What do Warren Buffett, President Bill Clinton, Jamie Dimon, Eddie Lampert, Robert Rubin, and Steve Schwarzman all have in common? They were each keynote speakers at The New York Public Library’s Financial Services Leadership Forum.

The Financial Services Leadership Forum is an annual four-breakfast series that features some of today's most intriguing and influential industry leaders, while also providing a unique opportunity for prominent business leaders to interact in an intimate setting. The New York Public Library presents this important series in association with The McGraw-Hill Companies, Standard & Poor's, and BusinessWeek.

Click here to see the complete list of past speakers.

Subscriptions for this series are available for $1,600, of which $1,400 is tax-deductible. All monies raised benefit the Science, Industry and Business Library (SIBL), the nation’s largest free and public information center devoted solely to science and business.

First 2009 Breakfast, April 30, 2009
Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO of Blackrock, Inc.

Second 2009 Breakfast, June 23, 2009
"Distressed Investing Panel"
Marc Lasry, Founder and Senior Managing Director of Avenue Capital Group
Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. Chairman and CEO, W.L. Ross & Co. LLC
Byron Wien, Vice Chairman of Blackstone Advisory Services

Third Breakfast, October 22, 2009
Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of The Blackstone Group

Please contact Ilene Kaplowitz at Ilene_Kaplowitz@nypl.org or (212) 930-0856 for more information.