University President Alan M. Garber ’76 joined Arizona State University President Michael M. Crow for a discussion on the “unprecedented federal efforts to push elite universities to reform,” asking which policies had proven “useful” and which had been “counterproductive.”
Economics professor Jason Furman ’92 was listed on two panels — a Friday panel on the ballooning U.S. national debt and a Saturday session on U.S. competitiveness with China and the Trump administration’s hands-off approach to the rivalry.
Economist Gita Gopinath was slated for a discussion on the state of the U.S. economy, focusing on the interplay between “white-hot” GDP growth and “pitiful” payroll gains. Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith, meanwhile, was set to lead a session on executive authority that examined the Trump administration’s “ambitious vision” for presidential power.