Moderator

Matt Miller

Senior Advisor
McKinsey & Company, Washington Post columnist and
host of public radio's "Left, Right & Center"

Matt Miller is a Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company, where he provides counsel on strategic communications and serves clients in the firm's health care, strategy, public sector, and education practices, and advises the McKinsey Global Institute, the firm's in-house economics think-tank. In his public policy work, Matt is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a weekly columnist at WashingtonPost.com; and host of "Left, Right & Center," public radio's popular week-in-review program. Matt's first book, "The Two Percent Solution" (2003), was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. His new book is "The Tyranny of Dead Ideas: Letting Go of the Old Ways of Thinking to Unleash a New Prosperity."

Panelist

Laura Callanan

Senior Expert
Social Sector Office, McKinsey & Company

Laura Callanan joined the Social Sector Office of McKinsey & Co in 2008. Laura leads the Learning for Social Impact initiative, as well as McKinsey's work on sustainable capitalism and social investing. She is one of the lead authors on our new report on Social Impact Bonds.

Laura served as Senior Adviser at the United Nations Development Programme in the Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery. As Executive Director of The Prospect Hill Foundation, Laura led all aspects of the Foundation’s strategy development and grantmaking. As Associate Director at The Rockefeller Foundation, Laura had responsibility for the Foundation’s venture capital and private equity portfolio, and was a member of the Foundation’s Program Venture Experiment (ProVenEx) commitment committee overseeing investment decisions for program-related investments and similar public-private activities.

Laura is an adjunct professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business where she teaches on the nonprofit capital marketplace.

Panelist

Tracy Palandjian

Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder
Social Finance, Inc.

For more than a decade, Tracy has dedicated herself to building a more impactful and effective nonprofit sector and to re-imagining the role of the capital markets in enabling social progress. Inspired by her work with its sister organization in the UK, Tracy co-founded Social Finance, Inc. in January 2011. Prior to Social Finance, Tracy was a Managing Director for 11 years at The Parthenon Group, a global strategy consulting firm, where she established and led the Nonprofit Practice and worked with foundations and NGOs to accomplish their missions in the U.S. and globally. She is co-author of Investing for Impact: Case Studies Across Asset Classes, a report a that provides an important view on the evolution of the impact investing industry.

Prior to Parthenon, Tracy worked at Wellington Management Co. and McKinsey & Co. She is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Facing History and Ourselves, and serves on the boards of the Robert F. Kennedy Center, Affiliated Managers Group (NYSE: AMG), and Agassi Graf Holdings. She is also a member of the Investment Committee of Milton Academy. A native of Hong Kong, Tracy is fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, with a B.A. in Economics, and holds an M.B.A. with high distinction from Harvard Business School where she was a Baker Scholar.

Panelist

Jeffrey Liebman

Professor
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Jeffrey B. Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy, teaches courses in social policy, public sector economics, and American economic policy. In his research, he studies tax and budget policy, social insurance, poverty, and income inequality. Recent research has examined the impacts of government programs such as the Earned Income Tax Credit, Social Security, and housing vouchers. During the first two years of the Obama Administration, Liebman served at OMB, first as Executive Associate Director and Chief Economist and then as Acting Deputy Director. From 1998 to 1999, Liebman served as Special Assistant to the President for economic policy and coordinated the Clinton Administration’s Social Security reform technical working group. Liebman received his BA from Yale University and his MA and PhD in economics from Harvard.