Founder of The William J. Clinton Foundation
42nd President of the United States of America

William Jefferson Clinton was the first Democratic president in six decades to be elected twice first in 1992 and then in 1996. Under his leadership, the country enjoyed the strongest economy in a generation and the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, including the creation of more than 22 million jobs.

After leaving the White House, President Clinton established the William J. Clinton Foundation with the mission to strengthen the capacity of people in the United States and throughout the world to meet the challenges of global interdependence. Today the Foundation has staff and volunteers around the world working to improve lives through several initiatives, including the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative (now the Clinton Health Access Initiative, a separate nonprofit organization) which is helping 2 million people living with HIV/AIDS access lifesaving drugs.

Other initiatives -- including the Clinton Climate Initiative, the Clinton Hunter Development Initiative, and the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative -- are applying a business-oriented approach worldwide to fight climate change and develop sustainable economic growth in Africa and Latin America. As a project of the Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative brings together global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to some of the world's most pressing issues. In the U.S., the Foundation is working to combat the alarming rise in childhood obesity through the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, and is helping individuals and families succeed and small businesses grow.

In addition to his Foundation work, President Clinton has joined with former President George H.W. Bush three times after the 2004 tsunami in South Asia, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Hurricane Ike in 2008 to help raise money for recovery efforts. He also served as the U.N. Envoy for Tsunami Recovery, and was recently named U.N. Special Envoy to Haiti to assist its people and government as they "build back better" from recent storm damages and implement their economic vision for the future.

President Clinton was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Arkansas. He and his wife Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton have one daughter, Chelsea, and live in Chappaqua, New York.

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Founder, Tudor Investment Corporation

Paul Tudor Jones II is founder, Co-Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of the Tudor Group of companies, an asset management and proprietary trading organization which actively participates in the global debt, equity, currency and commodity markets.

Tudor is an organization of approximately 370 employees with headquarters in Greenwich, Connecticut and additional operations primarily in Surrey (U.K.), London, Singapore, Sydney, Boston and Washington, D.C. Tudor and its affiliates currently manage over $11 billion in capital for global institutions and high net worth investors.

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Founder, Ospraie Management, LLC

Dwight Anderson is the founder and principal of Ospraie Management LLC, which serves as investment manager to the Ospraie Funds. The Ospraie Funds actively invest in various commodity markets and basic industries worldwide based on fundamental, bottom-up research.

In February 2000, Mr. Anderson founded the Ospraie Funds in partnership with Tudor Investment Corporation, where he served as head of the Basic Industries group. In 2004, he left Tudor to form Ospraie Management, LLC. Prior to joining Tudor, Mr. Anderson was a managing director in charge of the basic industries and commodities group at Tiger Management. Previously, he was an associate at JP Morgan & Co.

Mr. Anderson is considered one of the world’s leading experts on commodities and has been profiled in two books on his investment management philosophy – Inside the House of Money by Steven Drobny and Hedge Hunters by Katherine Burton.

Mr. Anderson holds an MBA from the University of North Carolina and an AB in History from Princeton University. He is certified in production and inventory management by the APICS.

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ABN AMRO

Jan Bart de Boer joined ABN AMRO (former Fortis Bank Nederland) in 2004 as a member of the global management team for the business unit Brokerage, Clearing and Custody (BCC). He oversees the Sales and Relationship Management teams in the 11 BCC offices around the world. He is a Director of ABN AMRO Clearing Bank N.V. (former Fortis Clearing) and Chairman of the Supervisory Committee of "European Multilateral Clearing Facility".

Before joining ABN AMRO he has held a number of functions within ING Bank NV. He managed the Securities Finance and Repo activities from 1995 till 2002 and later on was part of the Management Team overseeing Custody and Clearing.

Jan Bart holds a law degree from Leiden University in The Netherlands.

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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, MF Global

Jon S. Corzine is chairman and chief executive officer of MF Global Holdings Ltd. Mr. Corzine, who joined the firm in March 2010, brings over three decades of leadership and expertise to MF Global. From 2006-2010, Mr. Corzine served as Governor of the State of New Jersey and prior to that, in the United States Senate from 2001 to 2006. Before entering into public service, Mr. Corzine was chairman and senior partner at Goldman Sachs, where he spent more than 20 years.

Mr. Corzine joined Goldman Sachs in 1975 as a fixed income trader. He went on to serve as chief financial officer and as chairman and senior partner from 1994 through 1999. Mr. Corzine initiated a landmark Community Teamwork Project under which every department at Goldman sponsored public service projects. He also used proceeds from the firm's initial public offering to establish a philanthropic foundation.

