Speaker Schedule

October 28, 2024: Toby Baldwin, Executive Associate A.D., The University of Oklahoma - NIL

Toby Baldwin (“Baldwin”) began his career in NCAA compliance in 1990, while working for the University of Oklahoma as a compliance assistant in the Athletics Department, with an emphasis in rules education. Following his five (5) years with the University, Baldwin served as the Assistant Athletic Director at Oral Roberts University for four (4) years where he supervised all aspects of compliance, student-athlete academics, initial and continuing eligibility and financial aid. He also managed personnel, budgets, travel and scheduling for twelve (12) sports, while completing his law degree.

Baldwin has an extensive educational and legal background. Baldwin’s accomplishments include a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Tulsa (1999) as well as a Master’s degree in Sports Administration from United States Sports Academy (1991). Prior to accepting the Director of Compliance position with the University of Oklahoma, Baldwin practiced law for nine (9) years and was the principal partner in his law firm, Baldwin & Associates, PLLC, specializing in sports law, oil and gas law, and real estate law. He has represented numerous institutions, coaches and student-athletes who were under investigation by the NCAA, including appearances before the NCAA Committee on Infractions and has also assisted with eligibility appeals. Baldwin has been back with OU since 2008 and served as the Director of Compliance until the summer of 2022 when he was appointed Executive Associate Athletic Director for Name, Image, Likeness and Operational Advancement.

November 18, 2024: Morgan Bazilian, Director, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines

Morgan D. Bazilian is Director of the Payne Institute and Professor of Public Policy at the Colorado School of Mines.

Previously, he was Lead Energy Specialist at the World Bank. He has over two decades of experience in energy, natural resources, and environmental policy and international affairs. He holds a Ph.D. in energy analysis and was a Fulbright Fellow.

He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and Ireland’s National Climate Council. He is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, and an adjunct professor of thermal physics at University College Cork.

He has published over 180 papers in learned journals, and his 2008 book: “Analytical Methods for Energy Diversity and Security” is a seminal work in the field. His work has appeared in Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, WSJ, Washington Post, New York Times, FT, and Foreign Affairs.

Dr. Bazilian was a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Advisory Council on Energy, and served as an advisor to the International Energy’s World Energy Outlook, for many years, as well as Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s Global Energy Outlook.

He holds (or has held) academic affiliations at The Royal Institute of Technology of Sweden, Columbia University, Cambridge University, Oxford University, and IIASA.

Dr. Bazilian was the European Union’s lead negotiator on technology issues at the UN’s climate change negotiations, and a member of the UN Expert Group on Technology. He was the first Chair of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership Programme Board, and a founder of the UNEP Public Finance Alliance steering group. He was a contributing author to the IPCC and the Global Energy Assessment, and served as an advisor to a €200M cleantech venture capital fund.

Previously he was a Deputy Director at NREL. Prior to that, Morgan worked as a senior diplomat in the UN. Prior to this post, he worked in the Irish Government as Chief Advisor for the Energy Minister, and was the Deputy CEO of the Irish National Energy Agency.

January 27, 2025: Senator James Lankford

James Lankford serves Oklahomans. He served four years in the US House of Representatives for central Oklahoma, until he was overwhelmingly elected to the US Senate in 2014.

Before his service in Congress, James served students and families for more than 20 years in ministry, including 15 years as the Director of Student Ministry for the Baptist Convention of Oklahoma and Director of the Falls Creek Youth Camp, the largest youth camp in the United States, with more than 51,000 individuals attending each summer.

James and his staff enjoy serving people from all backgrounds across Oklahoma. As Ranking Member of the Government Operations and Border Management Subcommittee, which covers border security, management, and operations; regulatory reform; and the federal workforce. He demands we have a secure, more fiscally responsible, and transparent federal government, and our nation remains the world leader. He believes that the federal government has an important role in our nation, but empowered families, individual people, and private businesses grow our economy and pass down our values.

James was recognized as the Senate’s top-ranked “Taxpayers Friend” by the National Taxpayers Union for his strong record in support of lower taxes, limited government, and economic freedom. His annual Federal Fumbles report is a must-read in Washington, DC, because of its commonsense solutions to the problems our federal government faces. He has also been recognized by many other organizations for his work toward increased personal freedom, economic growth, and religious liberty.

