
Judy Samuelson
Vice President and Executive Director, Business and Society Program, The Aspen Institute
Judy Samuelson is founder and executive director of the Business and Society Program at the Aspen Institute. Programs under her leadership include a ten-year campaign to disrupt Milton Friedman’s narrative about corporate purpose, the Aspen Principles of Long-Term Value Creation, and a partnership with Korn Ferry to rethink executive pay. Samuelson previously worked in legislative affairs in California, banking in New York’s garment center, and ran the Ford Foundation’s office of program-related investments. The author of Six New Rules of Business: Creating Real Value in a Changing World, she blogs for Quartz at Work. Samuelson is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow and a director of the Financial Health Network.
Previously

2023 Climate
The ESG Debate: Does ESG Investing Help People and Planet?
Video

2022 Festival
Investing in Democracy – Is There a Role for Business?
Audio — 47m

2019 Festival
Can Business Choose Shared Prosperity?
Audio — 49m

2018 Festival
The 21st Century CEO: It’s Not All the Bottom Line
Audio — 53m

2018 Festival
When CEOs Speak Out
Audio — 48m

2017 Festival
What Constitutes a 'Good Job', and How Can We Create More of Them?
Video — 47m 31s

2016 Festival
Accounting or Aristotle: How Undergraduates View Their Future
Audio — 51m