
To further the ACCF mission of public policy to stabilize and grow the economy, the ACCF is hosting a webinar series “U.S. Economic Policy in the COVID Economy: The Challenges for President Biden and the 117th Congress.”
Building on our ACCF forums and “Washington‘s Last Salon,” which we’ve now hosted over four decades, these webinars are 30-minute conversations with prominent Democrat and Republican members of Congress, former and current economic policymakers, and business leaders from the broad spectrum of the US economy.
We invite you to view our presentations below:
April 9, 2020: Lawrence Summers, former Treasury Secretary
April 16, 2020: Alan Murray, Fortune Magazine CEO
April 21, 2020: Steve Wechsler, President & CEO of NAREIT
April 23, 2020: Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD)
April 28, 2020: Doug Holtz-Eakin, former Congressional Budget Office Director
April 29, 2020: Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI)
May 1, 2020: Dan Poneman, President & CEO of Centrus Energy
May 4, 2020: Congressman Tom Reed (R-NY)
May 6, 2020: Congressman Phil Roe (R-TN)
May 12, 2020: Congressman Kevin Brady (R-TX), Ranking Republican House Ways & Means Committee
May 15, 2020: Jim Matheson, CEO of NRECA
May 18, 2020: Karen Kerrigan, President & CEO of Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council
May 21, 2020: Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT), Chief Deputy Whip, House Democratic Caucus
May 22, 2020: Susan Neely, President and CEO of the American Council of Life Insurers
May 26, 2020: Mike Sommers, President and CEO of the American Petroleum Institute and Chet Thompson, President and CEO of the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers
May 28, 2020: Rep. Marc Veasey (D-TX)
June 2, 2020: Mark Zandi, Moody’s Analytics Chief Economist
June 3, 2020: Adam Sieminski, President of the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies & Research Center (KAPSARC)
June 9, 2020: Congresswoman Gwen Moore (D-WI)
June 11, 2020: Mark W. Menezes, Under Secretary of Energy
June 16, 2020: Karl Rove and Jim Messina
June 18, 2020: Governor Asa Hutchinson (R-AR)
June 23, 2020: Martha Barcena, Mexican Ambassador to the U.S. and Kirsten Hillman, Canadian Ambassador to the U.S.
June 30, 2020: Governor Chris Sununu (R-NH)
July 2, 2020: Joshua Bolten, President and CEO of the Business Roundtable
August 6, 2020: Tom Ridge, Former Secretary of Homeland Security and Chuck Hagel, Former Secretary of Defense
August 20, 2020: Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)
September 15, 2020: Kevin Hassett, former CEA Chairman under President Trump
September 24, 2020: Former Congressman Joe Crowley (D-NY)
October 13, 2020: Nomaindiya Mfeketo, South Africa’s Ambassador to the U.S.
November 17, 2020: Daniel Yergin, Vice Chairman of IHS Market and author of The Impacts of Geopolitics, Climate and the Coronavirus on Energy
December 16, 2020: Bob Carroll, Co-Director of Ernst & Young’s U.S. National Tax Quantitative Economics and Statistics Group
December 17, 2020: Greg Ip, Chief Economics Correspondent for The Wall Street Journal
February 3, 2021: Sol Trujillo, Global Business Executive
February 17, 2021: Paul Gigot, Editorial Page Editor and Vice President of The Wall Street Journal
February 21, 2021: Climate Policies in the New Era: the US & the EU with former EPA Administrator Carol Browner, former EPA Administrator William Reilly, and Andy Brogan, Oil & Leader at Ernst & Young London
February 24, 2021: Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources
March 10, 2021: Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), Ranking Republican, House Ways & Means Committee
March 18, 2021: Gillian Tett, Chair, Editorial Board, Editor-at-large, US, Financial Times
April 7, 2021: Rob Nichols, President and CEO of American Bankers Association
April 13, 2021: H.E. Dina Kawar, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Jordan

April 20, 2021: Senator Todd Young (R-IN)
April 22, 2021: Rep. Mike Simpson (R-ID) and panel discussion on ACCF white paper on nuclear energy
May 11, 2021: Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA)
May 13, 2021: Bob Cusack, Editor-in-Chief of The Hill
May 20, 2021: R. Glenn Hubbard, former CEA Chairman under President George W. Bush
June 3, 2021: Ken Duberstein, Chairman and CEO of The Duberstein Group and former Chief of Staff to President Ronald Reagan
June 24, 2021: Austan Goolsbee, former CEA Chairman under President Barack Obama
July 15, 2021: Phillip Swagel, Congressional Budget Office Director
July 29, 2021: Reps Kurt Schrader (D-OR) and David McKinley
September 16, 2021: Lou Von Thaer, President and CEO, Battelle Memorial Institute
September 30, 2021: Senator Angus King (I-ME)
October 7: Dan Brouillette, former U.S. Secretary of Energy
November 11: Joe Lieberman, former U.S. Senator and Democratic Vice-Presidential Nominee
November 18: Mark Weinberger, Global Business Executive and former Asst Secretary of Treasury under President George W. Bush
December 1: Max Baucus, former Ambassador to China and U.S. Senator (D-MT)
December 14, 2021: Lawrence Summers, former Treasury Secretary
January 27, 2022: Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL), Chairman of the House Energy Subcommittee
February 10, 2022: Todd Snitchler, President & CEO, Electric Power Supply Association
February 17, 2022: Rep Garret Graves (R-LA)
February 23, 2022: Philippe Étienne, French Ambassador to the U.S.
March 22, 2022: Former IRS Commissioners David Kautter and John Koskinen
April 27, 2022: House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-LA)
May 12, 2022: Gerald F. Seib, Washington Executive Editor, The Wall Street Journal
May 26, 2022: Ernest Moniz, former Secretary of Energy
June 8, 2022: Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
June 16, 2022: Alan Murray, CEO of Fortune Media
September 15, 2022: H.E. Stavros Lambrinidis, Ambassador of the European Union to the United States
October 20, 2022: Vince Molinari, Founder and CEO of FINTECH.TV
December 1, 2022: Jon Hilsenrath, Editor at The Wall Street Journal, on “Yellen: The Trailblazing Economist Who Navigated an Era of Upheaval”
February 23, 2023: Sebastian Mallaby on his latest book, The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future”
March 1, 2023: H.E. Dame Karen Pierce, British Ambassador to the US
March 2: Theodore Boutrous, Partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP on Climate Litigation
May 22: Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) and industry experts on LNG