Raymond Thomas Dalio (born August 8, 1949) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist who has served as co-chief investment officer of the world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates since 1985. He founded Bridgewater in 1975 in his apartment in New York. Dalio is the author of the 2017 book Principles: Life & Work. Bridgewater Associates | Research & Insights (Great for business and investing) https://www.bridgewater.com/research-and-insights Principles | #1 New York Times Bestseller: https://amzn.to/2JMewHb​ Buy his new book, Principles for Success: https://amzn.to/34lgnNJ​ Connect with him on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/raydalio​ Follow him on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/raydalio​ Follow him on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/raydalio​ Follow him on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raydalio/​ Download his free iOs app: https://principles.app.link/PFS Recent Content A Conversation with Ray Dalio and Tom Friedman: https://vimeo.com/464323907 Ray Dalio: The 3 Biggest Issues for the Economy in 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dvHr4NYKrM Notable Content How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio Economics 101 -- "How the Economic Machine Works." Created by Ray Dalio this simple but not simplistic and easy to follow 30 minute, animated video answers the question, "How does the economy really work?" Based on Dalio's practical template for understanding the economy, which he developed over the course of his career, the video breaks down economic concepts like credit, deficits and interest rates, allowing viewers to learn the basic driving forces behind the economy, how economic policies work and why economic cycles occur. To learn more about Economic Principles visit: http://www.economicprinciples.org​. Principles For Success by Ray Dalio (In 30 Minutes) Ray Dalio: The 3 Biggest Issues for the Economy in 2021 For more from Ray

Overview Seymour Myron "Sy" Hersh (born April 8, 1937) is an American investigative journalist and political writer. Hersh first gained recognition in 1969 for exposing the My Lai Massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War, for which he received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. During the 1970s, Hersh covered the Watergate scandal for The New York Times and revealed Operation Menu, the clandestine bombing of Cambodia. In 2004, he reported on the U.S. military's torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison. Hersh has also won two National Magazine Awards and five George Polk Awards. Hersh has accused the Obama administration of lying about the events surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden, and disputed the claim that Bashar al-Assad's regime used chemical weapons on civilians in the Syrian Civil War. Substack - https://seymourhersh.substack.com/

Overview Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. It was founded by Kenneth Lay in 1985 as a merger between Lay's Houston Natural Gas and InterNorth, both relatively small regional companies. Before its bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, Enron employed approximately 20,600 staff and was a major electricity, natural gas, communications, and pulp and paper company, with claimed revenues of nearly $101 billion during 2000.[1]Fortune named Enron "America's Most Innovative Company" for six consecutive years. At the end of 2001, it was revealed that Enron's reported financial condition was sustained by an institutionalized, systematic, and creatively planned accounting fraud, known since as the Enron scandal. Enron has become synonymous with willful corporate fraud and corruption. The scandal also brought into question the accounting practices and activities of many corporations in the United States and was a factor in the enactment of the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002. The scandal also affected the greater business world by causing, together with even larger fraudulent bankruptcy WorldCom, the dissolution of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm, which had been Enron and WorldCom's main auditor for years.[2] Enron filed for bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York in late 2001 and selected Weil, Gotshal & Manges as its bankruptcy counsel. It ended its bankruptcy during November 2004, pursuant to a court-approved plan of reorganization. A new board of directors changed the name of Enron to Enron Creditors Recovery Corp., and emphasized reorganizing and liquidating certain operations and assets of the pre-bankruptcy Enron.[3] On September 7, 2006, Enron sold its last remaining subsidiary, Prisma Energy International, to Ashmore Energy International Ltd. (now AEI).[4]

