Visionary Awards Honorees
Celebrating extraordinary leaders who promote economic and financial literacy to create a better-informed society.
2023 Honorees
Brandon Copeland
10 Year NFL Veteran, Speaker, Educator and Advocate
Richard Fisher
Senior Advisor to Barclays and Former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Michelle Meyer
Chief Economist of U.S. Mastercard Economics Institute
Hal Varian
Chief Economist at Google
2022 Honorees
Thasunda Brown Duckett
President and CEO, TIAA
Claudia Goldin
Henry Lee Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Barbara G. Novick
Co-Founder and Former Vice Chairman, BlackRock
2021 Honorees
Raj Chetty
William A. Ackman Professor of Public Economics, Harvard University
Peter Stavros
Partner & Co-Head of Americas Private Equity, KKR
Paula Volent
Chief Investment Officer & Senior Vice President for Investments, Bowdoin College
2020 Honorees
Dr. Ben S. Bernanke
Distinguished Fellow in Residence, Brookings Institution and Former Chair of the Federal Reserve System
Kathleen A. Murphy
President, Personal Investing, Fidelity Investments
James. R. Schenck
President & CEO, PenFed Credit Union CEO, PenFed Foundation
2019 Honorees
Rodney O. Martin, Jr.
Chairman and CEO, Voya Financial
Beth Mooney
Chairwoman and CEO, KeyBank
Karl Roessner
Former CEO, E*Trade Financial
Janet Yellen
Former Chair of the Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System
2018 Honorees
The Honorable Lael Brainard
Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Peter Blair Henry
William R. Berkley Professor of Economics and Finance and Dean Emeritus of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University
Rebecca Patterson
Chief Investment Officer, Bessemer Trust
2017 Honorees
Prof. Gregory Mankiw
Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Michael A. Peterson
President and CEO, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Daniel H. Schulman
President and CEO, PayPal
2016 Honorees
Frank Bisignano
Chairman and CEO, First Data
Richard Edelman
President and CEO, Edelman
Glenn Hubbard
Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School
Arianna Huffington
Founder of The Huffington Post and Founder and CEO of Thrive Global
2015 Honorees
Ann Kaplan
Partner, Circle Wealth Management
Robert E. Moritz
U.S. Chairman and Senior Partner, PwC
Prof. Robert J. Shiller
Sterling Professor of Economics, Yale University and 2013 Nobel Memorial Prize Winner in Economic Sciences
Andrew Ross Sorkin
Founder of DealBook, Financial Columnist for The New York Times and CNBC Co-Anchor of Squawk Box
2014 Honorees
Richard G. Ketchum
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, FINRA
Raymond W. McDaniel, Jr.
President and Chief Executive Officer, Moody’s Corporation
Prof. Christina D. Romer
Class of 1957 – Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
David Wessel
Director of The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at The Brookings Institution and Contributing Correspondent to The Wall Street Journal
2013 Honorees
The Honorable Alan S. Blinder
Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; and currently Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and Vice–Chairman of Promontory Inter-financial Network
Joyce B. Cowin
Founder of The Cowin Financial Literacy Project at Teachers College, Columbia University
Steve Liesman
CNBC Senior Economics Reporter
David W. Nelms
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Discover Financial Services
2012 Honorees
The Honorable Sheila C. Bair
Former Chairman of the FDIC and Senior Advisor at The Pew Charitable Trusts
Karen Finerman
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Metropolitan Capital Advisors and Panelist on CNBC’s Fast Money
The Honorable Mel Martinez
Chairman of the Southeast & Latin America, JPMorgan Chase & Co.; and Chairman, JPMorgan Chase Foundation
Duncan L. Niederauer
Chief Executive Officer and Director, NYSE Euronext