Rebecca Patterson joined Bridgewater in January 2020 as director of the investment research group, where she is responsible for identifying and exploring areas of research across geographies and asset classes.
She has more than 20 years of investment management experience, and prior to joining Bridgewater served as chief investment officer of Bessemer Trust, overseeing $85 billion in client assets. During her time there, she was a member of the firm’s management committee, and helped launch their diversity and inclusion committee. Before joining Bessemer in 2012, she spent 15 years at J.P. Morgan where she worked as a researcher in the firm’s investment bank in Europe, Singapore and the US. She also served as a chief investment strategist in the asset management arm of the firm, and ran the private bank’s global currency and commodity trading desk.
Patterson is currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Economic Club of New York. She previously served on the New York Federal Reserve’s foreign exchange committee, and later the investor advisory committee for six years, and has served on the University of Florida’s Investment Corporation’s advisory board for seven years, including three years as chair. She holds an M.B.A. from New York University, an M.A. in International Relations from The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, and a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Florida. She has been included on American Banker’s list of Most Powerful Women in Finance for six consecutive years. She is married and has two teenage girls.

Colin Tate has been an investment industry media publisher and conference producer since 1996. In his media career, Tate has launched and overseen dozens of print and electronic publications. He is the chief executive and major shareholder of Conexus Financial, which was formed in 2005, and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia. The company stages more than 20 conferences and events each year – in London, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Beijing, Sydney and Melbourne – and publishes five media brands, including the global website and strategy newsletter for global institutional investors conexust1f.flywheelstaging.com. One of the company’s signature events is the bi-annual Fiduciary Investors Symposium. Conexus Financial’s events aim to place the responsibilities of investors in wider societal, and political contexts, as well as promote the long-term stability of markets and sustainable retirement incomes. Tate served for seven years on the board of Australia’s most high profile homeless charity, The Wayside Chapel; and he has underwritten the welfare of 60,000 people in 28 villages throughout Uganda via The Hunger Project.

Nathan Sheets, PhD, is chief economist and head of global macroeconomic research at PGIM Fixed Income. He is responsible for the oversight of the firm’s global macroeconomic research team, leading the formulation of the global macroeconomic outlook, supporting fundamental views on developed and emerging countries, and the analysis of global interest rate, currency, sovereign, and credit markets. He is a member of the senior investment team and provides thought leadership on global monetary and fiscal policy and macroeconomic trends. Sheets was most recently the undersecretary of the US Treasury for international affairs, representing the US government on international economic policy. Previously, he held positions with Citigroup, as global head of international economics, and with the Federal Reserve Board, most recently as director of the division of international finance and FOMC economist. He earned a Bachelor’s in Economics from Brigham Young University and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

White is responsible for the content across all Conexus Financial’s institutional media and events. She is responsible for directing the bi-annual Fiduciary Investors Symposium which challenges global investors on investment best practice and aims to place the responsibilities of investors in wider societal, and political contexts, as well as promote the long-term stability of markets and sustainable retirement incomes. She is the editor of conexust1f.flywheelstaging.com, the online news and analysis site for the world’s largest institutional investors. White has been an investment journalist for more than 20 years and has edited industry journals including Investment & Technology, Investor Weekly and MasterFunds Quarterly. She was previously editorial director of InvestorInfo and has worked as a freelance journalist for the Australian Financial Review, CFO, Asset and Asia Asset Management. She has a Bachelor of Economics from Sydney University and a Master of Arts in Journalism from the University of Technology, Sydney. She was previously a columnist for the Canadian publication, Corporate Knights, which is distributed by the Globe and Mail and The Washington Post. White is currently a fellow in the Finance Leaders Fellowship at the Aspen Institute. The two-year program consists of 22 fellows and seeks to develop the next generation of responsible, community-spirited leaders in the global finance industry.