Overview Alphabet Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mountain View, California. It was created through a restructuring of Google on October 2, 2015,[2] and became the parent company of Google and several former Google subsidiaries.[3][4][5] Alphabet is the world's third-largest technology company by revenue and one of the world's most valuable companies.[6][7] The establishment of Alphabet Inc. was prompted by a desire to make the core Google business "cleaner and more accountable" while allowing greater autonomy to group companies that operate in businesses other than Internet services.[4][8] Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced their resignation from their executive posts in December 2019, with the CEO role to be filled by Sundar Pichai, also the CEO of Google. Page and Brin remain employees, board members, and controlling shareholders of Alphabet Inc.[9] History On August 10, 2015, Google Inc. announced plans to create a new public holding company, Alphabet Inc. Google CEO Larry Page made this announcement in a blog post on Google's official blog.[10] Alphabet would be created to restructure Google by moving subsidiaries from Google to Alphabet, narrowing Google's scope. The company would consist of Google as well as other businesses including X Development, Calico, Nest, Verily, Fiber, Makani, CapitalG, and GV.[11][12][13]Sundar Pichai, Product Chief, became the new CEO of Google, replacing Larry Page, who transitioned to the role of running Alphabet, along with Google co-founder Sergey Brin.[14][15] Subsidiaries Calico CapitalG DeepMind Google Google Fiber GV Intrinsic Isomorphic Labs Mineral Verily Waymo Wing X Development

Overview The Toyota Group is a group of companies that have supplier, vendor and investment relationships with Toyota Industries and Toyota Motor vehicle manufacturing facilities. It is similar to a keiretsu in that no particular entity has outright control over the entire group, although unlike most keiretsu it does not contain a major bank. Major group companies Toyota Tsusho Toyota Motor East Japan Toyota Motor Toyota Industries Toyota Housing Corporation Toyota Central R&D Labs Toyota Boshoku Toyota Auto Body Toyoda Gosei Towa Real Estate JTEKT Hino Motors Denso Daihatsu Aisin Aichi Steel

Overview https://www.defensenews.com/ Founded in 1986, Defense News is the authoritative, independent, professional news source for the world’s defense decision-makers. In print and online, we provide the global defense community with the latest news and analysis on programs, policy, business and technology. Our bureaus and reporters around the world set the standard for accuracy, credibility and timeliness in defense reporting. (About) Topics Defense policies, politics and legislation Worldwide market developments and trends New products, technologies and programs Interviews with defense leaders Defense industrial plans, finance and developments Military budgets and the politics of defense Commentary and analysis Special Reports on defense technologies, regional activities and major program Managing Organization Sightline Media Group https://sightlinemediagroup.com/ Sightline Media Group is the leading news organization covering military, defense, public sector, federal technology, C4ISR and cyber defense. Our independent, award-winning journalism offers coverage from around the globe, from Sightline headquarters in the Washington, DC area to bureaus and correspondents in the U.S. and around the world. Sightline Media offers our business clientele a wide range of platforms to reach the market. From digital and mobile solutions to events, thought leadership, publications, video and custom options, Sightline works with clients on opportunities that have credibility, integrity, engagement and impact.

Overview William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen.[2][3] During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May 2014.[4] He was a major entrepreneur of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s. About (https://www.gatesnotes.com/Bio) Bill Gates is a technologist, business leader, and philanthropist. He grew up in Seattle, Washington, with an amazing and supportive family who encouraged his interest in computers at an early age. He dropped out of college to start Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Today, Bill co-chairs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with Melinda French Gates, where he works to give his wealth back to society. Bill grew up in Seattle with his two sisters. His late father, William H. Gates Sr., was a Seattle attorney and one of the co-chairs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His late mother, Mary Gates, was a schoolteacher, University of Washington regent, and chairwoman of United Way International. Bill has three children. Quotes "The internet is a place where people are publishing information" Digital Media https://www.gatesnotes.com/ https://www.facebook.com/BillGates/ https://twitter.com/BillGates https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates https://www.instagram.com/thisisbillgates/ https://www.youtube.com/user/thegatesnotes Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Bill and Melinda challenged the global health community to declare this the Decade of Vaccines. They pledged $10 billion over the next 10 years to help research, develop, and deliver vaccines for the world’s poorest countries.

