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Bloomberg, Vanity Fair Host Financial Crisis Panel

Join Bloomberg and Vanity Fair for a panel discussion on the financial crisis. Participants include Harvard University professor Niall Ferguson, New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin, Vanity Fair's Bethany McLean and Bryan Burrough, and Bloomberg News's Margaret Brennan.

Bloomberg columnist Michael Lewis moderates.

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Moderator


Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis is a Vanity Fair contributing editor as well as a columnist for Bloomberg News. He has published ten books, all but one of them New York Times bestsellers. They include The Blind Side, to be released as a major motion picture this Friday starring Sandra Bullock. Other works include Moneyball (2003), an examination of baseball that focuses on the way markets value people; The New New Thing (2000), about Silicon Valley during the Internet boom; Losers (2000), about the 1996 presidential campaign; and Liar's Poker (1989), based in part on Lewis's experience working as an investment banker on Wall Street. He writes often for The New York Times Magazine, and his articles have also appeared in The New Yorker, Gourmet, Sports Illustrated, Foreign Affairs, and Poetry magazine. He has served as an editor and columnist at the British weekly The Spectator and as a senior editor and campaign correspondent at The New Republic. For the BBC, he made a four-part documentary on the social consequences of the Internet, and he has filmed and narrated short pieces for ABC's Nightline. Having grown up in New Orleans, Lewis remains deeply interested and involved in the city. He holds a B.A. in art history from Princeton and an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics. His book on the financial crisis The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine will be released in 2010.


Panelists


Margaret Brennan

Margaret Brennan is the host of InBusiness with Margaret Brennan on Bloomberg Television. She began her business news career at CNBC as a producer for the financial news legend Louis Rukeyser and went on to become a general assignment reporter where she also contributed to MSNBC and NBC News programs. She graduated with the highest distinction from the University of Virginia where she received a BA in Middle East Studies with a minor in Arabic language. As a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar, she studied Arabic in Jordan. She was awarded a 2007 George Mitchell Fellowship and made a Whitehead Fellow with the Foreign Policy association and named one of the top journalists under 30 by the NewsBios/TJFR Group.

Bryan Burrough

Bryan Burrough is a special correspondent at Vanity Fair magazine and the author of five books, including the No. 1 New York Times Best-Seller Barbarians at the Gate and the best-selling Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34. He is also a three-time winner of the prestigious Gerald Loeb Award for Excellence in Financial Journalism. Prior to joining Vanity Fair, he was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, where he reported from Dallas, Houston, and Pittsburgh and, during the late 1980s, covered the mergers and acquisitions beat in New York.

In 1990, Bryan Burrough and John Helyar co-authored Barbarians at the Gate, the story of the fight for control of RJR Nabisco. The book has been hailed as one of the most influential business narratives of all time and was made into a movie on HBO in 1993. Bryan Burrough has been at Vanity Fair since 1992, where he has reported from locales as diverse as Hollywood, Nepal, Moscow, Tokyo and Jerusalem. His subsequent books include Vendetta: American Express and the Smearing of Edmond Safra, 1992; Dragonfly: An Epic Story of Survival in Space, 1998; Public Enemies, 2004, which was made into a major movie directed by Michael Mann and starring Johnny Depp and Christian Bale; and The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes, 2009.

Niall Ferguson

Niall Ferguson, MA.D.Phil., is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at Jesus College, Oxford University, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Niall Ferguson is a regular contributor to television and radio on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2003 he wrote and presented a six-part history of the British Empire for Channel 4, the UK terrestrial broadcaster. The accompanying book, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power, was a bestseller in both Britain and the United States. The sequel, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire, was published in 2004. Two years later he published The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, which was also a PBS series. His most recent book is the best-selling Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World. It aired on PBS this year. He has just completed a biography of the banker Siegmund Warburg and is now working on the life of Henry Kissinger.

A prolific commentator on contemporary politics and economics, Niall Ferguson writes and reviews regularly for the British and American press. He is a contributing editor for the Financial Times and a regular contributor to Vanity Fair and Newsweek. In 2004 Time magazine named him as one of the world's hundred most influential people.

Bethany McLean

Bethany McLean is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair magazine. Prior to joining Vanity Fair in 2008, she was an editor-at-large for Fortune magazine, where in 2001 she wrote an article that raised questions about the immense profitability of Enron, then a darling of the stock market. In 2003 she co-wrote a book about the scandal that led to the energy company's collapse, The Smartest Guys in the Room. It was later made into an Academy Award nominated documentary in 2005 which she co-wrote. She is currently writing a book with Joe Nocera of The New York Times on the financial crisis.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Andrew Ross Sorkin is The New York Times' chief mergers and acquisitions reporter and a columnist. He is also the editor of DealBook, an online daily financial report he started in 2001. In addition, Mr. Sorkin is an assistant editor of business and finance news, helping guide and shape the paper's coverage.

A leading voice about Wall Street and corporate America, he is also the author of the recently published New York Times' bestseller, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to save the Financial System-and Themselves. Mr. Sorkin won a Gerald Loeb Award, the highest honor in business journalism, in 2004 for breaking news. He also won a Society of American Business Editors and Writers Award for breaking news in 2005 and again in 2006. Mr. Sorkin began writing for The Times in 1995 under unusual circumstances: he hadn't yet graduated from high school.


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