In recognition of his expertise and reputation, President Bill Clinton named Mr. Corzine as chairman of a presidential study of federal capital budgeting to increase investment in schools, infrastructure and technology. Mr. Corzine also worked with President Obama in shaping the federal economic recovery package.

In addition to his duties at MF Global, Mr. Corzine is currently an operating partner at J.C. Flowers & Co. LLC and will hold the title of John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs for the 2010-2011 academic year.

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Vice President and Chief Investment Officer, Wake Forest University

James Dunn is vice president and chief investment officer at Wake Forest University, responsible for investment of the University's endowment, working capital and life income assets of over $1.2 billion. Jim was appointed chief investment officer at Wake Forest University in July 2009 and he works closely with the investment policy committee of the University's Board of Trustees in partnering with the most sophisticated investment management organizations throughout the world.

Previously, Jim was managing director, chief investment officer, for Wilshire Funds Management, the money management arm of Wilshire Associates. At Wilshire, Jim was responsible for asset allocation, portfolio construction and manager research. During Jim’s tenure, Wilshire Funds Management assets grew from $9 billion to $53 billion under management. Jim served as the chairman of the Wilshire Funds Management investment committee and served as portfolio manager for all of Wilshire’s alternative investment portfolios. Prior to Wilshire, Jim’s background was primarily in alternative investments and capital markets. He served as vice president for Altvest and Investor Force, managing director for One Maverick Funds and president of Philadelphia Brokerage.

Jim holds a BBA in Finance from Villanova University.

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Chief Executive Officer, BTG Pactual

André Esteves is the Chief Executive Officer of BTG Pactual, and is based out of our São Paulo office. Prior to forming BTG in June 2008, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of UBS Pactual from 2006 to 2008. He was appointed Global Head of Fixed Income of UBS in August 2007 and Global Head of FICC of UBS in October 2007, based in London. André held both positions until leaving UBS in 2008.

André spent 17 years at Banco Pactual before it was sold to UBS in 2006. He joined the firm in 1989, became partner in 1993 and was appointed Managing Partner in 2002. André was a Director of FEBRABAN (Federation of Brazilian Banks) from 2003 to 2007 and member of the board of BM&F – Boisa de Mercadorias e Futuros (Futures and Commodities Exchange) from 2002 to 2009.

He holds a BS in Computer Science from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

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Cheif Operating Officer, HMC

Bob Ettl joined HMC as Chief Operating Officer in October 2008. Before arriving at HMC, Mr. Ettl served in executive positions at Allianz Global Investors, including Chief Executive Officer for the Alpha Vision hedge fund subsidiary and Global Chief Technology and Operations Officer.

Mr. Ettl was Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) when it was acquired by Allianz. Mr. Ettl joined PIMCO in 1995 as Chief Operations Officer and helped direct PIMCO's international expansion as Chief Operating Officer of its Global Unit.

Mr. Ettl previously served in management positions in Salomon Brothers' government arbitrage trading analytics, technology and operations divisions and was a senior consultant for Arthur Andersen & Co. (now Accenture.)

Mr. Ettl holds a BA degree in economics and an MBA in finance from Columbia University.

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Senior Political Analyst, CNN and Editor-at-Large, U.S. News & World Report

Commentator, editor, teacher, public servant, best-selling author and advisor to presidents for 30 years, David Gergen has been an active participant in American national life. He served as director of communications for President Reagan and held positions in the administrations of Presidents Nixon and Ford. In 1993, he put his country before politics when he agreed to first serve as counselor to President Clinton on both foreign policy and domestic affairs, then as special international advisor to the president and to Secretary of State Warren Christopher.

Gergen currently serves as editor-at-large at U.S. News & World Report and as a regular television commentator on CNN. He served as moderator of World @ Large, a 13-part PBS discussion series for two seasons. He is also a professor of public service at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and is director of its Center for Public Leadership. In the fall of 2000, he published the best-selling book Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton. He is currently working on a book that focuses on presidential transitions.

A native of Durham, North Carolina, he is an honors graduate of Yale University and the Harvard Law School. Gergen currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife Anne and their two children.

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Editor, FT Trading Room

Jeremy Grant edits, and writes for, the FT Trading Room, the FT's new web offering providing a single source of intelligence for trading, exchanges, clearing, settlement, financial markets regulation and trading technology.

