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Clear all filters- Milken Institute58 min
Global Risk: Challenges for the Next President
Michael Crowley, Wesley Clark, Bob Corker, Niall Ferguson, Jane Harman
A panel of geopolitical experts warns that decaying NATO infrastructure, Russian nuclear escalation, and US fiscal irresponsibility have created a strategic vacuum filled by adversaries exploiting the Trump-Putin relationship and Chinese expansion. The discussion emphasizes the urgent need for lethal aid to Ukraine, a coherent counter-narrative against Iranian aggression in the Middle East, and immediate legal assertions of authority in the South China Sea to prevent miscalculation. Ultimately, the speakers argue that the next US president must prioritize a long-term strategic vision over short-term political games to restore Western unity and counter the rise of a multipolar world order.
- Milken Institute1h 3m
Russia: A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside an Enigma?
Alexander Kovaler, Erik Berglöf, Mark Garber, Steven Hellman, Maxim Oreshkin, Ernest Rudyak, Alex Kohl
Moderated by Alex Kohl, a panel of international financial experts and former Russian officials assessed how the nation adapted to two years of sectoral sanctions and falling oil prices. The discussion highlighted that while Russia successfully stabilized its banking sector and achieved a current account surplus through currency devaluation and import substitution, its long-term growth remains constrained by state dominance, demographic stagnation, and an uncertain political environment. Ultimately, the group concluded that unless the government implements structural reforms to address institutional gaps, the economy will likely experience only limited expansion while shifting its financial focus toward Asian partners.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
The Sustainable Investing Challenge: Innovative Plans from a New Generation
Paul Irving, Ryan Alam, Suzana Amoes, Dave Chen, Megan Strawther, Susanna Amos, Thomas Witt, David Bank, Amit Boren, Cameron Saul
The Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge at the Milken Institute Global Conference saw the USC Master of Science in Social Entrepreneurship team, Terra Limpa, win by proposing a $30 million fund to revitalize Angola's agricultural sector by clearing landmines on 5,500 hectares of uncultivated arable land. The three-member team, led by Susanna Amos, plans to partner with UXO technicians and institutional buyers to secure land titles at deep discounts and cultivate staples like cassava for the Luanda market. This structured investment vehicle aims to diversify Angola's oil-dependent economy while generating social impact through a layered capital structure and a five-to-seven-year exit mechanism that transfers land ownership to local smallholders.
- Milken Institute58 min
Asia's Imperative: Educating the Fastest-Growing Middle Class in History
Kirk Wagar, Gene Block, Brian Rogove, Thomas Rosenbaum, Lee Tran
A panel of academic and industry leaders discusses the strategic necessity of expanding U.S. higher education access to Asia's growing middle class, which is projected to reach 3.2 billion people by 2030. Speakers from UCLA and Caltech highlight how international students serve as critical revenue sources for public institutions while addressing systemic barriers such as English proficiency gaps and restrictive visa policies. The dialogue concludes by emphasizing educational exchange as a vital soft power tool for maintaining global diplomatic ties and driving innovation amidst rising political scrutiny.
- Milken Institute1h 5m
Progress Report: Education Leaders Sound Off
Lowell Milken, Michael Crow, Nicholas Dirks, Eva Moskowitz, Kristan Van Hook, Pat Miller-Zahler
This panel examined the stagnation of U.S. educational outcomes despite over $200 billion in federal funding, highlighting critical failures in literacy, numeracy, and college readiness among minority and low-income students. Speakers including Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, ASU President Michael Crow, and UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks detailed institutional innovations such as performance-based teacher hiring, adaptive learning technologies, and a shift from degree-based credentials to content mastery. The discussion concluded with a consensus on the need for policy reforms that prioritize educational equity, teacher effectiveness, and scalable solutions to address the system's impact on national security and economic competitiveness.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
The Promise of the Cancer Moonshot
Kathy Hudson, Anna Barker, L. Michelle Bennett, Robert Bradway, Louis DeGennaro, Isla Garraway, Lou DiGennaro, Greg Simon, Tom Caleo, Jackie Brandwin, Greg Zuckerman, Laura Kalmos Nasser, Mike Hiltik, Noah Crafts
Following the Vice President's appointment to lead "Mission Control" and a proposed $1 billion federal funding request, the Cancer Moonshot initiative seeks to accelerate cancer research by prioritizing patient outcomes over bureaucratic processes. The program targets a structural shift from competition to collaboration through new mandates for data sharing, the launch of the Genomic Data Commons, and the implementation of patient-centric clinical trial designs. By leveraging public-private partnerships and modernizing regulatory frameworks, the initiative aims to bridge the gap between clinical trial success and real-world health equity within a 15-month timeline.