James lives in Oklahoma City with his wife Cindy. They have been married more than 30 years and have two daughters, Hannah and Jordan. He enjoys spending time with his family, working in his yard, and reading.

February 24, 2025: Brent Ragsdale, EVP & CFO, Chick-fil-A

March 24, 2025: Poppy MacDonald, President, USAFacts

Poppy MacDonald is the President of USAFacts, the non-partisan, non-profit civic initiative and source for well-visualized data on the American people and how we are doing as a nation – leading an effort to help Americans ground their democratic debate in facts. MacDonald served as president and chief operating officer of POLITICO USA, National Journal’s publisher and president, as well as chief revenue officer, POLITICO Pro’s executive director of business development, overseeing the launch of Politico’s first paid subscription model, and as a partner at Gallup Inc., where she launched the World Poll and led the health care practice. MacDonald began her career serving members of Congress representing her Pacific Northwest hometown on both the Senate and House sides of Capitol Hill – and is happy to be back, enjoying Seattle and surrounds with her husband and two children.

April 28, 2025: Jennifer Hillman, Senior Fellow for Trade and International Political Economy, Council on Foreign Relations

Jennifer A. Hillman is currently a professor of practice at the Georgetown University Law Center, teaching the lead courses in international business and international trade, while serving as a fellow of Georgetown’s Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL). She is also co-director of the Center for Inclusive Trade and Development and served as a panelist for the second dispute under the USMCA (updated NAFTA)–a dispute between the United States and Canada over the application of US safeguard measures to imports of solar panels. She recently published Legal Aspects of Brexit:Implications of the United Kingdom’s Decision to Withdraw from the European Union (IIEL 2017), drawn from a seminar she co-taught in the fall of 2016.She has also written extensively about international trade law and the WTO, including a 2017 IIEL Policy Brief on the WTO consistency of the Ryan-Brady “A Better Way” tax proposal, co-authoring the leading casebook on trade, International Trade Law, 3^rd ed., Wolters Kluwer (2016), papers on recent WTO cases on sanitary and phytosanitary measures (World Trade Review) and “Changing Climate for Carbon Taxes” (GMFUS.org).

Hillman has had a distinguished career in public service, both nationally and internationally. She recently completed her term as one of seven members from around the world serving on the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Appellate Body. Prior to that, she served for nine years as a commissioner at the United States International Trade Commission (USITC), rendering decisions in more than six hundred investigations regarding injury to U.S. industries caused by imports that were dumped or subsidized, along with making numerous decisions in cases involving alleged patent or trademark infringement. Before her appointment to the USITC, Hillman served as general counsel at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), where she had previously been an ambassador and chief textiles negotiator. She also served as legislative director and counsel to U.S. Senator Terry Sanford of North Carolina.

Hillman formerly served as a partner in the law firm of Cassidy Levy Kent, a senior transatlantic fellow for the German Marshall Fund of the United States, as president of the Trade Policy Forum and on the selection panel for the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation.She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the board of visitors at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.She is a graduate of the Harvard Law School and Duke University.