His background in exchanges coverage started with an assignment as Chicago & Midwest correspondent for the FT (2002-05), covering US derivatives exchanges. He then spent three years in Washington, DC covering financial regulation focused on the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

In Chicago, Grant also held the posts of US Automotive Correspondent and US Consumer Industries Correspondent (including food, obesity and agriculture).

He returned to the FT's London office in March 2008, as Senior Corporate Reporter covering British business news and trends, as well as stock and derivatives exchanges/clearing and emerging trading platforms in Europe.

Grant started his career at the FT as the paper's first Vietnam Correspondent based in Hanoi (1994-98), followed by reporting in the London-based Capital Markets team and over three years as editor i/c European companies coverage. He also reported from the FT's Frankfurt and Zurich bureaux.

He graduated with a B.A. (Joint Hons.) in German & Politics from Bristol University in 1986. He can be reached on +44-(0)207-873-3310 and jeremy.grant@ft.com

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Best-selling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball and The Big Short

A native of New Orleans, Michael Lewis graduated from Princeton University with a degree in art history and earned a master's at The London School of Economics. Prior to his career as an author, he worked with The Salomon Brothers on Wall Street and in London. He lives in Berkeley with his wife Tabitha Soren and their three children.

Lewis first made a name for himself in 1989 with the chart-topping Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage of Wall Street, an inside look at his career as a bond trader that best-selling author Tom Wolfe called "the funniest book on Wall Street I’ve ever read," and earned Lewis the label of "America’s poet laureate of capital" from The Los Angeles Times. Liar's Poker spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best-Seller List and remains one of the signature books of the 1980s.

His other works include The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, for which the 2009 Oscar-winning film adaptation broke the box office record for the biggest opening weekend of a sports film in history; Moneyball, which recounts the amazing story of the Oakland A's, the baseball team with the lowest budget in the league that still makes it into the playoffs almost every year, currently being adapted for film; and countless others.

He lives in Berkeley with his wife Tabitha Soren and their three children.

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Former U.S. Treasury Secretary

Robert E. Rubin served as 70th Secretary of the U.S. Treasury from 1995-1999, and during his tenure played a leading role in many of the nation's most important policy debates, such as balancing the federal budget; opening trade policy to further globalization; acting to stem financial crises in Mexico, Asia and Russia; helping to resolve the impasse over the public debt limit; safeguarding the nation's currency against counterfeiting and guiding sensible reforms at the Internal Revenue Service.

Long active in public affairs, Rubin first joined the Clinton Administration in 1993 as director of the newly-created National Economic Council.

Rubin began his career in finance at Goldman, Sachs & Company in 1960, and served as vice-chairman and co-chief operating officer from 1987-1990 and as co-senior partner and co-chairman from 1990-1992.

In 2006, Rubin was one of the founders of The Hamilton Project, an economic policy project that offers a strategic vision and innovative policy proposals on how to create a growing economy that benefits more Americans. He is the author of In An Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, which was a New York Times bestseller and was named one of Business Week's ten best business books of the year.

Rubin holds degrees from Harvard College and Yale Law School. His wife Judith served as the New York City Commissioner of Protocol for four years under Mayor David Dinkins. The Rubins have two adult sons, James and Philip.

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US Managing Editor, Financial Times

Gillian Tett is the US managing editor of the Financial Times. She leads the editorial development of the paper's US edition and of US news on FT.com.

Previously, Tett was assistant editor responsible for the FT's markets coverage. She has also served as capital markets editor, deputy editor of the Lex column, Tokyo bureau chief, Tokyo correspondent, London-based economics reporter and a reporter in Russia and Brussels.

Tett was named Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) by the British Press Awards and Senior Financial Journalist of the Year (2007) by the Wincott Awards.

She is the author of New York Times bestseller Fool's Gold: How Unrestrained Greed Corrupted a Dream, Shattered Global Markets and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Little Brown, UK and Simon and Schuster, US) published in May 2009, and Saving the Sun: A Wall Street Gamble to Rescue Japan from its Trillion Dollar Meltdown (Harper Collins, 2003). Fool’s Gold won Financial Book of the Year at the Spear's Book Awards in 2009.

Before joining the Financial Times in 1993, Tett was awarded a PhD in social anthropology from Cambridge University based on field work in the former Soviet Union. While pursuing the PhD, she freelanced for the FT and the BBC. She is a graduate of Cambridge University.

