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SUMMARY:Griswold Center Talk: The AI Revolution\, Eric Schmidt ’76
DESCRIPTION:The AI Revolution \nEric Schmidt ’76\, KBE\, Former CEO and Chairman\, Google; Chair and CEO\, Relativity Space \nModerated by: Alan Blinder ’67\, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs\, Princeton University \nSponsored by the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/griswold-center-talk-the-ai-revolution-eric-schmidt-76/
LOCATION:McCosh 50\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — Does Every Vote Count? The Future of U.S. Elections
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \n  \nPanelists:      \nScott Rafferty ’76 *76\nAttorney \nTerri Sewell ’86\nUnited States Representative\, Alabama’s 7th Congressional District \nMelissa Kessler ’06\nAssistant Deputy Attorney General\, Colorado Attorney General’s Office \nSophia Cai ’21\nWhite House Reporter\, Politico \n\nPANELISTS\nScott Rafferty ’76 *76\nScott Rafferty practices administrative and election law in California. His recent practice has focused on minority voting rights. He co-founded Neighborhood Elections Now\, an organization that uses state law to create districts that increase the influence of Latino\, Asian and Black communities. Rafferty has represented candidates during the ballot counting process in close races\, including the 2006 Montana election where 3\,562 votes changed control of the U.S. Senate. After graduation\, he attended Yale Law School\, where he was named a Rhodes Scholar. At Oxford\, he wrote his doctoral dissertation on the privatization of British Telecom. Rafferty served as counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Telecommunications subcommittee during the AT&T divestiture\, and as deputy director of the Administrative Conference of the United States during the Obama administration. He also worked as an attorney at O’Melveny and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. \nTerri Sewell ’86\nNow in her eighth term\, Terri Sewell is the first Black woman to serve in the Alabama congressional delegation. Sewell sits on the House Ways and Means Committee and the Committee on House Administration. During her time in Congress\, she has held several leadership positions\, including freshman class president in the 112th Congress and chief deputy whip in the 119th. She also serves on the Steering and Policy Committee that sets the policy direction of the Democratic Caucus and is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus and the New Democrat Coalition. She is co-chair of the Congressional Voting Rights Caucus\, vice-chair of the Congressional HBCU Caucus and co-chair of the Rural Caucus. A proud product of Alabama’s rural Black Belt\, Sewell is an honors graduate of Princeton (A.B.) and Oxford University in England (MLitt) and received her juris doctorate from Harvard Law School. \nMelissa Kessler ’06\nMelissa Kessler is a senior executive leader of the Colorado Attorney General’s Office overseeing the state’s Consumer Protection practice. Among many roles\, Kessler supervises election-related matters\, including enforcement of the Colorado Voting Rights Act. Prior to her role with the attorney general\, Kessler was chief legal officer to the Colorado secretary of state\, where she oversaw numerous novel legal issues\, including two voting-related U.S. Supreme Court cases\, legislative redistricting\, various ballot-access matters\, election-security issues and election access during COVID. She moved to Colorado following a career with the U.S. Department of Justice and a federal clerkship in the Eastern District of California. Kessler earned her juris doctorate from the William & Mary Law School and her A.B. in politics from Princeton. \nSophia Cai ’21\nSophia Cai is a White House reporter at Politico and co-author of West Wing Playbook\, Politico’s daily newsletter on the inner workings of the White House and Donald Trump’s unprecedented overhaul of the federal government. She is also building out Politico’s politics-of-sports coverage\, reporting on preparations for the FIFA World Cup and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Before joining Politico\, Cai covered the 2024 presidential campaign for Axios\, traveling nationwide to report on Trump’s bid to return to the White House and the broader GOP primary field. She previously reported on the White House and Congress for Bloomberg News\, where she was part of the team covering Trump’s last-minute airlift to Walter Reed\, the 2020 election and the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection. She currently serves on the board of the Washington Press Club Foundation.
