{"71147":{"#nid":"71147","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IMPACT Speaker: Dennis Lockhart, President \u0026 CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn \u003Cstrong\u003EWednesday,\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EOctober 19,\u003C\/strong\u003E Dennis Lockhart, president\n\u0026amp; CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, will speak at Tech.\u0026nbsp; Mr. Lockhart will discuss \u0022Observations on the Work of and Working at the Fed.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EPlease join us for this event at \u003Cstrong\u003E4:30pm in the LeCraw Auditorium, College of\nManagement\u003C\/strong\u003E, or watch the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.learnitlive.com\/event\/1361\/Impact-Speaker-Dennis-P-Lockhart\u0022\u003Elive webcast\u003C\/a\u003E provided by our partners at Learn it\nLive.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMore about the speaker:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EDennis\nLockhart is the president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.\u0026nbsp; In this role, he serves on the Federal\nReserve\u2019s chief monetary policy body, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBefore\njoining the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Mr. Lockhart was a faculty member\nat Georgetown University, teaching in the master\u2019s program in the Walsh School\nof Foreign Service. He also has extensive experience in the world of private\nequity and finance.\u0026nbsp; From 2001 to 2003 he\nwas a managing partner at the private equity firm Zephyr Management, L.P., a firm\nbased in New York with activity in Africa and Latin America.\u0026nbsp; Prior to joining Zephyr, he worked for 13\nyears at Heller Financial, where he served as executive VP and director of the\nparent company and as president of Heller International Group.\u0026nbsp; Earlier in his career, Mr. Lockhart held\nvarious positions, both domestic and international, with Citicorp\/Citibank (now\nCitigroup) between 1971 and 1988.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMr. Lockhart earned a B.A. in\npolitical science and economics from Stanford University in 1968 and an M.A. in\ninternational economics and American foreign policy from the Johns Hopkins\nUniversity School of Advanced International Studies in 1971.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAbout the Impact\nSpeaker Series\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESince 2002, the IMPACT Speaker Series has brought highly successful business\nleaders from a variety of industries to campus to share their experiences and\ngive advice to students and other entrepreneurs on topics ranging from\n\u0022building a venture around intellectual capital\u0022 to \u0022successful\nentrepreneurship in large organizations\u0022 and \u0022socially responsible\nleadership\u0022. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe weekly series provides Georgia Tech students, alumni and the Atlanta\nbusiness community an opportunity to network and learn from successful\nentrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and notable business and non-profit\nleaders. Events for the series take place in the LeCraw Auditorium in the\nCollege of Management building at 4:30 pm on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe series is free and open to the public, and reservations are not\nrequired.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOn Wednesday, October 19, Mr. Dennis P. Lockhart, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, will speak at Tech. Mr. Lockhart serves on the Federal Reserve\u2019s chief monetary\npolicy body, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) and has extensive experience in domestic and international banking and finance.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Dennis Lockhart, president and CEO of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, will speak at Tech on Wednesday, Oct.19 at 4:30pm."}],"uid":"27336","created_gmt":"2011-10-12 10:11:38","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:56:19","author":"Dori Pap","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-10-19T17:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2011-10-19T18:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-10-19T18:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-10-19 21:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-10-19 22:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-10-19 22:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ile.gatech.edu\/programs\/impact.html","title":"IMPACT Series"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.learnitlive.com\/event\/1361\/Impact-Speaker-Dennis-P-Lockhart","title":"Webcast provided by Learn it Live"}],"groups":[{"id":"1274","name":"Scheller College of Business"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"1072","name":"Business"},{"id":"14679","name":"Federal Reserve Bank"},{"id":"4175","name":"finance"},{"id":"1171","name":"investment"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:dori.pap@ile.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EDori Pap\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}