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Understanding Risk and Making Better Decisions with Michele Wucker
Michele Wucker is the founder of the Chicago-based strategy firm Gray Rhino & Company, drawing on three decades of experience — first as a financial journalist, and then media and think tank executive. She has been honored as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum and as a Guggenheim Fellow. Michele was a journalist the Milwaukee Sentinel and later at Dow Jones and International Financing Review.
She has held leadership positions at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the World Policy Institute. She has taught at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and her writing has appeared in publications around the world including The Economist, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. And she has been a sought-after media commentator on the Covid-19 pandemic.
She received her BA in French and in Policy Studies from Rice University, her Master of International Affairs with a Concentration in International Political Economy and Certificate in Latin American Studies from Columbia University, and though the World Economic Forum, she studied Global Leadership and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Executive Education Program.