Overview The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental and lobbying organisation[1] based in Cologny, canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab. The foundation, which is mostly funded by its 1,000 member companies – typically global enterprises with more than US$5 billion in turnover – as well as public subsidies, views its own mission as "improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas".[2] https://www.weforum.org/ President: Børge Brende Notes Klaus Schwab and Prince Charles on why we need a Great Reset - listen to the podcast (Jun 4, 2020) Klaus Schwab and Prince Charles on why we need a Great Reset - listen to the podcast "The COVID-19 crisis has shown us that our old systems are not fit any more for the 21st century," said World Economic Forum Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab. "In short, we need a great reset." This week's World Vs Virus is entirely devoted to the launch of the Great Reset - a project to bring the world's best minds together to seek a better, fairer, greener, healthier planet as we rebuild from the pandemic. The Great Reset launched by World Economic Forum and HRH The Prince of Wales. Seeking better form of capitalism as world recovers from pandemic. Welcomed by UN, IMF, and companies Microsoft, Mastercard and BP. Subscribe to podcasts: World Vs Virus and The Great Reset. The podcast includes contributions from HRH The Prince of Wales, IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva, labour representative Sharan Burrow and the chief executives of Microsoft, MasterCard and BP. You can watch the whole Great Reset launch here. Read Klaus Schwab's article here and listen to him talk more about it here. The Great Reset https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=189569908956561

Overview Our work as a global communications firm is built on earning the trust of our clients’ stakeholders through reputation management, commerce and brand advocacy. For more than 20 years, we have studied the influence of trust across society — government, media, business, and NGOs — to shape conversation, drive results and earn action. Our work has proven that an organization’s ability to succeed or fail is defined by trust in their mission and leadership, and our industry-leading research explains why. Webpage: https://www.edelman.com/trust/2023/trust-barometer Download Report: https://edl.mn/3X0QXQE About the company Edelman is an American public relations and marketing consultancy firm, founded in 1952 by, and named after, Daniel Edelman. It is currently run by his son Richard Edelman. As of 2018, it is the largest public relations firm in the world by revenue and with 6,000 employees.

