The 2007 LEC Speakers Luncheon Series will be held at the Genoa Woods Conference Center in Brighton, Mich., on Feb. 12 and May 14. The Oct. 1 luncheon will be held at the Cleary University Johnson Center on the Howell campus. Doors open for networking and book signing (if appropriate) at 11:30 a.m., followed by lunch at noon with the speeches commencing at 12:30 p.m.

Corporate tables of 10 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.

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.

For additional information on the LEC Speakers Luncheon Series, please contact Cleary University Director of Development & Alumni Relations Janet Filip at 734.929.9107 or lec@cleary.edu.

2007 Livingston Economic Club Speakers
Monday, February 12 – Mike Jensen, Former Chief Financial Correspondent for NBC
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. In his 40 years as a journalist for NBC Nightly News, the Today Show and The New York Times, he has covered every major economic event of our times, reporting from the oil fields of the Persian Gulf, the trading rooms of Wall Street and Alan Greenspan’s inner sanctum at the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C.

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.

Monday, May 14 -- 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. 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.

Monday, October 1 – Ann Coulter, Bestselling Author and Political Commentator
Ann Coulter is the author of five New York Times bestsellers — Godless (June 2006), How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) (October 2004); Treason: Liberal Treachery From the Cold War to the War on Terrorism (June 2003); Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right (June 2002); and High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton (August 1998).

Coulter is the legal correspondent for Human Events and writes a popular syndicated column for Universal Press Syndicate. She is a frequent guest on many TV shows, including Hannity and Colmes, Wolf Blitzer Reports, At Large With Geraldo Rivera, Scarborough Country, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, The O'Reilly Factor, Good Morning America and has been profiled in numerous publications, including TV Guide, the Guardian (UK), the New York Observer, National Journal, Harper's Bazaar, and Elle magazine, among others. She was named one of the top 100 Public Intellectuals by federal judge Richard Posner in 2001.

A Connecticut native, Coulter graduated with honors from Cornell University School of Arts & Sciences and received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was an editor of The Michigan Law Review.

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