The Distinguished Fellows Program brings respected economists and policy leaders to campus to advance thought leadership in business and economics. Fellows contribute through lectures, research, and engagement with students, faculty, and the community. Their expertise in academia, government, and global finance enhances Purdue’s impact on economic insight and leadership.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin joined Purdue's Daniels School of Business as a Distinguished Fellow in spring 2024. He has an esteemed record as a researcher and policy adviser. Currently he is the President of the American Action Forum (AAF). In 1989 and 1990 he was senior economist for the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, where he subsequently served as chief economist in 2001 and 2002. He was the sixth director of the Congressional Budget Office from 2003 to 2005 and then became director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and the Paul A. Volcker Chair in international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. During 2007 and 2008, he was director of domestic and economic policy for the John McCain presidential campaign. Dr. Holtz-Eakin was a commissioner on the congressionally-chartered Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, serves on the boards of the Tax Foundation and National Academy of Social Insurance, and is a member of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group.
David Malpass served as President of the World Bank Group from 2019-2023. He expanded financial commitments by 40%, expanded resources, streamlined operations, and maintained fiscal discipline. As a strong crisis leader, his tenure at the World Bank Group provided a record $440 billion in financing to developing countries in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, war in Ukraine, energy shortages, and humanitarian crises. He completed successful equity capital increases for IBRD and IFC; and two key IDA fundraising packages totaling $175 billion to support the world’s 75 poorest countries. His tenure also included:
Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury: Prior to serving as President of the World Bank Group, Malpass served as Under Secretary for International Affairs of the U.S. Treasury from 2017-2019. He led international economic policy, including finance, currencies, international taxation, China relations, debt restructuring efforts, investment security, and multi-country regulatory frameworks. Malpass worked to improve the global financial system, reform the IMF and World Bank, and promote currency stability policies through the G7 and G20. He sought to enhance national security and economic strength through his work on the 2018 FIRRMA law strengthening CFIUS, the application of sanctions, and the Financial Stability Board’s interaction with Basel III safety and soundness standards. For his service, Malpass was awarded Treasury’s Alexander Hamilton Award in recognition of Distinguished Leadership.
Wall Street: From 1993-2016, Malpass worked as Chief Economist and Senior Managing Director of Bear Stearns and as founder and president of a NYC-based economics and market research firm, conducting highly respected analyses of markets around the world. He was regularly voted a top Wall Street economist by Institutional Investor. He wrote the regular “Thought Leaders” column in Forbes for a decade and is the author of over 100 opinion pieces on economics, markets, debt, taxes, and international relations in The Wall Street Journal and other publications.
Boards: During his 23-year Wall Street career, Malpass served on the boards and audit committees of the New Mountain Finance Corporation (ticker: NMFC) and UBS Funds. He was on the board of the National Committee on U.S.–China Relations, the Council of the Americas, the Economic Club of New York, and the Manhattan Institute. At the World Bank Group, Malpass was Chairman of the Board and President of the five arms of the institution – IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA, and ICSID. At the U.S. Treasury, he sat on the Boards of OPIC (now DFI) and the Millennium Challenge Corporation.
Early Career: Malpass began his career working at a steel foundry that made high-alloy steel used in digging equipment, nuclear castings, and pulp mills and became a CPA. From 1984-1993, he was active in public policy, serving on the staff of the Senate Budget Committee and the Joint Economic Committee and as a Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Treasury and State Departments for economic, tax, legislative and international affairs during the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations.
Education: Malpass earned his bachelor’s degree in physics from Colorado College and an MBA from the University of Denver as a Boettcher Scholar. He also received an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) from Colorado College. He undertook advanced graduate work in international economics at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and has studied Russian, Spanish, and French.
Tobias “Toby” Moskowitz was named the inaugural Dean Takahashi ’80 B.A., ’83 M.P.P.M. Professor of Finance at in 2016. His research studies financial markets and investments, including the behavior of prices and investors. He has explored topics as diverse as momentum in stock returns, biases in investment portfolios, the social effects of bank mergers, the return to private business ownership, mutual and hedge fund performance, the political economy of financial regulation, and the economics of sports. Moskowitz has presented his research at academic, corporate, and government institutions worldwide. His bestselling book Scorecasting uses economic principles to explain the hidden side of sports. Born in West Lafayette, he earned a bachelor's degree in industrial management and industrial engineering (with distinction) in 1993 from Purdue University, a master’s in management from Purdue in 1994, and a PhD in finance from UCLA in 1998.
Joseph S. Tracy joined Purdue's Daniels School of Business as a Distinguished Fellow in spring 2024. He is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Previously he was executive vice president and senior advisor to the president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He joined the Dallas Fed in September 2017 and retired in August 2022. Prior to joining the Dallas Fed, he was executive vice president and senior advisor to the president at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He also served as the Bank’s director of research. He joined the New York Fed in 1996 after appointments in the economics departments at Yale and Columbia universities. Joe is a native of Missouri and holds a BA from the University of Missouri and PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.
