The Junior Year Policy Class will be presenting to their client, the George W. Bush Institute, on Monday, May 5, 2025.

You are invited to attend this presentation.

Guest registration is required for entry. Registered by May 2nd, 2025.

Please click in the following link for registration:

https://booking.smu.edu/calendar/21633/2025TS_ClientPresentation

Date: Monday, May 5, 2025
Time: 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Location: George W. Bush Presidential Center, Live Oak room, 2943 SMU Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75205

Visitors should come to the WEST entrance to the Bush Institute, NOT the north entrance to our museum. They can park in the Bush Center surface lot across SMU Blvd to the north. (Instructions in attachment at the end)

Course Professors:

J.H. Cullum Clark: J.H. Cullum Clark is Director, Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative, Adjunct Professor of Economics, and a Senior Fellow in the Tower Center at SMU.  Within the Economic Growth Initiative, he leads the Bush Institute’s work on domestic economic policy and economic growth.  Before joining the Bush Institute and SMU, Clark worked in the investment industry for 25 years.  He served as an equity analyst and portfolio manager at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. (1993-96), as a portfolio manager at Warburg Pincus Asset Management (1996-2000), as President and Chief Investment Officer of Cimarron Global Investors, a Dallas-based hedge fund firm (2000-02), and as President of Prothro Clark Company, a Dallas family investment office (2002-18).  Prior to entering the investment industry, he served for one year on the staff of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Kathleen Cooper: Kathleen B. Cooper is Senior Fellow at SMU’s John G. Tower Center for Public Policy and International Relations.  Over her career, she has served in a variety of posts - Under Secretary for Economic Affairs at the U.S. Commerce Department, Chief Economist for the Exxon Mobil Corporation, Executive Vice President and Chief Economist of Security Pacific National Bank, and Dean of the College of Business at the University of North Texas. Dr. Cooper served as director of Deutsche Bank Trust Company of the Americas, director and former chair of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and as director of the Williams Companies, an energy infrastructure company.  Kathleen has held positions as president of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) and the U.S. Association for Energy Economics, chair of the American Bankers Association’s Economic Advisory Committee, and founding director of Texas Security Bank.

For more information email us at towerscholars@smu.edu.

Any person who requires a reasonable accommodation on the basis of a disability in order to participate in this program should contact the SMU Tower Center at towerscholars@smu.edu in advance at least 4 days prior to the event to arrange for the accommodation.

SMU NexPoint Tower Scholars Program

https://www.smu.edu/Dedman/Research/Institutes-and-Centers/Tower-Center/Students/Tower-Scholars

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