David Walker is the former Comptroller General of the United States (the nation's top independent accountant), and is the current President and CEO of The Peterson Foundation, a group we've highlighted several times, and whose founder Pete Peterson is a multi-decade champion of fiscal responsibility, and a former Wall Street CEO (Lehman Brothers and The Blackstone Group and Chairman of The New York Fed from 2000 to 2004).
From the Peterson Foundation mission statement:
Our mission is to increase public awareness of the nature and urgency of key economic challenges threatening America's future and accelerate action on them. To meet these challenges successfully, we work to bring Americans together to find sensible, sustainable solutions that transcend age, party lines and ideological divides in order to achieve real results.
Among many noteworthy projects, The Foundation helped fund the production of I.O.U.S.A., a commercial film focusing on America's fiscal issues, which many of you saw here.
This week in Chicago, The Peterson Foundation is funding Mobilize.Org's Millennial Youth Summit, Democracy 2.0, which we are attending as press/participants. David delivered the keynote speech this morning and we spoke with him exclusively after his address.
Zach and Josh do the honors.
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