2021
Esther George
President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
David Lam
Director of the Institute for Social Research, Professor in the Department of Economics, and Research Professor in the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan.
Chris Wright
CEO and Chairman, Liberty Oilfield Services
Catherine Mann
Former Chief Economist & G20 Finance Deputy of the OECD, Catherine Mann
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
President, American Action Forum policy institute
Tour of Hunt Midwest SubTropolis
The World’s Largest Underground Business Complex.®
2020
Esther George
President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Avi Goldfarb
Rotman Chair in Artificial Intelligence and Healthcare and Professor of Marketing, Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto
Amy Walter
National Editor, The Cook Political Report
Thomas Sack and Tim Cowden
Thomas Sack is President and Chief Executive Officer of MRIGlobal. Tim Cowden is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Kansas City Area Development Council.
Kyle Vogt
Co-Founder, President, and Chief Technology Officer, Cruise Automation
2019
Esther George
President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Eswar Prasad
Tolani Senior Professor of Trade at Cornell University and New Century Chair in International Economics at the Brookings Institution
Sudeep Reddy
Managing Editor of Politico
Austin Frakt
Director of the Partnered Evidence-based Policy Resource Center (PEPReC) at the Boston VA Healthcare System, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Tour and Club reception
Logistics Park Kansas City Intermodal Facility
Janet Yellen
Distinguished Fellow in Residence with the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution; former Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Lawrence B. Lindsey
President and Chief Executive Officer, The Lindsey Group
2018
Esther George
President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Richard Florida
Professor, University of Toronto and New York University
Dave Dillon
Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Kroger Company
David Autor
Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tour and Club reception
Associate Editor, The Financial Times and Global Economic Analyst, CNN
Janet Yellen
President and CEO, Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce
2017
2017 Member Roundtable Discussion
Local and national conditions
Kenneth Rogoff
Professor of economics at Harvard
Jay Bilas
ESPN commentator, basketball player and attorney
Daron Acemoglu
Professor of economics at M.I.T.
Maya MacGuineas
President of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
Robert Shiller
Professor of economics at Yale University
2016
2016 Member Roundtable Discussion
Local and national economic conditions
Andrew Palmer
Business Editor for the Economist
Alvin Roth
Stanford professor and Nobel Prize winner
Bob Woodward
Washington Post investigative reporter
Don Kohn
Former Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Thomas Jordan
Chairman of the Swiss National Bank
Robert Aliber
Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago
2015
2015 Member Roundtable Discussion
Local and national economic conditions
Paul Tucker
Former Bank of England Deputy Governor
David Brooks
Columnist for The New York Times
Joel Brenner
Former senior counsel and inspector general for the National Security Agency
John Taylor
Economist and professor at Stanford University
Gillian Tett
U.S. Managing Editor of the Financial Times
2014
2014 Member Roundtable Discussion
Local and national economic conditions
Charles Calomiris
Columbia professor
Meredith Whitney
CEO of Meredith Whitney Advisors, LLC
Roger Ferguson
CEO of TIAA and CREF and former Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Avis Roy
Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute
Marvin Zonis
Professor at Chicago Booth School of Business
2013
Sallie Krawcheck
Wall Street financial executive
George Aryittey
Ghana economist
Dan Glickman
Former Secretary of Agriculture
Jurgen Stark
Former European Central Bank governor and German Secretary of Finance
Alice Rivlin
Economist and former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman
2012
John Taylor
Professor of Economics at Stanford University
Yasheng Huang
Professor of Economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gretchen Morgenson
Financial Editor of the New York Times
Umayya Toukan
Former head of Jordan Central Bank and Finance Minister
Esther George
President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
2011
Maya MacGuineas
President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, The New American Foundation
Robert Zoellick
President, World Bank
Philippa Malmgren
President, Canonbury Group, London
Alan Meltzer
Professor of Economics at Carnegie Mellon University
Thomas M. Hoenig
Retired President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and appointed Vice Chairman of the FDIC
2010
Sheila C. Bair
Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Martin H. Barnes
Managing Editor, The Bank Credit Analyst, BCA Research
Dan Arvizu
Director and Chief Executive, U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Meredith Whitney
CEO of Meredith Whitney Advisors, LLC
2009
Zachary Karabell
Economist and commentator
Jean- Claude Trichet
President of the European Central Bank
Sinan Alshabibi
Governor and Chairman, Central Bank of Iraq
Paul Volcker
Chairman of the President’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board
2008
Paul Collier
Professor of Economics, Oxford University
James Leach
Harvard Kennedy School of Government and former Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee
Erkki Liikanen
Governor of the Bank of Finland
Philip Verleger
Professor, University of Calgary
2007
Martin Feldstein
President of the National Bureau of Economic Research
John Lipsky
First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
George Shultz
Former Secretary of State and Secretary of the Treasury
Alan Mulally
President of Ford Motor Company
2006
Ben Bernanke
Chairman, Federal Reserve
Jose Luis Romero Hicks
President of Romero Hicks and Galindo, Mexico City
2005
Alan Greenspan
Chairman, Federal Reserve