Through his platform RamsayTalks, Bob has provided a space for thought leaders and entrepreneurs to share their wisdom with large audiences across the world, hosting discussions with everyone from Malcolm Gladwell and Tracy Kidder to Tony Hsieh and Howard Schultz. Bob is pleased to invite all Ivy alums to join the next two RamsayTalks Online as his guests.
April 7, 2021 - 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. EST
Presentation by Mark Carney, former head of the Bank of England and author of Value(s): Building A Better World for All.
"Since leaving his post last year as Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney has worked as the U.N. Special Envoy for the Climate Action and Finance, and the Vice-Chair and Head of Impact Fund Investing at Brookfield Asset Management.
He's also written an important book, praised by everyone from Christine Lagarde to Bono. Value(s): Building a Better World for All, is about the need to build an economy and society not on market values but on human ones.
Mark Carney will join us in conversation with another pioneer in transforming the values of the marketplace, Zita Cobb, the founder of the Fogo Island Inn and of the Shorefast Foundation."
To attend this event, go to https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mark-carney-speaks-about-values-at-the-april-7-ramsaytalk-tickets-145311962993 and select "Tickets", enter promo code IVYRAMSAY and it will reveal a free ticket for IVY.
April 29, 2021 - 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. ESTPresentation by Minouche Shafik, director of the London School of Economics and author of What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society. "Minouche Shafik is the Director of the London School of Economics. At 36, she became the youngest-ever Vice President of the World Bank and has since been the Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
Her new book, What We Owe Each Other: A New Social Contract for a Better Society, is an urgent rethinking of how we must support each other in order to thrive. Melinda Gates calls it 'a powerful and persuasive moral arguement,' and Christine Lagarde says it is 'a must-read recipe for the improvement of our life together.'
Minouche Shafik will join us in conversation with Heather Monroe-Blum, the Chair of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and former Principal of McGill University.
To attend this event, go to https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ramsaytalks-online-with-minouche-shafik-tickets-138666999729 and select "Tickets", enter promo code IVYRAMSAY and it will reveal a free ticket.
| October 22 at 6 p.m.Leadership in International Journalism: A Conversation with Award-Winning Reporter Ben Taub '14A staff writer for The New Yorker since 2017, Taub has written about jihadi recruitment in Europe, war crimes in Syria, battlefield medicine, and human trafficking. In 2017, Taub's work on Syria, which was supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, was short-listed for a National Magazine Award and won The Livingston Award for International Reporting, the Robert F. Kennedy Award for International Print reporting, and the ASME Next Award for Journalists Under 30. in 2018, he was named one of Forbes's 30 Under 30 in Media.
February 26 at 6:30 p.m.
Leadership in the Entertainment Industry: A Conversation with Robert Kraft, Grammy and Oscar-nominated Film Composer and Record ProducerRobert Kraft is an award-winning songwriter, film composer, recording artist and record producer. As President of Fox Music from 1994 to 2012, Kraft was the Executive in Charge of Music for more than 300 Fox feature films, as well as dozens of TV shows. Highlights during his tenure at Fox include the record-breaking scores and soundtracks from Titanic, Moulin Rouge, Garden State, Walk the Line, Slumdog Millionaire, Juno, and Once. As a songwriter, Kraft has earned Academy Award, Grammy Award, and Golden Globe nominations.
February 22 at 6 p.m."Off the Record" Career NightBy popular demand, we have organized Ivy's second annual Career Night, an opportunity for undergraduate members to glean career advice from Ivy graduates working in a variety of fields. Among the careers represented by our visiting Ivy graduates are start-ups, law, non-profits, politics, consulting, academia and real estate. Please RSVP by sending an e-mail to julia.wilson@theivyclub.net to reserve your spot at the event, which includes a cocktail hour, keynote interview with Ro Gupta '00, Founder/CEO of Carmera, and dinner.
November 8 at 6:30 p.m.Leadership that Empowers the Vulnerable: A Conversation with Margaret Crotty '94, Executive Director of Partnership with ChildrenIvy graduate member Margaret Crotty '94 has a long history of leadership in education and public health in the nonprofit and private sectors. Prior to joining Partnership with Children, a nonprofit organization that provides critical counseling and intervention to 17,000 students in New York, Crotty launched and managed Save the Children International's $2 billion initiative to reduce child mortality in the developing world. Previously, she was the President CEO of AFS-USA, which has provided intercultural exchanges for other 300,000 high school students since 1947. She graduated with honors from Princeton University and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPH from Columbia University.
October 10 at 6:30 p.m.Behind the Spotlight: A Conversation with Pete Austin '93, Senior Broadcast Producer at Good Morning AmericaPete Austin ’93 began his career the summer before his senior year with a one-week internship at the 1992 National Convention. Since then, he has worked at ABC News—with a brief hiatus in 2000 to explore the dot com world—where he served as a senior producer for Nightline. In 2015, he was named Senior Broadcast Producer at Good Morning America, where he currently line produces the show Monday through Friday. Austin has helped earn two Emmys for ABC in recognition of outstanding breaking news coverage. |
