Brookings Executive Education (BEE) welcomes 22 students to Washington, D.C. this week from Olin’s Global Master of Finance (GMF) Dual Degree program.

This is the first cohort in the new GMF program with Singapore Management University (SMU). The students are participating in a Washington, D.C. immersion week at the Brookings Institution where they are examining the regulation of United States financial markets. Students will learn about the key institutions and actors involved in U.S. regulation, including:

•  Federal Reserve
• Department of the Treasury
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
• Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
• National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)
• Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
• United States Senate Committee on Finance
• House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services

Brookings Executive Education has prepared a full week for the GMF students including visits to The International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the United States Capitol, Georgetown, and the Embassy of People’s Republic of China.

The BEE Washington, D.C. immersion experience gives students the opportunity to interact with policymakers and decision makers. The BEE experience is unique in that participants have the chance to hear directly from those who created and impacted the regulation of U.S. financial markets. GMF students will walk away with a nuanced understanding of the choices behind some of the major regulatory decisions of the last decade.

Speakers and topics throughout the immersion experience include, but are not limited to:

Keynote: The Different Institutional Player

• David Wessel, Director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy, The Brookings Institution

Securities and Exchange Commission: What is its Role in Federal Securities Law?

• David Blass, Associate Director and Chief Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, Division of Trading and Markets, Securities and Exchange Commission

Oversight Committee, Office of Domestic Finance, Department of the Treasury Economic Policy-Making in the Obama Administration

• Jared Bernstein, former Chief Economic Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden; Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Sarbanes Oxley

• Congressman Michael G. Oxley, (R-OH); Former Chair of Financial Services Committee, House of Representatives

Senate and House Committee Staff Panel

• Amanda Fischer, Senior Policy Advisor, Committee on Financial Services, US House of Representatives
• Beth Zorc, Senior Counsel, Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit Subcommittee, Committee on Financial Services, US House of Representatives

U.S. Financial Regulations: An Industry Perspective

• Hon. Frank Keating, President and CEO, American Bankers Association and former Governor of Oklahoma
  

  Global Master of Finance Dual Degree program students

To meet the demand for next-generation financial expertise, Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis has partnered with Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University (SMU) andYonsei University Graduate School of Business (YSB) in South Korea to develop a singular educational paradigm: the Global Master of Finance (GMF) Dual Degree program for high-reaching students.

Learn more about the Global Master of Finance Dual Degree program