What are the likely effects of the various policy responses to the current financial and economic crisis? Are there alternative policies that we should consider? How will these policies affect economic performance over the long-run?

As the federal government and private-sector organizations continue to take actions intended to stabilize the economy, we are fortunate to have among our faculty a number of experts who bring tremendous experience and insight to the task of understanding the current economic climate and the potential effects of various policy responses. We will be holding a panel event open to the entire Ross community.

The panelists will be:

Amiyatosh Purnanandam, the Bank One Assistant Professor of Finance and an expert on various aspects of risk management. He has been named a Fellow of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for his work related to banking and risk management.

Joel Slemrod, the Paul W. McCracken Collegiate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Ross School of Business, professor of economics, and director of the U-M Office of Tax Policy Research. He is a member of the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers, and has testified before Congress on domestic and international taxation issues.

Martin Zimmerman, the Ford Motor Company Clinical professor of Business Administration and former group vice president and chief economist at Ford. Professor Zimmerman served as a member of the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers and is a member of the National Commission on Energy Policy, a bi-partisan group that makes recommendations on energy policy to Congress, the Administration and other stakeholders.

Kenneth Lieberthal, one of the world's foremost experts on China, is the William Davidson Professor of Business Administration at the Ross School, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Political Science, Distinguished Fellow and Director for China at the William Davidson Institute, and a faculty associate at the Center for Chinese Studies. He is currently on leave as a Visiting Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

The McInally Lecture, which is open to the public, began in 1966 in memory of William K. McInally, who served on the University of Michigan Board of Regents from 1960 until 1964. Past speakers include Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Andrew Young, Ambassador Ronald N. Weiser, C. K. Prahalad and Zainab Salbi


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Dr. Tadataka (Tachi) Yamada is President of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Global Health Program. In this capacity he oversees grants totaling over $7 billion in programs directed at applying technologies to address major health challenges of the developing world including TB, HIV, malaria and other infectious diseases, malnutrition and maternal and child health.

Dr. Yamada was born in Japan, and completed his education in the United States. He graduated from Stanford University with a BA in history and obtained his M.D. from New York University School of Medicine. After completing his internal medicine training at the Medical College of Virginia he became an investigator in the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, trained in gastroenterology at the UCLA School of Medicine and assumed his first faculty position there. He later moved to the University of Michigan where he ultimately became Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of the University of Michigan Medical Center before joining GlaxoSmithKline.


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Mr. Branch's insight and expression of the impact of King's legacy earned him the Pulitzer in 1988 for his book Parting the Waters, the first volume of the epic trilogy America in the King Years. Widely considered the definitive history of the modern civil rights era, the trilogy traces the tumultuous years between 1954 and 1968, and is viewed not just as a biography of Dr. King, but rather "a picture of the country and the times as he intersected with them," according to a review in The New York Times. In addition to the Pulitzer Prize for History, he has won several other literary awards for this seminal work.

Mr. Branch's forthcoming book, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History in the White House, will be published by Simon & Schuster in 2009. His previous books include Labyrinth, The Empire Blues, Second Wind, Blind Ambition, and Blowing the Whistle: Dissent in the Public Interest. He has written for many publications including Esquire, Harper’s, Washington Monthly, The New York Times Magazine, Sport, The New Republic, and Texas Monthly.

Mr. Branch received a five-year MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1991 and the National Humanities Medal from President Bill Clinton in 1999. From 1998 to 2000, he served as a lecturer in politics and history at Goucher College.


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