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• Atul Gawande: “How to Live Longer: Lessons from USAID’s Work on the Reduction of Premature Death”

  • When
    17 Dec 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  Atul Gawande: “How to Live Longer: Lessons from USAID’s Work on the Reduction of Premature Death”

  McArthur Fellow and an American surgeon, writer, and public health researcher

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  A discussion with Atul Gawande, former Assistant Administrator for Global Health at the US Agency for International Development from January 2022 to January 2025. Gains in reducing premature mortality – death in childhood and adulthood in early and middle age – have added three decades to the lifespan of the human species. And a subset of lower income countries have demonstrated that systems focused on reducing premature mortality through universal primary care can achieve higher life expectancy than the US at a fraction of the cost.

  
  

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• BEC Luncheon featuring Vincent Reinhart, Chief Economist for BNY Mellon Asset Management

  • When
    28 Jan 2026
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  BEC Luncheon 

  
  

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  Vincent Reinhart

  Chief Economist and Macro Strategist

  BNY Mellon Asset Management

  

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  Vincent is the firm's Chief Economist and Macro Strategist. In this role, he is responsible for developing views on the global economy and making relative value recommendations across global bond markets, currencies and sectors.

  Previously, Vincent served as the Chief US Economist and a managing director at Morgan Stanley. For the prior four years, he was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Vincent also spent 24 years at the Federal Reserve, holding several roles including Director of the Division of Monetary Affairs and Secretary and Economist of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). His responsibilities at the Federal Reserve included directing research and analysis of monetary policy strategies and the conduct of policy through open market operations, discount window lending and reserve requirements. Prior to these roles, he was the principal liaison with the domestic desk at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and was responsible for preparing a document outlining policy alternatives for each FOMC meeting. He was Deputy Director in the Division of International Finance and Associate Economist of the FOMC and spent five years at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in both the domestic and international research departments.

  His academic publications primarily concern the conduct of policy and issues related to the monetary transmission mechanism as well as an analysis of alternative auction techniques and Treasury debt management. After an undergraduate training at Fordham University, he received graduate degrees in economics at Columbia University.

  

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• David H. Autor: "Expertise, Artificial Intelligence, and the Work of the Future"

  • When
    11 Feb 2026
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  David H. Autor

  Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor, Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, Google Technology and Society Visiting Fellow

  MIT Economics

  

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  The future of work is not a forecasting exercise --- it's a design problem. And design is badly needed because AI opens opportunities for the labor market and poses new risks to workers. This talk presents a framework for thinking about the future of work, putting human expertise at its center. Focusing on the distinction between automation and collaboration, the talk will highlight how, through intentional design choices, we can use AI as a force multiplier for human expertise.

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  David Autor is the Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, codirector of the NBER Labor Studies Program and the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work. His scholarship explores the labor-market impacts of technological change and globalization on job polarization, skill demands, earnings levels and inequality, and electoral outcomes.

  Autor has received numerous awards for both his scholarship—the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, the Sherwin Rosen Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of Labor Economics, the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship in 2019, the Society for Progress Medal in 2021—and for his teaching, including the MIT MacVicar Faculty Fellowship. In 2020, Autor received the Heinz 25th Special Recognition Award from the Heinz Family Foundation for his work “transforming our understanding of how globalization and technological change are impacting jobs and earning prospects for American workers.” In 2023, Autor was selected as one of two researchers across all scientific fields a NOMIS Distinguished Scientist. Autor was one of five senior scholars selected by the Schmidt Sciences Foundation as an AI2050 Senior Fellow in 2024.

  The Economist magazine labeled Autor in 2019 as “The academic voice of the American worker.” Later that same year, and with equal or greater justification, he was christened “Twerpy MIT Economist” by John Oliver of Last Week Tonight in a segment on automation and employment.

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• BEC Luncheon featuring Simon Johnson, 2024 Nobel Prize Laureate In Economic Sciences, Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management

  • When
    26 Feb 2026
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  Professor Simon Johnson

  2024 Nobel Prize Laureate In Economic Sciences 

  Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship

  MIT Sloan School of Management

  

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  SIMON JOHNSON is the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is head of the Global Economics and Management group. At MIT, he is also co-director of the Stone Center Initiative and a Research Affiliate at Blueprint Labs.

