David Rubenstein - Kenneth Griffin - Michael O’Leary - Robyn Grew | Panel discussion

Kenneth Griffin is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Citadel, one of the world's leading alternative investment firms managing over $60 billion in capital. He is also the Founder and Non-Executive Chairman of Citadel Securities, one of the world's largest market makers serving more than 1,600 institutional clients globally. Ken founded Citadel in 1990, a year after graduating from Harvard, where he had begun investing from his dorm room in 1986. He built the firm on the belief that exceptional talent, advanced quantitative analytics, and powerful technology could unlock opportunities in global capital markets. Through Griffin Catalyst, Ken has made transformative philanthropic contributions to education, health sciences, and cultural institutions. Ken holds an A.B. with Honors in Economics from Harvard College. -- David Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of the Board of Carlyle, one of the world’s largest and most diversified global investment firms. Previously, Mr. Rubenstein served as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Carlyle. Among other philanthropic endeavors, Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the Boards of the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Gallery of Art, the Economic Club of Washington, and the University of Chicago; a Trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum; an Emeritus Trustee of Johns Hopkins Medicine; and a Director of Moderna, Inc. and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Rubenstein is a magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. Following Duke, Mr. Rubenstein graduated from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review. -- Robyn Grew – Chief Executive Officer at Man Group Robyn Grew is the Chief Executive Officer of Man Group, a global alternative investment management firm with more than USD 200 billion assets under management that is listed on the London Stock Exchange. As CEO, she leads the firm’s Executive Committee and is an executive director on the Man Group Board. Since joining Man Group in 2010 through its acquisition of GLG, Robyn has served as Group COO, Head of ESG, General Counsel, and most recently, President. Robyn led Man Group’s corporate reorganisation in 2019 and has also spearheaded the firm’s diversity programme. Robyn has worked in the investment industry since 1994. Previously, she held senior global positions at investment banks in London, New York and Tokyo, including Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers, as well as what is now the ICE Futures Europe exchange. She is a qualified barrister and member of the Standards Board for Alternative Investment (SBAI) Board of Trustees. -- Michael O’Leary has served as a Director of Ryanair DAC since 1988 and a Director of Ryanair Holdings since 1996. Michael was appointed CEO of Ryanair in 1994 and Group CEO in April 2019, having previously served as CFO since 1988. Under his leadership, Ryanair has grown to become Europe's largest airline group, pioneering the low-cost model that has transformed air travel across the continent. Michael holds a degree in Business and Economics from Trinity College Dublin.