Past Speakers

Tom Cole, Oklahoma Congressman
Jeffery Rosenberg, Blackrock Investments
Joshua Landes, International Studies, University of Oklahoma
Colin Fenton, Blacklight Research
Pam McKissick, Williams, Williams & McKissick
Doug Lawler, CEO, Chesapeake
Jim Glassman, Managing Director for Commercial Banking, JP Morgan Chase
Max Weitzenhoffer, Independent Producer of New York/London theatre productions
Bill Stoller, Co-Founding Partner, Express Personnel
Tom Hoenig, Vice Chairman, FDIC
Mike Ming, General Manager, Oil and Gas Technology Center, General Electric
Andrea Smith, Chief Administrative Officer, Bank of America
Mark Holden, Chairman, Freedom Partners
Rick Johnson, CEO, Charles Machine Works
Sir Rogers Makins, British Ambassador to the United States
A. Campbell, British Colonial Attache, Washington, D.C.
Ralph Damon, President, Trans World Airlines
Hon. Dr. Heinz L. Krekeler, German Ambassador to the U.S.
Donald C. Slichter, President, Northwestern Mutual Life Ins. Co.
Walter H. Steel, Partner, Drexel & Co., NYC, NY
Dr. Marshall Holloway, Director, Lincoln Laboratory, M.I.I.
Robert W. Galvin, President, Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co.
Rudolph Smutney, Senior Partner, Solomon Bros. and Hutzler
Fred F. Florence, President, Republic National Bank of Dallas
Dr. George Kozmetsky, Litton Industries
L.L. Smith, VP, Kohler Co.
John D. Wilson, VP, Chase Manhattan Bank
Rawleigh Warner, President, Socony Mobile Oil Co., NYC, NY
Dr. Roy L. Reierson, VP/Economist, Bankers Trust Company, NYC, NY
Theodore O. Yntema, VP – Finance, Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, MI
R.L. Tollett, President, Cosden Petroleum Corporation, Big Springs, TX
James Rogers, VP, Springfield-Monarch Insurance Companies, Springfield, MA
Rear Admiral O.P. Lattu, Executive Director, Military Petroleum Supply Agency, Washington, D.C.
Ira T. Ellis, Economist for the DuPont Company, (F.I.) de Nemours, Wilmington, DE
Albert O. Steffy, President/CEO, City Products Corp., Chicago, IL
Dr. William G. Murray, Professor Agriculture Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Harry L. Moir, VP, The Pure Oil Company, Palatine, IL
W.M. Drout, Jr., Manager, Economic Research, Humble Oil & Refining Company, Houston, TX
Dr. Charles Newton Kimball, President, Midwest Research Institute, K.D., MO
Julius Barnathan, VP/General Manager, American Broadcasting Company, NYC, NY
William B. Ricke, Deputy Associate Administrator for Advanced Research and Technology, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Donald Hall, Administrative VP – Finance, Hallmark, Inc., Kansas City, MO
A. King McCord, President, Westinghouse Air Brake Company, Pittsburgh, PA
Edwin Vennard, Managing Director, Edison Electric Institute, NY
Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Editor, Tulsa Tribune, Tulsa, OK
Charles B. Shuman, President, American Farm Bureau Federation, Chicago, IL
George H. Clay, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Frank R. Barnett, President, National Strategy Information Center, Inc. NYC, NY
Louis W. Menk, President, Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R.R. Co., Chicago, IL
P.H. Robinson, President, Houston Lighting & Power Company
Alfred H. VonKlemperer, VP – International Division, Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York
Dr. Joseph V. Charyk, President, Communications Satellite Corp., Washington, D.C.
Thomas A. Martin, President, Channing Shares, Inc., NYC, NY
Clifford P. Weake, VP, Wilding, Inc., Chicago, IL
B.R. Stokes, General Manager, Bay Area Rapid Transit District, San Francisco, CA
William Jovanovich, President, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., NYC, NY
B.N. Woodson, President, American General Insurance Company, Houston, TX
John L. Hanigan, President, Brunswick Corporation, Chicago, IL
Dr. H.C. Jordon, President, Brunswick Corporation, Chicago, IL
