CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
William D. Cohan
Contributor, Vanity Fair
William D. Cohan, a former senior Wall Street M&A investment banker for 17 years at Lazard Freres & Co., Merrill Lynch and JPMorganChase, is the New York Times bestselling author of three non-fiction narratives about Wall Street: Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World; House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street; and, The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres & Co., the winner of the 2007 FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. His latest book, The Price of Silence, about the Duke lacrosse scandal was published in April 2014 and was also a New York Times bestseller. The paperback was published in April. He is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and a columnist for the DealBook section of the New York Times. He also writes for The Financial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, The Atlantic, The Nation, Fortune, and Politico. He previously wrote a bi-weekly opinion column for The New York Times and an opinion column for BloombergView. He also appears regularly on MSNBC, on Bloomberg TV, where he is a contributing editor, on CNN and the BBC-TV. He has also appeared as a guest on the Daily Show, with Jon Stewart, The NewsHour, The Charlie Rose Show, The Tavis Smiley Show, and CBS This Morning as well as on numerous NPR, BBC and Bloomberg radio programs. He is a graduate of Duke University, Columbia University School of Journalism and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