  In 2024, Johnson received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in memory of Alfred Nobel, joint with Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

  In 2007-08, Johnson was chief economist and director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund. He currently co-chairs the CFA Institute Systemic Risk Council with Erkki Liikanen. He is a Research Associate at the NBER and a Fellow at CEPR.

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• BEC Luncheon featuring Daron Acemoglu, 2024 Nobel Prize laureate in Economic Sciences and Institute Professor at MIT

  • When
    11 Mar 2026
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  Professor Daron Acemoglu

  2024 Nobel Prize Laureate

  Institute Professor

  MIT

  

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  Daron Acemoglu is an Institute Professor at MIT, Faculty Co-Director of James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work, and a Research Affiliate at MIT's newly established Blueprint Labs. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, the British Academy of Sciences, the Turkish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists. He is also a member of the Group of Thirty.

  He is the author of six books, including New York Times bestseller Why Nations Fail: Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (joint with James A. Robinson), Introduction to Modern Economic Growth, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (with James A. Robinson), and Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (with Simon Johnson).

  His academic work covers a wide range of areas, including political economy, economic development, economic growth, technological change, inequality, labor economics and economics of networks.

  Daron Acemoglu has received the inaugural T. W. Shultz Prize from the University of Chicago in 2004, and the inaugural Sherwin Rosen Award for outstanding contribution to labor economics in 2004, Distinguished Science Award from the Turkish Sciences Association in 2006, the John von Neumann Award, Rajk College, Budapest in 2007, the Carnegie Fellowship in 2017, the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize in 2018, the Global Economy Prize in 2019, and the CME Mathematical and Statistical Research Institute prize in 2021.

  He was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel in 2024 (with Co-Laureates Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson), the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, the Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in 2012, and the 2016 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award.

  He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of Utrecht, the Bosporus University, University of Athens, Bilkent University, the University of Bath, Ecole Normale Superieure, Saclay Paris, and the London Business School.

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• BEC Evening Event featuring David M. Rubenstein, Chairman of the board of directors of the Carlyle Group

  • When
    25 Mar 2026
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    5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  David M. Rubenstein

  Chairman of the Board of Directors

  Carlyle Group

  

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  David M. Rubenstein is an investor, philanthropist, interviewer, author, and historian. He is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest and most successful private investment firms. Established in 1987, Carlyle now manages $465 billion from 27 offices around the world.

  Mr. Rubenstein is a Baltimore native and is the Chairman, CEO, and principal owner of Major League Baseball’s Baltimore Orioles.

  A recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Gallery of Art, the Economic Club of Washington, and the University of Chicago; a Trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum; and a Director of Moderna, Inc. and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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• Corey Thomas: CEO of Rapid7

  • When
    15 Apr 2026
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  Corey Thomas: CEO of Rapid7

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• Dave Jones: "Marching Toward an Uninsurable Future: Solutions to the Insurance Crisis

  • When
    30 Apr 2026
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  Dave Jones: Marching Toward an Uninsurable Future: Solutions to the Insurance Crisis

  Insurance Commissioner, Emeritus and Director, Climate Risk Initiative

  UC Berkeley School of Law - Center for Law, Energy & the Environment

  

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• The Boston Economic Club Annual Dinner Meeting with Professor Kenneth Rogoff, Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics at Harvard University

  • When
    20 May 2026
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    5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Harborview Dining Room, 31st Floor

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  Professor Kenneth Rogoff

  Maurits C. Boas Chair of International Economics

  Harvard University

  
  

  "Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider's View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead"

  

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  Kenneth Rogoff is Maurits C. Boas Professor at Harvard University, and former chief economist at the IMF. His influential 2009 book with Carmen Reinhart, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, shows the remarkable quantitative similarities across time and countries in the roots and aftermath of debt and financial crises. Rogoff is also known for his pioneering work on central bank independence, and on exchange rates. He is co-author of the widely-used graduate text, Foundations of International Macroeconomics. His 2016 book The Curse of Cash looks at the past, present and future of currency from standardized coinage to crypto-currencies. His monthly syndicated column on global economic issues is published in over 50 countries. Rogoff’s 2025 book Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance and the Road Ahead offers a sweeping view of the post-war rise of the dollar, the challenges the rest of the world has in dealing with it, and how this experience can help inform the contours of the evolving new global financial system.

  Rogoff is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has long ranked among the top dozen most cited economists, and is an international grandmaster of chess.

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