Brent Becker is a seasoned global executive with over 25 years of experience leading businesses through transformative growth, organizational alignment, and strategic acquisitions. His career spans leadership roles in public, private, and private equity-owned companies, with deep expertise in integrating acquisitions to deliver long-term value.
He has consistently cultivated high-performing teams and led complex growth strategies across diverse industries and geographies. Brent’s leadership journey includes roles such as President and CEO at Baldwin Technology, President of Asia-Pacific at CECO Environmental, President of Curtis-Toledo (Fusheng Group), and Partner at Totall Metal Recycling, where he helped drive a successful sale to the Wieland Group.
Brent recently acquired DeHart Recycling Equipment—an entrepreneurial venture that draws on his operational and strategic experience and reflects the next chapter in his professional journey.
His leadership has consistently delivered exceptional results, highlighted by his ability to accelerate growth through both organic initiatives and strategic acquisitions. His inclusive approach emphasizes aligning business objectives with core values to drive sustainable performance.
Brent holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University and an Executive MBA in International Business from Saint Louis University. He is deeply committed to the principles of family enterprise, shaped by years of experience leading privately held and multi-generational businesses, as well as his own journey as a business owner. He enjoys traveling with his wife, Dana, and their three daughters, and pursuing outdoor hobbies like fly fishing, camping, and motorcycling.
Tim Coffin is a director on the client team at Breckinridge Capital Advisors, which is an independent fixed income manager with over $50 billion in fixed income assets under management, as of August 2025. At Breckinridge, Tim helped lead the launch of Breckinridge's institutional channel, serving nonprofit and mission-driven investors and their advisors. Prior to Breckinridge, Tim was a vice president at Fidelity Investments where he launched and managed the firm's municipal finance group within Fidelity Capital Markets. Prior to Fidelity, he spent over 10 years with Corby Capital Markets Inc. where he managed the sales and marketing teams and served his last 3 years as the firm's president. Tim speaks regularly at conferences on topics related to sustainable investing and finance. He is a member of the advisory committee for the Brookings Institute’s Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy Annual Municipal Finance Conference. He is on the advisory board for the Journal of Impact and ESG Investing, and a member of the steering committee of the Intentional Endowment Network. Tim serves as the President of Ridley College’s U.S. Scholarship Foundation.
David C. Cooper is the Chief Investment Officer of the Purdue Research Foundation and is responsible for overseeing investment assets totaling $7 billion including endowment, operating funds, and retirement assets for Purdue University and the Purdue Research Foundation. Previously, Mr. Cooper was the Chief Investment Officer of the $30 billion Indiana state pension plan, the Indiana Public Retirement System (INPRS). Before his time at INPRS, Mr. Cooper was a Senior Investment Consultant for Anthem, Inc., one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies. Mr. Cooper holds an undergraduate degree from Purdue University and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Butler University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designee. In 2015, Mr. Cooper was presented the Sagamore of the Wabash Award, the highest honor bestowed by the Governor of Indiana.
Jason Kuckkan is a seasoned retail strategy and operations expert with more than 20 years of experience advising North American retailers across diverse formats. He has held leadership roles at BRG and Accenture, driving large-scale transformation initiatives in retail strategy, merchandising, store operations, finance, and process optimization. His work has delivered significant financial outcomes, including sales growth, inventory reduction, and cost savings through organizational restructuring, operational improvements, and technology implementation. Prior to consulting, Jason held key roles at Kohl's and The Home Depot, leading diverse teams across multiple functions. He holds an MBA from Indiana University and a BS and MS in Civil Engineering from Purdue University.
Dustin T. Smith is the former Chief Operating Officer at Wabash Corporation where he led in various positions for 18 years. Wabash is the innovation leader of connected solutions for the transportation, logistics and distribution industry with fifteen manufacturing locations and over 6,000 employees worldwide. Mr. Smith is a versatile executive with over 20 years of experience spanning several functional arenas in the automotive and commercial transportation industries. A leader who devotes as much mindshare and care to his talent strategy and coaching his team, as growth targets and profitability, Mr. Smith is a focused and balanced leader. Through years of trial and error he has found the ability to balance his finance persona, which brings structure, process, and facing the brutal business facts with his line leadership skills of managing ambiguous, unpredictable, and constantly changing circumstances, where people performance is paramount. This combination holds the recipe to his successes in various senior leadership roles. Mr. Smith is often regarded as a leader who “translates ambiguity and complexity into simple solutions”, he is as an executive who communicates with clarity and adapts to his audience. Mr. Smith serves on non-profit boards for the West Lafayette Parks Foundation and the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, where he serves as Treasurer. He holds a Bachelor of Science in accounting and an MBA from Purdue University. In addition to completing Harvard’s Advanced Management Program in 2019, Mr. Smith has attended several other programs from Chicago’s Booth School of Management. He is an executive who can hold his own with Wall Street’s top analysts, who also is capable and at ease in solo backpacking trips in the remote wilderness. Today he resides in West Lafayette with his wife and three children. Purdue fun fact: Dustin is part of the Smith Family dynasty that dominated the Purdue Grand Prix, where over a 15 year stretch, a Smith competed in, and won, the Grand Prix a record 8 times.
