Shaping the Future - Milken Institute

panelists
Goolam Ballim is Group Chief Economist at Standard Bank, headquartered in South Africa. Ballim, who was
appointed to the post in 2004, heads a research team whose particular strength is its analysis of macroeconomic and
political economy subjects in Africa and leading emerging economies. He joined the firm’s economics research unit in
1999 and soon headed the financial markets desk. He later relocated to the Corporate and Investment Banking Division
of the group, where he served as senior treasury economist.
Howard Banker is the Managing Director of the Finance Group for the Energy Programs Consortium (EPC), a
nonprofit research and implementation organization working for states with funding from the U.S. Department
of Energy (DOE), foundations and state governments. The finance group – made up of experienced staff, individual
and corporate consultants, and financial advisory firms – is currently focused on establishing a conforming energyefficiency
loan secondary market for a group of specific finance tools, starting with residential unsecured energyefficiency
loans and supporting DOE loan guarantee constructs. Banker manages the Energy Star mortgage program
for EPC and has held lending, brokering and secondary licenses in several states. He is also the executive director of the
Fair Mortgage Collaborative.
Jim Barry is Chief Executive of NTR Plc, a developer and operator of renewable energy (wind, solar and ethanol) and
sustainable waste-management businesses in the United States, the U.K. and Ireland. He has led the transformation
of the company from its origins in 1978 as an Irish toll-road developer through its period as a broad-based Irish utility
into a leading renewable energy developer. Barry is a director of NTR’s key subsidiaries: Wind Capital Group, a North
American wind farm developer; Greenstar, an international recycling operator; and Green Plains Renewable Energy, a
North American ethanol producer. He is chairman of Stirling Energy Systems, a solar thermal technology company, and
Tessera Solar, an international thermal solar project developer. Prior to joining NTR in 1998, Barry worked with Bain &
Company, and with Morgan Stanley. He holds a bachelor’s degree from University College, Cork, and an M.B.A. from the
Harvard Business School.
James Barth is the Senior Finance Fellow at the Milken Institute and the Lowder Eminent Scholar in Finance at
Auburn University. His research focuses on financial institutions and capital markets, with an emphasis on regulatory
issues. He has led an international team advising the People’s Bank of China on banking reform and has recently
traveled to China, India and Russia to lecture on various financial issues for the State Department. Barth previously
was chief economist of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and later of the Office of Thrift Supervision. He has been a
professor at The George Washington University, associate director of the economics program at the National Science
Foundation and the Shaw Foundation Professor of Banking and Finance at Nanyang Technological University. Barth
is the author of multiple books, including The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Mortgage and Credit Markets and Global Banking
Regulation and Supervision. Barth received a Ph.D. from Ohio State University.
Andrea Barthwell is Founder and CEO of the global health-care and policy-consulting firm EMGlobal LLC and and
Director at Two Dreams Outer Banks Health and Wellness Center. She previously served as deputy director for demand
reduction in the Office of National Drug Control Policy, advising the White House on policies aimed at reducing the
demand for illicit drugs. During her tenure, the Bush administration encouraged student drug testing and promoted
the expansion and improvement of drug courts. Barthwell, a past president of the American Society of Addiction
Medicine, has received the Betty Ford Award and has been named one of the “Best Doctors in America” in addiction
medicine. Barthwell received a bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University, where she serves on the Board of Trustees,
and an M.D. from the University of Michigan Medical School.
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