Speaker biographies
Jon Entine is an adjunct fellow at AEI and a scholar-in-residence at Miami University in Ohio. He is the editor of Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture (AEI Press, 2006) and Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing (AEI Press, 2005). Before launching his writing career, Mr. Entine was a network television news writer and producer from 1975 to 1994, winning more than twenty awards, including two Emmys for specials on reform movements in China and the former Soviet Union. While at NBC News, he produced and co-wrote Black Athletes: Fact and Fiction, which won the award for best feature film at the Forty-Fifth Annual International Sport Film Festival in 1990 and inspired his book Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk about It (Public Affairs, 2000).
Ted Frank is a resident fellow at AEI and director of the AEI Liability Project, managing the institute's research about liability reform proposals, tort law, class actions and civil procedure, and other related issues. Before joining AEI, Mr. Frank worked at law firms in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., and clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook. His litigation work included Vioxx and automobile product liability cases, class action defense, and antitrust and patent cases.
Kenneth Green is a visiting scholar at AEI where he studies public policy pertaining to climate change, energy, and the environment. An environmental scientist by training, he has authored numerous policy studies, newspaper and magazine articles, several encyclopedia and book chapters, and a textbook for middle-school students entitled Global Warming: Understanding the Debate (Enslow Publishers, 2002). Prior to coming to AEI, Mr. Green studied U.S. policy issues for eight years with California's Reason Foundation, and studied Canadian policy issues for nearly three years at Canada's Fraser Institute.
John Stossel was named co-anchor of ABC News' 20/20 in May 2003. He joined the staff of the news magazine in 1981 and began doing television primetime specials in 1994. In addition to in-depth reports, Mr. Stossel also presents a weekly segment on 20/20 entitled "Give Me a Break," a compilation of short commentaries that takes a skeptical look at a wide array of issues, from pop culture to censorship and government regulation. Mr. Stossel has received nineteen Emmy Awards and has been honored five times for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club. Among his other awards are the George Polk Award for Outstanding Local Reporting and the George Foster Peabody Award. His most recent book is Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity (Hyperion, 2006). He is also the author of a national bestseller, Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media (Harper Collins, 2004).
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