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Colloquium Speakers

Our colloquia speaker course brings to campus the expertise of policy makers, corporate leaders, research faculty, or practitioners from the front lines of industries dealing with asset management, healthcare and sustainability. The schedule provides the opportunity for students to hear from experts across all areas of focus. Students who choose to specialize in one Area of Focus attend six colloquia sessions within their field, plus others outside of their area. Others choose the leadership lessons and discussions of major societal issues that are most relevant to their careers.

Featured Colloquium Speakers

Robert Shiller

Amy Chivetta
Director
Yale Investment Office

William Nordhaus
Sterling Professor of Economics
Yale University

Amanda Skinner, MSN '98, MBA '08
President and CEO
Planned Parenthood of Southern New England

Cliff Asness
Founder and CIO
AQR Capital Management

Paulette Frank
Chief Sustainability Officer
Johnson and Johnson

Gary Gottlieb, MD, MBA
Executive Partner
Flare Capital Partners

Danielle Merfeld
Vice President and CTO
GE Renewables

Stephen N. Oesterle, MD
Senior Vice President for Medicine and Technology
Medtronic

Onyeka Obiocha
Executive Director
CTNext

MBA for Executives colloquium speaker series timeline

Colloquium Speakers 2024-2025 Schedule

Asset Management 2024-2025

September 13, 2024  
Matt Mendelsohn   
Chief Investment Officer, Yale University
 
January 10, 2025   
Mark Anson, Ph.D, CFA, CAIA, CPA, CGMA, JD   
CEO, President, and CIO for the Commonfund, Chairman of the Board for COMANCO & CCI, Commonfund
October 25, 2024 – Plenary Colloquium  
Jamila Abston Mayfield, CPA, CFE, CFF   
CEO and Principal Consultant, The Jamila Mayfield Group, LLC; SEC Investor Advisory Committee IaP Subcommittee Chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
February 7, 2025   
Adam Blumenthal, MBA   
Managing Partner, Blue Wolf Capital Partners
 
November 22, 2024   
Cliff Asness, PhD
Managing and Founding Principal, Founder, Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer, AQR
 
April 18, 2025   
Susan Carter   
Lecturer, Yale School of Management; Independent Director, BlackRock Multi-Asset Mutual Fund Board; Advisor to Finance Committee, Altman Foundation; Member Advisory Board, Private Capital Research Institute

Healthcare 2024-2025

September 27, 2024    
Jaewon Ryu, MD, JD    
CEO, Risant Health






 
February 21, 2025
Neel Butala, MD, MBA    
Chief Medical Officer, HILABSINC    
Medical Director of Structural Heart Disease and Intervention, VA Eastern Colorado Health Care System; Interventional Cardiologist, UCHealth; Assistant Professor, University of Colorado    

Amit Garg, MD    
Professor and Chair, Northwell Health; President, Northwell Health Physician Partners
November 8, 2024   
Shereef Elnahal, MD, MBA    
Under Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
March 21, 2025 – Plenary Colloquium    
Suzanne La Garde, MD, MBA, FACP    
CEO, Fair Haven Community Health Care
December 6, 2024 – Plenary Colloquium    
Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS ('06)    
Associate Dean, Health Equity Research, Yale School of Medicine; C.N.H. Long Professor, General Internal Medicine, Public Health, Management; Director, Office for Health Equity Research, Equity Research and Innovation Center; Deputy Director, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation; Associate Director, Yale Cancer Center; Chief Health Equity Officer, Smilow Cancer Hospital; Director, Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership, Yale University
April 4, 2025 – Plenary Colloquium    
Helen Burstin, MD, MPH / TBD    
Chief Executive Officer, Council of Medical Specialty Societies; Clinical Professor, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences



 

Sustainability 2024-2025

August 30, 2024 – Plenary Colloquium  
Pradeep Kurukulasuriya, PhD ('06) 
Executive Coordinator and Director-Environmental Finance for Nature, Climate and Energy, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
 
January 24, 2025  
Urvashi Bhatnagar, DPT, MBA  
Managing General Partner, The Good Science Fund; Expert, Primary Venture Partners; Healthcare Network Head, Super Founder; Opinion Columnist, CEOWORLD Magazine
October 11, 2024  
Michel Santos, MBA  
Senior Director, Global Sustainability, Bunge Ltd.
March 7, 2025 – Plenary Colloquium  
Mehmood Khan, PhD  
Chief Executive Officer, Hevolution Foundation
November 22, 2024  
Catherine Sandoval, JD, MA  
Board Member, U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board
April 4, 2024 
Karl Petterson
Founder, Petterson Analytics, LLC; Executive Producer, Verrechia Films, LLC