HAMPTONS INSTITUTE AT GUILD HALL x THE COMMON GOOD
Trump’s return to power has jolted global markets and revived a combative trade agenda. From unpredictable tariffs to a retreat from multilateral norms, his early economic moves could trigger the most consequential realignment of the global order since World War II. Are we watching the start of a new era—or the unraveling of the old one? Joining us: Glenn Hutchins, cofounder global private equity firm Silver Lake, co-chair Brookings Institution, Founder, Hutchins Center at Harvard; with seasoned business executive, Fred Hochberg, former Chairman and President of the Export-Import Bank (EXIM) and Small Business Admin.; and eminent author and columnist; Gillian Tett, who serves as Provost of Kings College, Cambridge and a member of the editorial board for the Financial Times, who will serve as moderator.
ORDER OR CHAOS:
THE ECONOMY UNDER TRUMP
Featuring GLEN HUTCHINS
& FRED HOCHBERG
Moderated by GILLIAN TETT
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ABOUT HAMPTONS INSTITUTE
The Hamptons Institute, established in 2010, returns to Guild Hall this summer, featuring leaders in their fields discussing ideas that shape our community and the world. The 2025 installment is guest-curated by Ellen Chesler, author and Hamptons Institute co-founder (with Guild Hall late Chair, Mickey Straus), and Patricia Duff, founder of the nonpartisan non-profit, The Common Good, dedicated to civic participation, civil dialogue, and finding solutions and common ground. Each evening will explore a single topic from the perspective of multiple professionals, followed by a Q&A.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS
FRED HOCHBERG is a seasoned business executive and government leader. In 2017, he concluded eight years of service as chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
In 1998, after twenty years as president of Lillian Vernon, the direct-marketing company, Mr. Hochberg served two tours in government, as acting administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration and later as chair of the U.S. Export-Import Bank. In the interim, he was dean of the New School’s Milano School of Policy, Management, and Environment. He authored the book Trade Is Not a Four-Letter Word (2020).
GLENN HUTCHINS is chairman of North Island and North Island Ventures, and co-founder of Silver Lake.
He is on the board of directors of AT&T and Banco Santander, co-chairman of the Brookings Institution, chair of CARE, vice chair of the Obama Foundation, and on the Executive Committee of the Boston Celtics Basketball Team (2008 NBA World Champions). He is member of the Investment Board and the International Advisory Board of GIC Private Limited, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore. He was previously chairman of the board of SunGard Data Systems, Inc. and Instinet, Inc. and a director of Nasdaq, Inc. and Virtu Financial.
Mr. Hutchins was a director and chair of Audit and Risk Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2011-2020. He served President Clinton in both the transition and the White House as a special advisor on economic and healthcare policy. He was also a director of the Harvard Management Company for a decade and co-chairman of Harvard University’s capital campaign.
Mr. Hutchins and his wife, Debbie, founded the Hutchins Family Foundation which, among other projects, is supporting the construction of the Obama Presidential Center and has created the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University; the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at The Brookings Institution; the Hutchins Center for Social Justice at the Lawrenceville School; and the Chronic Fatigue Initiative, which conducted basic research into the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome.
GILLIAN TETT is a columnist and member of the editorial board for the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on Friday, covering a range of economic, financial, political and social issues. She also serves as Provost of King's College, Cambridge.
Previously, she chaired the FT editorial board, ran Moral Money, the FT's sustainability newsletter which she co-founded, and wrote two columns a week. Gillian's earlier roles included US managing editor for the FT; assistant editor; capital markets editor; deputy editor of the Lex column; Tokyo bureau chief; reporter in Russia and Brussels.
She has been named Columnist of the Year (2014), Journalist of the Year (2009) and Business Journalist of the Year (2008) in the British Press Awards, and received three awards from America's Society of Business and Economic Writers Awards. She is a best-selling and award-winning author of four books, and received the Royal Anthropological Institute Marsh Award and the American Anthropological Association President Medal for her work in social science. She has received honorary degrees from Carnegie Mellon, Miami and Baruch universities in America, and Exeter, Lancaster, Goldsmith's, London in the UK.