Distinguished Speakers at the International Business School

IBS's various speaker series have attracted many highly distinguished individuals to the School. They include:

• Leonard Asper `86 President and CEO, CanWest Communications
• Alex Barkas `68 Managing Partner, Prospect Venture Partners
• Charlene Barshefsky US Trade Representative
• Robert L. Beal Partner, The Beal Companies, LLP
• Roger Berkowitz President and Chief Executive Officer, Legal Sea Foods
• Marshall Carter Director, New York Stock Exchange
• Ben Cohen Founder, Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream
• Douglas Daft Former Chairman of the Board and CEO, The Coca-Cola Company
• D. Ronald Daniel Managing Director (retired), McKinsey & Company
• James Foster CEO, Charles River Laboratories
• Thomas Friedman `75 Foreign Affairs Columnist, The New York Times
• Orit Gadiesh Chairman, Bain & Company, Inc.
• Charles K. Gifford Chairman & CEO, FleetBoston Financial Corporation
• Ellen Gordon `65 Chief Operating Officer, Tootsie Roll Industries
• Geir H. Haarde `73 Minister of Finance, Iceland
• Christie A. Hefner `74 Chairman & CEO, Playboy Enterprises, Inc.
• Senator Wakako Hironaka `64 Member, House of Councilors of Japan
• Mitch Kaplan `79 President and CEO, E-Trade Group
• John Kerry United States Senator, Massachusetts
• Lawrence Klein Nobel Laureate and Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Pennsylvania
• Yotaro Kobayashi Chairman, FujiXerox Co. Ltd.
• Stephen Koplan `57 Commissioner, U.S. International Trade Commission
• Robert Kraft Owner and CEO, New England Patriots
• Cathy Minehan President, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
• Sumner Redstone Chairman, Viacom, Inc.
• Richard Rosenberg Chairman and CEO (retired), Bank of America
• George Shultz Former U.S. Secretary of State
• Robert F. X. Sillerman `70 Chairman, SFX Entertainment
• Hardwick Simmons Chairman & CEO, The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.
• Alfred Slifka President and CEO, Global Petroleum
• Gail Snowden Executive Vice President, Fleet Bank
• Paul Steiger Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal
• Larry Summers Former U.S. Treasury Secretary
• Jeffrey Swartz CEO, Timberland
• Perry Traquina `78 President, Wellington Management Company
• Stanley B. Tulin Vice Chairman and CFO, AXA Financial, Inc.
• John Usdan President, Midwood Management
• Nikolay Vassilev, MAief `97 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy of Bulgaria
• Bill Warner Founder, Avid Technology

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