Dr. Millard G. Roberts, President, Parsons College, Fairfield, IA
A. Wade Martin, Executive Director, State Committee for Techinical Education, State of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Sidney Homer, General Partner, Solomon Bros. & Hutzler, NYC, NY
Gen. William T. Seawell, Senior VP – Operations, American Airlines, Inc., NYC, NY
Samuel C. Johnson, President, Johnson & Son, Inc., Racine, WI
Bruce A. Valentine, F.P., Lionel D. Edie & Company, Inc., NYC, NY
Myron Wright, Chairman, Humble Oil & Refining Co., Houston TX
Leif H. Olsen, Senior VP/Economist. First National City Bank, NYC, NY
Fred F. Brown, Partner, J & W Seligman & Co., NYC, NY
Malcom A. MacIntyre, P.P., Martin-Marietta Corporation, NYC, NY
Capt. R.C. Atkinson, U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office, Suitland, MD
W. Gordon Robertson, Co-Chairman, Bangor-Punta Corp., NYC, NY
Arthur P. Ringler, Executive VP – Administration, Chemical Bank, NY
Charles M. Kittrell, VP, Phillips Petroleum Company, Bartlesville, OK
Roy V. Edwards, President, Wilson & Co., Oklahoma City, OK
M.M. Briscoe, President, Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), NYC, NY
Robert Beaudette, VP, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc.,NYC, NY
Wayne D. Nusbaum, VP/Treasurer, Ralston Purina Co., St. Louis, MO
J.C. Brown Jr., VP, Weyerhaeuser Co., Hot Springs, AR
John W. Carleton, VP/General Manager, Lenox Square, Atlanta, GA
H. Ross Perot, Chairman, Electronic Data Systems Corp., Dallas, TX
Hugh F. Owens, Member, Securities and Exchange Commission, WA
Jacques R. Stunzi, President, Allied Bank International, NY
J.W. Bates, Jr., Chairman, Reading and Bates Offshore Drilling Co., Tulsa, OK
James S. Plaxico, Head, Department of Agriculture Economics,
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Robert Anderson, President, North America Rockwell Corp., El Segundo, CA
Malcom S. Forbes, President, Forbes, Inc., NY
R.B. Gilmore, Chairman, DeGolyer and MacNaughton, Dallas, TX
Jack B. Jackson, President, J.C. Penney, Inc., NY
Robert V. Sellers, Chairman, Cities Service Co., NY
John C. Clark, Director, Export-Import Bank of the U.S., Washington, D.C.
Sir James Pimson, Ambassador of Australia, Washington, D.C.
George L. Shinn, President, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, Inc., NYC, NY
John Potter, Jr., President, Earth Satellite Corp., Washington, D.C.
L.H. Schoenhofen, President, Marcor Inc., Chicago, IL
Dean A. McGee, Chairman, Kerr-McGee Corp., Oklahoma City, OK
Guy E. Noyes, Sr., VP – Economics, Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. of New York
J. Peter Grace, President/CEO, W.R. Grace & Co., NY
James R. Thomas, President, Dayton Tire & Rubber Co., Dayton, OH
R.D. Harrison, President/CEO, Fleming Companies, Inc., Oklahoma City, OK
John C. Whitehead, Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co., NY
Oliver Brooks, Managing Director (Financial) Peninsular and Oriental Stream Navigation Co., London
Robert H.B. Baldwin, President, Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc., NY
Mrs. Ben T. Head, Vice Chairman, National R.R. Corp.-“Amtrak”, Newport News
Oakley Hunter, Chairman and President, Federal National Mortgage Association, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Wolfgang Jahn, Managing Director, Commerzbank, Duessledorf, Germany
Zane F. Barnes, President, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., St. Louis, MO
Dr. Morris Cohen, Chief Economist, Shroder Naess & Tomas, NY
Richard J. Anderson, Association Director, Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH
Donald M. Kendall, Chairman, PepsiCo., Inc. Purchase, NY
Anthony Fisher, c/o The International Institute of Economics Research, Los Angeles, CA
Lawrence K. Roos, President, Federal Reserve Bank, St. Louis, MO
Harold B. Ehrlich, Chairman, Bernstein-MacAulay, NYC
Roger Guffy, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, MO
