John Ciorciari's research focuses on international politics and law. He is currently writing a book about alliance politics in the developing world and editing a book about the Khmer Rouge trials in Cambodia. He also has projects on Asian financial cooperation and the foreign relations of Myanmar, India, and Pakistan.

Before joining the Hoover Institution, Ciorciari was a Shorenstein Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford. He has also served as an official in the U.S. Treasury and an attorney at Davis Polk & Wardwell.

He holds an AB and JD from Harvard and a DPhil from Oxford.

John Ciorciari was a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow for 2008–2009 at the Hoover Institution.

Andrew Crockett is special adviser to the chairman at JPMorgan Chase. Crockett previously served as general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (1993–2003) and as first chairman of the Financial Stability Forum (now the Financial Stability Board) (1999–2003). Earlier in his career, Crockett held positions at the Bank of England and the International Monetary Fund. His research interest is financial regulation. He was educated at Cambridge and Yale Universities and was knighted in 2003.

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Joseph A. Grundfest is the W.A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School. He is a nationally recognized expert on capital markets, corporate governance, and securities litigation. He founded the award-winning Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse, which provides detailed, online information about the prosecution, defense, and settlement of federal class action securities fraud litigation. He co-directs Directors' College, the nation's leading venue for the continuing professional education of directors of publicly traded corporations, as well as the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance and the Stanford Program in Law, Economics, and Business. Before coming to Stanford in 1990, he was a commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission and served on the staff of the President's Council of Economic Advisors as counsel and senior economist for legal and regulatory matters.

Charles B. Johnson is chairman and director of Franklin Resources, Inc. and various Franklin Templeton funds. He joined Franklin Distributors, Inc., as President and CEO in 1957 and assumed those positions for Franklin Resources when it was organized in 1969. He served as CEO until 2003. He is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and was elected chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) in 1992. He also served on various boards and and committees of the NASD from 1988 to 2002, as well as the Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute from 1973 to 1988. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution and serves on the boards of a number of civic and charitable organizations.

John F. Powers has been President and CEO of the Stanford Management Company (SMC) since June 2006. SMC is a division of Stanford University with oversight by a Board of Directors appointed by the University Board of Trustees. It was established in 1991 to manage Stanford's financial and real estate assets. From 2002 until 2006, Powers worked at Offit Hall Capital Management LLC as Managing Director and Director of Research. He was also a member of the firm’s Investment and Management Committees. He holds an A.B. from Cornell University and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

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Kenneth E. Scott is the Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business Emeritus and a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His research focuses on legislative and policy developments related to the financial crisis, comparative corporate governance, and bank regulation. He has extensive government consulting experience, including for the World Bank, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Resolution Trust Corporation, and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. He is also a member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee, Financial Economists Roundtable, and the California State Bar’s Financial Institutions Committee. Before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1968, he was general counsel to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and worked in private practice in New York with Sullivan & Cromwell. His most recent book, coedited with George Shultz and John Taylor, is Ending Government Bailouts (2010).