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The following are faculty and speakers from the 2023 National Institute of Public Finance. 2025 faculty and speakers will be announced soon.
Jake Abbott
Investment Officer, San Bernardino County Employees’ Retirement Association (SBCERA)
Karen Austin
Deputy Treasurer, State of Iowa Treasurer's Office
Eric Baggesen
CIO, Employees' Retirement System of Rhode Island
Sean Bair
CEO, Nuori
Jillean Long Battle
Chief Deputy Treasurer, General Counsel, Chief Privacy Officer, Indiana State Treasury
Thomas Beadle
President, NAST Board of Directors
Treasurer, State of North Dakota
Henry Beck
Treasurer, State of Maine
Larissa Belova
Managing Director, Portfolio Manager, CBRE Global Investment Management
Jeff M. Bennett
Senior Portfolio Manager, Invesco
Vineer Bhansali
Founder, CIO, LongTail Alpha
Robert Blackwell Jr.
Founder, Chairman of the Board, EKI-Digital
Stephanie Blondell
Assistant Professor of Law and Practice; Associate Director Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution
Young Boozer
Faculty Lead, Executive Treasury Management
Treasurer, State of Alabama
Gavin Boyles
Deputy Treasurer, State of Vermont
Michael Brakebill
CIO, Tennessee Department of Treasury
Gregory Brown
Executive Director, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise; Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Finance, UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
T.J. Carlson
CIO, Missouri State Employees' Retirement System
Marisa Carson
Vice President, Talent Management, TIAA
Lea V. Carty
Managing Director, Kroll Digital Services
Jeff Chanay
Assistant State Treasurer/General Counsel, Office of Kansas State Treasurer
David Kennedy Chene
Co-Founder, Co-Portfolio Manager & Co-Managing Partner, Kennedy Lewis
Andréa Comer
Chief of Staff, Office of the State Treasurer, State of Connecticut
Dan Cummings
Executive Vice President & Managing Director, EFL Associates
William R. Daley
Managing Director, Public Sector & Infrastructure Banking, Goldman Sachs
Cynthia G. Dannels
Deputy State Treasurer, State of South Carolina
Colleen Davis
Treasurer, State of Delaware
Dereck Davis
Treasurer, State of Maryland
Fernando Diaz
Chief People & Financial Product Officer, Office of the Illinois State Treasurer
Andy Dillon
Partner, Trust Street Advisors
James A. Diossa
Treasurer, State of Rhode Island
Laura Pavlik Duque
General Counsel, Office of the State Treasurer, State of Illinois
Tim Easterwood
Founder and CEO, BizFleets
Mike Elio
Partner, StepStone Group
Daniel Elliott
Treasurer, NAST Board of Directors
Treasurer, State of Indiana
Rachael Eubanks
Senior Vice President, NAST Board of Directors
Treasurer, State of Michigan
Andrea Feirstein
Chair, Executive Treasury Management
Managing Director, AKF Consulting Group
Stuart Fiertz
Co-Founder, President, Head of Responsible Investment and Director of Research, Cheyne Capital
Neil Flanagan
Managing Director, Joint-Head of Municipal Finance, Jeffries
Kristen Fontana
Director, Head of Public Finance Credit Strategy, Co-Head of Municipal Sustainable Finance, Wells Fargo Securities
Michael Frerichs
Immediate Past President, NAST Board of Directors
Treasurer, State of Illinois
Manju Ganeriwala
Former Treasurer, Commonwealth of Virginia
Randall Gerardes
Managing Director - Head of Business Origination - Public Finance, Assured Guaranty
Laura Glenn
Senior Director of Investment Services, Public Trust Advisors
Laura Goins
Deputy Treasurer, Unclaimed Property Division, State of West Virginia
Deborah B. Goldberg
State Treasurer and Receiver General, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Jonathan Grabel
CIO, Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association (LACERA)
Josh Haeder
Treasurer, State of South Dakota
Dan Heflin
Partner, Co-CEO, and Co-CIO, Torchlight
Steven Johnson
Treasurer, State of Kansas
Claiborne Johnston
Managing Director, Head of Americas Real Assets Private Capital Markets, Morgan Stanley
David R. Kaplan
Director, Saxena White
William (Bill) Kieser
Vice President, Ares Global Client Solutions
Mark T. Kim
President and CEO, MSRB
Lillian Knight
Head of Investment Management, K2 Advisors
Michael Knowling
Executive Vice President and Head of Insurance and Asset Owners, North America, State Street
Rob Kochis
Partner, The Townsend Group
Clemens Kownatzki
Academic Chair, Investments and Pensions
Assistant Professor of Finance and Associate Dean‚ Academic Programs, Graziadio Business School, Pepperdine University
Mike Krems
Partner, Private Equity Portfolio Strategies, Aksia
Jacob Lew
76th United States Secretary of the Treasury; Managing Partner, Lindsay Goldberg
Bryan Lewis
Chief Investment Officer, United States Steel Corporation
David H. Lillard, Jr.