Dr. Frank H. Baker, Dean College of Agriculture, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Howard Kauffman, President, Exxon Corporation, NY
Morgan Maxfield, Investment Advisor
Ned Davis, Senior Director, Market Timing Research, J.C. Bradford and Co., Nashville, TN
Jackson Hinds, Chairman, Entex, Incorporated, Houston, TX
Dr. James A. Byrd, Economist, First International Bancshares, Inc., Dallas, TX
Benjamin N. Woodson, CEO, American General Life Insurance Co., Oklahoma City, OK
Sam L. Nakagama, Chief Engineer, Kidder, Peabody & Co., NY
Ray Shaw, CEO, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Bennett C. Whitlock, President, American Trucking Assoc., WA, D.C.
Dimitri V. d’Arbeloff, President, Millipore Corporation, Bedford, MA
Jack J. Murphy, Senior VP, Dresser Industries, Dallas, TX
Sanford R. Goodkin, Chairman, Sanford & Goodkin Research Corp., Del Mar, CA
Johannes Steel, Author, Financial Columnist and Analyst, Newton, CT
J. Roger Guffey, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, MO
Arthur Zeikel, President, Merrill Lynch Asset Management, Inc., NYC, NY
J. Neal Miller, Deputy Director, Governmental and Industry Affairs, Gulf Oil Corporation, Austin, TX
Hugh F. Owens, Chairman, Securities Investor Protection Corporation, Washington, D.C.
William A. Andres, Chairman, Dayton Hudson Corp. Minneapolis, MN
Robert L. Parker, Chairman/CEO, Parker Drilling Co., Minneapolis, MN
Julian M. Snyder, Editor Publisher of Moneyline, The Financial Newsletter, NYC, NY
Willis J. Winn, President, Federal Reserve Bank, Cleveland, OH
The Honorable William F. Simon, Former Secretary of theTreasury, NYC, NY
Austin H. Kiplinger, President, Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc., Washington,D.C.
Jerry C. Nelson, Regional V.P., Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp., Dallas,TX
Herbert D. Kelleher, President/CEO, Southwest Airlines, Dallas, TX
Alan C. Greenberg, Sr. Partner, Bear, Stearns & Co., NYC, NY
Ms. Virginia A. Dwyer, VP/Treasurer, American Telephone & Telegraph, New York, NY
James B.Townsend, Member, Corporation Commission of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
Dr. Gary M. Wenglowski, Partner/Director of Economic Research, Goldman Sachs, New York,NY
J. Hugh Roft, Jr., Chairman/CEO, United Energies Resources Inc., Houston,TX
Hal L. Hansen, President, Cargill Investor-Services Inc., Chicago, IL
Leonard J. Eaton, Jr., Chairman and CEO, Bank of Oklahoma,Tulsa,OK
Charles D. Baker, Vice Chairman, Harbridge House, Boston, Sachs, NYC, NY
Edward L. Gaylord, President, The Oklahoma Publishing Company,Oklahoma City,OK
Alden P. Yates, President, Bechtel Group, Inc., San Francisco, CA
Siefan Abrams, Partner, Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., NYC, NY
Edward L.O’Brien, President, Securities Industry Assn., NYC, NY
William T. Comfort, Chairman, Citicorp Venture Capital, Ltd., NYC, NY
Robert M. Hart, Managing Director, Royal Dutch Shell Group, London, England
W.R. Howell, Chairman, J.C. Penney Co., Inc., NYC, NY
Richard L. Burress, Associate Director, The Hoover Institution, Sanford, CA
Hon. Allan Gottlieb, Canadian Ambassador to U.S., Washington, D.C.
C.J. Silas, Chairman, Phillips Petroleum Co., Bartlesville, OK
Admiral Bobby Inman, CEO, Micro Electronics and Computer Technology Corp. Austin,TX
Stanley Collender, Director-National Issues and Federal Budget Policies, ToucheRoss&Co.,Washington,D.C.
Lawrence Rawl, President, Exxon Corporation, NY
Thomas J. Murrin, President, Energy & Advanced Technology Group, Westinghouse ElectricCorp.,Pittsburgh,PA
Andrew Avramides, Managing Director, Avra Petroleum Ltd., London, England
Lt. Gen. Richard Burpee, Director of Operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, D.C.
Harry Bruce, Chairman/CEO, Illinois Central Gulf, Chicago, IL
Dr. Martin Mauro, Senior Economist, Merrill Lynch Capital Markets, NY
Albert Basey, V.P. Manufacturing Network Systems Equip. AT&T, Morristown, NJ