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/does-every-vote-count-the-future-of-us-elections/
LOCATION:McCosh 50\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — The New Rules of Global Commerce: Tariffs\, Trade and the Future of Business
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \nModerator:\nLayna Mosley\nDirector\, Princeton Sovereign Finance Lab; Professor of Politics and International Affairs \n  \nPanelists:      \nMark Mazo ’71\nSenior Counsel Emeritus\, Hogan Lovells US LLC \nJoshua Bolten ’76\nCEO\, Business Roundtable \nPeter Orszag ’91\nCEO and Chairman\, Lazard \nThea Kendler ’96\nPartner and Co-Lead\, Sanctions and Export Controls\, Mayer Brown LLP \n\nMODERATOR\nLayna Mosley\nLayna Mosley is professor of politics and international affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) and the Department of Politics at Princeton University. She founded and directs the Princeton Sovereign Finance Lab\, which conducts policy-relevant research on the domestic and international politics related to government borrowing and debt. Mosley also directs the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance\, and she serves as associate chair of the Department of Politics. Mosley’s research focuses on the politics of the global economy\, including finance as well as trade. She is author of two books\, “Global Capital and National Governments” (Cambridge University Press) and “Labor Rights and Multinational Production” (Cambridge University Press)\, as well as dozens of peer-reviewed academic articles. Mosley is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \nPANELISTS\nMark Mazo ’71\nMark Mazo was a senior partner at the Hogan Lovells law firm\, specializing in cross-border business transactions involving Europe and the Middle East. Working from Washington\, D.C.\, and Paris\, Mazo was the senior legal adviser to a prominent Saudi royal family member and recognized\, high-profile international investor and philanthropist; Mazo advised on his numerous investments in Europe\, the U.S.\, the U.K. and Asia\, and on many of his significant Middle East ventures. Mazo also regularly advised leading European aerospace and technology companies on significant cross-border investments and ventures. He helped establish the Paris office of the legacy Hogan & Hartson law firm\, headed its international business transactions practice and served as managing partner of its Abu Dhabi office. A School of Public and International Affairs major at Princeton and Harvard Law School graduate\, Mazo is the father of four Princeton graduates and father-in-law of another.  \nJoshua Bolten ’76\nIn his role at Business Roundtable\, Joshua Bolten leads an association of more than 200 CEOs of America’s leading companies. Bolten’s 20 years of government service include eight years in the White House under President George W. Bush as chief of staff (2006-09)\, director of the Office of Management and Budget (2003-06) and deputy chief of staff for policy (2001-03). For the preceding two years\, he was policy director of the Bush 2000 presidential campaign. Bolten’s previous private sector experience includes work at Goldman Sachs in London and O’Melveny & Myers in Washington\, D.C. Bolten received his undergraduate degree from Princeton in 1976 and his law degree from Stanford in 1980. He is a member of the boards of Emerson Electric Co.\, the Aspen Institute\, the ONE Campaign and Princeton University. \nPeter Orszag ’91\nPeter Orszag has led Lazard\, a preeminent global financial advisory and asset management firm\, and been a board director since October 2023. With a commitment to strategic growth and innovation\, Orszag has raised the firm’s relevance and ambitions to provide the most sophisticated and differentiated advice and investment solutions for clients. Prior to his current role\, Orszag served as CEO of Lazard’s financial advisory business and global co-head of its healthcare practice. In the Obama administration\, he served as the director of the Office of Management and Budget\, and before that\, as the director of the Congressional Budget Office. Orszag has also made notable contributions to academic literature\, including hundreds of published articles and several books. He graduated summa cum laude in economics from Princeton and obtained a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics\, which he attended as a Marshall Scholar. \nThea Kendler ’96\nThea Kendler is a partner with Mayer Brown\, where she leads the law firm’s global sanctions and export controls practice\, advising clients on international trade and national security regulatory compliance and federal investigations. Kendler joined Mayer Brown after more than 20 years in U.S. government service\, culminating