Katherine Marshall, Sr. Advisor, World Bank; Executive Director, World Faiths Development Dialogue.

Paul Krugman, 2008 Nobel Economist and Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University

Paul R. Krugman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, and Columnist, New York Times. "The Future of Social Security " at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, as part of the WWS Washington Seminar Series.

Pt 1 WELCOME & OPENING REMARK Richard F. Keevey, Director, Policy Research Institute for the Region OPENING ADDRESS: FINANCIAL REGULATION and the RESPONSIBILITY of the UNITED STATES CONGRESS Honorable James A. Leach, former Chairman, Banking and Financial Services Committee, United States Congress, and currently John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Pt 3: LOOMING THREATS IN THE PUBLIC FINANCE ARENA Opening Comments and Moderator: Joseph Fichera, CEO and Senior Managing Partner, Saber Partners, LLC and Visiting Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University Panelists: Nancy Feldman, Director of Public Finance, Department of Treasury, State of New Jersey John l. Kraft, Bond Counsel, Lomurro, Davison, Eastman & Munoz, P.A. Christopher A. Taylor, PhD & CFA, Consultant and Former Executive Director, Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board

Pt 4: LUNCHEON SPEAKER Alan Blinder, PhD, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, and Co-Director of Princeton’s Center for Economic Policy Studies, and former Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve Board

Pt 5: PUTTING IT ALL INTO CONTEXT Susan M. Wachter, PhD, Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate and Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and former Assistant Secretary for Policy and Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Speaker: Alan Blinder, a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, the Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and co-director of Princeton's Center for Economic Policy Studies

Przemyslaw Grudzinski, Polish Ambassador to the U.S

David Nash, Ret. Rear Admiral, President, Government Group, BE&K

Moderated by: Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Panelists include: Dr. David Grande, MPA '05 candidate; Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy; Professor of Economics and Public Affairs; Paul Starr, Professor of Sociology

Moderated by: Stanley N. Katz, Lecturer with rank of Professor of Public and International Affairs Panel Discussants: Douglas S. Massey, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School; Marta Tienda, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School; Nelson Carrasquillo, Executive Director, Comite de Apoya a los Trabajadores; Rick Nahmias, writer and photographer; Keith Talbot, Director, Legal Services of the New Jersey Farmworker Project

Richard Parker, Economist and Lecturer in Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Edward Morse, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Energy Policy; Executive Advisor, Hess Energy Trading Company

Christine Todd Whitman, former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; former Governor of New Jersey

Rajiv Vinnakota, Co-founder and Managing Director of The SEED Foundation

Kevin Bales, President, Free the Slaves, Inc.

Jacques deLarosiere, former President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD); former Head of the International Monetary Fund

Katherine Marshall, MPA '69, Director, Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics and Counselor to the President of the World Bank

Wendell Primus, Minority Staff Director, Joint Economic Committee for the U.S. Congress

Peter R. Orszag '91, Senior Fellow of Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution

Peter D. Bell *64, President, Care

Isobel Coleman, Senior Fellow. US Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations

John D. Gerhart, President Emeritus of the American University of Cairo

Sarah P.C. Wu, Director, Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office

Joel Handler, Richard C. Maxwell Professor of Law Professor of Policy Studies, School of Public Policy and Social Research, UCLA Law School

David de Ferranti, *78, Vice President, Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank

Sever Plocker, Chief Economics Editor; Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Yedioth Abaronot

Paul Krugman, WWS Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Nobel Laureate, and New York Times columnist. Moderated by Jim Leach, WWS Visiting Professor, former Republican Congressman representing Iowa, former Chair of the House Banking and Financial Services Committee

Pt 1: T&E’s STEP CHILD: AN EFFICIENT SYSTEM of FREE PUBLIC SCHOOLS Paul L. Tractenberg, Esq., Board of Governors Distinguished Professor and Alfred C. Clapp Distinguished Public Service Professor of Law, Rutgers School of Law – Newark

Pt 2: CONSOLIDATION THE ULTIMATE EFFICIENCY APPROACH: IS IT? Ernest Reock, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University Honorable Joseph Cryan, Chairman, Assembly Education Committee, New Jersey Legislature Michael Ritacco, Superintendent, Toms River School District Gerald Vernotica, Assistant Commissioner for Field Services, New Jersey Department of Education

Pt 3: RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN EFFICIENCY MEASURES and SCHOOL FORMULAE Thomas Corcoran, Co-Director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University David Hespe, Associate Professor, Educational Leadership Department, Rowan University Gordon MacInnes, Senior Education Policy Expert, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Pt 4: KEYNOTE SPEAKER -- A Long Range View of Education Reform Hugh B. Price, The Weinberg/Sachs Visiting Professor Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University and former President, The National Urban League

Keynote Address: "The Return of Depression Economics?" Paul Krugman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs; 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics

Jeff Schott, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics

OPENING ADDRESS: Transportation and Infrastructure Needs for the Region Honorable Anthony R. Coscia, Chairman of the Board, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION “AUTHORIZATION” MODERATOR: Richard F. Keevey, Director, Policy Research Institute, Princeton University Anne P. Canby, President, Surface Transportation Policy Partnership Peter J. “Jack” Basso, Director of Program Finance and Management, American Association of State and Highway Transportation Officials Robert Puentes, Senior Fellow and Director of Metropolitan Infrastructure Initiative, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC

FINANCING of INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS Moderator: Martin Robins, Senior Policy Fellow, Voorhees Transportation center, Rutgers University Astrid C. Glynn, Commissioner, Department of Transportation, State of New York Stephen Dilts, Commissioner, Department of Transportation, State of New Jersey Michael Replogle, Senior Fellow for Transportation Projects, Environmental Defense Fund)

LUNCHEON SPEAKER Mortimer L. Downey, Chairman, Pb Consult, Inc. and former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Transportation

CLIMATE CHANGE: INTEGRATING TRANSPORTATION, ENERGY, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND HEALTH Moderator & Presenter: Robert B. Noland, Professor and Director, Voorhees Transportation Center –Rutgers University Rae Zimmerman, Professor of Planning & Public Administration, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University Alain L. Kornhauser, Dir., Program in Transportation, and Professor, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University

- Alice Rivlin, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution and former Vice-Chairman of the Federal Reserve; former Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO); and former Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) - Brian Riedl, Grover M. Hermann Fellow for Federal Budgetary Affairs, Heritage Foundation; former Staff Analyst for Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson - Diane Lim Rogers, Chief Economist at the Concord Coalition; former Chief Economist for the House Budget Committee - Eugene Steuerle, Vice President, The Peterson Foundation; former Senior Fellow at the Urban Institute; and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Tax Analysis

Paul Krugman, professor in the Department of Economics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, 2008 Nobel Laureate in Economics and New York Times columnist talks about his book: `The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008`