Tom Gilligan, Hoover Institute
Terry Spencer, CEO & Chairman of ONEOK
Ross McKnight, Chairman, Interbank Holding Company
Steven Rhines, President, Noble Research Institute
Preston Ackerman, FBI, Cyber Security
Mike Holder, Athletic Director, Oklahoma State University
Sam Presti, General Manager, Oklahoma City Thunder
Esther George, President and CEO, Kansas City Federal Reserve
Bruce Katz, Vice President, Brookings Institute
Scott Clemons, Chief Investment Strategist, Brown Brothers Harriman
William Thomas, Chairman and CEO, EOG Resources
Scott Klososky, Futurist, Future Point of View
Jason Sanders, Provost, OU School of Medicine
Dr. Bo Kong, Professor of Chinese & Asian Studies, OU
Shelley Lavender, SR VP, Surveillance and Mobility, Boeing Company
James Barnes ,Chairman/CEO, MAPCO, Inc., Tulsa, OK
Ronald W. Allen, President, Delta Airlines, Atlanta, GA
John Nevin, Chairman, Firestone Tire and Rubber, Akron, OH
Joseph Pinola, Chairman/CEO, First Interstate/CEO, ENRON Corp., Houston, TX
Allen E. Paulson, Chairman/CEO, Gulf Stream Aerospace Corp., Savannah,GA
Gerald Barton, Chairman, CEO of Landmark Land Company, Carmel, CA
F.H. Clark, Chairman, Baker Hughes, Inc., Newport, CA
T. Joseph Semrod, President/Chairman, United Jersey Banks, Princeton,NJ
Arthur Levitt, Jr. ,Chairman/CEO, American Stock Exchange, NYC, NY
Ms. Martha O. Hessee, Chairman of the Federal Regulatory Energy Commission, Washington, D.C.
Richard Lawson, President, of the National Coal Association, Washington, D.C.
Jim Rainey, Chairman/CEO, Farmland Industries, Kansas City, MO
Kenneth Kermes, CEO, Smith Kline Bechman
Bennett E. Bidwell, Chairman, Chrysler Motors, Highland Park, MI
Merle I. Borchelt, Chairman/CEO, Central & Southwest Corp., Dallas, TX
Derrill Cody, Chairman/CEO, Texas Eastern Pipeline, Oklahoma City, OK
George H. Wayerhaeuser, Jr., VP/Mill Manager, Wayerhaeuser Paper Co., Valliant, OK
John Albers, President/CEO, Dr. Pepper Seven Up Companies, Inc.
Edward Whiteker, Chairman/CFO, Southwestern Bell
Jack Murphy, Chairman/CEO, Dresser Industries
John D. Sterman, Director, System Dynamics Group, Institute of Technology, MA
William Dillard, Sr., Chairman, Dillards Department Store
James Grant, Editor, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer
Andrew B. Craig, III, Chairman, President/CEO, Boatmen’s Bancshares, Inc.
homas M.T. Niles, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Canadian Affairs
Keith A.Tucker, Vice Chairman, Torchmark Corporation
Wayne R. Sanders, President/CEO, Kimberly-Clark Corporation
George B. Kaiser, Chairman/CEO, Bank of Oklahoma, N.A.
E.W. Wendell,President/CEO,OprylandUSAInc.
Ray L. Hunt, Chairman/President/CEO, Hunt Consolidated, Inc.
E. DeanWerries,Chairman/President/CEO, Fleming Companies
James L. Cochrane, Senior VP/Chief Economist, New York Stock Exchange, NYC,NY
Drew A. Roy, President, Southwestern Bell Telephone
John W.Creighton, Jr., President/CEO, Weyerhaeuser Company
Richard B. Fisher, Chairman, Morgan Stanley Group, Inc.
Jack McMillan, Co-Chairman, Nordstrom Inc.
J. Larry Nichols, CEO, Devon Energy Corporation
George H. Walker, III, Chairman, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated
John B. McCoy, Chairman/CEO, Banc One Corporation
Victor L. Campbell, VP, Corporate/Investor Relations, Hospital Corporation of America
Phil Simpson, Chairman/President/CEO, Republic Gypsum Company
Henry J. Hermann, Executive VP/Chief Information Officer,
Waddell & Reed Investment Company
John C. Eason, Co-Founder, Alternative Public Schools, Inc.
Thomas H. Cruikshank, Chairman/CEO, Halliburton
James O. Rollans, Senior VP, CAO Flour Corporation
James G. Harlow, Jr., Chairman/President, OK Gas and Electric Co.
Jerry W. Walton, Executive VP-Finance/CFO, J.B.Hunt
Charles Lieberman, Managing Director, Financial Markets Research Securities, Inc.
Steven Moore, Director of Fiscal Policy Studies, Cato Institute
Henry E. (Jack) Lentz, Lehman Brothers
J.J. Mulva, President/CEO, Phillips Petroleum
Major General Kenneth E. Eickmann, Commander, Oklahoma City Logistics, Tinker Air Force Base
Peter M. Winter, VP-Market Development, Cox Newspapers, Inc.
Thomas M.Hoenig, President, Federal Reserve Bank of KC, MO
V. Burns Hargis, Attorney, McAfee & Taft, Oklahoma City, OK
Edna McDuffie Manning, Ph.D., Founding President, Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics
Charles A. Trabandt, Chairman, Global Power Strategic Advisory Services
Dr. Neal M. Soss, Managing Director-Senior Advisor & Chief US Economist of Credit Suisse First Boston
Patrick J. Howie, Economist, Regional Financial Associates, Inc.
James Hotchkiss, Investment Counselor, Hotchkiss Associates
Anthony Chan, VP/Chief Economist, Banc One Investment Advisors
Larry Brummett, Chairman/CEO, ONEOK, Inc., OK
Bruce Steinberg, Chief Economist, Merrill Lynch & Co.
Gail D. Fosler, Senior VP/Chief Economist,The Conference Board
Gregory M. McCormack, Director of Business Development, Cambridge Energy Research Associates
Neil E. Wolfson,CFA/National Director, KPMG Investment Consulting Group
Dr. Arthur Porter, VP-Technology/Dean of the College of Engineering, University of Oklahoma, Norman,OK
Fred J. Hall, Chairman/President/CEO,The Fred Jones Companies, Oklahoma City, OK
Keith E. Bailey, Chairman/President/CEO,The Williams Companies, Inc.,Tulsa, OK
