The Atlantic Summit on the Economy

Agenda

• Wednesday, April 27
• 9:00 a.m.WelcomeMargaret Low Smith, President, AtlanticLIVE
• 9:10 a.m.Wide Angle Lens: The Economic PictureJason Furman, Chairman, White House Council of Economic Advisors
  With Steve Clemons, The Atlantic
• 9:35 a.m.The Case for the BrexitGerard Lyons, Chief Economic Advisor to London Mayor Boris Johnson and Author of The U.K. Referendum: an Easy Guide to Leaving the EU
  With Steve Clemons, The Atlantic
• 9:50 a.m.Balanced BudgetsAlice Rivlin, Former Vice Chair, Federal Reserve and Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
  With Jonathan Allen, Sidewire
• 10:05 a.m.The Downside of the Sharing EconomyDiana Farrell, President and CEO, JPMorgan Chase Institute
  With Rebecca Rosen, The Atlantic
• 10:30 a.m.Break-
• 10:45 a.m.What Happened to Global Growth?Steven Rattner, Chairman, Willett Advisers
  With Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg View
• 11:05 a.m.The Case Against the BrexitKarl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Chairman and Founder, Spitzberg Partners
  With Steve Clemons, The Atlantic
• 11:30 a.m.Forecasting the FutureMaya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
  Mark Zandi, Chief Economist, Moody’s Analytics
  With Gillian B. White, The Atlantic
• 11:55 a.m.Blind Spots in the EconomyRichard Vague, Chairman, Governor’s Woods Foundation
  With Joie Chen, Former Al Jazeera Journalist
• 12:10 p.m.Lunch-
• 1:00 p.m.Policy PerspectivesGene Sperling, Former Director, White House National Economic Council
  With James Fallows, The Atlantic
• 1:30 p.m.Trade, Security and ChinaBill Bishop, Publisher, Sinocism China Newsletter
  Michael Green, Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair, CSIS and Chair, Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy, Georgetown University
  Deborah Lehr, CEO, Basilinna
  Jonathan Woetzel, Director, McKinsey Global Institute
  With James Fallows, The Atlantic
• 2:10 p.m.Cracking the Code: the Push for Comprehensive Tax ReformRep. Kevin Brady, Chairman, House Committee on Ways and Means
  With Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg View
• 2:35 p.m.The Secret Shame of Middle-Class AmericansNeal Gabler, Author
  With Scott Stossel, The Atlantic
• 3:00 p.m.ConnectographyParag Khanna, Author, Connectography
• 3:10 p.m.Connectography DistilledParag Khanna
  Megan Murphy, Bloomberg
  With Steve Clemons, The Atlantic
• 3:30 p.m.Trade's DeficitsSecretary Dan Glickman, Congressional Program Executive Director, Aspen Institute
  Clyde Prestowitz, President, Economic Strategy Institute
  Lori Wallach, Director and Founder, Global Trade Watch
  With Steve Clemons, The Atlantic
• 4:00 p.m.Greece and the WorldYanis Varoufakis, Former Greek Minister of Finance and Author of And the Weak Suffer What They Must? Europe’s Crisis and America’s Economic Future
  With Steve Clemons, The Atlantic
• 4:20 p.m.Closing Thoughts and Networking Reception-