Speakers Bureau
Sam Beard
Sam Beard is founder and chairman
of the National Development Council, a non-profit corporation whose
programs have resulted in the investment of more than $25 billion
in poor and rural areas and the creation of more than 500,000 private
sector jobs over the last twenty-five years. Beard designed and
implemented job creation programs for Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter,
and Reagan. Beard also founded Economic Security 2000, a project
of the National Development Council. In 1972 Beard established the
American Institute for Public Service and the Jefferson Awards that
recognize outstanding Americans in a broad range of fields. Beard
is a graduate of Yale University and holds a master's degree in
history from Columbia University.
Stephen
J. Entin
Stephen J.
Entin is executive director and chief economist of the Institute
for Research on the Economics of Taxation. He advised the National
Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform (the Kemp Commission),
assisted in the drafting of the commission's report, and was the
author of several of its support documents. Entin is a former
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Department
of the Treasury. He joined the Treasury in 1981 with the incoming
Reagan Administration and participated in the preparation of economic
forecasts for the president's budgets and the development of the
1981 tax cuts. Entin is a graduate of Dartmouth College, and he
received his graduate training in economics at the University
of Chicago.
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Peter
J. Ferrara
Peter J. Ferrara
is general counsel and chief economist for Americans for Tax Reform
and an associate policy analyst for the Cato Institute. He is
the author or editor of numerous publications on Social Security.
Most recently Ferrara co-authored two books with Michael Tanner:
A New Deal for Social Security and Common Cents, Common Dreams:
A Layman's Guide to Social Security Reform. He has worked as a
senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis and the
Heritage Foundation. Ferrara is a graduate of Harvard University
and Harvard Law School.
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Robert
Genetski
Robert Genetski
is senior managing director of Chicago Capital Inc. Genetski served
as chief economist at Chicago's Harris Bank for more than seventeen
years. He is the author of several books, including Taking
the Voodoo Out of Economics and A Nation of Millionaires.
He is also a regular contributor to the Nikkei Financial Daily
He has twice (1989 and 1994) been listed as the number-one interest
rate forecaster by Institutional Investor magazine and
Blue Chip Financial Forecasts. Genetski holds a doctorate
in economics from New York University.
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Dorcas
R. Hardy
Dorcas R. Hardy
is chairman, president, and CEO of Work Recovery Inc., a rehabilitation
technology firm in Tucson, Arizona. After serving as U.S. Commissioner
of Social Security from 1986 to 1989, Hardy founded Dorcas R.
Hardy & Associates, a government relations and public policy
consulting firm. Hardy has hosted The Senior American, an NET
political magazine for older Americans and Financing Your Future,
a prime time program of CNN. She is the author of Social Insecurity:
The Crisis in America's Social Security System and How
to Plan Now for Your Own Financial Survival Hardy received
her bachelor's degree from Connecticut College and her master's
degree in business administration from Pepperdine University.
She also completed the Executive Program in Health Policy and
Financial Management at Harvard University.
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Laurence
Kotlikoff
Laurence Kotlikoff
is a professor of economics at Boston University, a research associate
at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a fellow of the
Econometric Society. He served as senior economist on President
Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers. He has also served as consultant
to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, foreign governments,
and major U.S. corporations. Kotlikoff is the author of numerous
books and articles on fiscal policy issues including Social Security
and pensions. He is also associate editor of the Japanese Economic
Review. Kotlikoff is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania
and holds a doctorate in economics from Harvard University.
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Deroy
Murdock
Deroy Murdock
is cofounder and a member of the national board of Third Millennium,
a New York-based educational and political advocacy group launched
by concerned Americans born after 1960. He frequently contributes
to the Washington Times, The Wall Street Journal,
the New York Post, the Orange County Register, the
Chicago Tribune, and the Miami Herald. As an adjunct
fellow of the Virginia-based Atlas Economic Research Foundation,
Murdock has lectured on economics and politics in Colombia and
Venezuela. He is a graduate of Georgetown University.
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 Krzysztof M.
Ostaszewski
Krzysztof M.
Ostaszewski is a professor and actuarial program director at the
University of Louisville. Ostaszewski is an associate of the Society
of Actuaries and a member of its Social Security committee. He
is also a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the American
Academy of Actuaries. His works have been published by the Society
of Actuaries, the American Mathematical Society, and the American
Economic Review. Ostaszewski is a Fulbright Research Fellow
and holds a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Washington.
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Timothy J. Penny
Timothy J.
Penny is senior counselor to the Minnesota-based public relations
firm Himle-Horner and coauthor of Common Cents. As a member
of Congress from 1982 to 1994, Penny established himself as a
budget watchdog and received awards for his deficit reduction
efforts. Currently, Penny is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute,
serves on the board of directors of the Concord Coalition, chairs
the Minnesota chapter of the Democratic Leadership Council, and
is actively involved with the University of Minnesota Humphrey
School. He is a graduate of Winona State University.
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Bruce
Schobel
Bruce Schobel
is corporate vice president and actuary for New York Life Insurance
Company. He is a founding member of the National Academy of Social
Insurance, a fellow of the Society of Actuaries and the Conference
of Consulting Actuaries, and a member of the American Academy
of Actuaries. He served as senior adviser for policy to the commissioner
of the Social Security Administration and as staff actuary for
the National Commission on Social Security Reform. Schobel is
the author of numerous articles on social insurance. He is a graduate
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Stuart
Sweet
Stuart Sweet
is founder and principal of Capitol Analysts Network, a Washington,
D.C.-based political risk management firm. During his time on
Capitol Hill, Sweet served as senior legislative assistant to
several members of Congress. He served in the Reagan administration
and was a vice president of the prominent lobbying firm of Black,
Manafort, Stone & Kelly. Sweet has testified on Social Security
reform before the Senate Finance Committee and the Ways and Means
Committee and has written guest editorials for The Wall Street
Journal. He holds a master's degree in business administration
from the University of Chicago.
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Ian Vásquez
Ian Vásquez
is the director of the Cato Institute's Project on Global Economic
Liberty. His articles have appeared in newspapers throughout the
United States and Latin America. Vásquez
has appeared on CNBC, NBC, C-SPAN, Telemundo, Univisión,
and Canadian Television as well as National Public Radio and Voice
of America discussing foreign policy and development issues. He
received his bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and
his master's degree from the School of Advanced International
Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He worked on inter-American
issues at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and
Caribbean/Latin American Action prior to joining the Cato Institute
in 1992.
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Mark
Weinberger
Mark Weinberger
is a partner in the law firm Washington Counsel, P.C., in Washington,
D.C. He has served as chief of staff and counsel to the President's
Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform (Kerrey-Danforth)
and as chief tax and budget counsel to Senator John C. Danforth
(R-Mo.). He is an adjunct fellow on tax policy at the Center for
Strategic & International Studies. Weinberger is a graduate
of Emory University, he holds a master's degree in business administration
and a law degree from Case Western Reserve University and a master's
degree in tax law from Georgetown University.
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