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
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
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 |