Overview The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health.[2] Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, it has six regional offices and 150 field offices worldwide. The WHO was established on 7 April 1948.[3][4] The first meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA), the agency's governing body, took place on 24 July of that year. The WHO incorporated the assets, personnel, and duties of the League of Nations' Health Organization and the Office International d'Hygiène Publique, including the International Classification of Diseases (ICD).[5] Its work began in earnest in 1951 after a significant infusion of financial and technical resources.[6] Website: https://www.who.int/ Timeline 1947: The WHO established an epidemiological information service via telex.[29]: 5 1950: A mass tuberculosis inoculation drive using the BCG vaccine gets under way.[29]: 8 1955: The malaria eradication programme was launched, although objectives were later modified. (In most areas, the programme goals became control instead of eradication.)[29]: 9 1958: Viktor Zhdanov, Deputy Minister of Health for the USSR, called on the World Health Assembly to undertake a global initiative to eradicate smallpox, resulting in Resolution WHA11.54.[30][31]: 366–371, 393, 399, 419 1965: The first report on diabetes mellitus and the creation of the International Agency for Research on Cancer.[29]: 10–11 1966: The WHO moved its headquarters from the Ariana wing at the Palace of Nations to a newly constructed headquarters elsewhere in Geneva.[32][29]: 12 1967: The WHO intensified the global smallpox eradication campaign by contributing $2.4 million annually to the effort and adopted a new disease surveillance method,[33][34] at a time when 2 million people were dying from smallpox per year.[35] The initial problem the WHO team faced was inadequate reporting of smallpox cases. WHO established a network of consultants who assisted countries in setting up surveillance and containment activities.[36] The WHO also helped contain the last European outbreak in Yugoslavia in 1972.[37] After over two decades of fighting smallpox, a Global Commission declared in 1979 that the disease had been eradicated – the first disease in history to be eliminated by human effort.[38] 1974: The Expanded Programme on Immunization[29]: 13  and the control programme of onchocerciasis was started, an important partnership between the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the World Bank.[29]: 14 1975: The WHO launched the Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical diseases (the TDR).[29]: 15  Co-sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, and the World Bank, it was established in response to a 1974 request from the WHA for an intensive effort to develop improved control of tropical diseases. The TDR's goals are, firstly, to support and coordinate international research into diagnosis, treatment and control of tropical diseases; and, secondly, to strengthen research capabilities within endemic countries.[39] 1976: The WHA enacted a resolution on disability prevention and rehabilitation, with a focus on community-driven care[29]: 16 1977 and 1978: The first list of essential medicines was drawn up,[29]: 17  and a year later the ambitious goal of "Health For All" was declared.[29]: 18 1986: The WHO began its global programme on HIV/AIDS.[29]: 20  Two years later preventing discrimination against patients was attended to[29]: 21  and in 1996 the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) was formed.[29]: 23 1988: The Global Polio Eradication Initiative was established.[29]: 22 1995: WHO established an independent International Commission for the Certification of Dracunculiasis Eradication (Guinea worm disease eradication; ICCDE).[29]: 23  The ICCDE recommends to the WHO which countries fulfil requirements for certification. It also has role in advising on progress made towards elimination of transmission and processes for verification.[40] 1998: WHO's director-general highlighted gains in child survival, reduced infant mortality, increased life expectancy and reduced rates of "scourges" such as smallpox and polio on the fiftieth anniversary of WHO's founding. He, did, however, accept that more had to be done to assist maternal health and that progress in this area had been slow.[41] 2000: The Stop TB Partnership was created along with the UN's formulation of the Millennium Development Goals.[29]: 24 2001: The measles initiative was formed, and credited with reducing global deaths from the disease by 68% by 2007.[29]: 26 2002: The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria was drawn up to improve the resources available.[29]: 27 2005: WHO revises International Health Regulations (IHR) in light of emerging health threats and the experience of the 2002/3 SARS epidemic, authorizing WHO, among other things, to declare a health threat a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.[42] 2006: WHO endorsed the world's first official HIV/AIDS Toolkit for Zimbabwe, which formed the basis for global prevention, treatment, and support the plan to fight the AIDS pandemic.[43] 2016: Following the perceived failure of the response to the West Africa Ebola outbreak, the World Health Emergencies programme was formed, changing the WHO from just being a "normative" agency to one that responds operationally to health emergencies.[44] 2020: WHO helped in controlling the worldwide outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.[citation needed] 2022: WHO suggests formation of a Global Health Emergency Council, with new global health emergency workforce, recommends revision of the International Health Regulations.[45] Origin The International Sanitary Conferences (ISC), the first of which was held on 23 June 1851, were a series of conferences that took place until 1938, about 87 years.[12] The first conference, in Paris, was almost solely concerned with cholera, which would remain the disease of major concern for the ISC for most of the 19th century. With the aetiology, even the communicability, of many epidemic diseases still uncertain and a matter of scientific argument, international agreement on appropriate measures was difficult to reach.[12] Seven of these international conferences, spanning 41 years, were convened before any resulted in a multi-state international agreement. The seventh conference, in Venice in 1892, finally resulted in a convention. It was concerned only with the sanitary control of shipping traversing the Suez Canal, and was an effort to guard against importation of cholera.[13]: 65 Five years later, in 1897, a convention concerning the bubonic plague was signed by sixteen of the 19 states attending the Venice conference. While Denmark, Sweden-Norway, and the USA did not sign this convention, it was unanimously agreed that the work of the prior conferences should be codified for implementation.[14] Subsequent conferences, from 1902 until the final one in 1938, widened the diseases of concern for the ISC, and included discussions of responses to yellow fever, brucellosis, leprosy, tuberculosis, and typhoid.[15] In part as a result of the successes of the Conferences, the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau (1902), and the Office International d'Hygiène Publique (1907) were soon founded. When the League of Nations was formed in 1920, they established the Health Organization of the League of Nations. After World War II, the United Nations absorbed all the other health organizations, to form the WHO.[16] Establishment During the 1945 United Nations Conference on International Organization, Szeming Sze, a delegate from China, conferred with Norwegian and Brazilian delegates on creating an international health organization under the auspices of the new United Nations. After failing to get a resolution passed on the subject, Alger Hiss, the secretary general of the conference, recommended using a declaration to establish such an organization. Sze and other delegates lobbied and a declaration passed calling for an international conference on health.[17] The use of the word "world", rather than "international", emphasized the truly global nature of what the organization was seeking to achieve.[18] The constitution of the World Health Organization was signed by all 51 countries of the United Nations, and by 10 other countries, on 22 July 1946.[19] It thus became the first specialized agency of the United Nations to which every member subscribed.[20] Its constitution formally came into force on the first World Health Day on 7 April 1948, when it was ratified by the 26th member state.[19] The first meeting of the World Health Assembly finished on 24 July 1948, having secured a budget of US$5 million(then £1,250,000) for the 1949 year. G. Brock Chisholm was appointed director-general of the WHO, having served as executive secretary and a founding member during the planning stages,[21][18] while Andrija Štampar was the assembly's first president. Its first priorities were to control the spread of malaria, tuberculosis and sexually transmitted infections, and to improve maternal and child health, nutrition and environmental hygiene.[22] Its first legislative act was concerning the compilation of accurate statistics on the spread and morbidity of disease.[18] The logo of the World Health Organization features the Rod of Asclepius as a symbol for healing.[23]

