Martin Gaynor
Lester A. Hamburg University Professor Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University; 2018 Tree of Life survivor
2025
Martin Gaynor is a survivor of the antisemitic hate-fueled attack on the Tree of Life synagogue building on October 27th, 2018. He is the Lester A. Hamburg Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and has served as Director of the Bureau of Economics at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and as Special Advisor to the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He is committed to combatting hate and advancing peace and understanding.
At the Summit
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
