Keynote Speakers

Burton Malkiel

Dr. Burton G. Malkiel, the Chemical Bank Chairman's Professor of Economics at Princeton University, is the author of the widely read investment book, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, now in its seventh edition.

Dr. Malkiel has long held professorships in economics at Princeton, where he was also chairman of the Economics Department. He was dean of the Yale School of Organization and William S. Beinecke Professor of Management Studies there.

He is a past appointee to the Council of Economic Advisors. In addition, he is a director of The Vanguard Group of Investment Companies; Prudential Insurance Company of America; BKF Capital Group; The Jeffrey Company, a private investment firm; and Neuvis Corporation, an e-commerce software company. He also sits on the Investment Committee for the Pew Charitable Trusts. He is a past president of the American Finance Association and is a member of the American Economic Association.

He is also the author or co-editor of eight other books, the most recent of which are Global Bargain Hunting: An Investor's Guide to Profits in Emerging Markets, with J. P. Mei and The Index Fund Solution, with R. Evans.

He holds degrees from Harvard and Princeton Universities and began his career in the investment banking department of Smith Barney & Co.

Jeffrey Simpson

As The Globe and Mail's national affairs columnist since 1984, Jeffrey Simpson knows domestic and international issues. His career with the newspaper began at City Hall in Toronto with coverage of Quebec politics. In 1977, he became a member of The Globe and Mail's Ottawa office and soon after was named bureau chief. From 1981 - 1983, Mr. Simpson served as correspondent based in London, England.

Jeffrey Simpson has won the Governor-General's award for nonfiction writing; the National Magazine Award for political writing; and the National Newspaper Award for column-writing. He has also won the Hyman Solomon Award for excellence in public policy journalism. His views have been published in Saturday Night, the Report on Business Magazine, The Journal of Canadian Studies and The Queen's Quarterly. He has lectured at Oxford, Edinburgh, Harvard, Princeton, Brigham Young, Johns Hopkins, Maine, and California universities and more than a dozen universities in Canada.

In 1993-94, Mr. Simpson was a John S. Knight fellow at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. He has also been a Skelton-Clark fellow and Brockington Visitor at Queen's University. He has been a John V. Clyne fellow at the University of British Columbia and a Distinguished Visitor at the University of Alberta and a member of the Georgetown University Leadership seminar. He serves on a number of boards of various universities, including the Canadian Consortium for Asia-Pacific Security at York University and the University of Toronto.

As Jeffrey Simpson is bilingual he regularly contributes to television and radio programs in both official languages. He is a sought-after speaker at major conferences in Canada and abroad.

Highlights:

• Author of Discipline of Power, Spoils of Power, Faultlines: Struggling For a Canadian Vision, The Anxious Years and Star-Spangled Canadians.
• Winner of all three of Canada's leading literary prizes -- the Governor-General's award for non-fiction book writing; the National Magazine Award for political writing; and the National Newspaper Award for column-writing.