The Economic Club of New York (est. 1907) is an American nonprofit and nonpartisan membership organization dedicated to promoting the study and discussion of social, economic and political questions. Founded in 1907, it regularly hosts prestigious guest speakers at its member only dinners and luncheons, which are open to the press, and thereby serves as forum for discussion on a wide range of public issues of interest to business people. Its membership is composed of representatives from the top executive levels of business, industry and finance.

History

Founded in 1907 by J.W. Beatson, Secretary of the National Economic League in Boston, and four business leaders from New York City, the Club's founders sought to follow the example of the Economic Clubs of Boston, Providence, Worcester, Portland, Springfield, and New Haven with the aim of bringing business people and professionals together for serious discussions of economic, social and other public issues in a non-partisan forum.

For over a century, the Club has been a prominent forum in which notable figures from a variety of fields have opined on issues of national and international importance.

The Club has been host to over 1,000 eminent leaders at its speaker's dais. The Club’s audiences have heard from future, current, and past presidents of the United States, including: Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

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, William H. Taft, Herbert Hoover

Herbert Hoover

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, Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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, John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

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, Richard Nixon

Richard Nixon

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, Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan

Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

, and George H.W. Bush. Among the many distinguished foreign leaders to address the Club have been Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...

, Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Gorbachev

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, Indira Gandhi

Indira Gandhi

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, Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...

, Yitzak Rabin, Corazon Aquino

Corazon Aquino

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, and Zhu Rongji

Zhu Rongji

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Other Guests of Honor have included central bankers, justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, secretaries general of the United Nations

United Nations

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, governors and heads of international business enterprises, as well as many key cabinet members, military leaders, ambassadors, and scientific innovators.

The Club also has a long tradition of selecting outstanding leaders to guide the organization itself. Its membership represents a cross-section of leaders from the nation's business, financial, and public policy world: lawyers, bankers, industrialists, political figures, the news media, diplomats - persons bringing to it a wide variety of experience, insight and attainment.

Officers

Chairman
R. Glenn Hubbard,
Dean, Columbia Business School,
Columbia University

Columbia University

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Vice Chairman
Andrew H. Tisch,
Co-Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Executive Committee,
Loews Corporation

Loews Corporation

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Secretary
Landon Hillard,
Partner,
Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

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General Counsel
David R. Baker,
Of Counsel,
Haskell Slaughter Young & Rediker, LLC

Trustees

Kevin Burke

Kevin Burke (CEO)

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, Chairman of the Board & CEO, ConEdison

Betsy Z. Cohen, Chairman & CEO, The Bancorp, Inc.

Roger W. Ferguson, JR., President & Chief Executive Officer, TIAA- CREF

Susie Gharib

Susie Gharib

Susie Gharib, born in 1950, is a leading business news journalist and co-anchor of PBS' Nightly Business Report— television’s most watched evening business news program....

, Anchor & Senior Strategic Advisor, Nightly Business Report

Nightly Business Report

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Gerald L. Hassell, President, The Bank of New York Mellon

Ann F. Kaplan, Chair, Circle Financial Group

Sallie Krawcheck

Sallie Krawcheck

Sallie L. Krawcheck , is the former president of the Global Wealth & Investment Management division of Bank of America. GWIM includes Merrill Lynch and U.S. Trust, the largest wealth management business in the world at $2.3 trillion in client assets...

, President, Global Wealth & Investment Management, Bank of America Corp.

David Malpass

David Malpass

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, President, Encima Global LLC

William R. Rhodes

William R. Rhodes

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, Senior Vice Chairman, Citigroup, Inc., Senior Vice Chairman, Citibank, N.A

Matthew Winkler

Matthew Winkler

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, Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg News

Michael Cavanagh

Michael Cavanagh

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, Executive Vice President & CFO, JPMorgan Chase

William Dudley

William Dudley

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, President & CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Federal Reserve Bank of New York

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Cono R. Fusco, Retired Managing Partner, Strategic Relationships, Grant Thornton, LLP

Jane Hartley, Chief Executive Officer, Observatory Group, LLC

Susan L. Hullin, Managing Partner, Hullin Metz & Co., LLC

Karen Katen, Senior Advisor, Essex Woodlands

Martin Lipton

Martin Lipton

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, Senior Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

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James Quigley, Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

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Jerry I. Speyer, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Tishman Speyer