Shaping the Future - Milken Institute

panelists
Skip Rimer is Executive Director of Programs and Communications at the Milken Institute, where he has overall
responsibility for the organization’s communications efforts and events. These include the Institute’s publications,
website, media relations, social-networking outreach, as well the Global Conference and State of the State Conference.
Prior to joining the Institute in 1998, Rimer worked for more than 20 years as a journalist, most recently as the executive
editor of the Santa Monica Outlook. He also worked as a reporter and editor for the Ventura County Star in Ventura,
Calif. He is the recipient of numerous writing awards, including from the Associated Press News Editors Council and
the California Newspaper Publishers Association. He received his master’s degree from Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism and his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Stephen Roach is Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, serving as the firm’s senior representative to clients,
governments and regulators across the region. Before that appointment, he was chief economist at Morgan Stanley,
where he has spent 25 years. Roach’s recent research focuses on globalization, the emergence of China and India, and
the capital market implications of global imbalances. He is widely quoted in the media, contributes to the op-ed pages
of the world’s leading newspapers and is the author of Stephen Roach on The Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges
for a New Globalization. Roach advises policymakers around the world and frequently testifies before Congress. Before
joining Morgan Stanley in 1982, he was vice president for economic analysis for the Morgan Guaranty Trust Company
and helped lead the research staff of the Federal Reserve Board. Previously he was a research fellow at the Brookings
Institution. Roach received a Ph.D. in economics from New York University.
Clifton Robbins is the Founder and CEO of Blue Harbour Group LP, which takes a private equity approach to the
public markets. A veteran investor with 25 years of experience, Robbins founded Blue Harbour in 2004. Before that, he
was a managing member of General Atlantic Partners LLC, a global private equity firm, and served on General Atlantic’s
Executive, Investment and Portfolio Review Committees. Prior to joining General Atlantic Partners in 2000, Robbins was
a general partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., which he joined in 1987. He is a member of the Boards of Overseers
and Managers of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and currently chairs its Funding and Finance Committee,
overseeing its $3 billion endowment. Robbins received a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from
Stanford University.
James Robinson III is a General Partner of RRE Ventures, an information technology venture firm that he cofounded.
He served as chairman and CEO of American Express Company from 1977 to 1993. Prior to American Express,
he was a general partner with White Weld & Company and assistant to the chairman and president of Morgan Guaranty
Trust Company. Robinson was also non-executive chairman of Bristol-Myers Squibb from 2005 to 2008 and a director
and chairman of the Executive Committee of First Data Corp. He is presiding director of the Coca-Cola Company, an
advisor to Novell, honorary chairman of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and honorary trustee of the
Brookings Institution. He served as co-chairman of the Business Roundtable and as chairman of the Advisory Committee
on Trade Policy and Negotiations. Robinson holds a bachelor’s degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an
M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
Nouriel Roubini is a Professor of Economics and International Business with the Stern School of Business at New
York University, which he joined in 1995. Popularly known as “Dr. Doom” (the title of a New York Times Magazine profile),
he is known for his now-vindicated predictions of the current financial crisis, which he had been forecasting since 2006.
He is co-author of Crisis Economics: A Crash Course in the Future of Finance, due in May, which reveals the methods he
used to foretell the current crisis. He is chairman of Roubini Global Economics, an information and consultancy service.
Roubini previously taught at Yale University; served as senior economist for international affairs at the White House
Council of Economic Advisers; and has been a longtime consultant to the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund
and other institutions. Roubini received his undergraduate degree from Bocconi University in Milan and a Ph.D. in
economics from Harvard University.
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