Chairman/CEO of Forbes Inc. to conclude Harding lecture series

Harding University

April 8, 2008

Chairman/CEO of Forbes Inc. to conclude Harding lecture series

SEARCY – Chairman and CEO of Forbes Inc. and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine Steve Forbes will speak April 24 in Harding University's Benson Auditorium. This concludes the 2007-08 American Studies Institute Distinguished Lecture Series.

Since Forbes assumed the CEO position in 1990, the company has launched a variety of new publications and businesses. They include ForbesLife; ForbesLife Executive Woman; Forbes Asia; and Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Polish and Turkish editions of the magazine. Forbes also publishes the Gilder Technology Report, as well as a number of investment newsletters.

In 1996 Forbes entered the new media arena with the launch of Forbes.com. Now receiving more than 20 million unique monthly visitors, it has become a leading destination site for senior business decision makers and investors. In 2005 and 2006, Forbes launched ForbesAutos.com and ForbesTraveler.com, respectively.

The company's flagship publication, Forbes, is the nation's leading business magazine, with a circulation of more than 900,000. Forbes, combined with Forbes Asia and the company's eight local-language editions, reach a worldwide audience of more than five million readers.

Steve Forbes writes editorials for each issue of Forbes under the heading "Fact and Comment." He is the only writer to have won the highly prestigious Crystal Owl Award four times. The prize was formerly given by U.S. Steel Corp. to the financial journalist whose economic forecasts for the coming year proved most accurate.

He campaigned for the Republican nomination for presidency in 1996 and 2000 and is the author of Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Princeton University.

He serves on the boards of The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, Heritage Foundation, The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy.

Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, who was scheduled to speak April 24, had to cancel due to diplomatic commitments.

The presentation is free and open to the public. It begins at 7:30 p.m., and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call (501) 279-4497.

Harding had a record enrollment this year of more than 6,300 students from 49 states and 52 foreign countries. It is the largest private university in Arkansas and attracts more National Merit Scholars than any other private university in the state. Harding also maintains campuses in Australia, Chile, England, France/Switzerland, Greece, Italy and Zambia.