- Milken Institute1h 1m
The Forces Shaping Europe
Ross Westgate, Peter Beyer, Jim Mellon, Howard Shore, Roger Wicker, Paul Wolfowitz
Panelists including Jim Mellon, Howard Shaw, and Peter Baer debated the UK's potential withdrawal from the EU, contrasting arguments for regained legislative sovereignty and economic deregulation against warnings of severe financial costs and the loss of geopolitical stability. The discussion expanded to broader European challenges such as the Eurozone's structural fragility, the refugee crisis driven by Middle Eastern policy failures, and Russian aggression in Ukraine, which Senator Roger Wicker and Paul Wolfowitz identified as the region's most critical security threat. Ultimately, the dialogue concluded that while economic integration faces internal contradictions, a successful exit strategy would require immediate UK deregulation to avoid punitive measures, whereas the United States prioritizes a strong British partner within NATO over continued EU membership.
- Milken Institute1h 4m
Leadership in a Multigenerational Workforce: Bridging the Gap to Drive Impact
Patsy Doerr, Amy Friedrich, Julie Sweet, Eric Termuende, Aniela Unguresan, Ahu Yildirmaz, Patsy Shudo-Doer, Ariella Ungerson, Scott Heathman, Angela Shi, Jasmine
Moderated by Thomson Reuters VP Patsy Shudo-Doer, a panel of corporate leaders including Accenture CEO Julie Sweet and Generation Y co-founder Eric Tremondi addressed the unique challenges of managing a five-generational workforce while integrating diversity into core business strategy. The discussion highlighted critical trends such as the 2025 projection that women and millennials will control 70% of financial decisions, the widening gap in leadership aspirations among millennial women, and the shifting definition of stability from company loyalty to personal brand security. Participants concluded that organizations must abandon rigid generational stereotypes in favor of adaptive models like the "lattice" career path and radical transparency to successfully close skills gaps and secure talent in an increasingly competitive labor market.
- Milken Institute1h 4m
Hybrid and Next-Generation Warfare: The Future of Conflict
Matthew Spence, Henry Crumpton, Geoffrey Ling, Pippa Malmgren, Yasuhide Nakayama, Juan Carlos Pinzón
This analysis asserts that modern warfare requires balancing technological precision with human intelligence to preserve empathy while addressing volatile threats from biotechnology and neuro-integration. It further identifies economic drivers like food insecurity and infrastructure financing as primary catalysts for geopolitical aggression, particularly in Asia, where hypersonic weapons and asymmetric non-state actors have compressed decision-making timelines. Ultimately, the discussion concludes that successful counterinsurgency and future security depend on integrated logistics, community empowerment, and viewing artificial intelligence as a symbiotic tool rather than a standalone solution.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
Brazil: The Country of the Future?
Cate Ambrose, Flavia Buarque de Almeida, Renato Lulia-Jacob, Mario Mesquita, Piero Minardi, Tom Tull
Amidst a severe economic crisis triggered by the collapse of commodity prices and the Lava Jato corruption scandal, Brazil is preparing for the imminent impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff and a potential transition to Michel Temer's reformist administration. While short-term volatility persists due to fiscal emergencies and a liquidity crunch, global institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds are actively deploying capital into distressed debt and high-growth sectors like healthcare and agribusiness. The incoming government faces an urgent mandate to implement structural fiscal and political reforms within months to restore investor confidence and unlock a projected three-to-four-year recovery.
