ANN ARBOR, Mich. (Feb. 9, 2007) – Former NBC Chief Financial Correspondent Mike Jensen kicks off the 2007 Livingston Economic Club Luncheon Series on Monday, Feb. 12 at the Genoa Woods Conference Center in Brighton, Mich. Doors open for networking at 11:30 a.m., followed by lunch at noon with the speeches commencing at 12:30 p.m.
Cleary University sponsors the Livingston Economic Club Speakers Luncheon Series as a service to our students and our community. The mission of the Livingston Economic Club is to enrich the Livingston County community by hosting speakers who can share a broad spectrum of social, political, intellectual, and cultural experiences. In addition to Jensen, Steven Emerson, an internationally recognized expert on terrorism and national security will be the guest speaker on Monday, May 14; while best-selling author and political commentator Ann Coulter will be the final speaker on Monday, Oct. 1.
Corporate tables of 10 still are available for $1,500, while half tables are $750. Individual series tickets for all three speakers are priced at $150. Tickets for individual speakers are sold on a space-available basis for $60 each.
For additional information on the LEC Speakers Luncheon Series or to purchase sponsorship or individual tickets, please contact Cleary University Director of Development & Alumni Relations Janet Filip at 734.929.9107 or via e-mail at lec@cleary.edu.
Monday, Feb. 12 - 2007 Livingston Economic Club Speaker Bio Mike Jensen, Former Chief Financial Correspondent for NBC
Jensen was in Germany when the Berlin Wall came down, in China after Tiananmen Square exploded in violence and in Russia and Poland when Communism fell. In the U.S., he reported on the energy crisis of the 1970s, the stock market boom and crash of the 1980s, corporate downsizing in the 1990s and the Internet revolution in the new millennium.
He anchored The Jensen Report, a program on personal finance on the NBC Radio Network and has interviewed, one-on-one everyone from Bill Clinton and Lech Walesa to Mick Jagger and a Zimbabwe medicine man. As an author, his non-fiction book The Financiers examined the great Wall Street investment banking houses. He lectures on the economy and the vagaries of covering it on TV.
Along the way, Jensen earned a host of prestigious awards: a national news Emmy for his coverage of floods in the Midwest, first place in the news-documentary category at the San Francisco International Film Festival for Labor in the Promised Land, three Gabriel Awards for Today reports that promoted “positive human values,” and two Janus Awards for “excellence in broadcast journalism concerning economic issues.” He also received a Media Award for Economic Understanding for an NBC Nightly News special segment “Killer Inflation,” as well as prizes from the Overseas Press Club and the Deadline Club of New York for his reporting at The New York Times.
Jensen was born in Chicago and raised in Gloucester, Massachusetts. After graduating from Harvard University, where he studied English Literature and Economics; he spent three years in the U.S. Navy as a destroyer officer, then earned a Master’s Degree at Boston University where he was named a Distinguished Alumnus. He enjoys boating, and plays both golf and the banjo (badly).
He and his wife, the former Jane Rice Woodruff, have a daughter who is a television producer and a son who is a sports reporter.
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Named "Best Economic and Business Correspondent in America" by TV Guide, Mike Jensen is an intrepid analyst who relentlessly deciphers the financial stories shaping today's market