Shaping the Future - Milken Institute
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panelists<br />
Craig Courtney is Special Adviser in Innovative Finance at <strong>the</strong> Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). Since<br />
joining GAIN in 2006, he has been responsible for designing and implementing a successful resource mobilization<br />
strategy that has attracted more than $300 million through government and private-sector foundation contributions.<br />
From 2008, he has spearheaded <strong>the</strong> Innovative Financing Program, which is aimed at attracting new sources of capital,<br />
such as social investment funds, to new financing modalities. He also leads advocacy and communications activities.<br />
Prior to joining <strong>the</strong> GAIN management team in Geneva, Courtney worked in <strong>the</strong> investment banking industry for 20<br />
years in both Asia and Europe, including stints with HSBC and ABN AMRO. He has an M.B.A. from Cornell University and<br />
a bachelor’s degree from <strong>the</strong> University of California, Davis.<br />
Janet Cowell is Treasurer of North Carolina. Elected in 2008, she oversees <strong>the</strong> state’s investments, including $60<br />
billion in pension fund investments for public employees; $12 billion in short-term cash investments for state agencies,<br />
universities, community colleges and trust funds; and $4 billion in 401(k) and 457 supplemental retirement funds.<br />
Cowell’s office manages <strong>the</strong> issuance of several billion dollars of debt each year and helps cities, towns and counties by<br />
monitoring <strong>the</strong>ir financial condition while providing professional technical assistance on audit and financial reporting.<br />
Cowell serves as chair of <strong>the</strong> State Banking Commission and on North Carolina’s state education and community college<br />
boards. She has also been a state senator and Raleigh councilwoman. Previously she worked as a financial analyst with<br />
HSBC Bank and Lehman Bro<strong>the</strong>rs. Cowell received an M.B.A. from <strong>the</strong> University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and<br />
a master’s degree in international studies from Penn’s Lauder <strong>Institute</strong>.<br />
Mat<strong>the</strong>w Crakes is Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager of Greenheart Capital Partners. Prior to founding<br />
Greenheart Capital Partners, Crakes was a managing director at Shumway Capital Partners (SCP) from 2005 to 2009.<br />
During his tenure at SCP, he was head of <strong>the</strong> Global TMT and EM/Asia teams, responsible for covering significant<br />
emerging markets exposure in SCP’s portfolios. He previously served as a managing director in high-yield cable/<br />
telecom research at Merrill Lynch from 1999 to 2004. He also worked at Wasserstein Perella as a research associate,<br />
covering <strong>the</strong> wireless industry. He served as a first lieutenant in <strong>the</strong> U.S. Army, working in military intelligence from 1993<br />
to 1995, and in <strong>the</strong> Airborne Infantry from 1984 to 1986. Crakes received a B.S. in finance and economics from Indiana<br />
University and an M.B.A. from <strong>the</strong> University of Sou<strong>the</strong>rn California. He attended graduate school at Fudan University in<br />
Shanghai.<br />
Gordon Crovitz is <strong>the</strong> Co-Founder of Journalism Online, <strong>the</strong> creator of Press+, which enables publishers to charge<br />
for access to <strong>the</strong>ir websites and o<strong>the</strong>r digital products and provides consumers with a single account for <strong>the</strong>ir digital<br />
news. He is a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal, where he writes a weekly column called “Information Age,”<br />
and former executive vice president of Dow Jones & Company. He was chairman of Factiva, editor and publisher of<br />
<strong>the</strong> Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong and editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels.<br />
He is a director of or advisor to numerous technology-based media and information companies, including ProQuest,<br />
Blurb, YouNoodle, Peer39 and Tracked.com. Crovitz received a bachelor’s degree from <strong>the</strong> University of Chicago and law<br />
degrees from Yale Law School and Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes scholar.<br />
Jason Cummins is Head of Economic Research at Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP, a position he has held<br />
since 2004. Before joining Brevan Howard, he was a senior economist at <strong>the</strong> Federal Reserve Board, where he led <strong>the</strong><br />
macro forecasting team. He started his career as an assistant professor of economics at New York University. Cummins<br />
holds a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University and a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from<br />
Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.<br />
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