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SPEAKERS BY TOPIC: Economic Outlook

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Barry Asmus, Ph.D -- Arizona USA, 15.0k to 20.0k
Dr. Barry Asmus speaks, testifies, writes and consults on political and business issues facing America. He was named by USA Today as one of the five most requested speakers in the United States. Dr. Asmus was twice voted the Outstanding Professor of the Year, as well as honored with the Freedom Foundation at Valley Forge Award for Private Enterprise Education. Barry receives standing ovations and repeat invitations because he customizes every presentation. They are unique and fresh. He presents an optimistic and thrilling future for America. His comments on globalization, demographics and public policy issues are rooted in factual information, enthusiasm and humor. Barry’s presentations are full of ideas that can be used to harness our unlimited future.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Jeff Birnbaum -- District of Columbia USA, 10.0k to 15.0k
Jeff Birnbaum is an award-winning author, television commentator, and a columnist for the Washington Post. He joined the Post in March 2004, after spending seven years as the chief of Fortune magazine's Washington bureau, and two years as a senior political correspondent for Fortune's sister publication, TIME. Before he worked for TIME, Jeff Birnbaum was with the Wall Street Journal for 16 years, where his last job there was as White House correspondent; while with the Journal he won the Aldo Beckman Award for Excellence in feature writing. On television, he is a political analyst for Fox News Channel and is a regular panelist on PBS' Washington Week.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Todd Buchholz -- California USA, 15.0k to 20.0k
Todd Buchholz “lights up economics with a wickedly sparkling wit,” says the Associated Press. He recently jousted with Ben Stein, and Successful Meetings Magazine named him one of the “21 Top Speakers for the 21st Century.” His editorials in the Wall Street Journal and commentaries on PBS correctly forecast the 2001 slowdown in the U.S., and the 2008 pop in commodity prices. The New York Times has turned to him to decipher terrorist threats and the job market. BusinessWeek raved about his book Market Shock, which warned of the quicksand facing the stock market. Buchholz entertains his audiences and shows them how to thrive in a challenging economy, while gearing up for future prosperity.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Lawrence Chimerine, PhD -- District of Columbia USA, 5.0k to 10.0k
Dr. Lawrence Chimerine is one of America's best-known and most influential economists. As a speaker, he is known for his entertaining and insightful commentary on the U.S. and global economies, domestic politics, and international trade. Chimerine analyzes the new economic realities and presents solid strategies for gaining competitive advantage. No armchair theorist, he speaks from experience at the front lines of American industry. For 14 years, he headed IBM's U.S. Economic Research and Forecasting Division. He was later appointed chairman of Chase Econometrics, one of the nation's most respected economics forecasting organizations. A frequent guest on network television, he has recently appeared on ABC's Good Morning America, CNN's Crossfire, and PBS's MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and Wall Street Week.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Harry Dent, Jr., MBA -- California USA, 50.0k to 75.0k
Harry Dent speaks on future trends, applying basic principles of business strategy, finance, and marketing research to the economy, and developing highly understandable forecasts. He publishes the H.S. Dent Forecast and has been speaking since 1988. He has been consistently rated in the top one percent of hundreds of speakers by the Executive Committee, a worldwide network of business CEOs. He has consulted to Fortune 100 companies and has been CEO of several companies. Harry holds an M.B.A. from Harvard and has appeared on Good Morning America, Smart Money and other TV shows, and featured in the Wall Street Journal, Success, Fortune, and Omni. He authored The Great Boom Ahead and Job Shock, your comprehensive guide to personal and business profit in the new era of prosperity. His latest book, The Roaring 2000, was just released.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Joseph DiVanna -- Cambridge England, 10.0k to 15.0k
