Managing Director of Goldman Sachs, Mass. Lt. Gov. to speak on campus
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A pair of conferences next month will bring high-profile speakers to campus to discuss issues of workforce development and the finance industry.On June 10, Goldman Sachs Managing Director E. Gerald Corrigan will deliver the keynote address to the 2010 Center for Asset Management Conference in Fulton Hall.
The following Wednesday, June 16, Lt. Gov. Timothy Murray will address an audience of industry representatives, government officials and educators on the Brighton Campus at a conference on improving science, mathematics, technology and engineering (STEM) education.
Murray is speaking at a STEM workforce meeting convened by the National Defense Industrial Association and the Aerospace Industries Association to examine STEM education research and programs at the college level and classroom strategies in K-12 schools.
The meeting, which takes place June 15 and 16, will emphasize Massachusetts' and New England's resources available for potential partnership opportunities within governments, industries and universities.
Lynch School of Education Professor David Blustein, Associate Professor Education Mike Barnett and Director of Urban Outreach Initiatives Catherine Wong will make a presentation on the school's work to improve STEM education in Boston-area schools.
The Center for Asset Management Conference brings together finance industry executives and top academic researchers on June 9 and 10 for a series of panels and speakers discussing current issues in finance, investing and regulation.
Goldman Sachs recently named Corrigan the co-chair of a business standards committee examining client relationships, conflict management and disclosure and transparency policies. Corrigan is chairman of the firm's regulated bank subsidiary and former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
Corrigan is joined on the Center for Asset Management Conference agenda by academic keynote speaker Josh Lerner, a professor of investment banking at Harvard.