Overview Dana Ann Remus is an American lawyer who served as White House counsel for U.S. PresidentJoe Biden from January 2021 to July 2022. Prior to her appointment as White House counsel, Remus was general counsel for Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. Earlier in her career, she was deputy assistant to the president and deputy counsel for ethics during the presidency of Barack Obama, was general counsel for the Obama Foundation from 2017 to 2019, and was counsel to Michelle Obama.[1] Early life and education Dana Remus was born in New Hampshire[1] and raised in the town of Bedford.[2] She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University in 1997[3] and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 2002.[4][5] Career After graduating from law school, Remus clerked for Judge Anthony Scirica of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In 2008, she clerked for Justice Samuel Alito of the Supreme Court of the United States.[6] She eventually joined Cravath, Swaine & Moore. In 2006, she began her academic career as an inaugural faculty member at the newly established Drexel University College of Law (now Thomas R. Kline School of Law).[7] She also taught at the University of New Hampshire School of Law[8] and property law and judicial and legal ethics at the University of North Carolina School of Law. Remus joined the Obama administration, serving as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Counsel for Ethics. After Obama left office, Remus joined the Obama Foundation as general counsel and also served as counsel to Michelle Obama. She left the Foundation in 2019 to become general counsel for the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign.[9] Biden administration Remus was named White House counsel on November 17, 2020.[10] She left her position in July 2022 and was replaced by Stuart F. Delery.[11][12] Personal life Dana Remus is married to Brett M. Holmgren, who serves as the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research in the Biden administration. The wedding took place on January 21, 2018, in Washington, D.C., with former President Barack Obama officiating.[13] The couple have one son.[14]

Overview Brett M. Holmgren is an American intelligence official serving as assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research in the Biden administration.[1] Education Holmgren earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and journalism from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Master of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in global security studies from Johns Hopkins University.[2][3] Career For fourteen years Holmgren held top leadership positions the Intelligence Community (IC), in the White House and at the Department of Defense, including three years in the private industry, before becoming Assistant Secretary.[4] He began his government service as a counterterrorism analyst at the Defense Intelligence Agency and served as the special assistant to the deputy secretary of defense, director for counterterrorism at the United States National Security Council, and a political analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency. He also served as special assistant to the president and senior director for intelligence programs at the National Security Council, where he also previously served as senior policy advisor to the Homeland Security advisor.[5] He was most recently the vice president for technology risk management at Capital One. He was also a deputy for nominations on the Biden–Harris transition team and co-chair of the intelligence working group for the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign.[2] On September 13, 2021, Holmgren was confirmed by the United States Senate by voice vote.[6] He was sworn in on September 15, 2021.[7] Awards and recognition[edit] Holmgren is the recipient of numerous performance awards, including the National Intelligence Superior Service Medal, the Central Intelligence Agency Director's award, and the Secretary of Defense Exceptional Civilian Service Award.[2] Personal life[edit] Holmgren grew up in Minnesota with his parents and three siblings.[8] Holmgren married lawyer and government official Dana Remus in 2018. Their wedding was officiated by Barack Obama.[9][10] They have one son.[8]

