Kurt Eichenwald
Reporter, Author and Pulitzer Prize Nominee

The staid world of corporate governance has been shaken to its core -- and shoved into the spotlight. First came Enron, Worldcom and a host of other scandals; now, in short order, the collapse of AIG, Lehman Brothers, Fannie May and Freddie Mac. Kurt Eichenwald, a twenty-year veteran of The New York Times, has spent his career uncovering fraud and helping us understand the staggering impact of corporate scandals on world markets, on employees, on customers, on shareholders and on public confidence.

Eichenwald's bestseller Conspiracy of Fools, the definitive book on Enron, is soon to be a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio. His book The Informant, about the Archer Daniels Midland price-fixing scandal, has been made into a hit movie starring Matt Damon. Both books are widely considered masterpieces of investigative journalism. A Pulitzer Prize nominee, Eichenwald is one of America's most respected business journalists, and has twice won the George Polk Award, one of journalism's highest honors, his latest for a series about allegations of corruption at the nation's largest private hospital chain.