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Auburn Montgomery and the Montgomery Area Committee of 100 present

a. At the bottom of this section - please replace the Montgomery Chamber Please join us for the 34th Annual Economic Summit, October 25, 2016

Location Wynlakes Golf & Country Club 7900 Wynlakes Blvd. Montgomery, AL 36117

Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. The program, during which we are pleased to serve you lunch, begins at 8 a.m. and ends at 1 p.m.

Registration Registration, which includes lunch and materials, is $195 per person or $1,560 for a table of eight. Register online at www.aum.edu/theforum or call 334-244-3804. 34th Annual Economic Summit We thank the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce Dr. David Bronner heads the State of and the Montgomery Area Committee of 100 for their Alabama’s $37 billion-plus public pension continued support. This program is facilitated through the fund, providing benefits to more than Department of Economics in the Auburn Montgomery 339,000 public employees and retirees. College of Public Policy and Justice. Time, Governing magazine, The Opening Speaker Institutional Investor, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes Magazine, Mara Liasson and others have featured Bronner for his National Public Radio investment strategies and financial market decisions. Luncheon Speaker David Bronner Among Bronner’s high-profile investments Retirement Systems of Alabama aimed at making Alabama thrive are office buildings in Montgomery, Mobile Montgomery Briefing Dr. David G. Bronner and New York as well as the Robert CEO Trent Jones Golf Trail, which has helped Mayor Todd Strange Retirement Systems increase state tourism from a $1.8 billion City of Montgomery of Alabama industry to a $12 billion industry. Chairman Elton Dean Montgomery County Commission Bronner taught in the University of Alabama’s graduate schools of Business and Education and served as assistant dean Program Moderator and lecturer in the School of Law before W. Alan Worrell joining the RSA. Sterling Bank 34th Annual Economic Summit William “Billy” Canary has led more Anika R. Khan holds more than 15 than a decade of growth for the Business years of experience in corporate and Council of Alabama, driving the creation investment banking, including U.S. of the partnership between the BCA and macroeconomic and quantitative the Chamber of Commerce Association analysis, institutional sales and trading of Alabama as well as the BCA’s analytics, and commercial-mortgage- Manufacturing Advocacy Council and backed securities underwriting. the Business and Education Alliance of Alabama. Khan is responsible for producing commentary on U.S. residential and In 1989, President George H. W. Bush nonresidential real estate markets, appointed Canary, a former elected which is frequently cited by The Wall official in Long Island, N.Y., to serve Street Journal, The New York Times, as special assistant to the president for Bloomberg News, USA Today, and other intergovernmental affairs. He later was publications. She is also a frequent guest William Canary named chief of staff for the Republican Anika Khan on radio programs produced by National President and CEO National Committee before serving as Managing Director and Senior Public Radio, The Associated Press, Business Council of Alabama president and CEO of the American Economist Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal. Trucking Associations in Washington, Wells Fargo Securities She appears regularly on CNBC and D.C., prior to joining the BCA in 2003. Bloomberg TV.

Through special White House invitations, Khan has discussed the economic outlook with senior administration officials. Mara Liasson’s reports are aired on NPR’s award-winning newsmagazines All Things Considered and Morning Edition. She provides extensive coverage of national politics and policy and political trends beyond the Beltway. She is also a Sunday contributor and panelist.

Liasson joined NPR in 1985 as a general assignment reporter and newscaster, taking a leave of absence in 1988 for a Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University. She returned to NPR as the congressional correspondent until 1992, Mara Liasson when she became NPR’s White House National Political correspondent, reporting throughout Correspondent the Clinton administration. She is a National Public Radio three-time winner of the White House Correspondents Association’s Merriman Smith Award.

Each election year, Liasson provides key coverage of the candidates and issues in both presidential and congressional races. We would like to thank our patron sponsor:

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