Stanford Global Economic Forum 2027

The Stanford Global Economic Forum will bring together scholars, business leaders, and other change-makers to explore timely questions and issues affecting regional and global economies. Participants will explore the role that organizations and leaders around the world can play in fostering the creation of new ideas, promoting sustainable practices, and pursuing sound economic policies that spur growth and economic development around the world.

Hosted by Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.

Sarah A. Soule, Philip H. Knight Professor and Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business; Morgridge Professor of Organizational Behavior

Saumitra Jha, Associate Professor of Political Economy at Stanford Graduate School of Business

Hongbin Li, Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Sridhar Narayanan, The Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing

Joseph Piotroski, The Robert K. Jaedicke Professor of Accounting at Stanford Graduate School of Business

Amit Seru, The Steven and Roberta Denning Professor of Finance and Senior Associate Dean at Stanford Graduate School of Business

Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited, and Nita M. Ambani, Founder-Chairperson, Reliance Foundation

Isha Ambani, MBA ‘18, Executive Director, Reliance Retail Ventures Limited (RRVL), and Anand Piramal, Chairman of Piramal Finance and the Executive Director of the Piramal Group

Peter DeYoung, MBA ‘06, CEO of Global Pharma, Piramal Pharma Limited, and Nandini Piramal, MBA ‘06, Chairperson of Piramal Pharma Limited (Mumbai)

Forrest Li, MBA ‘06, Chairman and CEO, Sea Limited, and  Liqian Ma, MS ‘05, Advisory Council, Stanford HAI

James Liang, PhD ‘11, Chairman of the Board, Trip.com Group, and Catherine Lau

Signature Sponsors

• Mukesh Ambani, Nita Ambani, and Isha Ambani

Host Sponsors

• Priyavrat and Namrata Bhartia
• Gabriel and Veronica Li

Sustaining Sponsors

• Nirmal Jain
• Harsha and Lulu Raghavan
• Yvonne Song and Sean Da 

Supporting Sponsors

• Mohan and Jyotsna Lakhamraju
• Ming Lei
• Viren Shetty