Jon B. Davis, Meteorologist, Salomon Smith Barney, Inc., Chicago, IL
Stanley F. Hupfeld, President/CEO, INTEGRIS Health, Oklahoma City, OK
John Ryding, Senior Economist/Senior Managing Director, Bear Stearns & Co., Inc., NY
Brian Wood, VP/General Manager, Enterprise Segment, Dell Computer Corporation
Cliff Hudson, Chairman/CEO, Sonic Corp., Oklahoma City, OK
David Bialis, VP/General Manager, Cox Communications, Oklahoma City, OK
Archie W. Dunham, Chairman/President/CEO, Conoco Inc.,Houston,TX
Gary L. Nelson, President/CEO, Advanced Financial Solutions, Oklahoma City, OK
J. Larry Nichols, Chairman/President/CEO, Devon Energy Corporation, Oklahoma City, OK
Dr. Don Capra, President, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Rob Luke, President/CEO, Rio Algom Mining Corp., Oklahoma City, OK
Dr. Thomas W. Synnott, Chief Economist, United States Trust Company of NYC, NY
Don Betz, Ph.D., Executive VP/VP Academic Affairs/ Professor of Political Science, University of Central Oklahoma, OK
Matthew Simmons, President, Simmons & Company International, Houston, TX
James D. Couch, City Manager, City of Oklahoma City, OK
Lindy Ritz, Director, Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center, Oklahoma City, OK
General Jack Vessey (Ret.), Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
General Dennis J. Reimer (Ret.), Director, National Memorial Institute For the Prevention of Terrorism, Oklahoma City, OK
James C. Day, Chairman/CEO, Nobel Drilling Corporation, Houston,TX
Robert B.Catell, Chairman/CEO, Key Span Corporation, NYC, NY
Scott Meacham, Director, Office of State Finance, OK
Dr. Michael Anderson, President, Presbyterian Health Foundation
Dr. Craig Shemusaki, Inter Genetics Incorporated
Honorable Ianin Murray, Her Majesty’s General Counsel Don Cain, President, SBC Oklahoma
Robert J. Allison, Jr., Anadarko Petroleum Corporation
James K. Hotchkiss, CFA, Chairman/Founder, Hotchkiss Associates
Robert Keegan,President, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Products
Bob McKee, Retired, Conoco Phillips, Iraqi Oil Expert
David Green, Owner, Hobby Lobby Stores, Oklahoma City, OK
Aubrey McClendon, Chairman/CEO, Chesapeake Energy Corporation
Bill Daley, JP Morgan Chase, Chicago, IL
J.D. Williams, Founding Partner, Williams & Jenson, Washington, D.C.
Jack Taylor, Sr. Managing Partner, KPMG, New York
Skip Mc Gee, Chief Economist, Lehman Brothers
George Kaiser, Chairman, BOK Financial Corporation & BOK, N.A.
Jim Mulva, CEO, Conoco-Phillips
Lane Riggs, VP-Optimization, Planning & Econ., Valero Energy Corp.
C. Christopher Gaut, VP/CFO, Halliburton
T. Boone Pickens, CEO, BP Capital
Drew Braum, President, Braum’s Ice Cream & Dairy Stores
Charles W. Kadlec, CIMA®/ManagingDirector, Seligman & Co., Inc.
David Kyle, Chairman/CEO, ONEOK, Inc.
Ben T. Robinson, Program Dir., C/KC-135 Program for Support Systems, Boeing
Dr. C. Ross Anthony, Co-Director, R and Health’s Center for Domestic & International
Health Security, Director Global Health
Harland Stonecipher, President/CEO, Prepaid Legal Services, Inc.
General Bruce Carlson, Commander, Air Force Materiel Command, US Air Force
Chester Cadieux, President/CEO, Quik Trip
Tom Ward, Chairman/CEO, Sand Ridge Energy
James E. Glassman, Managing Director, JP Morgan Chase
Barnett Helzberg, Former Chairman/CEO, Helzberg Diamonds, Helzberg Foundation
Robert E. Lorton, III, Publisher, World Publishing Company (Tulsa World)
KenLackey, Chairman/CEO, The NORDAM Group
Harold Hamm, Chairman/CEO, Continental Resources
Tom Falk, CEO, Kimberly-Clark
Robert Tercek, Digital Media Strategist, Robert Tercek META Consulting
Tom Farmer, President, Pratt & Whitney Military Aircraft Engines
Klaus Scharioth, Ambassador the United States Federal Republic of Germany
Jim Dolan, CEO, Dolan Media
Doug Foshee, CEO, El Paso Corporation Robert Darbelnet, National President, AAA
Larry Nichols, CEO, Devon Energy
Bob Gilligan, VP,GE Energy
Hank Abate, Senior VP, SMG Arenas & Stadiums
Tom Hoenig, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Dr. Joseph Ferretti, OU Health Sciences Center, Provost Emeritus
Gen. Donald J. Hoffman, Commander, Air Force Material Command
Charles Davidson,Chairman/CEO, Noble Energy
Diane Ellis, Deputy Director, Division of Insurance and Research,FDIC
Red Cavaney, Senior VP,Government Affairs, Conoco Phillips
Mark Nuttle, Managing Partner, Oklahoma Sovereign Developement, LLC
Mike Emmelhainz, Director-OKC, The Boeing Company
Scott Thomas, President, American Precious Metals Exchange, Inc.
Frank Keating, President, American Bankers Association
Mark Allen, President, Pierre Foods
Governor Bill Anoatubby, Chickasaw Nation
John Richels, CEO, Devon Energy
Bill Ford, President, Shawnee Milling Company
William Buckner, President, Noble Foundation
Mila Knopp, Head Rowing Coach of OCU
Joe Jacobi, CEO of USA Canoe/Kayak & Olympic Gold Medalist
Gary Pierson, CEO, OPUBCO
Vann Cunningham, Asst VP Econ. Development, The Burlington Northern &Santa Fe Co.
Peter Delaney, Chairman/CEO, OGE Energy Corp.
Robert D. Mannel, MD, Director, Stephenson Cancer Center OUHSC
Marran Ogilvie, Advisor and Member of Board of Directors
Meredith Siegfried, CEO, Nordam Group
Joe Quinlan, Chief Market Strategist, US Bank, BOA Private Wealth Management 312

