# Haitkin Lecture

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Events

##  Haitkin Lecture

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The annual Haitkin Lecture is a forum dedicated to the examination of issues of integrity and ethics in business. It is a special opportunity that allows for Stern students to listen to and ask questions of extraordinary individuals from academia, practice and the press. The Haitkin Lecture was established through the generosity of Stern alumnus Jeffrey Haitkin, BS ’68.

Past speakers include:

- **Jonathan Haidt**
Author of *The Anxious Generation* and NYU Stern Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership
- **Brad Smith**
Vice Chair and President, Microsoft
- **Daniel Lubetzky**
Founder and executive chairman of KIND Snacks
- **Saru Jayaraman**
Co-founder and co-director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) and director of the Food Labor Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley
- **Preet Bharara**
Lawyer and former US Attorney for the Southern District of New York
- **Jane Mayer**
Investigative journalist and author of *Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires*
- **Seema Saifee**
Staff attorney for the Innocence Project
- **Anita Raghavan**
Author of *The Billionaire’s Apprentice* and contributor to *The New York Times* and *Forbes*
- **Kurt Eichenwald**
Author of *Conspiracy of Fools*
- **Nell Minow**
Founder of The Corporate Library, author and noted shareholder activist
- **Marc Rotenberg**
Executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
- **Thomas Ekeli**
Investment director in the asset management department of the Norwegian Ministry of Finance
- **Rosanne Haggerty**
Founder of Common Ground
- **Simon Johnson**
Author of *13 Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover* *and the* *Next Financial Meltdown*
- **Paul Volcker**
Former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board
- **Neil Barofsky**
Former inspector general of TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program) and former federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York.