Treasurer, State of Tennessee
Cameron A. Lockhead
Managing Director, Global Head of the Institutional Relationship Group (IRG), PGIM
Fiona Ma
Treasurer, State of California
Brant Maller
Chair, Investments and Pensions
Founder and CEO, AIF Global
Gary Mangiofico
Academic Chair, Executive Treasury Management
Executive Professor of Organizational Theory and Management and MS in Organization Development Academic Director Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
David McRae
Treasurer, State of Mississippi
Andrew Messer
Vice Chair, Investments and Pensions
Executive Director, AIF Global and the AIF Institute
Ken Miller
Former Treasurer, State of Oklahoma
Kelly Mitchell
Former Treasurer, State of Indiana
Laura Montoya
Treasurer, State of New Mexico
Mary Morris
CEO, Virginia 529
John Murante
Treasurer, State of Nebraska
Mary Murphy
Project Director, Fiscal and Economic Policy, State Fiscal Health, Pew Charitable Trusts
Ashley Nabors
Assistant Treasurer, Financial Empowerment
David Natelson
Vice President of Sales - Government, Education, and Utilities, Flserv
Hector Negroni
Chair, Public Finance and Debt Management
Founder and CEO, Foundation Credit
Michael Newman
Managing Director, Hilltop Securities
Jeffrey R. Nipp
Senior Vice President, Segal Marco Advisors
Andrew Palmer
CIO, Maryland State Retirement and Pension System
Ruth Pan
Co-Head of National Infrastructure and West Region, Goldman Sachs
Abraham Park
Academic Chair, Public Finance and Debt Management
Senior Associate Dean Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Finance Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
Michael Parker
Senior Vice President, Vestwell
Charles Peck
Managing Director, Head of Public Finance, Wells Fargo Securities
Carmen Pigler
Treasurer, District of Columbia
Maggie Ralbovsky
Managing Director, Wilshire
Tobias Read
Treasurer, State of Oregon
Anders Reinertsen
Head of Asset Owners Americas, Asset Servicing and Digital, BNY Mellon
Christine Reynolds
Partner, Public Finance Department, Orrick
Erick Russell
Faculty Lead, Public Finance and Debt Management
Treasurer, State of Connecticut
Everett Sands
CEO, Lendistry
Andrew Sawyer
Former CIO, Maine Public Employees Retirement System
Ford Scudder
Former State Treasurer, State of New Jersey
Michael Shires
Vice Dean for Strategy and Online Programs, Director of Assessment, and Associate Professor of Public Policy Pepperdine School of Public Policy
Cole Short
Assistant Professor of Strategy
John Skjervem
CIO, Utah Retirement Systems
Martha Slitt
Senior Vice President, Government Savings, Ascensus
Shaun Snyder
Executive Director, National Association of State Treasurers
Zachary Solomon
Executive Director, Co-Head of Public Finance Investment Banking, Morgan Stanley
Robert Sprague
Treasurer, State of Ohio
Scott Sprauer
Senior Managing Director, Portfolio Manager, MacKay Shields
Lawrence Taylor
Managing Director, General Counsel, Acore Capital
Michael Troncoso
Of Counsel, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP
Uvan Tseng
Senior Vice President, Investment Consultant, Callan
Tom Tull
Former CIO, Employees' Retirement System of Texas
Kirsten Van Ry
Chief of Staff, Nevada State Treasurer's Office
Melissa Waller
Executive Program Director, National Institute of Public Finance
President, AIF Global and the AIF Institute
James Walsh
Head of Portfolio Group and Partner, Albourne America LLC
Cori Shepherd Whitten
Senior Counsel, Public Finance Abuse Unit, Division of Enforcement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Ash Williams
Vice Chair, J.P. Morgan Asset Management; Former Executive Director and CIO, Florida State Board of Administration
Dawn Williams
Deputy State Treasurer, State of Wyoming
Karyn Williams
CIO, North America, Zurich Global Investment Management
Jeremy Wolfson
Chief Investment Officer at Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Swee Lin Wong
Assistant Treasurer & Chief of Human Resources, Massachusetts Office of the State Treasurer and Receiver General
Shawn T. Wooden
Partner, Chief Public Pension Strategist, Client and Product Solutions in Greenwich, Apollo; Former Treasurer, State of Connecticut
Bernard Yancovich
Managing Director, Private Equity Investments, GCM Grosvenor
Kimberly Yee
Treasurer, State of Arizona
Calvin Yu
Managing Director, Head of the Client Insight Unit, BlackRock