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In an event co-hosted by Stern in Africa and NYU's Center for Global Affairs, Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will discuss the role the Private Sector can play in Africa's growth.

The Right Honourable Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and NYU’s first Distinguished Global Leader-in-Residence, presented a talk entitled "Global Economic Problems, Global Solutions," to more than 100 graduate students from NYU’s Stern School of Business, Wagner School of Public Service and the School of Arts & Science this fall.

On September 19 Brian Krzanich, CEO of Intel Corporation, joined Professor Michael Posner, Co-Director of the Center for Business and Human Rights, for a discussion on Intel’s conflict-free initiative in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Join hundreds of aspiring entrepreneurs from NYU’s student, alumni and faculty communities in Paulson Auditorium to hear about this year’s Entrepreneurs Challenge.

NYU Stern's Center for Global Economy and Business welcomes Jeremy Stein, former governor of the Federal Reserve Board, to speak at a public talk, entitled "Challenges for Monetary Policy."

This fall, NYU Stern and NYU’s Global Spiritual Life launched the Mindfulness in Business Initiative, which aims to integrate mindfulness into the core of leadership development for Stern MBA students. 

The NYU Stern Center for Global Economy and Business hosted the Economic Outlook Forum on September 3, 2014.

The 15th biennial conference of the International Society for Justice Research (ISJR) will convene academics and thought leaders in the field to discuss three major themes.

The 7th Annual Conference of the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE) will be held in Toronto at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management from June 11 to 13, 2014.

NYU Stern’s 2nd Annual Risk Management Symposium convened professors and industry practitioners to discuss current global risk issues.

The Macro-Financial Modeling Group will host its 2014 conference, focusing on sovereign credit risk and financial stability, at NYU Stern from May 30-31. 

The Leonard N. Stern School of Business Graduate Convocation Ceremony took place on Thursday, May 22, 2014 at Radio City Music Hall.

On May 9, 2014, the NYU Stern Center for Business Analytics, led by Professors Vasant Dhar and Anindya Ghose, hosted an all-day event to discuss trends and issues related to crowdfunding and crowdsourcing with industry experts and academics, including Stern Professors Ashwini Agarwal, Yannis Bakos, John Horton, Panos Ipeirotis, Natalia Levina and Arun Sundararajan, in the space.

As part of an annual tradition, NYU Stern faculty and guests gathered to celebrate the School’s community of scholars and to recognize excellence in research and scholarship, innovation, teaching and mentorship, and influence in business and policy.

On Friday, May 2, 2014, the Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions will host the Ninth Annual New York Fed/NYU Stern Conference on Financial Intermediation, co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Review of Financial Studies.

On April 26th, Stern in Africa will host the NYU Stern Africa Economic Forum 2014, themed, “The African Gold Rush: Realities of Africa’s Economic Growth and Potential.” The conference will present a balanced depiction of the current state of Africa, in addition to highlighting the promising transformations that are taking place across the continent.

On April 25, NYU Stern and NYU Law co-hosted the NYU Global Governance Roundtable: Building Ethical and Sustainable Global Companies.

At the conclusion of an eight-month competition, NYU’s most promising innovators received a combined $200,000 in start-up cash at the annual $200K Entrepreneurs Challenge, held by NYU Stern’s Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation.

Returning for its fifth edition, this provocative awards program, co-sponsored by Accenture and AT&T at NYU Skirball, celebrates the new frontiers of disruptive innovation in collaboration with Harvard professor Clayton Christensen.

The Sixth Annual NYU Stern Volatility Institute Conference convened academics, practitioners and regulators to discuss the latest research and ideas on this year’s theme, “Market Liquidity and Funding Liquidity: Implications for Economic Risk.” 

On April 23, NYU Stern’s Center for Real Estate Finance Research hosted their third annual Spring Symposium.

As a part of the Conversations on Urbanization series held by NYU Stern’s Urbanization Project, Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, spoke with Paul Romer, Director of the Urbanization Project, Interim Director of NYU's Marron Institute on Cities and the Urban Environment and Professor of Economics, in a public presentation on April 22.

Anita Raghavan, author of The Billionaire’s Apprentice and contributor to The New York Times and Forbes, delivered the Ninth Annual Haitkin Lecture at NYU Stern this spring. 

MBA students celebrated the final weeks before graduation at the 2014 Bowling Night with President John Sexton and Dean Peter Henry.

The Right Honorable Gordon Brown, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, addressed an audience of students and alumni in NYU Stern’s Paulson auditorium on April 8. He delivered the 2014 Ashok Sani (BS ’74) Distinguished Scholar Lecture, entitled, “Current Trends in the World Economy,” in honor of Ashok Sani, an Undergraduate College alumnus who had served on the School’s Board of Overseers.