Innovative Financing

Alleviating the Inequality of the Student Lending Market

The day I received an acceptance letter to Yale should have been a day for celebration in my family. Instead, I was congratulated and then told that I could not go. My parents didn’t attend college. Their parents didn’t even attend high...
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Mike Frerichs

Treasurer, Illinois State Treasurer's Office

Growing the US Green Bond Market: Lab 2

As climate-related events, including wildfires, become more prevalent throughout California, investors and issuers alike are looking for new tools to protect the state from increasingly devastating environmental disasters. At the same time...
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Maressa Brennan

Formerly Milken Institute

New Models for Financing Translational Medical Research in Singapore

Adapting scientific lab discoveries into life-saving drugs for commercial consumption is no small feat. Often times medical research stalls when drugs get to the translational stage of the process. This refers to the period between the...
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Quintus Lim

Associate Director, Asia, Milken Institute International
Quintus Lim is an associate director of policy and programs for the International pillar at the Milken Institute. He focuses on policy areas such as R&D financing, technological adoption across domains such as health, food, agriculture, finance, and the broader economy, and issues of ecosystem building.