Economy Speakers

Fee Range: $12,000–$18,000
Travels From: CA

Katty Kay is the lead anchor of BBC World News America. Kay had served as the Washington Correspondent for BBC since 2002. Kay’s career with the BBC began in Zimbabwe in 1990 where she started filing radio reports for BBC World Service radio. From there she also covered the end of apartheid in South Africa.Kay then went on to work as a BBC correspondent in London, and later Tokyo, reporting on stories including the Kobe earthquake and the Japanese economic recession. Kay is a frequent guest commentator on "NBC’s Meet the Press", "The Chris Matthews Show", "MSNBC’s Morning Joe" and others. She is the co-author, along with Claire Shipman, of two New York Times bestsellers - The Confidence Code: The Art and Science of Self-Assurance—and What Women Need to Know (2014) and Womenomics: Work Less, Achieve More, Live Better (2009). Kay is married to Tom Carver, a strategic risk consultant. They live in Washington, DC with their four children.

Fee Range: $25,500–$38,000
Travels From: DC

Fee Range: $37,000–$70,000
Travels From: CA

Jordan Belfort is one of the country's most talked-about speakers. His story is the ultimate tale of how the pursuit of wealth can often trump the importance of ethics in the business world. Belfort's career was captured in the Oscar and Golden Globe nominated film, The Wolf of Wall Street. Now recovered from the traps of his former high-flying lifestyle, Belfort has re-emerged in the business world as a speaker, author and leading voice on the importance of business ethics. His proprietary Straight Line System allows him to take virtually any company or individual and empower them to create massive wealth, abundance, and entrepreneurial success, without sacrificing integrity or ethics. He created the Jordan Belfort Foundation to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs in underprivileged communities to create economic opportunities that transform their own lives, their families, and their communities. Belfort has two international best-selling memoirs, The Wolf of Wall Street and Catching the Wolf of Wall Street.

Fee Range: $62,000–$190,000
Travels From: FL

Fee Range: $25,000–$44,000
Travels From: NY

Called “Silicon Valley’s most provocative voice” for his ideas on technology trends, globalization, U.S. competitiveness and the future, Vivek Wadhwa’s work puts him at the heart of where innovations—technological and otherwise—are being developed that will change the very way that we work and live.

Fee Range: $25,000–$35,000
Travels From: CA

Van Jones is the Founder of Dream Corps. He is a social entrepreneur, a CNN political commentator, Emmy Award-winning producer, and a three-time New York Times best-selling author. Jones was the main advocate for the Green Jobs Act. Signed into law by George W. Bush in 2007, the Green Jobs Act was the first piece of federal legislation to codify the term "green jobs." A Yale-educated attorney, Jones has won numerous awards, including the World Economic Forum’s “Young Global Leader” designation, Rolling Stone’s 2012 “12 Leaders Who Get Things Done”, TIME’s 2009 “100 Most Influential People in The World”, the 2010 NAACP Image Award, a 2017 WEBBY Special Achievement Award, a 2019 Lumiere Award and a 2020 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Interactive Program.

Fee Range: $43,000–$63,000
Travels From: CA

Fee Range: $37,000–$57,000
Travels From: CA

• Maria Bartiromo is the Global Markets Editor of FOX Business Network. • She anchors Mornings with Maria, Wall Street Week and Sunday Morning Futures, the most watched Sunday morning program on cable. • When Bartiromo moderated FOX’s 2015-2016 Republican presidential primary debates, they became the highest rated programs in network history. • She has covered business and the economy for more than 25 years and was one of the building blocks of business cable network CNBC. • Bartiromo has received numerous prestigious awards, including two Emmy's and a Gracie Award. • The Financial Times named her one of the “50 Faces That Shaped the Decade,” and she was the first female journalist to be inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame.

Fee Range: $62,000–$125,000
Travels From: NY

Fee Range: $6,000–$13,000
Travels From: MD

Fee Range: $8,000–$12,500
Travels From: NJ

Fee Range: $75,000–$125,000
Travels From: NY

Fee Range: $17,000–$25,000
Travels From: NC

Casone has years of experience covering finance, business and consumer news. She has reported on the economic impact of war on the economy, consumer fraud, global markets, foreign investment and corporate governance in addition to her work covering the U.S. markets.

Fee: $19,000
Travels From: NY

Barry P. Chaiken, MD, MPH has over 25 years’ experience in healthcare information technology, clinical transformation, and business intelligence. Dr. Chaiken is the author of the recently released Navigating the Code: How Technology Transforms the Patient-Physician Journey, a groundbreaking book on healthcare information technology and its potential impact on quality, access, and cost of care. He currently serves as President of DocsNetwork Ltd. and previously worked with the National Institutes of Health, UK National Health Service, McKesson, Infor, and Salesforce/Tableau. He has served as guest lecturer and consultant on topics including patient safety, clinician adoption of information technology, quality improvement, and managed care.

Fee Range: $10,000–$22,000
Travels From: MA

Fee Range: $20,000–$31,000
Travels From: NY

Dr. Bill Conerly is a Senior Contributor to Forbes, a Duke University Ph.D., and the consultant who connects the dots between the economy and business. He has worked in economics and corporate planning at two Fortune 500 corporations and at a major bank, where he was senior vice president. He is also the author of The Flexible Stance: Thriving in a Boom/Bust Economy (2017) as well as Businomics (2007). He has been interviewed on PBS, CNN and CNBC, and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine, and USA Today.

Fee Range: $8,000–$12,000
Travels From: OR

Ross Dawson is globally recognized as a leading futurist, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and authority on business strategy. He is Founding Chairman of the Advanced Human Technologies group of companies, and the bestselling author of four books including the acclaimed Living Networks. Strong global demand has seen him deliver keynote speeches to business and government leaders in over 30 countries, while frequent media appearances include CNN, Bloomberg TV, SkyNews, ABC TV, Today and Sunrise shows, The New York Times, and many others.

Fee Range: $12,000–$30,000
Travels From: Intl

Fee Range: $6,000–$14,500
Travels From: DC

Alex Edmans is Professor of Finance at London Business School. He is an expert in corporate governance, purposeful business, practical investment strategies, behavioural finance, and time management. Alex’s book, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, was featured in the Financial Times Best Business Books of 2020 and won the Financial Times award for Excellence in Sustainable Finance Education.

Fee Range: $14,500–$40,000
Travels From: Intl

Fee Range: $10,000–$16,000
Travels From: FL

Fee Range: $35,000–$50,000
Travels From: NY

Andy Fastow was the Chief Financial Officer of Enron Corp. from 1998 – 2001, but in 2004, he pled guilty to two counts of securities fraud, and was sentenced to six years in federal prison. Since his release from prison, Fastow has been a top guest keynote speaker at universities and corporations speaking on leadership and corporate culture.

Fee Range: $12,500–$17,000
Travels From: TX

Fee Range: $7,000–$12,000
Travels From: IL