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Panelists

Jared Bernstein joined the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in May 2011 as a senior fellow. From 2009 to 2011, Bernstein was the chief economist and economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, executive director of the White House Task Force on the Middle Class, and a member of President Obama’s economic team. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Bernstein was a senior economist and the director of the Living Standards Program at the Economic Policy Institute, and between 1995 and 1996, he held the post of deputy chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. Bernstein holds a PhD in social welfare from Columbia University and is the author and coauthor of numerous books for both popular and academic audiences, including his latest book, The Reconnection Agenda: Reuniting Growth and Prosperity. Bernstein has published extensively in various venues, including the New York Times, Washington Post, and American Prospect. 

Paul B. Kazarian '81 is the chairman and CEO of Japonica Partners, the Charles & Agnes Kazarian Foundation (KF), and the Kazarian Center for Public Financial Management. Kazarian in 1988 founded Japonica Partners, a private investment firm that has built its track record by creating $10 billion in transformational investments with low risk high return. Kazarian founded KF, whose core mission is to improve public financial management with spending since inception and current assets exceeding US$¼ billion. Kazarian was the sole special advisor to the CEPS Task Force on EU Government Balance Sheets, received the 2016 William Pitt the Younger Award for extraordinary leadership in government financial management, and is an adjunct professor in the sector of public financial management at CBS (B8024 Understanding Sovereign Risk from Financial Statements). Kazarian was an investment banker at Goldman Sachs where his clients included governments, and quasi-government organizations.

Shivaram Rajgopal is the Kester and Byrnes Professor of Accounting and Auditing at Columbia Business School. He is a leading expert on measuring how well managers serve as responsible stewards of the corporation’s resources. Apart from conducting pioneering research on short-termism, Shiva's extensive body of work covers a wide range of contemporary issues in financial reporting, fiscal responsibility and corporate governance. Shiva has been internationally recognized for his scholarship on several occasions. He has a passion for bridging academic theory with policy setting and corporate practice.  He publishes op-eds in the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, and Barron’s.  His work is frequently cited in the popular press, including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, Fortune, Forbes, Financial Times, Business Week, and the Economist.