Stanley S. Watts Lectureship
The Stanley S. Watts Lectureship was established in 1974 to honor Stanley S. Watts, a 1943 graduate of the University of Richmond. Mr. Watts was elected in 1968 to serve as President of the insurance industry's most distinguished international organization, the Million Dollar Round Table. The Stanley S. Watts lecture brings a variety of leaders from business and government to campus to talk about the financial services industry.
Past speakers:
| 2023 | Women on Wall Street | Rebecca Fender, Spider Management Alex Kohnert, UBS Katie Stockton, Fairlead Strategies Karen Horn Welch, Spider Management |
| 2021 | Raul Martinez-Ostos | Managing Director, Chairman & CEO Barclays Mexico & LatAm |
| 2020 | William M. Lewis Jr. | Managing Director and Co-Chairman of Investment Banking, Lazard Ltd. |
| 2019 | Marc Holliday and Lauren Dillard | CEO & Chairman of SL Green Realty Corp., Managing Director and Head of The Carlyle Group's Investment Solution Group |
| 2018 | Mike Piwowar | Commissioner, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission |
| 2017 | Loretta Mester | President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland |
| 2016 | D. Scott Showalter | Professor of Practice, North Carolina State Univesity |
| 2015 | Tom Joyce | Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Knight Capital Group |
| 2014 | John Veihmeyer | Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, KPMG |
| 2013 | Mr. Gary D. Cohn | President and Chief Operating Officer, The Goldman Sachs |
| 2012 | Gov. Elizabeth Duke | Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System |
| 2011 | Christopher Williams | Managing Director and Co-Founder, Harris, Williams & Co. |
| 2010 | Bruce Whitehurst | President & CEO, Virginia Bankers Association |
| 2009 | Karen Wimbish | President, Latin America Group, Wachovia Securities |
| 2008 | Lance J. Ewing | Vice President, Risk Management, Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. |
| 2007 | Dr. Antonio Riera | Senior Partner & Director at the Boston Consulting Group |
| 2006 | Michael D. Fraizer | Chairman, President and CEO of Genworth Financial, Inc. - 2006 Slide Show |
| 2005 | Jeffrey Lacker | President, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
| 2003 | Marshall Acuff | President, AMA Investment Counsel, LLC |
| 2002 | William R. Johnston | Former President NYSE and Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Exchange |
| 2001 | Michael R. White | President and CEO, Virginia Asset Management Companies |
| 2000 | Richard E. Connors | Senior Vice President, The MONY Group, Inc. |
| 1999 | Patricia L. Rowland | Senior Vice President, CIGNA HealthCare |
| 1998 | Thomas Wolff | Chairman Emeritus, Wolff-Zacken and Associates |
| 1997 | Joseph Melone | President and CEO, Equitable Life Assurance Society |
| 1996 | James Gilmore | Attorney General, Commonwealth of Virginia |
| 1995 | Walter Schnee | President, Million Dollar Round Table |
| 1994 | Ronald Bargatze | COO, Integrated Health Sstems, Trigon Blue Cross Blue Shield |
| 1993 | Robert J. Rogers | Senior Account Executive, Metropolitan Life |
| 1992 | Ken Gross | President, Ken Gross Associates |
| 1991 | Daniel T. Cox | Vice President, Aon Corporation and Chairman and CEO, Life Insurance of Virginia |
| 1990 | S. Travis Pritchett | W. Frank Hipp Chair of Insurance, University of South Carolina |
| 1988 | Darwin Davis | Senior Vice President for Public Affairs, The Equitable Life Assurance Society, New York |
| 1986 | Mary Sue Terry | Attorney General, Commonwealth of Virginia |
| 1985 | Richard S. Schweiker | President, American Council of Life Insurance |
| 1984 | Robert D. Kilpatrick | Chairman, President, and CEO, CIGNA Corporation |
| 1983 | Ernest S. Cragg | CLU, President |
| 1982 | Charles P. Williams | President and CAO, Fidelity Bankers Life Insurance Co. |
| 1980 | Samuel Turner | President, The Life Insurance Company of Virginia |
| 1978 | Coy Eklund | President and CEO, The Equitable Life Assurance Society |