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The Global Business Roundtable
Jackson's off-the-record speaker series with leading global thinkers.
Founded in 2008, the Global Business Roundtable (GBR) provides global economic, political, security, and society briefings with GBR members. GBR meetings are off-the-record. Laurent Roux, Founder and CEO of Gallatin Wealth Management, serves as GBR Chair.
The GBR is a membership organization. If you are based in the Jackson area and interested in joining, please contact Nathan Wendt: nathan.wendt at jhcga.org.
Speakers - 2020
 January 2020 B. Philip Winder CEO Polygon Investment Management A Lion in the Path |  January 2020 Bill Parker President and CEO EastWest Institute U.S. National Security in a Complex World |  February 2020 David Siminoff Silicon Valley Investor How Silicon Valley Works |
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 April 2020 Amb. Richard Holwill Former U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador Reforming the WTO |  April 2020 Alex Friedman Co-Founder Jackson Hole Economics What COVID-19 is Doing to the Economy and Markets, and Where We Go From Here |  April 2020 Larry Hatheway Co-Founder Jackson Hole Economics What COVID-19 is Doing to the Economy and Markets, and Where We Go From Here |
 April 2020 Dr. Ian McCallum A Psychology of Hope – The Power of Pulling Together |  June 2020 Hon. Gary Grappo Former U.S. Ambassador to Oman Topic TBD |  June 2020 Myron Brilliant Executive Vice President and Head of International Affairs, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Topic TBD |
 May 2020 Will Sarni Founder Water Foundry Former Partner, Deloitte The Future of Water: Creating Resiliency and Abundance |  October 2020 Stephen Heintz President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Topic TBD |
Speakers - 2019
 January 2019 Jack Perkowski Founder and Managing Partner JFP Holdings, Ltd. China: The Trade War and The Road Ahead |  March 2019 Joel Moxley Founder Moxley Holdings Global Mega Trends and Venture Capital |  March 2019 Kawa Hassan Vice President EastWest Institute Track 2 Dialogues in Iraq |
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 March 2019 Lukas Haynes Executive Director The David Rockefeller Fund The Urgent Need for Bipartisanship on Climate Change |  April 2019 Dennis Ellis Microsoft TechSpark Manager Building Wyoming's Tech Future |  May 2019 Heather A. Nickerson Executive Vice President Red Five Security Family Security |
 July 2019 Steve Albrecht General Counsel Barclays BREXIT |  August 2019 Mike Smerklo Co Founder and Managing Director Next Coast Ventures The Other Sheet (Sh*T) - the Mental Part of Entrepreneurship |  August 2019 Thomas Sterner Founder Environment for Development A Climate-smart Energy Policy for the Anthropocene |
 September 2019 John LaForge Head of Real Asset Strategy Wells Fargo Real Asset Strategy |  October 2019 Dr. Bernard Gersh Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Global Health in the Developing World; Disparities in the U.S. |  October 2019 Doug Brigham Co-President College of Idaho International Education |
 October 2019 Jim Everett Co-President College of Idaho International Education |  November 2019 Stina Brock SVP, North America Electron The Future Applications of Blockchain |  November 2019 Jeff Vincent Clarence F. Korstian Professor of Forest Economics and Management Duke University Restoring Global Forests, in a World with Too Much Wood and Too Few Carbon Markets |
 December 2019 Tang Jian Counsellor Bilateral Relations Embassy of the People's Republic of China, Washington, D.C. U.S.-China Relations |  December 2019 Pan Jiang Counsellor Economics Embassy of the People's Republic of China, Washington, D.C. U.S.-China Relations |
Speakers - 2018
 January 2018 Michael Sonnenfeldt Founder Tiger 21 Think Bigger: And 39 Other Winning Strategies from Successful Entrepreneurs |  March 2018 Raymond Karam Senior Director Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington After ISIS: Competing Visions for a Middle East in Transition. |  April 2018 Douglas Hunter CEO Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems The UAMPS’ Carbon Free Power Project |
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 May 2018 Ken Lay Senior Managing Director The Rock Creek Group Are We Valuing "Natural Capital"? |  June 2018 Bart Victor Cal Turner Professor of Moral Leadership Vanderbilt University To Alleviate Poverty; Is It Ever Better to Lend Than to Give? |  July 2018 Max Markusen Associate Director, Transnational Threats Project, Center for Strategic and International Studies & Climate and Security Fellow, Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs Past, Present, and Future of Syria: Mapping the Underlying Challenges |
 August 2018 Erik Davidson Wealth Management Chief Investment Officer Wells Fargo: Global Economy Outlook |  August 2018 Yun Sun Director, China Program, Stimson Center China’s Maritime Silk Road: The Geopolitical Implications for Environmental Security Around the World |  August 2018 Sally Yozell Director, Environmental Security program, Stimson Center China’s Maritime Silk Road: The Geopolitical Implications for Environmental Security Around the World |
 October 2018 Matt Chandler Senior Director Bully Pulpit Interactive "Afghanistan: A Time of Change or a Forever War?” |
Speakers - 2017
 January 2017 Gordon Bare Retired State Department and Army Officer Key Geopolitical Risks Facing President Trump |  February 2017 David Schwimmer Global Head of Metals & Mining Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs & Co. Global Commodities |  March 2017 David Firestein Senior Vice President, Strategic Trust-Building Initiatives, EastWest Institute The Trump Presidency and Relations with China and Russia |
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 March 2017 Gary Stern, Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis The U.S. Economy In partnership with Wednesday Lunch Group |  May 2017 Diana Mao Founder, Nomi Network The State of Global Human Trafficking |  April 2017 R. Kris Coleman President and CEO Red Five Security Family Security |
 June 2017 Richard Holwill Former U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador Trump's Cuba Policy -- Does It Matter? |  July 2017 Will Sarni Former Partner, Deloitte Consulting Global Water - Scarcity and Solutions |  July 2017 Trevor House Partner Rhodium Group Can Coal Make a Comeback? |
 September 2017 Chuck Kutscher Director National Renewable Energy Laboratory Renewable Energy Technologies |  September 2017 Cameron Munter President and CEO EastWest Institute Global Security Trends |  October 2017 Vanda Felbab-Brown Senior Fellow The Brookings Institute Combating Wildlife Trafficking |
 November 2017 Alex Muromcew Emerging Markets Portfolio Manager China's Economic Role in Asia |
Speakers - 2016
 February 2016 Dr. Sanjay Putrevu Dean, School of Business, University of Wyoming Trends in International Marketing. |  May 2016 Larry Wolfe Of Counsel, Holland and Hart The Realities in Implementing the COP 21 Accord |  June 2016 Keith Luse Executive Director, National Committee on North Korea North Korea |
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 July 2016 Ambassador Peter Schatzer Former Chief of Staff, International Organization for Migration Migration and Asylum Seeking in Europe |  August 2016 Frank Archibald Former Director of the National Clandestine Service, CIA The National Security Challenges that the next President will face on day one |  August 2016 Cameron Munter President and CEO, EastWest Institute Geo-political challenges and solutions |
 September 2016 Christine Vick Senior Advisor, Cohen Group; former Vice President, Kissinger Associates Engaging China |  October 2016 Ambassador Gary A. Grappo Former Ambassador to Oman The Middle East and the Next U.S. President |  November 2016 Kitty Pilgrim CNN Anchor and correspondent The Role of the Media Today in Society |
 December 2016 John Silvia Managing Director, Chief Economist, Wells Fargo An Assessment of the State of the Global Economy |
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