Thomas Carothers is senior vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In that capacity he oversees all of the research programs at Carnegie. He also directs the democracy, conflict, and governance program and carries out research and writing on democracy-related issues.

Carothers is a leading authority on international support for democracy, human rights, governance, the rule of law, and civil society. He has worked on democracy assistance projects for many organisations and carried out extensive field research on aid efforts around the world.

He is the author or editor of 10 critically acclaimed books and many articles in prominent journals and newspapers, including most recently, Democracies Divided: The Global Challenge of Political Polarization (Brookings Press, 2019, co-edited with Andrew O’Donohue). He has been a visiting faculty member at the Central European University in Budapest, Nuffield College, Oxford University, and Johns Hopkins SAIS.

Prior to joining the endowment, Carothers practiced international and financial law at Arnold & Porter and served as an attorney adviser in the office of the legal adviser of the US Department of State.

Professor Kotkin received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988, and has been a professor at Princeton since 1989. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
At Princeton Professor Kotkin teaches courses in geopolitics, modern authoritarianism, global history, and Soviet Eurasia, and has won all of the university’s teaching awards. He has served as the vice dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and chaired the editorial committee of Princeton University Press. Outside Princeton, he writes essays and reviews for Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, and the Times Literary Supplement, among other publications, and was the regular book reviewer for the New York Times Sunday Business section for many years. He serves as an invited consultant to defence ministries and intelligence agencies in multiple countries. His latest book is Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 (Penguin, 2017). His previous book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Professor Kotkin received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988, and has been a professor at Princeton since 1989. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
At Princeton Professor Kotkin teaches courses in geopolitics, modern authoritarianism, global history, and Soviet Eurasia, and has won all of the university’s teaching awards. He has served as the vice dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and chaired the editorial committee of Princeton University Press. Outside Princeton, he writes essays and reviews for Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, and the Times Literary Supplement, among other publications, and was the regular book reviewer for the New York Times Sunday Business section for many years. He serves as an invited consultant to defence ministries and intelligence agencies in multiple countries. His latest book is Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941 (Penguin, 2017). His previous book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

White is responsible for the content across all Conexus Financial’s institutional media and events. She is responsible for directing the bi-annual Fiduciary Investors Symposium which challenges global investors on investment best practice and aims to place the responsibilities of investors in wider societal, and political contexts, as well as promote the long-term stability of markets and sustainable retirement incomes. She is the editor of conexust1f.flywheelstaging.com, the online news and analysis site for the world’s largest institutional investors. White has been an investment journalist for more than 20 years and has edited industry journals including Investment & Technology, Investor Weekly and MasterFunds Quarterly. She was previously editorial director of InvestorInfo and has worked as a freelance journalist for the Australian Financial Review, CFO, Asset and Asia Asset Management. She has a Bachelor of Economics from Sydney University and a Master of Arts in Journalism from the University of Technology, Sydney. She was previously a columnist for the Canadian publication, Corporate Knights, which is distributed by the Globe and Mail and The Washington Post. White is currently a fellow in the Finance Leaders Fellowship at the Aspen Institute. The two-year program consists of 22 fellows and seeks to develop the next generation of responsible, community-spirited leaders in the global finance industry.

Dr Ian Norton, founder and managing director of Respond Global, is a specialist emergency physician and an expert in coordinating emergency health responses to disease outbreaks and disasters.

Norton was head of the WHO’s Emergency Medical Team (EMT) Initiative in Geneva from 2014-20. During this time, he led responses to Ebola, Diphtheria and Measles outbreaks as well as to earthquakes, cyclones, and war zones.

Previous to the WHO, he led the creation of disaster response teams in Australia and was the director of Disaster Preparedness and Response at the National Critical Care & Trauma Response Centre (NCCTRC) in Darwin. Norton established the Australian Medical Assistance Teams (AUSMAT) framework and designed the field hospitals that are today used for international disaster and infectious disease responses.

