April 11 | Charlie Bobrinskoy 

Financial Markets Day

Louise Auditorium in Barry Hall | 3-5:00 pm

Charlie manages Ariel Investments focused value strategy—an all-cap, concentrated portfolio of U.S. stocks. He also spearheads Ariel’s thought leadership efforts and takes an active role in representing Ariel’s investment strategies with prospective investors, clients and major media. Prior to joining Ariel in 2004, Charlie spent 21 years as an investment banker at Salomon Brothers and its successor company Citigroup, where he rose to managing director and head of North American investment banking branch offices. Charlie actively serves the Chicago community, sitting on the corporate board of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, as well as the boards of the Big Shoulders Fund, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation and The Chicago Club. He is a frequent guest on CNBC. Charlie also teaches monthly investing classes at two Chicago inner-city schools. He graduated with an AB in economics from Duke University and earned an MBA from the University of Chicago.

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September 14 | David Bobb (Constitution Day Event)

Constituting Opportunity: Civil and Economic Liberty Today

Special Event Location | Memorial Union, Ballroom A, 4-5:30 pm

David Bobb joined the Bill of Rights Institute (BRI) as president in 2013. A nationally recognized leader in civic education, David has worked for 25 years to build strong civic learning programs that engage the hearts and minds of young people. BRI is the nation’s leading providers of free, open education resources and professional development programs for secondary school teachers of American civics and history. Previously David worked for twelve years at Hillsdale College, where as founding director of the Washington, D.C.-based Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies, and Citizenship he created educational resources and programs accessed by millions of Americans. Author of Humility: An Unlikely Biography of America’s Greatest Virtue (HarperCollins, 2013), and a chapter on Frederick Douglass in a recent volume (Oxford University Press, 2019), David has written for publications including the Wall Street Journal and Fast Company, and is currently writing a book on the future of civics. He earned a Ph.D. in political science from Boston College.

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October 17 | Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell

Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World, Author Visit

Louise Auditorium in Barry Hall | 4-5:30 pm

Robert Lawson is a Clinical Professor and holds the Jerome M. Fullinwider Centennial Chair in Economic Freedom; he also is director of the Bridwell Institute for Economic Freedom at the Southern Methodist University (SMU) Cox School of Business. He earned his PhD and MS in Economics from Florida State University and his BS in Economics from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University. He previously taught at Auburn University, Capital University, and Shawnee State University. Dr. Lawson is a founding co-author of the Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World annual report, which presents an economic freedom index for over 160 countries. Lawson has authored or co-authored over 100 journal articles, book chapters, policy reports, and book reviews. With Benjamin Powell, he is co-author of the Amazon Bestseller, Socialism Sucks: Two Economists Drink Their Way Through the Unfree World (Regnery Publishing).

Benjamin Powell is the executive director of the Free Market Institute and a professor of economics in the Jerry S. Rawls College of Business Administration at Texas Tech University. He is a Senior Fellow with the Independent Institute, Secretary-Treasurer of the Southern Economic Association, Secretary-Treasurer of The Association of Private Enterprise Education, and Treasurer of The Mont Pelerin Society. He earned his B.S. in economics and finance from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University.

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November 14 | Ian Rowe

A Conversation with Ian Rowe

Louise Auditorium in Barry Hall | 4-5:30 pm

Ian Rowe is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on education and upward mobility, family formation, and adoption. Mr. Rowe is also the cofounder of Vertex Partnership Academies, a new network of character-based International Baccalaureate high schools opening in the Bronx in 2022; the chairman of the board of Spence-Chapin, a nonprofit adoption services organization; and the cofounder of the National Summer School Initiative. He concurrently serves as a senior visiting fellow at the Woodson Center and a writer for the 1776 Unites Campaign.

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February 28 | Tami Reller

A Conversation with Tami Reller

Louise Auditorium in Barry Hall | 4-5:30 pm

Tami Reller is an experienced business professional who began her career at Great Plains Software in Fargo. She went on to become Executive Vice President of Marketing at Microsoft, CFO of Microsoft Windows, and then CEO of Duly Health and Care. Most recently she served as Chair of the Best of America PAC supporting the Burgum presidential campaign. Reller earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics from Minnesota State University Moorhead and a master's degree in business administration from Saint Mary's College in Moraga, California. 

Reller will discuss her career experiences as a woman entrepreneur and executive, and the lessons she's learned about markets, technology, and more. 

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March 20 | Douglas Irwin

The Case for Free Trade

Louise Auditorium in Barry Hall | 4-5:30 pm

Douglas Irwin is John French Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy (University of Chicago Press, 2017), which The Economist and Foreign Affairs selected as one of their Best Books of the Year. He is president-elect of the Economic History Association (2022-23). 

He is the author of Free Trade Under Fire (Princeton University Press, fifth edition 2020), Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s (MIT Press, 2012), Peddling Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression (Princeton University Press, 2011), The Genesis of the GATT (Cambridge University Press, 2008, co-authored with Petros Mavroidis and Alan Sykes), Against the Tide:  An Intellectual History of Free Trade (Princeton University Press, 1996), and many articles on trade policy and economic history in books and professional journals.

He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He worked on trade policy issues while on the staff of President Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers and later worked in the International Finance Division at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. Before joining Dartmouth, Irwin taught at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.

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