The Annual Dinner is the SAA's biggest event of the year and we hope you will be able to join us. 



We are delighted to announce that our guest speaker for the event is Erik Townsend, a distinguished macroeconomic commentator and host of the hit sophisticated investor podcast MacroVoices who will give a presentation and fireside chat with Matt Barrie, MS 98, SEP 11, CEO of Freelancer.com  

We’re excited to invite you to get together with fellow alums, expand your network, exchange ideas – and celebrate the wrapping up of 2024.

Partners and special guests are also warmly invited to attend.
Please spread the news to any Stanford alumni within your network

Please note the venue has a dress code:
Semi-formal / business attire (e.g. jacket and tie for men)

‍About the Speaker: Erik Townsend

Erik Townsend is a distinguished macroeconomic commentator and retired software entrepreneur turned hedge fund manager. Erik is also the host of the hit podcast MacroVoices, set to release its 450th episode since its inception back in 2016. A teenage computer protégé, he spent most of his high school years at MIT's Artificial Intelligence laboratory, where he taught himself several computer programming languages. Erik lives between Hong Kong, Mexico, the United States and is now in Australia.

Erik will address the challenges and opportunities of the Energy Transition away from fossil fuels. He will identify why this is the single most important challenge humanity faces in the 21st century and explain why the transition away from fossil fuel dependency is still essential to our survival, regardless of whether climate change poses an existential threat to humanity. He will address why the challenge that lies ahead of us all is immense, but the opportunity is even greater.  If we aim not just to replace fossil fuels, but to supply an even larger amount of clean sustainable energy at an affordable cost, doing so will usher in a whole new era of human prosperity.

He addresses this most important of issues with data, logic, and reason examining the energy supply and demand statistics in detail. He addresses how much reliance we currently have on fossil fuels, and what it’s really going to take to replace the all energy we derive from fossil fuels with clean alternatives. This is a no-holds-barred honest review of just how far we all have to go to address these challenges head on.