Speaker Biographies
Karlyn H. Bowman is a resident fellow at AEI. She joined the Institute in 1979 and was managing editor of Public Opinion magazine until 1990. From 1990 to 1995, she was the editor of The American Enterprise, the Institute's flagship magazine. Today she continues to work on the magazine as editor of its public opinion section. In 2002, she inaugurated a series of Public Opinion Studies that are available on AEI's website, which include "America after 9/11" and "Attitudes toward Homosexuality and Gay Marriage." She contributed a chapter on polling to The Permanent Campaign and Its Future (AEI-Brookings, 2001), and is a contributing author to The Neocon Reader.
Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, serves as a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and is also a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Speaker Gingrich is a member of the Terrorism Task Force for the Council on Foreign Relations and the U.S. Commission on National Security, an advisory board member of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, and a member of the Defense Policy Board. Gingrich also served as co-chair, along with former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, of the Task Force on U.N. Reform created by the Congress in December 2004. The Task Force delivered its report entitled American Interests and U.N. Reform to the Congress last June. Gingrich is also an editorial board member of the Johns Hopkins University Journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism and a news and political analyst for the Fox News Channel. He is a regular contributor to the Church Report, writes a weekly e-letter for Human Events, and has a daily national radio commentary called Winning the Future with Newt Gingrich. He is the author of nine books and novels, including NY Times best-seller Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America and most recently, Never Call Retreat. Lee and Grant: The Final Victory, the third and final novel in his trilogy about the Civil War.
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