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Mr Paul Irving
Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence, The University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology
Senior advisor, Milken Institute
Mr Paul Irving is a corporate and nonprofit director and advisor to leaders in business, philanthropy and academia. Author/editor of “The Upside of Aging: How Long Life Is Changing the World of Health, Work, Innovation, Policy, and Purpose,” a Wall Street Journal expert panelist and contributor to the Harvard Business Review, PBS NextAvenue, and Forbes, Mr Irving speaks and writes about health, finance and work; innovation and investment in the longevity economy; and the changing culture of aging in America and the world.
Mr Irving is a distinguished scholar-in-residence at the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and senior advisor at the Milken Institute. He previously served as the Institute’s president and founding chair of its Center for the Future of Aging, an advanced leadership fellow at Harvard University, and chair, CEO, and head of the financial services group of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, a national law and consulting firm.
Mr Irving is a director and chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of East West Bancorp, Inc. and a member of the International Strategic Committee of the Quadrivio Group Silver Economy Fund. Chair emeritus and a member of the board of CoGenerate (previously, Encore.org), Mr Irving also serves on the Global Advisory Council of the Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute, the Board of Councilors of the USC Leonard Davis School, the Advisory Board of WorkingNation, and the National Academy of Medicine Global Commission on Healthy Longevity. Mr Irving previously served on the Bipartisan Policy Center Senior Health and Housing Task Force and as a participant in the 2015 White House Conference on Aging.
Named an “Influencer” by PBS NextAvenue, Mr Irving was recognized with the Affordable Living for the Aging Janet L. Witkin Humanitarian Award, the Stanford University Distinguished Careers Institute Life Journey Inspiration Award, the Center for Workforce Inclusion Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Board of Governors Award.
In three decades as a corporate lawyer, Mr Irving represented public and private companies and prominent investors in complex merger, acquisition, and capital markets transactions, and in a wide range of business, governance, and regulatory matters. Throughout his legal career, Mr Irving was actively involved in pro bono services and charitable leadership in organizations including Operation Hope, Human Rights First, Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Center Theater Group, and New Roads School.
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Professor Christopher John Webster
Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Chair Professor of Urban Planning & Development Economics, HKU
BSc / DipTP / MSc / PhD / DSc(Econ) / FRICS / FRSA / NTF / AcSS
Professor Chris Webster, trained in urban planning, computer science, economics and economic geography and is a leading urban theorist and spatial economic modeller. He has published over 200 scholarly papers on the idea of spontaneous urban order, urban economy, urban environmental externalities, and healthy cities. Professor Webster founded the HKUrbanLabs, which conduct multi-disciplinary built environment research by architects, engineers, artists, planners, economists, construction managers, ecologists, data scientists and others. He leads the Healthy High-Density Cities research lab that links researchers in HKU’s Faculties of Architecture and Medicine. He has been a panel member on the World Green Building Council (Asia-Pacific) awards and advisor to many Chinese and other Asian city governments on healthy and sustainable urban futures.
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Dr John W. Rowe
Julius B. Richmond Professor of Health Policy and Aging
Department of Health Policy and Management
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
Dr John W. Rowe is the Julius B. Richmond Professor of Health Policy and Aging at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Previously, from 2000 until late 2006, Dr Rowe served as Chairman and CEO of Aetna, Inc., one of the nation's leading health care and related benefits organizations. Before his tenure at Aetna, from 1998 to 2000, Dr Rowe served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Mount Sinai NYU Health, one of the nation's largest academic health care organizations. From 1988 to 1998, prior to the Mount Sinai-NYU Health merger, Dr Rowe was President of the Mount Sinai Hospital and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
Before joining Mount Sinai, Dr Rowe was a Professor of Medicine and the founding Director of the Division on Aging at the Harvard Medical School, as well as Chief of Gerontology at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. He was Director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Successful Aging and is co-author, with Robert Kahn, Ph.D., of Successful Aging (Pantheon, 1998). Currently, Dr Rowe leads the MacArthur Foundation's Network on An Aging Society .
Dr Rowe was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He was Chairman of the Board of Overseers of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School , and continues to serve on those Boards as well at the Board of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He previously served on the Board of Trustees of the Rockefeller Foundation,was a founding Commissioner of the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (Medpac), and Chair of the Boards of Trustees of the University of Connecticut and the Marine Biological Laboratory.
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