Thursday, November 14, 2024 

(David Rockefeller Fellows Program - PART 1)


Venue: Sycamore Room at Rosewood Sand Hill 

11:15am: Shuttle Departure from Four Seasons East Palo Alto to Rosewood Sand Hill


11:30am: DRF Registration Desk Opens at Rosewood Sand Hill (Sycamore Room) 

            

12:00-1:30pm: Welcome Lunch at Courtyard Trellises 

1:30-1:45pm: Opening Remarks by Richard Fontaine, Executive Director, Trilateral Commission North America and Caroline Pestel & Connor Lyons, DRF Co-Chairs  

1:45-2:15pm: The Future of Clean Energy & Technology 

  • Devin Hampton, CEO, UtilityAPI

  • Reema Khan, Founder & CEO, Green Sands Equity

  • Moderator: Connor Lyons, David Rockefeller Fellow (Canada) & Partner, Head of Strategic Initiatives and Sustainability, Power Sustainable 

2:15-2:45pm: Coffee & Tea Break at Courtyard Trellises 


2:45pm-3:30pm: The Future of Finance

  • Jared Cohen, President of Global Affairs, Goldman Sachs

  • Dr. Antonio Ortiz-Mena, Founder, AOM Advisors & Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

  • Moderator:  Joe Hurd, Director, Lloyd’s

3:30pm-3:45pm: Health Break

3:45pm-4:15pm: Political & Economic Outlook in North America in 2024 

  • Amb. John Negroponte, Former U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, the United Nations, and Iraq

  • Pablo Tortolero, David Rockefeller Fellow (Mexico) & Manager, 2026 USMCA Review Team 

  • Nik Nanos, CM, ICD.D, Chief Data Scientist and Founder, Nanos Research 

  • Moderator: Alma Caballero, David Rockefeller Fellow (USA) & Managing Director, McLarty Associates


4:15pm-5:00pm: Managing the China Relationship

  • Prof. Jessica Chen Weiss, David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University  

  • The Honourable Senator Yuen Pau Woo, Senate of Canada

  • Richard Fontaine, Executive Director, Trilateral Commission North America & CEO, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

  • Moderator: Steven Wang, David Rockefeller Fellow (Canada) & Lecturer at Harvard Law School 

5:15pm-7:00pm: DRF Welcome Reception, Poolside at Rosewood Sand Hill

7:00pm: Shuttle Bus Departure from Rosewood to Four Seasons East Palo Alto