Louise Story is an award-winning investigative journalist who spent more than fifteen years at the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, where she was a top masthead editor. Her investigative reporting has led to the largest kleptocracy forfeiture in US history, the 1MDB case; a multibillion-dollar settlement in the derivatives market; and Goldman Sachs’s SEC settlement following the 2008 financial crisis. Story’s film The Kleptocrats aired on the BBC, Apple, and Amazon. She teaches at the Yale School of Management. She is the co-author of Fifteen Cents on the Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap.

2024 Festival Session