his book,Overhaul: An Insider’s Account of the Obama Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry.

Mr. Rattner wrote the book Overhaul: An Insider’s Account of the Obama Administration’s Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry about his time as Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury leading the Obama Administration’s successful restructure of the automobile industry. Before this, in 2000, Mr. Rattner formed Quadrangle Group LLC, a private investment firm that had more than $6 billion of assets under management. He was Managing Principal there until February 2009.

Before the start of his investment banking career, Mr. Rattner worked as a journalist for The New York Times for nine years, mostly as an economic correspondent in New York, London and Washington. In 1982, he joined Lehman Brothers and was then a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley before leaving to become a General Partner at Lazard Frères in 1989. While at Lazard Frères & Co., he served as Deputy Chairman and Deputy Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Rattner has dedicated time to both public and philanthropic organizations as a board member or trustee. He was the Chairman of the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, a Fellow at Brown University and Chairman of the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, among others. He is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

As a graduate of Brown University with honors in economics (1974), Mr. Rattner was awarded the Harvey Baker Fellowship. He is married to former State Department official Maureen White. They have four children.

Gillian Tett is a columnist and member of the editorial board for the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on Friday, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. She also serves as Provost of King's College, Cambridge.

Previously, she chaired the FT editorial board, ran Moral Money, the FT's sustainability newsletter which she co-founded, and wrote two columns a week. Gillian's earlier roles included US managing editor for the FT; assistant editor; capital markets editor; deputy editor of the Lex column; Tokyo bureau chief; reporter in Russia and Brussels.

She has been named Columnist of the Year (2014), Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) in the British Press Awards, and received three awards from America's Society of Business and Economic Writers Awards. She is a best-selling and award-winning author of four books, and received the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award and the American Anthropological Association President Medal for her work in social science. She has received honorary degrees from Carnegie Mellon, Miami and Baruch universities in America, and Exeter, Lancaster, Goldsmith's, London in the UK.

The Common Good is a leading pro-democracy, nonprofit organization which features important leaders and experts to inform engagement in the political process. Here are just a few of their hundreds of past speakers: Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush; Secretaries John Kerry, Antony Blinken, Henry Kissinger, Leon Panetta, and Jeh Johnson; Majority Leaders Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer; Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Congressman John Lewis, Senators Lindsey Graham, Elissa Slotkin, and John McCain; Governors Ned Lamont, Kathy Hochul, Tim Kaine, and Larry Hogan; foreign affairs experts such as Richard Haass and Ian Bremmer, U.S. and foreign Ambassadors such as Frank Wisner and Martin Indyk, Ron Prosor (Is), François Delattre (Fr), activists like Gloria Steinem, Jose Antonio Vargas, and Lily Ledbetter, historians like Jon Meacham, Heather Cox Richardson, and H. W. Brands ,journalists, authors and editors such as Marty Baron, Harry Evans, and Jill Abramson, Fareed Zakaria, Carl Bernstein, Lawrence Wright, Steve Coll, and Gillian Tett; entertainment figures such as Denzel Washington, Jane Fonda, Kevin Costner and Chevy Chase; business leaders such as Mike Bloomberg, Ray Dalio, Glenn Hutchins and John Bogle, political strategists like Paul Begala, Tim Miller, and Donna Brazile, commentator/ broadcast journalists like Lesley Stahl, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Ari Melber, Jonathan Capehart, Molly Jong-Fast, and Gayle King, and many others. Thousands of audience members have gained invaluable insights about today’s current events from their distinguished roster of speakers. 

Patricia Duff founded The Common Good in 2007, with a goal of bringing together major policy leaders in government and authoritative figures in business, media, journalism and academia, to speak candidly on the most important issues of today.  These conversations are meant to provide ideas and information, encourage citizen participation, and find common ground. The Common Good is rooted in Show Coalition, an influential, entertainment based organization which she and others started in 1988.  Patricia’s work has spanned the entertainment and political worlds. She worked as vice president for two of the country’s leading political strategy and consulting firms in Washington D.C., and has lent her energy and expertise to dozens of political races across the country, including several Presidential election efforts.

Patricia also served on the Congressional investigative committee that reexamined the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. She had her own political talk show on television, has led women’s outreach for political campaign efforts, and has served on a number of boards, including the Library of Congress Board of Trustees, Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service Board of Advisors, and the board of the Lincoln Center Film Society.  Duff is a member of the Economic Club and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Trained as an historian, Ellen Chesler, Ph.D. is author of the critically praised biography, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America, which has remained in print for 34 years. She has co-edited two anthologies, Where Human Rights Begin (2005)  and Women and Girls Rising (2015), and she has written more than 100  essays and articles in prominent publications.  Early in her career she  served in government as Chief of Staff to New York City Council President, Carol Bellamy, the first woman ever elected to a citywide office. And she later spent a decade as a senior fellow at the Open Society Foundations, founded by George Soros, overseeing a broad portfolio of grants to organizations and individuals advancing and protecting women's rights around the world.  Long active in progressive politics, she is recognized for both the practical and intellectual perspectives she brings to her work..  With her husband, Matthew Mallow, she has been a Hamptons homeowner since 1983.