Authors

Olga Bitel is a global strategist at William Blair where she develops economic research and analysis that distills macroeconomic and geopolitical…

Sarah Breen Bartecki joined the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in 2024, serving as the chief revenue officer and senior vice president of…

David Luhnow is the U.K. bureau chief at The Wall Street Journal. Before that, he was editor for Latin America. David grew up in Mexico to…

Brendan Carroll is a senior partner at Victory Park Capital Advisors (VPC), which he co-founded in 2007. He is responsible for strategic…

Maggie Westdale is the business chief financial officer for Aon, where she is responsible for managing the financial results across functions,…

Fairbank is also an adjunct assistant professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He received his MBA…

A Manhattan native who, since 2000, has been proud to call Chicago home, Levinson is civically active as a non-profit board member, volunteer…

Joe McCluskey is currently a founder and principal at JTM Advisory, an information technology and services company. He brings experience from…

Shores earned his BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. A leader in Chicago civic and charitable affairs, he…

Stephen Haggerty is currently a principal and founder at Bare Hill, an advisory platform focused on hospitality and wellness-related assets. He…