Goldman Sachs regularly invites leading thinkers from a broad range of backgrounds to share their views and expertise. It’s something they provide to their employees around the world to enrich their lives and give them an insiders’ view to current topics.
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Both Bernie and Hillary are flawed candidates. Despite her flaws, I’m voting for Hillary in the primary and will vote for the Dem nominee whoever that is. This diary is an attempt to provide a small reality check to the innuendo that Hillary is compromised because she spoke at Goldman Sachs.
If you take time to go to the link you’ll see a broad range of men and women in diverse fields beyond business and politics. Speakers backgrounds include the arts, religion, media and sports. Peruse this list or go see for yourselves.
Here’s the first page of their weekly series.
Tory Burch, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tory Burch LLC
Deepak Chopra, MD, Co-Founder, The Chopra Center for Wellbeing
John Lewis, US Representative of Georgia's Fifth Congressional District
Tom Brokaw, Journalist and Author
Lauren Bush Lauren, Creative Director and Chief Executive Officer of FEED Projects
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Cardinal and Archbishop of New York
Samantha Power, US Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) and Member of President Obama’s Cabinet
Cornell Brooks, CEO of the NAACP
Russell Simmons, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist
Denise Lewis, Olympic Gold Medalist
Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury
Ross Kemp, Actor and Award-winning Documentary Maker
John Kufuor, President of the Republic of Ghana (2001-2009)
John Amaechi, Former National Basketball Association Player
And that’s just the first page.
There are many others, including…
Susan Goldberg, Editor-in-chief and Editorial Director of National Geographic
Neil Berg, Composer, Lyricist and Producer
Yao Ming, Former National Basketball Association Player and Founder of the Yao Ming Foundation
Ava DuVernay, Director
Christine Loh, Under Secretary for the Environment, Hong Kong
Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Founder of Grameen Bank
Mark Kelly, Retired Astronaut and Retired US Navy Captain
Dr. Aya Abe, Director Of Japan's National Institute of Population and Social Security Research
Maya Lin, Artist, Architect and Memorial Designer
Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman and Former Chief Executive Officer at Google
Madeleine Albright, Former US Secretary of State
Misty Copeland, Principal Dancer for American Ballet Theatre
Dr. Eric Kandel, Nobel Prize-winning Neuroscientist and Co-director of the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University
Richard Kurin, Smithsonian Under Secretary for History, Art and Culture
All these people gave professional speeches to Goldman Sachs employees in their weekly series. Most, perhaps all, were brokered by the speaker’s agent, who generally negotiates the fee. Here’s the link again: http://www.goldmansachs.com/our-thinking/talks-at-gs/index.html
Do all these people have suspect values because they spoke for a fee at Goldman Sachs?
Stop repeating innuendo and go look for yourself.