2020-2021

James Lankford, United States Senator, US Senate, Oklahoma
John Armitage, M.D., CEO, Oklahoma Blood Institute
Randall Stephenson, Executive Chairman, AT&T
Michelle W. Bowman, Member of the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve Board
Joe Castiglione, Athletic Director, University of Oklahoma

2021-2022

John O’Connor, Attorney General, State of Oklahoma

Terry Stuart Forst, General Manager, The Stuart Ranch
Nancy Anderson, Vice President, Boeing and Steve Fendley, President, Kratos
Ryne Miller, General Counsel, FTX US

Aaron Cohen, Director, Global Long Term Forecasting and Industry Analysis, General Motors
Craig Hakkio, Special Advisor on Economic Policy (Retired), Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

2022-2023

Taek Lee, Chief Financial Officer, Gallup

Dr. Andrew Weyrich, President, OMRF

Matthew Bertram, IT Decentralization Practice Lead, Future Point of View

Rick Muncrief, President and Chief Executive Officer, Devon Energy

Matt Bell, Senior Managing Director and Global Leader of Export Controls & Sanctions, FTI Consulting

Bob Stewart, Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer - North America, McDonald's LLC

2023-2024

Lieutenant General Stacey Hawkins, Commander, Air Force Sustainment Center, Tinker Air Force Base

Dr. Chad Moutray, Chief Economist, National Association of Manufacturers

Dr. Kayse Shrum, President, Oklahoma State University

Jeff Schmid, President & Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Marc Goldwein, Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

Raul Anaya, President of Business Banking, Bank of America