Shaping the Future - Milken Institute

panelists
Linda Lingle is the Governor of Hawaii. When she took office in December 2002, her goals were to make state
government more open, accountable and responsive. She was re-elected by the largest margin of victory in any
gubernatorial race in state history, including winning all of Hawaii’s 51 House precincts. Lingle continues to emphasize
her mandate for state government to lead by example, particularly in the areas of innovation, renewable energy and
education reform. Now in her final year in office, Lingle and her team are committed to completing the goals they
laid out for the state, including promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education for students,
through a comprehensive set of programs for scholastic robotics; increasing support for preschool, K-12 and higher
education, including charter schools; and enacting a constitutional amendment to place the superintendent of schools
under the governor’s direct control.
Robert Litan is Vice President of Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and a Senior
Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has authored or co-authored numerous books and articles in journals,
magazines and newspapers on entrepreneurial approaches to boosting economic growth, government policies
affecting financial institutions, regulatory and legal issues, international trade, and the economy in general. His latest
book is Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity (Yale University Press, 2007). He
previously served as an associate director of the Office of Management and Budget and deputy assistant attorney
general in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Litan received a bachelor’s degree from The Wharton
School at the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from Yale Law School and both an M.Phil. and a Ph.D. in economics
from Yale University.
David Liu is a Managing Director in the Media Investment Banking Group at Jefferies & Company Inc., leading the
firm’s practice in the digital media and Internet sector. In that role, he has completed more than 90 transactions. Past
clients of the group include Yahoo, Shutterfly, Nokia, comScore, Fastclick, aQuantive, CBORD Group, Internet Brands,
Limelight Networks, Name Media, Oak Pacific Interactive, Oversee and Reunion, among others. With more than 17
years of investment banking, venture capital and technology start-up experience, Liu has advised on a broad range of
transactions, including IPOs, follow-on offerings, convertibles, private company sales, tender offers and restructurings.
Previously, he founded a software company, and he has served on the boards of several technology start-ups and
incubators. Liu received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and two bachelor’s degrees from the University of
Pennsylvania.
Zhouwei Liu is Editor-in-Chief and Co-Founder of the 21st Century Business Herald. Founded in 2001, the 21st Century
Business Herald has become China’s leading business newspaper under Liu’s leadership. Previously, Liu served at the
Nanfang Weekly, establishing its economic news department. He was named a “Young Global Leader” by the World
Economic Forum in 2009 due to his leadership in the rapid but sustained development of the 21st Century Business
Herald; he was also a member of the Young Leader Roundtable at the 2009 Boao Forum for Asia. Liu holds bachelor’s
degrees – one of them in journalism – from the People’s University of China as well as an M.B.A. from Cheung Kong
Graduate School of Business.
Clare Lockhart is Director and Co-Founder of the Institute for State Effectiveness, which focuses on transforming
unstable societies through balancing state, market and civil society solutions in such countries as Afghanistan, Haiti,
Nepal, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Somalia and southern Sudan. Lockhart, who co-wrote Fixing Failed States: A Framework
for Rebuilding a Fractured World, serves as an advisor to senior military and civilian leaders on a number of reviews and
panels relating to global security and economic issues. Lockhart and her co-author were jointly ranked No. 20 on Foreign
Policy magazine’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2009.” Before founding ISE, Lockhart was living in Kabul, Afghanistan, as a
U.N. advisor to the Bonn Agreement, a series of pacts intended to rebuild Afghanistan after the U.S. invasion. Previously,
she managed a program on institutions at the World Bank. Lockhart is a member of the Bar of England and Wales.
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