Overview https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/ From our very first grant—to the American Red Cross more than a century ago—through to today’s vast array of initiatives, The Rockefeller Foundation has built a reputation as a trailblazer that convenes unlikely partnerships and sparks innovations for transformative change. Our list of greatest achievements is long. We founded the modern field of public health, developed a vaccine to help control yellow fever, and worked to combat hookworm in the U.S. and malaria in Italy, funded urban visionary Jane Jacobs, and catalyzed a Green Revolution. https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/about-us/our-history/ Board of Trustees The Rockefeller Foundation is governed by the Board of Trustees, which is composed of no fewer than 12 members, with the Foundation’s president serving as an ex-officio member. The Board of Trustees is generally responsible for overseeing the Foundation’s program and grantmaking strategy; budgets, expenditures and appropriation policies and guidelines; and investment strategies, allocations and performance. The Board of Trustees performs its duties through committees that include, but are not limited to: the Executive Committee, Investment Committee, Budget and Compensation Committee and Audit Committee and Trusteeship Committee as described in the Foundation’s Bylaws. Adm. James Stavridis, USN, Ret. Board Chair Agnes Binagwaho Vice Chancellor, The University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda Agnes Binagwaho Vice Chancellor, The University of Global Health Equity, Rwanda Donald Kaberuka Former President, African Development Bank Group Yifei Li Country Chair, Man Group China Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss Founder and CEO, RockCreek Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli Co-Founder and Executive Chair, Sahel Consulting: Agriculture & Nutrition Ltd. Paul Polman Business leader, campaigner, co-author of “Net Positive” Sharon Percy Rockefeller President & CEO, WETA Juan Manuel Santos Former President of Colombia & Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Rajiv J. Shah President, President's Office Adam Silver Commissioner, National Basketball Association Patty Stonesifer Former President and CEO, Martha's Table Ravi Venkatesan Special Representative for Young People & Innovation, UNICEF and Founder, G.A.M.E

Overview Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss (born July 28, 1956)[1] is an American economist and entrepreneur. She is the CEO of RockCreek, an investment firm that she founded in 2003. Since the firm's inception, it has invested over $15 billion in woman-owned and minority-owned firms. Beschloss was born in Iran in 1956. Her father, Mohammad Mashayekhi, was a prominent education reformer and president of a national teacher training university during the reign of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.[2] Her father was initially barred from leaving the country following the overthrow of the shah during the 1979 revolution, but Mashayekhi's family eventually made it to the United States in the 1980s, settling in the Washington, D.C. area.[3] Beschloss received a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Economics from the University of Kent, and M.Phil. in Economics from St Antony's College, Oxford.[4][5] Beschloss taught international trade and economic development at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University.[6] She began her career in the United States at J.P. Morgan in corporate finance.[7] She then moved to the World Bank, of which she became Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer.[8] She was a member of the 1994 class of the World Economic Forum's Global Leaders for Tomorrow program.[9] She led the World Bank's energy investments and policy work on areas including renewable energy, power and infrastructure to reduce carbon emissions. Beschloss also worked at Shell International Group Planning in London. Next became a managing director and partner of the Carlyle Group.[10] Beschloss founded the investment firm RockCreek Group in 2003.[11] As of 2019, it managed over $14 billion in investments. The firm was an early adopter of investments based on environmental, social, and corporate governance.[12] In 2018, Beschloss was appointed to trustee positions at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Dana–Farber Cancer Institute,[13][14] as well as to the board of directors at the Center for Global Development.[15] She co-chaired the 2018 Conference of Montreal for the International Economic Forum of the Americas.[16][17] In 2019, she joined the Board of Trustees for the National Geographic Society.[18] She is the co-author of The Economics of Natural Gas (Oxford) and has written numerous journal articles on climate, finance, renewable energy and impact investment, published by Chatham House and The Globe and Mail, among others.[19][16][20] She advises governments, central banks and regulatory agencies on public and financial policy. Beschloss was chosen by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for its list of "Great Immigrants, Great Americans 2020" and has received the Institutional Investor Lifetime Achievement Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award.[3][10] Beschloss is a member of the Advisory Board for CNBC's 2022 Delivering Alpha Investor Summit.[21] Other activities The Rockefeller Foundation (https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/profile/afsaneh-mashayekhi-beschloss/) American Red Cross, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2013)[22] World Resources Institute, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2013)[23] Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, Member of the Board of Trustees (since 2015)[24] Blum Center for Developing Companies at University of California, Berkeley, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2020)[25] Bretton Woods Committee, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2020)[26] Council on Foreign Relations, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2020)[27] Georgetown University, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2020)[28] PBS Foundation, Chair of the Board of Trustees (since 2020)[29][30] Center for Development Economics at Williams College, Member of the Visiting Committee[31] Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, former Member of the Board of Trustees[24] Ford Foundation, former Member of the Board of Trustees and Chair of the Investment Committee[32] Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Member of the Board[8] Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Member of the Finance Committee[33] Urban Institute, former Member of the Board of Trustees[24] World Wide Web Foundation, former Chair of the Board[34]

