ANN ARBOR, Mich. (April 9, 2007) – Steven Emerson, an internationally recognized expert on terrorism and national security, will be the second speaker at the 2007 Livingston Economic Club Luncheon Series on Monday, May 14 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 speech commencing at 12:30 p.m.

Tickets are still available and can be purchased for $60 each. For additional information or to purchase tickets, please contact Cleary University Director of Development & Alumni Relations Janet Filip at 734.929.9107 or via e-mail at lec@cleary.edu.

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. Best-selling author and political commentator Ann Coulter will be the final speaker on Monday, Oct. 1.

Monday, May 14 - 2007 Livingston Economic Club Speaker Bio

Steven Emerson, Foremost Expert on Terrorism

Steven Emerson is an internationally recognized expert on terrorism and national security and considered one of the leading world authorities on Islamic extremist networks, financing and operations. He now serves as the Executive Director of The Investigative Project, one of the world's largest archival data and intelligence on Islamic and Middle Eastern terrorist groups. Emerson and his staff frequently provide briefings to U.S. government and law enforcement agencies, Members of Congress and Congressional committees, and print and electronic media, both national and international. Since 9-11, he has testified and briefed Congress dozens of times on terrorist financing and operational networks of Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hizzbollah, Islamic Jihad and the rest of the worldwide Islamic militant spectrum.

Emerson started the Investigative Project in late 1995, following the broadcast of his documentary film, Jihad in America, on Public Television. The film exposed video of clandestine operations of militant Islamic terrorist groups on American soil. He received numerous awards for his work, including the George Polk Award for best television documentary and the top prize from the Investigative Reporters and Editors Organization (IRE) for best investigative report in both print and television for the documentary.

Emerson is the author of five books on terrorism and national security, most recently of the national best seller, American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us (Free Press). He and his organization have been quoted or profiled in hundreds of newspaper and television stories since 09-11.

Emerson is recognized as having been the first and only terrorist expert to have testified and warned about the threat of Islamic militant networks operating in the United States and their connections worldwide. He specifically warned about the threat of Osama Bin Laden's network in pioneering Congressional testimony delivered in 1998. Nearly every one of the terrorist suspects and groups first identified in his 1994 film have been indicted, prosecuted or deported since 9-11. Because of security threats, Mr. Emerson now lives under false cover in the United States.

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