Risk Spotting at Bloomberg

Monday, June 7, 2010
Speakers
Sebastian Mallaby
Director, Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
Jami Miscik
President and Vice-Chairman, Kissinger Associates Inc.
Jonathan Weil
Columnist, Bloomberg News
Moderators
Eric Schatzker
Bloomberg Television

Experts analyze global risk on the political, geoeconomic, and corporate horizon. This meeting was cosponsored with Bloomberg.

© 2010 Bloomberg L.P. All rights reserved. Used with permission.

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