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President, Meredith Whitney Advisory Group

Hailed "The Oracle of Wall Street" by Bloomberg, Meredith Whitney has been ahead of the curve during America’s largest credit crisis since the Great Depression. Whitney’s rise to international prominence was triggered in October 2007 when she made one of the most controversial and highly publicized calls in Wall Street history. A Wall Street veteran of over 15 years, Whitney’s career has been defined by her bold predictions which have garnered global attention.

Named one of the world’s 100 Most Influential People of 2009 by TIME Magazine, Whitney is widely recognized as "one of the most respected voices on Wall Street." Also one of Fortune’s 50 Most Powerful Women in Business in 2008, Whitney is a renowned expert in the finance industry and is frequently quoted in Fortune, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and The New York Times. The first—and only—Research Analyst to ever present at the FDIC Annual Economic Round Table Forum, Whitney has addressed top US economists on her thesis detailing The State of the US Consumer.

Whitney is the founder of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, LLC. Formerly the Managing Director and Senior Financial Institutions Analyst for Oppenheimer & Co. Inc, Whitney was also an analyst for CIBC World Markets and conducted Financial Institutions research at Wachovia Securities. Whitney graduated with honors from Brown University.

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Founder and CEO, DRW Trading Group

Donald R. Wilson, Jr. founded DRW Trading Group in 1992. Since then, the company has grown from a one man sole proprietorship to a global firm with over 450 employees. Wilson started his trading career in 1989 and for the first 15 years devoted most of his time to fixed income options. He also worked with exchanges globally to develop new contracts and electronic trading systems. DRW has offices in Chicago, New York, Greenwich CT and London. DRW is a leading market participant in fixed income and energy futures and options on exchanges throughout the United States and Europe.

Wilson is a member of the CFTC's Global Advisory Markets Committee. He also serves as a board member of the Futures Industry Association, Children's Memorial Hospital Foundation and the Judd Goldman Adaptive Sailing Foundation. In 2007, Wilson was named to Crain's Chicago Business "Forty under Forty" List. Additionally, Mr. Wilson is the founder of the Chicago Match Race Center, is a member of the Chicago Yacht Club and the New York Yacht Club, and is an avid competitive sailor. He graduated with honors from the University of Chicago with a B. A. in Economics in 1988. Wilson resides in Chicago with his wife and four children.

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Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author and Respected Authority on International Politics, Economics and Energy

Daniel Yergin, a Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the United States Energy Award for "lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding," is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics and economics. He is both a world-recognized author and serves as chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), one of the world’s leading consulting and research firms in its field. He is also executive vice president of IHS, the parent company of CERA. He is CNBC’s Global Energy Expert.

Dr. Yergin received the Pulitzer Prize for his work The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, which became a number one bestseller and was made into an eight-hour PBS/BBC series seen by 20 million people in the United States.

Dr. Yergin plays a leadership role in the global energy industry. He chaired the U.S. Department of Energy's Task Force on Strategic Energy Research and Development. He is a member of the Board of the United States Energy Association, and a member of the U.S. National Petroleum Council. He recently served as Vice Chair of the new National Petroleum Council study, Facing the Hard Truths about Energy. He also has become the only foreign member of the Russian Academy of Oil and Gas. He is one of the "Wise Men" of the International Gas Union. Dr. Yergin has been named one of the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy by the World Affairs Councils of America.

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CEO and Chief Investment Officer, The University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO)

Bruce Zimmerman is CEO and Chief Investment Officer of The University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO). UTIMCO, investing over $20B, is one of the nation’s largest endowments. up. Previously at Citigroup, Bruce had been CFO and Chief Administrative Officer for Citigroup Alternative Investments, which invested over $90B in proprietary and client capital across a range of hedge fund, private equity, private real estate equity and structured credit vehicles.

Before joining Citigroup, Mr. Zimmerman spent approximately thirteen years at Texas Commerce Bank/JPMorgan Chase in a variety of capacities including Merger and Acquisition Investment Banking, Internet and ATM Retail Management, Consumer Marketing and Financial Planning, Strategy and Corporate Development.

Prior to joining Texas Commerce Bank/JPMorgan Chase, Bruce was a Manager at Bain & Company in their Boston office.

Mr. Zimmerman graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Degree of Distinction from Duke University and received a MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated with First and Second Year Honors.

Mr. Zimmerman serves on the Board of Trustees of the Commonfund and the Investment Committee of the Houston Endowment.

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