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Speaker Biography & Schedule
 STEVE FORBES
Chairman, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief Forbes |
| Steve Forbes is the chairman and CEO of Forbes and the editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine. Since assuming his position in 1990, Forbes has expanded, launching a variety of new publications and businesses including ForbesLife, the irreverent lifestyle supplement; ForbesLife Executive Woman, a lifestyle publication providing executive women with content that they value and respect; Forbes.com; Forbes Asia, the magazine's Asian publication; and Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, and Turkish editions of the magazine. In both 1996 and 2000, Mr. Forbes vigorously campaigned for the Republican nomination for the Presidency. In 1985, President Reagan named him chairman of the bi-partisan Board for International Broadcast, a role in which President Bush reappointed him to until 1993. In this position, Mr. Forbes oversaw the operation of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. He writes editorials for each issue of Forbes under "Fact and Comment" and is the author of the Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS and also A New Birth of Freedom, a book of bold ideas for the new millennium. A widely respected economic prognosticator, Mr. Forbes is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times, which was formerly given by U.S. Steel to the financial journalist whose economic forecasts for the coming year proved most accurate. He serves on the boards of The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, and The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and holds honorary degrees from numerous universities. |
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Workshop Schedule |
• Thursday, 19 March, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Obama, Stocks, Spending, Congress, and the Economy—What Happens Now to Your Portfolio?
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