Overview Bernard Lawrence Madoff (/ˈmeɪdɔːf/MAY-dawf;[1] April 29, 1938 – April 14, 2021) was an American fraudster and financier who was the mastermind of the largest Ponzi scheme in history, worth about $64.8 billion.[2][3] He was at one time chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange.[4] He advanced the proliferation of electronic trading platforms and the concept of payment for order flow, which has been described[5] as a "legal kickback." Madoff founded a penny stockbrokerage in 1960, which eventually grew into Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities.[6] He served as the company's chairman until his arrest on December 11, 2008.[7][8] That year, the firm was the 6th-largest market maker in S&P 500 stocks.[9]

Overview James Dimon (/ˈdaɪmən/; born March 13, 1956) is an American billionaire businessman and banker who has been the chairman and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase – the largest of the big four American banks – since 2005. Dimon was previously on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.[2][3] Dimon was included in Time magazine's 2006, 2008, 2009, and 2011 lists of the world's 100 most influential people.[4] Dimon's net worth is estimated at $1.8 billion.[5]

Overview Christopher Johnson McCandless (February 12, 1968[2] – c. August 1992), also known by his pseudonym "Alexander Supertramp",[3] was an American adventurer who sought an increasingly nomadic lifestyle as he grew up. McCandless is the subject of Into the Wild, a nonfiction book by Jon Krakauer that was later made into a full-length feature film. Into the Wild (Trailer) After graduating from Emory University in Georgia in 1990, McCandless traveled across North America and eventually hitchhiked to Alaska in April 1992. There, he entered the Alaskan bush with minimal supplies, hoping to live simply off the land. On the eastern bank of the Sushana River, McCandless found an abandoned bus, Fairbanks Bus 142, which he used as a makeshift shelter until his death. In September, his decomposing body, weighing only 67 pounds (30 kg), was found inside the bus by a hunter. McCandless's cause of death was officially ruled to be starvation,[4][5] although the exact circumstances relating to his death remain the subject of some debate.[6][7][8][9] In January 1993, Krakauer published an article about McCandless in that month's issue of Outside magazine. He had been assigned the story and had written it under a tight deadline.[10] Inspired by the details of McCandless's story, Krakauer wrote the biographical book Into the Wild, which was subsequently adapted into a 2007 film directed by Sean Penn, with Emile Hirsch portraying McCandless. That same year, McCandless became the subject of Ron Lamothe's documentary The Call of the Wild.

Overview Balaji S. Srinivasan (born May 24, 1980)[1] is an entrepreneur. He was co-founder of Counsyl, and is the former chief technology officer (CTO) of Coinbase and former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz.[2] Career In 2007, Srinivasan co-founded genetic testing company Counsyl, which provided tests to prospective parents to screen for Mendelian diseases.[1][2][5] Counsyl was acquired by Myriad Genetics for $375 million in 2018.[6][7] In 2013, Srinivasan joined Andreessen Horowitz as a general partner.[8] In April 2014, he co-founded Teleport, a job search engine. Teleport was acquired by Topia in 2017.[9][10] In 2013, Srinivasan co-founded 21.co, a Bitcoin mining startup that failed as a bitcoin mining business[11][non-primary source needed] but pivoted to become Earn.com, which allowed senders to pay users in digital currency to reply to emails.[1] Earn.com was acquired by digital currency exchange company Coinbase in April 2018 for over $100 million.[12][13] After Coinbase purchased Earn.com, it became Coinbase Earn and Srinivasan became Coinbase’s first CTO.[1][14][15] He left the company in 2019.[16] In 2020 Srinivasan moved to Singapore.[17] In July 2022, Srinivasan published The Network State: How To Start a New Country which coined the concept of a Network State which proposes the setting up of decentralized digital communities that crowdfund resources to build new autonomous cities and states.[18][19][20][21] The Network State https://thenetworkstate.com/

