FEBRUARY 15, 2023
MARRIOTT MARQUIS | WASHINGTON, DC

Please join us for an important conference to explore the power of antimonopoly principles to renew American democracy, strengthen our economy, and construct a more peaceful and sustainable world.  

The Open Markets Institute is hosting an exciting opportunity to hear from leading thinkers in today’s antimonopoly renaissance – from around the world and across the political spectrum - on the role and use of antimonopoly policy to address some of our country’s most pressing challenges. This work has powerful implications across such diverse areas as worker rights and discrimination, climate change, digital platforms and privacy abuses, freedom of media and journalism, industrial policy, artistic liberty, economic resiliency supply chain security, international cooperation, and most importantly, our very democracy. 

We will reconnect Americans to the ideas, narratives, and laws that previous generations used to preserve individual liberty, protect community, and engage every citizen in the day-to-day challenges of building a good society. We will see, how from the first days of our Republic, competition policy has been a foundation of our democracy, security, and prosperity. We will learn how we can update and expand traditional visions of democracy to help us master the specific political and technological challenges of today.   

The conference helps mark Open Markets’ fifth anniversary as an independent organization. Our friends at Color of Change, Public Citizen, and the Financial Times will serve as co-sponsors of various portions of the day's activities.  

Speakers include: 

• Senator Elizabeth Warren 
• Jonathan Kanter, Head of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice
• Ayad Akhtar, Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and the president of PEN America, whose book Homeland Elegies contains one of the most haunting and powerful descriptions of how monopolists bulldozed American society 
• NEWLY-ANNOUNCED SPEAKER: Sara Nelson, International President of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO, who resists daily the monopsony power of the airlines on behalf of her 50,000 union members 
• NEWLY-ANNOUNCED SPEAKER: Luigi Zingales, professor of economics University of Chicago Booth School of Business, director of the Stigler Center, co-author of the book “Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists,” and author of “A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity” 
• NEWLY-ANNOUNCED SPEAKER: Cristina Caffarra, Managing Partner and Head of Keystone Europe and widely recognized as a thought leader in the regulation of the digital economy globally 
• NEWLY-ANNOUNCED SPEAKER: Joseph Fishkin, Professor of Law UCLA, co-author of “The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy” 
• Caroline Fredrickson, the former president of the American Constitution Society, a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and a Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center
• Rana Foroohar, Global Business Columnist and an Associate Editor at the Financial Times and author of the book “Homecoming,” which makes the case that a new age of economic localization will re-moor place and prosperity, putting to an end to the last half century of globalization 
• Larry Kramer, president of the Hewlett Foundation and author of The People Themselves, who over the last five years has invested millions to understanding neoliberalism and how to overcome it. 
• NEWLY-ANNOUNCED SPEAKER: Sabeel Rahman, former Associate Administrator at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), and author of the book “Democracy Against Domination,” on restoring the values of democracy and economic power .