Ann Lee (New York, NY): Ann Lee is an expert on financial derivatives and the global financial system. With a decade of experience on Wall Street, she has analyzed and traded almost every type of fixed income financial security, and she has served on the Advisory Board for Baron Merchant Bank and the Committee of Economic Development taskforce headed by former SEC chairman Bill Donaldson. Currently Lee teaches economics and finance at New York University, and has served as an adjunct professor at the Lubin School of Business and Graduate Economics at Pace University, and as a visiting professor to Peking University in Beijing, China. Previously, Lee did investment banking, and held senior management positions at several multi-billion dollar hedge fund firms where she earned returns exceeding 40%. Ms. Lee holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and also attended Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs and U.C. Berkeley. Lee has provided economic commentary in numerous media outlets, including CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg News, Fox News, has and has been published in Business Week, Forbes, Worth and other magazines and websites.