Energy Technology Health Care Financials Real Estate Materials Consumer Discretionary Industrials Utilities Consumer Staples Communications Cryptocurrency Energy The energy sector includes companies engaged in exploration and production of oil and other hydrocarbons, refining, the transportation of oil and gas, and production of oil and gas equipment. The sector is generally mature with modest growth. Some of the best-known companies: Chevron, ExxonMobil, Halliburton Popular sector ETF: Vanguard Energy ETF (VDE) Materials The materials sector includes companies that produce chemicals, glass, paper, forestry products, metals, packaging, construction materials and steel. It tends to be a mature industry with modest growth potential. Some of the best-known companies: Dow, DuPont, Sherwin-Williams Popular sector ETF: iShares Global Materials ETF (MXI) Industrials The industrials sector includes companies that manufacture aerospace and defense products, electrical equipment and construction equipment. It also includes companies providing security services, employment services, professional services and transportation services. This sector may show strong growth during economic booms. Some of the best-known companies: 3M, Caterpillar, Delta Air Lines Popular sector ETF: Vanguard Industrials ETF (VIS) Consumer discretionary The consumer discretionary sector includes companies that produce cars, durable goods, clothing and leisure equipment. It also includes restaurants, hotels and consumer retailing, among others. This sector is sensitive to economic cycles, so when the economy grows, these companies tend to grow much more quickly, though when it slows, this industry typically slows even more. Some of the best-known companies: Amazon, Ford Motor Company, Home Depot Popular sector ETF: Vanguard Consumer Discretionary ETF (VCR) Consumer staples The consumer staples sector includes companies that produce food, drinks and tobacco, and non-durable household goods as well as those retailers that sell food and drugs, including retailing supercenters. This industry tends to be mature with modest growth. Some of the best-known companies: Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, Walmart Popular sector ETF: Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLP) Health care The health care sector includes companies that provide health care services, as well as health care equipment and technology. It includes companies at all stages of pharmaceutical and biotech research, development and production. This sector can be dynamic and exhibits above-trend growth, with some very quickly growing companies. Some of the best-known companies: Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, UnitedHealth Popular sector ETF: Vanguard Healthcare ETF (VHT) Financials The financials sector consists of companies involved in banking, including mortgage and consumer finance, as well as investment banks, brokerage firms and insurance companies. The sector has shown robust growth and profitability, but can be affected significantly by the trend of interest rates, causing cyclicality. Some of the best-known companies: Bank of America, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan Chase Popular sector ETF: Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF) Information technology The information technology sector includes companies that produce software and other IT products and services. It also contains companies that manufacture hardware such as communications equipment, mobile phones, computers and semiconductor equipment. This sector has been a fast grower and contains some of the market’s largest companies. Some of the best-known companies: Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia Popular sector ETF: Vanguard Information Technology ETF (VGT) Communication services The communication services sector includes telecommunication and media companies, entertainment companies and those producing content and interactive games. This sector can offer significant growth opportunities as the world moves more online, but older companies face significant challenges from more dynamic entrants. Some of the best-known companies: Disney, Facebook, Verizon Popular sector ETF: Vanguard Communication Services ETF (VOX) Utilities The utilities sector includes companies providing electricity, gas and water (from conventional and environmentally friendly sources) as well as energy traders and distributors of energy. This sector is generally a slow and steady performer, rather than a growth sector. But “green” energy offers the promise of higher returns, although with higher risk. Some of the best-known companies: Dominion Energy, Duke Energy, NextEra Energy Popular sector ETF: Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU) Real estate The real estate sector includes real estate services companies, real estate developers and equity REITs. This sector may offer strong growth opportunities, but shows steady growth overall. Some of the best-known companies: American Tower, Public Storage, Simon Property Group Popular sector ETF: Vanguard Real Estate Index Fund (VNQ) Cryptocurrency Digital medium of exchange using cryptography on a ledger to secure transactions and to verify transfer of ownership.

Overview He is an American entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist. By the age of 33, Alex and his wife Leila’s portfolio of companies crossed $150M per year in revenue spanning: brick & mortar service, licensing, education, SAAS, and e-commerce. He is widely considered growth & monetization expert and is a guest contributor on Forbes & Entrepreneur. He and his wife now spend their time investing in founder-led service-based businesses to help them scale & multiply profits. They also donate millions to advancing equal access to education in underprivileged communities. (https://www.acquisition.com/)