He established Respond Global in early 2020 with the aim of empowering others to be able to plan, prepare and respond to health emergencies in their own countries. He and his team are currently assisting numerous organisations during the COVID pandemic, providing strategic and practical operational support about how to be COVID-Safe now and into the future.

Kari Stoever is a global development and health policy expert with more than 20 years of experience in health start-ups. Currently she is the chief external relations officer at On Demand Pharmaceuticals, an innovative pharmaceutical manufacturing company transforming how medicines are made so they can be produced on demand whenever and wherever medicines are needed.
Previously, she served as the chief external relations at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, a nonprofit biotech developing next generation cures for brain disorders. While working at the Nike Foundation she led a $210 million partnership between the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Gates Foundation to reduce new HIV infections in adolescent girls and young women. She was also part of a President Obama’s task force who designed SPARK, a common symbol and platform for connecting diverse programs working to promote entrepreneurship around the world. The programs selected to the President's Spark Initiative represent the best work being done by the U.S. Government to advance entrepreneurship around the world.

While at Aeras, a global nonprofit biotech developing next generation tuberculosis vaccine, she led an initiative with the European Commission and European Investment Bank to design the world’s first blended capital fund to support infectious disease R&D. Prior to Aeras she was the President and Founder of Meliora Global, LLC, firm focused on growth strategies for nonprofits and social ventures, helping clients build multi-sector collaborative partnerships to achieve their local, regional or global goals.
Meliora Global clients included Pegasus Capital Advisors, Ashoka, the United Nations Special Envoy’s office for Malaria, Grameen (Nobel Peace Prize winner, Professor Mohammad Yunus) on the development of social businesses, and the African Program for Onchocerciasis Control.
While at the Sabin Institute, she helped establish and was the managing director of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD). She was the Principal Investigator on a $34 million grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to establish regional financing mechanisms and to increase international investments for the scale-up of NTD control and elimination strategies globally. Under her leadership, the Global Network secured more than US $100 million in grants and financial commitments and led the development of a U.S. government $1 billion, 5-year strategy for NTDs.
Prior to her work at Sabin, she spent several years managing clinical research studies in cancer and infectious diseases. She spent a year working for the Department of Defense at the United States Army Medical Research Institute for infectious diseases (USAMRIID) managing anthrax and other biodefense studies.
She is the author of a book chapter ‘Governance Models for Eradication Initiatives’ and a co-author on ‘Elements of Good Governance in Disease Eradication Initiatives’ in: Disease Eradication in the 21st Century: Implications for Global Health; Cochi, Stephen L., and Walter R. Dowdle, editors. 2011. Strüngmann Forum Report, vol. 7. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
In 2010 she received the distinguished Stevie Award for Women in Business - Best Executive – Service Businesses – up to 2,500 employees. She has served on the board of the Women’s Leadership Initiative at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, and was the Chairperson to Invisible Children, an organization dedicated to raising awareness and mobilizing support to end the Lord Resistance Army’s atrocities in Central Africa.
She holds a B.Sc. from George Washington University, a degree in nursing, and an Executive Masters in Leadership from the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University.

Colin Tate has been an investment industry media publisher and conference producer since 1996. In his media career, Tate has launched and overseen dozens of print and electronic publications. He is the chief executive and major shareholder of Conexus Financial, which was formed in 2005, and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia. The company stages more than 20 conferences and events each year – in London, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Beijing, Sydney and Melbourne – and publishes five media brands, including the global website and strategy newsletter for global institutional investors conexust1f.flywheelstaging.com. One of the company’s signature events is the bi-annual Fiduciary Investors Symposium. Conexus Financial’s events aim to place the responsibilities of investors in wider societal, and political contexts, as well as promote the long-term stability of markets and sustainable retirement incomes. Tate served for seven years on the board of Australia’s most high profile homeless charity, The Wayside Chapel; and he has underwritten the welfare of 60,000 people in 28 villages throughout Uganda via The Hunger Project.