in Senate confirmation as assistant secretary for Export Administration (2021-25) at the Commerce Department. As assistant secretary\, she led policymaking and implementation of export controls\, with a focus on emerging technologies\, artificial intelligence\, China and Russia. Earlier in her career\, Kendler served as a Justice Department national security prosecutor and as export controls regulatory and enforcement counsel at the Commerce Department. At Princeton\, Kendler majored in the School of Public and International Affairs with certificates in Japan and China studies and language study in the Princeton in Ishikawa and Princeton in Beijing programs. She received her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/the-new-rules-of-global-commerce-tariffs-trade-and-the-future-of-business/
LOCATION:McCosh 50\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alumni-Faculty Forum — Truth to Power: Journalism’s Role in Defending Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Alumni Association of Princeton University \n  \nPanelists:      \nThomas “T.R.” Reid ’66\nReporter\, Author \nAndie Tucher ’76\nH. Gordon Garbedian Professor of Journalism\, Columbia University \nMaria Ressa ’86\nCEO and Co-Founder\, Rappler; Professor of Practice\, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) \nJosh Boak ’01\nWhite House Reporter\, Associated Press \n\nPANELISTS\nThomas “T. R.” Reid ’66\nT. R. Reid is a reporter\, author and documentary filmmaker. At The Washington Post\, he covered Congress and four presidential campaigns\, and then moved overseas as the paper’s bureau chief in Tokyo and London. He was a regular commentator for 15 years on NPR’s “Morning Edition.” He has written and hosted documentary films for PBS’s “Frontline” and National Geographic TV. Reid has published 10 books in English and three in Japanese. In his 80s\, he has become a columnist for AARP The Magazine. He was a member of Princeton’s Board of Trustees and a Ferris Professor of Journalism. \nAndie Tucher ’76\nAndie Tucher is a historian and journalist who writes on the evolution of conventions of truth-telling in journalism\, photography\, personal narrative and other nonfiction forms. Her most recent book\, “Not Exactly Lying: Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History” (2022)\, has won multiple awards. She is also the author of “Happily Sometimes After: Discovering Stories from Twelve Generations of an American Family” (2014); “Froth and Scum: Truth\, Beauty\, Goodness\, and the Ax Murder in America’s First Mass Medium” (1994); and many articles in the academic and popular press. Before her role at Columbia\, Tucher served as speechwriter for Clinton/Gore ’92. She was also editorial associate to Bill Moyers at Public Affairs Television\, editorial producer of the ABC News documentary series “The Twentieth Century” and associate editor of the Columbia Journalism Review. A classics major at Princeton\, Tucher holds a Ph.D. in American civilization from New York University. \nMaria Ressa ’86\nAs CEO of Rappler\, the top digital-only news site that is leading the fight for press freedom in the Philippines\, Maria Ressa endured constant political harassment and arrests by the Duterte government. Rappler’s battle for truth and democracy is the subject of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival documentary “A Thousand Cuts.” For her courage and journalistic integrity\, Ressa has received numerous accolades\, including the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2022\, she was appointed by the United Nations secretary-general to the leadership panel of the Internet Governance Forum and serves as its vice chair. At SIPA\, she co-leads the Technology & Democracy Initiative at the Institute of Global Politics. Ressa’s books include “Seeds of Terror: An Eyewitness Account of Al-Qaeda’s Newest Center of Operations in Southeast Asia\,” “From Bin Laden to Facebook: 10 Days of Abduction\, 10 Years or Terrorism” and “How to Stand Up to a Dictator.” \nJosh Boak ’01\nJosh Boak is a White House reporter for The Associated Press (AP). He also covered the U.S. economy and the electorate for AP. Boak initially came to Washington to work on Bob Woodward’s book “Obama’s Wars\,” having previously been on the staff of The Chicago Tribune and The Blade (Toledo\, Ohio). His reporting has been recognized with the Livingston Award and as a Pulitzer-Prize finalist. He graduated from Princeton with an A.B. in English and received a master’s degree from Columbia University.
URL:https://reunions.princeton.edu/event/truth-to-power-journalisms-role-in-defending-democracy/
LOCATION:McCosh 50\, Princeton University\, Princeton\, NJ\, 08540\, United States
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