Every year, YEI invites dozens of leading economists, professors, industry professionals, and business and political leaders to give talks.
Previous Speakers
Paul R. Milgrom
2020 Nobel Prize Laureate & Professor @ Stanford
October 10, 2020
Hosted by Saratoga YEIMilgrom is best known for his contributions to the theory of auctions and auction design, for which he won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Economics. Much of his work on auctio...
Lesley Mace
Senior Outreach Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Birmingham Branch
November 16, 2024
Lesley Mace is a Senior Outreach Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta’s Birmingham Branch. Prior to joining the Fed in 2010, she was an Instructor of Economic...
Michelle Connolly
Professor of Economics @ Duke University
November 11, 2023
Professor Connolly previously served as Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission in 2006-2007 and 2008-2009, and as an Economist in International Resear...
Lindsey Cameron
Professor @ UPenn Wharton
November 11, 2022
Lindsey D. Cameron is an assistant professor of management at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and holds an appointment in the sociology department. She i...
Sven Beiker
Lecturer @ Stanford
Dr. Sven Beiker is a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Business School, and the Managing Director of Silicon Valley Mobility, an independent consulting & advisory ...
Markus Ibert
Federal Reserve Economist
January 31, 2021
Markus Ibert is an Economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and a visiting research fellow at the Swedish House of Finance. He holds a PhD in finance from th...
Rafael Dix-Carneiro
Professor of Economics @ Duke University
April 3, 2021
At the EconOlympiad written round event, Professor Dix-Carneiro explained the impacts of globalization on the U.S. labor market. He's an assistant professor of economic...
Thomas A. Pugel
Professor of Economics @ NYU Stern
April 17, 2021
Professor Thomas A. Pugel has been on the faculty of New York University since 1978. Dr. Pugel's research focuses on international industrial competition, with emphasis...
David Arnold
Professor of Economics @ UCSD
April 17, 2021
David Arnold is a professor at UC San Diego. He received his doctorate from Princeton University in 2020, and a paper of his has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Ec...
Lawrence White
Professor @ NYU
November 8, 2020 & April 17, 2021
At the 2nd Annual EconBowl, Professor White gave a talk about anti-trusts. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University and holds the Robert Kavesh Profes...
Leeat Yariv
Professor of Economics @ Princeton
October 10, 2020
Hosted by Saratoga YEILeeat Yariv is the Uwe E. Reinhardt Professor of Economics at Princeton University, a Research Fellow of CEPR, and a Research Associate of NBER. She is the founder and ...
George J. Mailath
Professor of Economics @ University of Pennsylvania
October 10, 2020
Hosted by Saratoga YEIGeorge J. Mailath is Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, and Goldsmith Professor in the R...
Dhanjanay (Dan) Gode
Clinical Professor of Accounting @ NYU Stern
August 7, 2020
Dan Gode is a professor at the Stern School of Business at NYU. He teaches and consults extensively in the areas of business drivers, financial reporting and analysis, ...
Rakesh Vohra
Professor of Economics @ UPenn
August 5, 2020
Rakesh Vohra is Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and has done research how a partially effective vaccine would affect the economy. He is also part of the Pen...
Anton Korinek
Associate Professor of Economics @ UVA
August 4, 2020
Anton Korinek is an associate professor of economics at the Department of Economics of UVA. His current research includes studies of Covid-19 externalities and artifici...
Melissa McCullough
Senior Sustainability Advisor for the EPA
August 3, 2020
Melissa McCullough is the Senior Sustainability Advisor for the Environmental Production Agency (EPA) and a LEED AP, a professional under the U.S. Green Building Counci...
J.D. Schramm
Lecturer @ Stanford; Author
July 27, 2020
Dr. Schramm is a lecturer in organizational behavior at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. He joined their faculty in 2007. Before that, he was a part of Columbia ...
Thomas White
CEO of Transform Consulting; Host of Business Matters and The Heart of Business Podcasts
July 17, 2020
Thomas is an entrepreneur, disruptive innovator, and a teacher. He has served as a trusted advisor for many CEOs and C-Suites of some of the largest companies in the wo...
Tarun Galagali
Senior Political Advisor @ Ro Khanna for Congress, Product Manager @ Google
May 30, 2020
Tarun is a current MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School. He was the product marketing manager at Google as well as the senior political advisor for Ro Khanna.
Anil Chakravarthy
EVP & GM @ Adobe; Former CEO of Informatica
May 30, 2020
He studied at the MIT Media Lab, and now serves as Adobe’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Digital Experience.
George Bulman
Assistant Professor @ UCSC
May 29, 2020
Hosted by Saratoga YEIAssistant Professor Bulman teaches applied Microeconomics and econometrics at UC Santa Cruz. Previously, he worked as a budget analyst for the National Park Service in ...
Mark Brady
Professor of Economics @ SJSU
May 29, 2020
Hosted by Saratoga YEIProfessor Mark Brady, who teaches Principles of Macroeconomics, Principles of Microeconomics, and Macroeconomic Analysis at San Jose State University. He also teaches E...
Scott Baker
Associate Professor of Finance @ Northwestern
May 29, 2020
Hosted by Saratoga YEIProfessor Scott Baker, is an associate professor of Finance at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University after completing his PHD at Stanford and his B.A....
Ajay Shenoy
Assistant Professor @ UCSC
May 29, 2020
Hosted by Saratoga YEIAssistant Professor Shenoy teaches at UC Santa Cruz. His interests primarily lie in the economics of development, economic growth, macroeconomics, and the political eco...
Roy Bahat
Head of Bloomberg Beta
May 29, 2020
Hosted by Saratoga YEIRoy Bahat leads Bloomberg Beta, an early-stage venture firm backed by Bloomberg that invests in startups making work better, with a focus on machine intelligence. Mr. B...
Janice Albright
Owner of Big Basin Burger Bar
May 29, 2020
Hosted by Saratoga YEIJanice Albright is the owner of Big Basin Burger, a successful burger restaurant in downtown Saratoga that first opened in 2015. Big Basin Burger Bar won Best of Los Ga...