Date: 7:30 p.m., April 13, 2023. Social networking time begins at 7 p.m.  

Location: Liston Hall, Skidaway Community Church, 50 Diamond Causeway

Open to the public. Admission is $10 for non-members. Students admitted without charge. Annual memberships available. More information at https://savannahcwa.org

Speaker: Dennis Lockhart, former President & CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (2007-2017), Distinguished Professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Institute of Technology

Program Topic:  “International and Domestic Finance”

Program Abstract: Lockhart is uniquely suited to discuss how monetary policy is made and how US policy affects international efforts, and how international policy influences US financial decisions. As a debt limit decision looming in Congress, he will offer thoughts on the consequences of U.S. monetary policy for the rest of the world and on how countries coordinate their financial policies.  He will also discuss how policies that you read about might affect the Georgia economy and you. 

Speaker Bio: Dennis Lockhart’s career includes prestigious positions in the private sector, academia, and government.  He is currently a distinguished professor of the practice in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at Georgia Tech.

From 2007 to 2017, he served as the 14^th President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Mr. Lockhart served on the Federal Reserve’s chief monetary policy body, the Federal Open Market Committee.

Before becoming a central banker, Mr. Lockhart was a member of the faculty of Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service where he chaired the Masters program concentrations in global commerce and finance and international business–government relations.  He also was an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He was simultaneously chairman of the Small Enterprise Assistance Funds, a sponsor of emerging markets venture capital/private equity funds.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Lockhart was managing partner of a boutique private investment firm with activity in Africa and Latin America and president of Heller International Group, a financial firm with activities in commercial finance in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.  In 2000, he chaired the Advisory Committee of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. 

Sponsors:  Critz Auto Group, Reach the World, Daily Chatter.

Contact: Becky Cheatham at 912-657-4409