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Join engaging discussions on economics, finance, and public policy.

BEC offers a robust series of well-known speakers selected from the academic, private, and public sectors. Topics covered differ by month and subject matter, with a consistent emphasis on relevance to today's leaders. The Club's membership year runs from August through July and the luncheon season runs from September through May. Continue scrolling for upcoming events.

Examples of our very memorable past events and speakers include the following: 

Corporate Leaders

"Fireside Chat"

Ed McLaughlin, President & Chief Technology Officer, Mastercard

Moderator: Jonathan Calvert, CFA, President, Founder, Alvarium Analytics LLC

"Navigating the Sea Change"

Howard Marks, CFA, Co-Chairman, Oaktree Capital Management


Federal Reserve Leaders

"The Economy's Performance and Outlook, and Implications for Policy"

Susan M. Collins, President & CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Moderator: Juhi Dhawan, Senior Managing DirectorWellington Management Company, LLP 

"A Conversation with Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari" 

Neel Kashkari, President Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis               

Moderator: Roger Lowenstein, Award Winning Author & Journalist


Economists 

"Why Women Won"

Professor Claudia GoldinNobel Prize Winner for Economics in 2023 and Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University


"The Future of Financial Intermediation"

Professor Bengt Holmström, Nobel Prize Winner for Economics in 2016 and Paul A. Samuelson Professor (Emeritus), MIT


Registration is open to BEC members and their invited guests, when applicable.


BEC members can sign up for events by logging in to their member portal using the provided link

Members are encouraged to add a guest to their registration for individual meetings, if available. If you have any questions or experience any issues logging in, please contact the BEC office at Admin@BECBoston.org   

Upcoming Events

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

    Speaker BEC Luncheon

    Corey Thomas: CEO of Rapid7

    -Title of presentation coming soon-

    Please note that for security reasons, you will be asked to present a government issued photo identification to gain entrance into the Federal Reserve Bank. 








    BIO

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

    BEC Luncheon 


    featuring


    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

    ABOUT THE EVENT


    BIO


    Please note that for security reasons, you will be asked to present a government issued photo identification to gain entrance into the Federal Reserve Bank. 

    • 13 May 2026
    • 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
    • 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl
    Register

    Fireside Chat with

    Susan M. Collins

    President and CEO

    Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

    and Moderated by:

    Juhi Dhawan, PhD

    Senior Managing Director, Global Macroanalyst

    Wellington Management

    Susan M. Collins is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, which is part of the U.S. central bank. She is a participant on the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets U.S. monetary policy.

    Since taking office in July 2022, Collins oversees all of the bank’s activities – including economic research and analysis; banking supervision and financial stability efforts; community economic development activities; and a wide range of payments, technology, and finance initiatives.

    Collins is an international macroeconomist with a lifelong interest in policy and its impact on living standards. She has published widely and served as a provost, dean, professor, research scholar, and board member at a variety of universities and organizations, including the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago where she served as a director for nine years.

    Earlier in her career Susan spent 16 years living in Massachusetts – as an assistant then associate professor at Harvard University, earning a Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and as an undergraduate at Harvard.

    Please note that for security reasons, you will be asked to present a government issued photo identification to gain entrance into the Federal Reserve Bank. 

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

    SAVE THE DATE - registration will open in early 2026

    **In-person event only**

    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"

    BIO

    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.

    Zoom option for this event will not be available. 

    Please note that for security reasons, you will be asked to present a government issued photo identification to gain entrance into the Federal Reserve Bank. 

Past events

25 Mar 2026 BEC Special Evening Event featuring David M. Rubenstein, Chairman of the board of directors of the Carlyle Group
11 Mar 2026 Daron Acemoglu: AI Jobs and Productivity
25 Feb 2026 Professor Michael Klein : "The Fed, Inflation, and the Dollar"
11 Feb 2026 David H. Autor: "Expertise, Artificial Intelligence, and the Work of the Future"
28 Jan 2026 BEC Luncheon featuring Vincent Reinhart, Chief Economist for BNY Investments
17 Dec 2025 Atul Gawande: “How to Live Longer: Lessons from USAID’s Work on the Reduction of Premature Death”
4 Dec 2025 George Yip: "China's Innovation and Industrial Policy Challenges to the USA"
6 Nov 2025 Monica Toft: Spheres of Influence and the Changing Global Order
23 Oct 2025 Nathan Sheets:"Global Growth: Absorbing the Blow from Tariffs"
8 Oct 2025 David Marsh: New activism in Europe: Can Germany’s fiscal stimulus drag the EU out of trouble?
25 Sep 2025 Juliette Kayyem: National Security, America's Safety and the World of AI
4 Sep 2025 Dr. Torsten Slok, Ph.D.: "US Economic Outlook: Headwinds and Tailwinds"
31 Jul 2025 *************** START OF 2025 / END OF 2024 SEASON ***************
25 Jun 2025 The BEC Summer Soirée
21 May 2025 The Boston Economic Club Annual Dinner Meeting with Philipp Carlsson-Szlezak, Ph.D.
7 May 2025 Rudina Seseri - "The Transition to an AI-Native Economy"
30 Apr 2025 Juhi Dhawan, PhD: "US: The Faceoff Between Debt and Productivity"
9 Apr 2025 Professor Andrei Shleifer: "Cognitive Economics"
26 Mar 2025 "Why Women Won" presented by Professor Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Nobel Memorial Prize Winner in Economic Sciences

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