The Annual Corporate Conference

About the Corporate Conference

The Council on Foreign Relations' annual Corporate Conference takes place each spring at CFR's headquarters in New York. Open exclusively to CFR corporate members, the conference offers a unique opportunity for senior executives from a variety of industries to gather with their peers for candid dialogue on the pressing global issues affecting business, competitiveness, and the economic outlook.

The tenth annual Corporate Conference kicks off the evening of Thursday, March 7, and runs through the day on Friday, March 8, at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

To secure your place, register now by contacting the Corporate Program at 212.434.9684 or corporate@cfr.org.

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Ginni Rometty Ginni Rometty, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of IBM, and David M. Rubenstein, Cofounder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Carlyle Group, in the opening plenary session

Friday, March 8, 2013

Roger Altman Roger C. Altman, Founder and Executive Chairman of Evercore Partners, and CFR President Richard N. Haass, with ABC News Special Correspondent JuJu Chang, on U.S. competitiveness

Timothy F. GeithnerTimothy F. Geithner, former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, and Robert E. Rubin, former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, on the economy

Jack GoldstoneJack Goldstone, Virginia E. and John T. Hazel Jr. Professor; Director, Center for Global Policy, George Mason University; and Susan Lund, Principal, McKinsey Global Insitute; with Gideon Rose, Peter G. Peterson Chair and Editor, Foreign Affairs, on demographic trends

Henry KissingerHenry A. Kissinger, Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., and former U.S. Secretary of State; and Charlie Rose, Executive Editor and Anchor, Charlie Rose; Anchor, CBS This Morning, on global hot spots

Check our member list to see if you are employed by a corporate member company.

Conference Highlights (2008–2012)

Madeleine K. Albright and Richard N. Haass

Former U.S. secretary of state Madeleine K. Albright and CFR President Richard N. Haass discuss the geopolitical state of the world at the 2012 Corporate Conference.

Jeffrey R. Immelt and Maria Bartiromo

Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman and CEO, General Electric, opened the 2011 conference with CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo.

Kenneth Feinberg

Opening keynote speaker Kenneth Feinberg takes a question from the audience at the 2010 Corporate Conference. Watch the conversation.

Alan Blinder, Nouriel Roubini, Robert E. Rubin, and Chrystia Freeland

Economists Alan Blinder and Nouriel Roubini and former treasury secretary Robert E. Rubin participate in a plenary session on the U.S. economy at the 2010 Corporate Conference.

David M. Rubenstein

David M. Rubenstein, cofounder and managing director of The Carlyle Group, gives the closing keynote address at the 2010 Corporate Conference.

Fareed Zakaria

Fareed Zakaria, author, host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS, and editor-at-large of Time magazine, joins CFR President Richard N. Haass in addressing geopolitical risks and challenges at the 2010 conference.

Robert Greifeld

Nasdaq-OMX chief executive officer Robert Greifeld responds to an audience question at the opening keynote session of the 2009 Corporate Conference.

Timothy Geithner

Timothy Geithner, then-president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and treasury secretary, addresses CFR corporate members in 2008. Watch his full remarks.