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Gary Cohn
Vice Chairman, IBM, Former Director, NEC, Former President & COO, Goldman Sachs

As Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council (2017-2018), Gary Cohn managed the US economic policy agenda, stimulating economic expansion, job creation, and wage increases through historic tax and regulatory reform. Prior to that he was the President and Chief Operating Officer at Goldman Sachs where he worked for more than 25 years.


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Martin Wheatley
Former CEO, UK Financial Conduct Authority Former CEO, Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission

Martin Wheatley was the first CEO of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) serving from 2012 until 2015. Prior to that he was the CEO of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.


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Nicholas Christakis
Professor of Biosocial Science, Network Science, & Behavior Genetics, Yale

Nicholas Christakis directs the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, and is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science. He is the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Science, appointed in the Departments of Sociology; Medicine; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University.


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Starling Insights
Starling Insights Editorial Board

Starling's team of editors provide review and analysis of current trends and developments in the industry.


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Thomas J. Curry
Former US Comptroller of the Currency

Curry was nominated by President Obama to serve as head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). As Comptroller of the Currency (2012-17), Curry led the US federal agency that charters, regulates, and supervises national banks and federal savings banks.


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Where you can find the books that have inspired us

Find a list of the books that sit on our bookshelf.  We hope that some of our readers will be inspired to give one or tow of these terrific books a glance.