Elliott Experts Weigh In: Markets in Crisis and Lessons from the Past (Online)

Location

This event is open to all GW community members for virtual participation via WebEx. Details for joining the event by computer or phone will be sent the day before the event. Please be mindful of the Time Zone of the presentation (EDT).

Online registration for this event has now closed. To join the event at 1:00 pm EDT, please use this link. If prompted, the event password is "elliott".

Event Description

In the second virtual event of the Elliott School's Experts Weigh In Series, alumna and financial journalist Diana B. Henriques will discuss markets in crisis and the lessons for dealing with them from past crises.

Diana B. Henriques, ESIA BA '69, an award-winning financial journalist, is the author of A First-Class Catastrophe: The Road to Black Monday, the Worst Day in Wall Street History, released in September 2017. She is also the author of The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust, a New York Times bestseller, and three other books on business history. As a staff writer for The New York Times from 1989 to 2012 and as a contributing writer since then, she has largely specialized in investigative reporting on white-collar crime, market regulation and corporate governance.

After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, Ms. Henriques widened her focus to work with her colleague at The Times, David Barstow, in covering the management of billions of dollars in charity and victim assistance as part of the paper’s award-winning section, “A Nation Challenged.” She also chronicled the fate of Cantor Fitzgerald, the Wall Street firm that suffered the largest death toll in the World Trade Center attacks.

But she is proudest of her 2004 series exposing the exploitation of American military personnel by financial service companies. Her work prompted legislative reform and cash reimbursements for tens of thousands of defrauded service members, drawing recognition and thanks from military lawyers and families across the country. For that series, she was a Pulitzer finalist in 2005 and received a George Polk Award, Harvard’s Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting and the Worth Bingham Prize.

Ms. Henriques served on the GW Board of Trustees from 2011-19 and was a member of the Elliott School's Board of Advisors for over ten years.