Research Events
Global Perspectives Speaker Series
Prior to 2024, the Global Perspectives Speaker Series featured conversations between special guests and former Dallas Fed President Rob Kaplan.
Janet Yellen, former chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, discusses how she became an economist, her job serving as the Fed chair and rethinking the 2 percent inflation goal.
April 10, 2019
Leavitt Partners founder, former Utah governor and Bush-era cabinet member Mike Leavitt shares his thoughts on reforming health care, the new models of education and how technology is disrupting higher education.
April 04, 2019
N. Gregory Mankiw, the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University, talks about what economists don’t understand about politicians, and what politicians don’t understand about economists.
March 07, 2019
Richard H. Clarida, vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, discusses the global effects of U.S. monetary policy, the U.S. fiscal situation and the data dependence.
February 25, 2019
John Hess, CEO of Hess Corp., shares his take on the impact of climate change on energy, understanding environmental challenges and the search for U.S. reserves.
February 12, 2019
Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, addresses how the U.S. can handle the growing burden of U.S. debt, the importance of human capital and how politics is impacting the national debt.
January 16, 2019
Jerome H. Powell, chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, discusses his career path to the Federal Reserve, challenges to normalizing monetary policy and the state of the economy.
November 14, 2018
Robert S. Taubman, chairman, president and CEO of Taubman Centers, Inc., talks about brick and mortar stores, how e-commerce is affecting shopping centers and the state of retail in China.
November 05, 2018
Ellen Ochoa, former director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center and former member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas board of directors, discusses her path to being an astronaut, the importance of STEAM education and serving on the Dallas Fed board.
October 04, 2018
David Wessel, former journalist and current director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution, talks about the skills a former journalist brings to a think tank, the biggest economic problems facing the United States and the challenges of the modern press.
April 04, 2018