Speaker biographies

James K. Glassman is editor-in-chief and executive publisher of The American magazine and a senior fellow at AEI. He currently writes a monthly column for Kiplinger’s Personal Finance. Mr. Glassman was previously editor and co-owner of the congressional newspaper Roll Call, publisher of The New Republic, president of The Atlantic Monthly, executive vice president of U.S. News and World Report, and host of Tech Central Station (now TCS Daily). He has hosted two weekly TV programs, Capital Gang Sunday on CNN and TechnoPolitics on PBS, and he appears often on cable and TV programs discussing the economy and markets. His most recent book is The Secret Code of the Superior Investor (Three Rivers Press, 2002). On June 8, 2007, Mr. Glassman was sworn in as chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which oversees all U.S. government non-military international broadcasting, including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Alhurra.

Kenneth P. Green studies public policy with respect to air pollution and climate change, energy and the environment, transportation and the environment, and environmental chemicals as a resident scholar at AEI. His work includes analysis of Canadian environmental policy. He has authored numerous policy studies, newspaper and magazine articles, several encyclopedia entries and book chapters, and a textbook for middle-school students titled Global Warming: Understanding the Debate (Enslow Publishers, 2002). Mr. Green has worked on both U.S. and Canadian policy, first at California’s Reason Foundation, then for nearly three years at British Columbia’s Fraser Institute.

Lee R. Raymond is the retired chairman of the board and CEO of the Exxon Mobil Corporation, positions that he held at Exxon from 1993 until its merger with Mobil in 1999, and at ExxonMobil until he retired in December 2005. Mr. Raymond began his career with Exxon in 1963 receiving his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota. He is a director of JPMorgan Chase and vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of AEI. He is also chairman of the National Petroleum Council, a trustee of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, a trustee of the Mayo Clinic, a member of the President’s Export Council, and a member of the Innovations in Medicine Leadership Council of UT Southwestern Medical Center.

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