Charles Stucke is a CFA and adjunct lecturer at Washington University in St. Louis’ Olin Business School, where he teaches hedge fund strategies, wealth and family office management, and real estate finance to master’s students. As Managing Partner with Ahakista Capital LLC in New York, he works with the firm’s clients and investments on strategy, governance and business catalysts.
Mary “Mickey” Swortzel is an operating partner at venture capital firm Roll Tack Ventures in Indianapolis and an entrepreneur in residence at Purdue Ventures. As a seasoned entrepreneur, Swortzel leveraged her experience leading two successful startups to exit. She was enticed to become a Daniels Business Fellow by her passion for entrepreneurship, leadership, business strategy, and innovation, and her desire to share that passion with the next generation.
Bradley Wendt is a senior consultant to Charles River Associates (“CRA”) and leads CRA’s dispute and consulting engagements for fixed-income capital markets, broker-dealer regulatory compliance, derivatives, bankruptcies, and public-private partnerships. Brad’s prior experience and positions include Goldman Sachs managing director leading a capital markets group, co- founder and president of the leading wealth management trading platform, and senior advisor to the Under Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, directing Treasury’s fiscal engagement on all issues central to the Government of Puerto Rico’s $75 billion bankruptcy. A graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, Brad directed astrodynamics software development for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) space tracking and nuclear defense. Brad holds a Master of Business Administration degree with a marketing emphasis from the University of Colorado, and a Master of Business Administration with a finance emphasis from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College.
Sabrina A. Wilson, MBA is a trusted advisor to executives navigating growth, change, and career-defining transitions. With over 30 years in strategic Human Resources leadership, she partners with C-suite teams, boards, and high-growth companies to elevate performance, culture, and long-term impact. Sabrina has led through nearly every organizational scenario—mergers & acquisitions, turnarounds, hyper-growth, global expansion, and cultural reinvention. She brings deep expertise in M&A, from due diligence through post-integration, and has successfully operated in employee-owned, PE-backed, family-run, and publicly traded environments. Known for her calm presence and decisive leadership, she helps organizations thrive in complexity and uncertainty. At the heart of Sabrina’s work is a belief in people-powered strategy. She serves as a catalyst for aligning leadership, unlocking potential, and building high-performing, resilient teams. Her impact has earned recognition from the Security Industry Association as one of the Power 100 Women in Security. Her ability to lead through change is rooted in a life shaped by movement and adaptability—growing up on military bases across the U.S. and England as the daughter of a career U.S. Air Force servicemember. That early exposure to diverse environments sparked her lifelong capacity to connect across cultures and lead through transition. She applies that same drive and discipline to her personal life. A third-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and avid trail runner, Sabrina has completed eight marathons, including the grueling Leadville Trail Marathon starting at 10,000 feet elevation. These pursuits reflect her belief that mental resilience and physical challenge go hand in hand—on and off the leadership path. In 2025, she founded Spill the T Consulting, LLC, a human innovation firm dedicated to helping leaders thrive through bold transitions, authentic leadership, and people-powered strategy. The “T” stands for the career-defining pillars that drive change: Trailblazing. Training. Teambuilding. Thriving. Transformation. Transition.
Michael Woronoff is a transactional partner in the Los Angeles office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Named nine times by The Daily Journal as one of the top 100 lawyers in California, his notable transactions include the sales of the Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra estates (two of the first large-scale transactions to monetize a celebrity’s name and likeness); the high-profile acquisitions of MGM Studios, Hannah-Barbera, GNC and Neiman Marcus; and the innovative IPO of Ares Management (which became a publicly traded partnership), and subsequent conversion of Ares to a C-corporation, the first time a publicly traded investment firm made the switch.
Clint Zweifel is President of Northern Trust – Missouri, leading a team dedicated to service, expertise and integrity in investment management, fiduciary administration and private banking services for individuals, families and endowments. His career spans both the private and public sectors. Clint joined Northern Trust in 2017 after serving two terms as Missouri State Treasurer from 2009 to 2016. As Treasurer, he managed a $3.5 billion portfolio, led the State’s banking system and worked on issues that touched retirement security, economic development, small business, agriculture, college savings, military installations and housing. Prior to Treasurer, Clint served in the Missouri House of Representatives for three terms. As a managing director, he leads a team in Northern Trust’s Missouri office who are dedicated to partnering with clients to invest, develop charitable and estate plans, manage risk and access banking solutions. Northern Trust has served high-net-worth individuals, families, closely held business owners, senior executives and endowments for 133 years. Clint serves on Northern Trust’s Wealth Management leadership group. Clint serves as a trustee and/or director on the following boards: Concord Coalition, a national non-partisan organization advocating for responsible fiscal policy, Saint Louis Community Foundation and Saint Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum. He traveled to Spain and Brazil as an Eisenhower Fellow, studying economic development and energy policy. In addition, he served as a Rodel Fellow through the Aspen Institute, a program dedicated to building bi-partisan dialogue in the United States. He served as a delegate through the American Young Political Leaders Program (South Korea) and the American Council on Germany.
