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GIC Authors

Date: Thursday, August 20, 2015 - Friday, August 21, 2015
Gerri C. LeBow Hall -- Drexel LeBow, 3220 Market Street Philadelphia, PA 19104

Event Detail

GIC Authors

AGENDA
4 – 4:15 p.m. | Registration
4:15 – 5:30 p.m. | Program
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. | Book Signing and Reception

 

FEATURING

  • Erin Arvedlund, Investigative Journalist
    Author of Open Secret: The Global Banking Conspiracy That Swindled Investors Out of Billions
  • Nayantara Hensel, Former Chief Economist, Department of the Navy
    Author of The Defense Industrial Base: Strategies for a Changing World
  • Ulrich Kortsch, Founder and President of Global Partners Investments
    Author of The Next Money Crash and How to Avoid It
  • David Kotok, CIO of Cumberland Advisors
    Co-Author of Adventures in Muniland: A Guide to Municipal Bond Investing in the Post-Crisis Era
  • Pippa Malmgren, Founder, DRPM Group
    Author of Signals: The Breakdown of the Social Contract and the Rise of Geopolitics
  • Peter J. Wallison, Arthur F. Burns Chair in Financial Policy Studies at AEI
    Author of Hidden in Plain Sight: What Really Caused the World’s Worst Financial Crisis and Why It Could Happen Again

Books will be available for purchase at the event.

Event Location

Date: Thursday, August 20, 2015 - Friday, August 21, 2015 Time: 4:00 PM City: Philadelphia Gerri C. LeBow Hall -- Drexel LeBow Download iCal

Speakers

Erin Arvedlund

Erin Arvedlund

Investigative Journalist

Erin Arvedlund began her career as a reporter at Dow Jones newswires in 1993. In 1996, she moved to Moscow, Russia, to write about business and emerging markets at the English-language daily newspaper, The Moscow Times.

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Nayantara Hensel, Ph.D.

Nayantara Hensel, Ph.D.

Chief Economist and Senior Advisor, Seaborne Defense

Dr. Nayantara Hensel has done extensive work over the past two decades on the defense industrial base, the importance of critical materials (such as rare earths) on supply chains, national security budgeting and strategy, and energy markets, as well as the impact of economic forces and regulatory initiatives across a variety of industries, including housing.

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Ulrich (Uli) Kortsch

Ulrich (Uli) Kortsch

Founder and President of Global Partners Investments, Ltd.

Ulrich Korstch is the founder and president of Global Partners Investments, Ltd. He founded the company to create financial secondary markets for the micro-enterprise and small-scale-enterprise sectors of US inner cities and developing nations. In his capacity as president, Mr. Korstch has written a bill for Congress, which was reviewed by the Congressional Legal Services, as well as Treasury, and the Senate and House Banking Committee staffs, and conferred with approximately 15 presidents, ministers of finance and ministers of commerce during the course of business.

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David Kotok

David Kotok

Chief Investment Officer of Cumberland Advisors

David Kotok co-founded Cumberland Advisors in 1973 and has been its Chief Investment Officer since inception. David’s articles and financial market commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and other publications. He is a frequent contributor to Bloomberg TV and Bloomberg Radio, Yahoo Finance TV, and other media.

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Pippa Malmgren

Pippa Malmgren

Founder, DRPM Group

Dr. Pippa Malmgren (@DrPippaM) specializes in explaining the economic drivers behind geopolitics. She is the author of Geopolitics for Investors, which was released in 2015 and commissioned by the CFA. She crowd funded her 2015 book, Signals: the Breakdown of the Social Contract and the Rise of Geopolitics, which became an Amazon best seller and led to a contract with WME who also represent Malcolm Gladwell of Freakonomics

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Peter J. Wallison

Peter J. Wallison

Arthur F. Burns Chair in Financial Policy Studies at AEI

Peter J. Wallison holds the Arthur F. Burns Chair in Financial Policy Studies and is co-director of AEI’s program on Financial Policy Studies. Prior to joining AEI, he practiced banking, corporate and financial law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Washington, D.C. and New York. Mr. Wallison has held a number of government positions.

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Partners

Drexel University LeBow College of Business

Sponsors

Cumberland Advisors
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