FOURTH ANNUAL ADDISON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT LUNCHEON

Fireside Chat with Robert Kaplan, Bank of Dallas Moderated by Jim Falk, World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth

Date: Friday, June 2, 2016 Location: InterContinental Dallas Malachite Room 15201 Dallas Pkwy Addison, TX 75001 Time: 11:30am - 1pm Cost: $25 per person; $400 for reserved table of eight Tickets: Available at the Metrocrest Chamber of Commerce or the Addison Business Association

Robert Steven Kaplan has served as the thirteenth president and CEO of the of Dallas since September 8, 2015. He represents the Eleventh Federal Reserve District on the Federal Open Market Committee in the formulation of U.S. monetary policy and oversees the 1,200 employees of the Dallas Fed.

Kaplan was previously the Martin Marshall Professor of Management Practice and a Senior Associate Dean at Harvard Business School. He is the author of several books, including What You Really Need to Lead: The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner; What You're Really Meant To Do: A Road Map for Reaching Your Unique Potential; and What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential.

Prior to joining Harvard in 2006, Kaplan was vice chairman of The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. with global responsibility for the firm's Investment Banking and Investment Management Divisions. Previously, he served as global co-head of the Investment Banking Division. He was also a member of the firm’s Management Committee and served as co-chairman of the firm’s Partnership Committee and chairman of the Goldman Sachs Pine Street Leadership Program.

He serves as chairman of Project A.L.S. and co-chairman of the Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a global venture philanthropy firm that invests in developing non-profit enterprises dedicated to addressing social issues. He is also a board member of Harvard Medical School.

Born and raised in Prairie Village, Kansas, Kaplan received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of Kansas and a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School.

Jim Falk has been president and CEO of the non-profit, non-partisan World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth since August 2001. For more than sixty years, the Council has been entertaining, enlightening and educating North Texans, bringing history-makers and experts face to face with its members and the community, and supporting DFW trade and economic growth.

Jim has conducted the Council’s public conversations and Q&A sessions with scores of heads of state and government ministers, authors, policy experts, and foreign and American diplomats - including Secretaries Jim Baker and Condoleezza Rice. He regularly interviews Council speakers for the iTunes podcast “Global I.Q. with Jim Falk.” Recent interviewees include Supreme Court Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, author Malcolm Gladwell, Secretary Leon Panetta, pundit David Axelrod, Ambassador Sergey Kislyak of Russia and Ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba of the United Arab Emirates.

Jim has been an active community leader, serving on a number of national and local boards. In April 2013, he was appointed Honorary Consul for the Kingdom of Morocco for the state of Texas. Jim was honored as 2015’s Outstanding Fundraising Executive by AFP Dallas, and was named to DCEO Magazine’s “Dallas 500” list of “most powerful business leaders in Dallas/Fort Worth” in 2016 and 2017.

Jim and his parents lived in Tunis, Tunisia throughout Jim’s high school years where he attended a French lycée. He earned his French baccalauréate in philosophy and modern languages. He is a Washington and Lee University graduate, and received his master’s degree in international law and organization and Middle Eastern studies from the University of Virginia. Jim is married to Terrell Falk. They have two adult children and three grandchildren. Jim is an avid cyclist and global traveler.