Washington College President Bair Joins Former Treasury Secretary Paulson for Conversation on China-U.S. Economic Ties, Environmental Crises, and More

(Original source Newswise) 

“Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson will join Washington College President Sheila Bair, former chair of the FDIC, on Thursday, September 24, at 5:00 p.m. for a symposium on key environmental and economic issues facing countries around the globe. The event, “From Wall Street to Shanghai: Shaping the Environmental and Economic Policies of the Future,” will be moderated by CNBC’s Chief Washington Correspondent John Harwood, with an introduction by The Atlantic’s Washington editor at large Steve Clemons, and will take place in Decker Theatre, Gibson Center for the Arts, on the College campus. It is the first in a series of events leading up to Bair’s Inauguration as the College’s 28th president the following Saturday morning.

Paulson and Bair were two of the top Washington officials who led the United States out of the economic crisis now called the Great Recession. The crisis, fueled by a flood of irresponsible home mortgages and risky bank investments, came to a head soon after Bair began a five-year term as chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Commission in 2006, the same year Paulson began serving as Secretary of the Treasury.”

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