Michelle Caruso-Cabrera has 30 years of experience at the nexus of finance, economic development, and communication. She is the chief executive of MCC Productions and a CNBC Contributor. Caruso-Cabrera was the first Latina anchor at CNBC and first Chief International Correspondent. She spent 20+ years covering economic crises and international markets and interviewing presidents, prime ministers, and CEOS. She began her career at Univisión Spanish-language news in 1991. In 1993, she received an Emmy for a series she co-produced on the AIDS Crisis. She sits on the International Advisory Board of the Instituto Empressa in Madrid and serves as board president of Ballet Hispánico in NYC. She is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of NY, and the Latino Corporate Directors Association. In 2023, she joined the boards of Wendy’s and Del Real Foods, a portfolio company of Palladium Equity. Michelle has a BA in economics from Wellesley College.

Paul Sheard is a noted Australian-American economist and policy-watcher.  As a financial markets economist, Sheard cut his teeth in Tokyo covering Japan’s “lost decades” and then, as chief economist of Lehman Brothers in New York, he had a front-row seat at the global financial crisis. Most recently Research Fellow and M-RCBG Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School and before that Vice Chairman of S&P Global, Sheard held global chief economist positions at Standard & Poor’s and Nomura Securities, faculty positions at Osaka University and the Australian National University, and visiting scholar positions at Stanford University and the Bank of Japan. He has been a member of several World Economic Forum expert councils; a member of the board of the Foreign Policy Association, he is a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, and the National Committee on United States-China Relations. Sheard has a BA (Hons) from Monash University and a PhD in Japanese Economy and Master of Economics from the ANU.