Described as a polymath by The Economist and as "brilliant and fresh" by the Mark Twain Institute for his cutting edge approach to strategy development, Joe DiVanna is a thought leader and speaker to global business audiences. A former management consultant with CSC Index, and the former Managing Director of TowerGroup Europe, he currently directs Maris Strategies, Ltd., a Cambridge think-tank for business and financial services.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Dr. Martin Feldstein -- Massachusetts USA, 50.0k to 75.0k
One of the most brilliant economists at work today, Martin Feldstein understands the impact and influence of government’s role in monetary policy – from the inside out. President Reagan's chief economic adviser Martin Feldstein helps audiences understand what lies in wait for the world’s economic future.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Niall Ferguson -- Massachusetts USA, 50.0k to 75.0k
Harvard's Niall Ferguson is one of the world's leading historians of the global economy and author of such internationally-acclaimed works as The Pity of War, The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, Empire: The Rise and Demise of the British World Order and the Lessons for Global Power and the award-winning History of the House of Rothschild. His most recent book, The War of the World: Twentieth Century Conflict and the Descent of the West, is a ground-breaking examination of ethnicity, empires and the revival of the East and was turned into a 3-part public television series that aired in July, 2008. His new book, The Ascent of Money, was published in November 2008.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Jeffrey Garten -- Connecticut USA, 20.0k to 25.0k
The dean of Yale School of Management and columnist on global management for BusinessWeek, Jeffrey E. Garten served as U.S. commerce under secretary from 1993 – 1995. He is author of, The Mind of the CEO, a book that takes readers on a journey into the innermost thoughts of 40 corporate titans, while describing the strategic and daily challenges facing them. He also authored: The Politics of Fortune: A New Agenda for Business Leaders, The Big Ten: The Big Emerging Markets and How They Will Change Our Lives and A Cold Peace: America, Japan, Germany and the Struggle for Supremacy. Garten speaks about the countries with the fastest growing economies, those who have begun to rewrite the rules of power and economic influence around the world. Garten provides the latest on the changing global economy - then reveals the corporate strategies needed to increase profits.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Robert Genetski, PhD -- Illinois USA, 5.0k to 10.0k
Dr. Robert Genetski is one of the nation's premier interest rate forecasters and investment advisors. Formerly chief economist for Chicago's Harris Bank, he is now a senior managing partner of a leading investment bank. As a member of the Blue Chip forecasters, Genetski has been commended on his ability to out-forecast the pack. In 1989 and again in 1994, he was listed as the number one interest rate forecaster. A dynamic speaker, Genetski sparks his presentations with humor and anecdotes to bring his subject to life.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


James Glassman -- District of Columbia USA, 10.0k to 15.0k
James Glassman is widely recognized as an expert on economics, finance, technology and international affairs. His ability to explain complex financial matters has won praise across the political spectrum, and he is a popular speaker on the topic, “What’s Ahead for the Economy.”
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Laurence Kotlikoff -- Massachusetts USA, 10.0k to 15.0k
Professor Kotlikoff speaks to hundreds of U.S. and foreign businesses and government groups about economic and policy issues, both domestic and foreign. His talks cover a very wide range of micro and macro topics.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Arthur Laffer -- California USA, 25.0k to 30.0k
Dr. Laffer has been widely acknowledged for his economic achievements. He was noted in Time Magazine’s March 29, 1999, cover story "The Century’s Greatest Minds" for inventing the Laffer Curve, which it deemed one of "a few of the advances that powered this extraordinary century". He was listed in "A Dozen Who Shaped the ’80s," in the Los Angeles Times on Jan. 1, 1990, and in "A Gallery of the Greatest People Who Influenced Our Daily Business," in the Wall Street Journal on June 23, 1989. His creation of the Laffer Curve was deemed a “memorable event" in financial history by the Institutional Investor in its July 1992 Silver Anniversary issue, "The Heroes, Villains, Triumphs, Failures and Other Memorable Events."
