Moderated by personal finance expert Jean Chatzky
Best selling author and contributor to The Today Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show.
Introductory Remarks by Ben S. Bernanke Chairman,
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Douglas Michelman
Global Head of Corporate Relations
The Honorable Anna Escobedo Cabral
U.S. Treasurer
Chris Gardner
Author, Activist and Chief Executive Officer of Christopher Gardner International Holdings. Mr. Gardner's rise from poverty was chronicled in the film The Pursuit of Happyness
Vice Admiral (retired) Cutler Dawson
President and Chief Executive Officer of Navy Federal Credit Union, Member of the President's Council on Financial Literacy
Dr. Constantine W. (Deno) Curris
President of the American Association of State Colleges & Universities
Susan C. Keating
President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling
Scott Duncombe
President, Student Government The University of Chicago
Dr. Constantine W. (Deno) Curris - President of the American Association of State Colleges & Universities
In 1999, Constantine W. (Deno) Curris became president of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, which is a national association of more than 400 public colleges and universities. Dr. Curris has served as president at three universities: Murray State University for 10 years, the University of Northern Iowa for 12 years, and Clemson University for more than four years.
Dr. Curris is a committed advocate for public higher education and a proponent of the qualitative strengthening of higher education institutions to meet public needs and expectations in the 21st century. Dr. Curris has been appointed to the1998 Commission on the Future of the South, the Kellogg Commission on the Future of State and Land-Grant Universities, the Education Commission of the States, the Iowa Board of Economic Development, the South Carolina Research Authority, The Sigma Chi Foundation, and the chairmanships of American Humanics and the Iowa Task Force on Teacher Education and Certification. Dr. Curris received his baccalaureate and doctorate degrees from the University of Kentucky, and his master's from the University of Illinois. He is married and has two children.
