Agenda
January 27, 2026
MIT Samberg Conference Center, Salons M+I (and livestreamed)
Richard M. Locke
John C Head III Dean, MIT Sloan School of Management
Panelists
Elizabeth Anderson
John Dewey University Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan
Oren Cass
Chief Economist, American Compass
Hélène Landemore
Damon Wells '58 Professor of Political Science, Yale University
Chair
Katrina Forrester
John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Government and Social Studies, Harvard University
Panelists
Ellora Derenoncourt
Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University
Alexandra Killewald
Director, Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics and Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Wojciech Kopczuk
Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Chair
Gary Gensler
Professor of the Practice, Global Economics and Management, and Professor of the Practice, Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management
Panelists
Daron Acemoglu
Institute Professor, MIT
Sheri Berman
Professor of Political Science and Chair, Barnard College, Columbia University
David Yang
Yvonne P.L. Lui Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Chair
Ya-Wen Lei
Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
