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Please join us for the34th Annual Economic Summit, October 25, 2016

LocationWynlakes 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.

RegistrationRegistration, 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 SummitWe thank the Montgomery Area Chamber of Commerce and the Montgomery Area Committee of 100 for their continued support. This program is facilitated through the Department of Economics in the Auburn Montgomery College of Public Policy and Justice.

Opening SpeakerMara LiassonNational Public Radio

Luncheon SpeakerDavid BronnerRetirement Systems of Alabama

Montgomery BriefingMayor Todd StrangeCity of Montgomery

Chairman Elton DeanMontgomery County Commission

Program ModeratorW. Alan WorrellSterling Bank

Dr. David G. Bronner CEO

Retirement Systems of Alabama

Dr. David Bronner heads the State of Alabama’s $37 billion-plus public pension fund, providing benefits to more than 339,000 public employees and retirees.

Time, Governing magazine, The Institutional Investor, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes Magazine, and others have featured Bronner for his investment strategies and financial market decisions.

Among Bronner’s high-profile investments aimed at making Alabama thrive are office buildings in Montgomery, Mobile and New York as well as the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail, which has helped increase state tourism from a $1.8 billion industry to a $12 billion industry.

Bronner taught in the University of Alabama’s graduate schools of Business and Education and served as assistant dean and lecturer in the School of Law before joining the RSA.

34th Annual Economic Summit

Anika Khan Managing Director and Senior

Economist Wells Fargo Securities

Anika R. Khan holds more than 15 years of experience in corporate and investment banking, including U.S. macroeconomic and quantitative analysis, institutional sales and trading analytics, and commercial-mortgage-backed securities underwriting.

Khan is responsible for producing commentary on U.S. residential and nonresidential real estate markets, which is frequently cited by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg News, USA Today, and other publications. She is also a frequent guest on radio programs produced by National Public Radio, The Associated Press, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal. She appears regularly on CNBC and Bloomberg TV.

Through special White House invitations, Khan has discussed the economic outlook with senior administration officials.

William Canary President and CEO

Business Council of Alabama

William “Billy” Canary has led more than a decade of growth for the Business Council of Alabama, driving the creation of the partnership between the BCA and the Chamber of Commerce Association of Alabama as well as the BCA’s Manufacturing Advocacy Council and the Business and Education Alliance of Alabama.

In 1989, President George H. W. Bush appointed Canary, a former elected official in Long Island, N.Y., to serve as special assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs. He later was named chief of staff for the Republican National Committee before serving as president and CEO of the American Trucking Associations in Washington, D.C., prior to joining the BCA in 2003.

Mara Liasson National Political Correspondent

National Public Radio

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 FOX News 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, when she became NPR’s White House correspondent, reporting throughout the Clinton administration. She is a 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.

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