- Milken Institute58 min
Artificial Intelligence: Friend or Foe?
Alexandra Suich, Guruduth Banavar, Michael Ferro, Stuart Russell, David M. Siegel, Shivon Zilis
A panel of experts frames the current AI revolution as being in its early stages, emphasizing the shift from sci-fi fantasies of sentient robots to practical "narrow AI" that augments human intelligence across diverse sectors like healthcare, agriculture, and transportation. While highlighting transformative benefits such as expanded medical diagnostics and automated labor, the discussion underscores immediate risks including white-collar job displacement, the weaponization of autonomous systems, and the complex ethical challenge of encoding human values into machine decision-making. Looking toward the next decade, the consensus predicts universal cognitive assistants and significant advancements in personalized medicine and road safety, contingent on establishing new legal and safety frameworks to manage the societal impacts of this widespread automation.
- Milken Institute1h 4m
Widening Access to Capital in Developing Markets
Staci Warden, Afsaneh Beschloss, Ermias Eshetu, Claver Gatete, Hua Jingdong, Jingdong Hua, Ruben Brigadier, Miguel, Matthew Reese
The Milken Institute's Center for Financial Markets convened with IFC leaders and East African officials to analyze how regional integration and local currency bond issuance can bridge the capital access gap in developing economies. Case studies from Rwanda and Ethiopia highlighted how structural reforms, such as harmonized regulations and mandatory commodity exchanges, are mobilizing domestic savings and enabling large-scale infrastructure financing. The dialogue concluded with the announcement of a joint IFC and George Washington University program designed to train African capital market officials in implementing these critical financial infrastructure reforms.
- Milken Institute1h 0m
ASEAN: Energizing Asia's Growth
Adam Schwarz, Dino Patti Djalal, Henry Nguyen, Serge Pun, Cesar Purisima, Ravi Thakran, Adam Shores
Key figures from LVMH, IDG Ventures, and the Philippines Department of Finance convened to analyze ASEAN's emergence as a distinct global economic bloc with top-five profitability rankings despite significant internal fragmentation risks. The discussion highlighted Vietnam's role as a primary production hub under "China-plus-one" strategies and detailed specific reform agendas in Indonesia and Myanmar aimed at modernizing infrastructure and boosting manufacturing value chains. Experts concluded that while the region faces geopolitical tensions and low public awareness of the ASEAN Economic Community, its 400 million projected middle-class consumers by 2020 present a substantial opportunity for growth if nations prioritize regional integration and public-private partnerships over territorial disputes.
- Milken Institute1h 14m
Sustaining the New 'Golden Age' of Medical Research
Margaret Anderson, Francis Collins, Kathy Giusti, Michael Milken, Kevin Yoder, Elias Zerhouni
At the 19th annual Milken Institute Global Conference, leaders including Kathy Hudson, Elias Zerhouni, and Francis Collins convened to address systemic inefficiencies in biomedical research while celebrating unprecedented therapeutic breakthroughs. The panelists emphasized that stagnant NIH funding and a 16% grant success rate threaten the scientific pipeline, yet initiatives like the Precision Medicine Initiative and Accelerating Medicine Partnerships are introducing parallel processing and open data models to accelerate cures. By reframing research as a national security priority and integrating artificial intelligence, these experts argue that coordinated public-private ecosystems can overcome current bottlenecks to deliver transformative medical advancements.
- Milken Institute1h 2m
College to Career
Jeffrey Selingo, Michael Bennet, Steven Knapp, Jessica Rosenworcel, Eric Spiegel, Igor Tulchinsky
This event analyzes the collapse of the traditional four-year degree model, highlighting how socioeconomic disparities and rigid funding structures leave millions of students underemployed or trapped in "some credit, no degree" scenarios. Industry leaders and policymakers propose restructuring education through German-style apprenticeships, digital micro-credentials, and outcome-based funding to bridge the widening gap between curricula and the evolving digital workforce. Key figures including Senator Bennett and representatives from Siemens and the FCC advocate for systemic reforms that prioritize career readiness, standardize alternative pathways, and align federal incentives with proven return-on-investment programs.