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Global Conference 2025

What Matters Now (Invite only)

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In this annual series of fireside chats, VIPs and C-suite representatives from among the world’s leading asset-owners and asset-management firms gather in a casual setting to join in open dialogue. 

    Welcome Remarks

    Erin Lubitz

    Director, Milken Institute

    Moderators

    Niall Ferguson

    Milbank Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

    Eric Gertler

    Executive Chairman and CEO, U.S. News & World Report

    Karen Kornbluh

    Senior Advisor, Emerging Technology, Milken Institute

    Esther Krofah

    Executive Vice President, Milken Institute Health

    Michael Milken

    Chairman, Milken Institute

    Hiro Mizuno

    Founder and CEO, Good Steward Partners; Special Advisor to CEO, MSCI; Senior Adviser, TNFD

    Nicole Valentine

    FinTech Director, Milken Institute Finance

    Speakers

    Ajay Banga

    President, World Bank Group

    Ronald Daniels

    President, Johns Hopkins University

    Robert Ford

    Chairman and CEO, Abbott

    Erika James

    Dean, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

    Michael Kratsios

    Assistant to the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House

    Mehmet Oz

    Administrator, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, US Department of Health and Human Services

    Bryan Steil

    US Representative, Wisconsin; Chairman, US House Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence

    Masaaki Taira

    Minister for Digital Transformation, Minister in Charge of Digital Administrative and Fiscal Reform, Minister in Charge of Administrative Reform, Japan

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