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Arthur Levitt -- Connecticut USA, 25.0k to 30.0k
Arthur Levitt served as the 25th Chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the regulatory agency that oversees many aspects of the stock market. First appointed by President Clinton in July 1993, the President reappointed Chairman Levitt to a second five-year term in May 1998. On September 9, 1999, he became the longest serving Chairman of the Commission. He left the Commission on February 9, 2001.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Hamish McRae -- London England, 15.0k to 20.0k
Hamish McRae is the business and finance editor of The Independent, one of Britain's leading newspapers. He is also the author of The World in 2020: Power, Culture, & Prosperity. McRae shows audiences not only where we will be in the next twenty-five years but how we will get there. He offers a bold vision of a world in which the best predictor of economic success will be not technological achievement but rather a nation's creativity and social responsibility. The emergence of culture and values as a source of competitive edge for industrialized nations signals a profound shift in world order. Hamish McRae demonstrates how changes in demography, the environment, the role of government, technology, and natural resources, as well as the costs of social disintegration, will contribute to this new competitive landscape.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Laurence Meyer -- Missouri USA, 25.0k to 30.0k
Dr. Meyer served on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from June 1996 to January 2002. While serving as a Fed governor, Dr. Meyer became widely known as an influential member of the Federal Open Market Committee and built a reputation for independent thinking and straight talk about monetary policy. He has been widely acclaimed for his ability to bring clarity to the discussion of the economic outlook and to demystify the process of monetary policymaking.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Robert Mundell -- New York USA, 50.0k to 75.0k
For the past twenty five years, Robert Mundell has been Professor of Economics at Columbia University in New York . He studied at the University of British Columbia and the London School of Economics before receiving his Ph.D. from MIT. He taught at Stanford University and the Bologna (Italy) Center of the School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University before joining, in 1961, the staff of the International Monetary Fund. From 1966 to 1971 he was a Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and Editor of the Journal of Political Economy; he was also summer Professor of International Economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1974 he came to Columbia University. In 1983 he received the Jacques Rueff Medal and Prize in the French Senate; in 1997 he became a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association; in 1998, he was made a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science; and in 1999, he received the Nobel M
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Don Reynolds -- Indiana USA, 10.0k to 15.0k
Don has given over 1000 speeches, won numerous speaking awards, and been described as "Passionate, Motivational, Charismatic and Mesmerizing." He is not just a great economist, he is a gifted story teller capable of explaining real world trends and how they impact corporations, individuals and associations. No one is trusted to manage billions of dollars without developing a track record of success. Over half of the presentations he made last year were for clients who had invited him back for updates on specific economic and industry trends. Clients and media have described him as "near clairvoyant, uncannily precise and brilliant."
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Peter M. Ricchiuti -- Louisiana USA, 10.0k to 15.0k
Peter Ricchiuti (Ri-Shooty) is the business school professor you wish you had back in college. He teaches courses on the financial markets at Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business and has twice been named the school’s top professor. Peter started his career with the investment firm of Kidder Peabody and later managed over three billion dollars as the assistant treasurer for the state of Louisiana. In 1993 he founded Tulane’s highly acclaimed BURKENROAD REPORTS stock research program. He has been featured on CNN and CNBC as well as in The New York Times, BARRON’S, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. Peter has presented to a wide variety of audiences throughout the world.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


Jeremy Rifkin -- District of Columbia USA, 25.0k to 30.0k
Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, is the author of sixteen books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and are used in hundreds of universities around the world. His 1995 book, The End of Work, is an international bestseller that is widely credited with helping shape the current global debate on technology displacement, corporate downsizing and the future of jobs. His 1998 bestseller, The Biotech Century, addresses the many critical issues accompanying the new era of genetic commerce and is the most widely read book in the world on the biotech revolution. Mr. Rifkin�s 2000 bestseller, The Age of Access, explores the vast changes occurring in the capitalist system as it makes the transition from geographic markets to e-commerce networks and from industrial to cultural production.
Phone: 415-861-1700 --- E-mail: Speakers@speaking.com


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