Join us Saturday, July 25th for a special celebration of one of the most influential and historic financial events in US history, the Bretton Woods International Monetary Conference of July, 1944.
A special lodging package is available for the event, and includes a two-night stay at The Mount Washington Hotel, complete with daily breakfast and dinner, as well as a special commemorative gift. Rates start at $194.40 per person, based on double occupancy.
The agenda for Saturday, July 25, 2009
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Gold Rush
There has been gold stashed around The Mount Washington Hotel for 65 years. Start looking - you have one hour to find the most gold.
10:00 am – 8:00 pm
International Monetary Conference
Visit the Grand Ballroom today and view the space where the delegates spent 22 days in July of 1944. Take a seat where the delegates once sat. The Ballroom will be closed from 5:15pm to 5:45 pm.
6:00 pm
Gold Dinner
The dinner this evening will feature a modern twist on the four-course menu that was presented to the world leaders. Guest speakers in attendance are Myron Kandel, Jeff Coons, James Boughton, Ross Gittell and an U.S. Economist from Economy.com. The speakers will begin at 6:15 pm after a brief introduction from Myron Kandel. After the dinner join the speakers in the Sun Dining room for Dessert and coffee for a question and answer session. Non Resort guests may also take advantage of this celebration for $65 per person including tax and gratuity. Please call the Activities Desk at 603.278.8989 for more information or to make your reservations.
Moderator for the Evening: Myron Kandel
Myron Kandel is one of the nation's best-known financial journalists, having been the Founding Financial Editor of CNN and the Financial Editor of three major newspapers before that. He was part of CNN’s original launch team in 1980 and has been recognized as a pioneer in the development of financial news on television. In 2000, he was named one of the ten most influential business journalists of the 20th century.
He is a commentator on the "Nightly Business Report" program on the Public Broadcasting System, and speaks frequently on media, business and economic issues in this country and abroad.
Following 25 years as Financial Editor and economic commentator for CNN, he spent three years as founder and President of the New Hampshire-based Initiative for Corporate Responsibility and Investor Protection, which produced a series of high-profile public forums on those issues on college campuses around the state. He also conducted a series of half-hour interviews with Presidential aspirants, which ran on New Hampshire Public Television. One of those interviews, with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, received a Telly award for an outstanding local or regional program in the political/commentary category.
Kandel was a financial reporter for The New York Times before being named Business Editor of the Washington Star. He then became a foreign correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune, covering Germany and the European Common Market. He returned to the U.S. in 1964 to become the Trib’s Financial Editor, holding that post until the paper folded in 1966. He then became Editor and President of the New York Law Journal, the nation's largest daily legal newspaper. From 1976 to 1982, he co-authored a syndicated financial column that appeared in leading newspapers around the country. He was also Financial Editor of the New York Post before leaving to help launch CNN.
He is the author of “How to Cash In on the Coming Stock Market Boom.” The book, published in January 1982, accurately forecast the biggest bull market in Wall Street history, which began that August and continued until 2000.
Among his many honors, Kandel has received a Peabody Award for CNN’s coverage of the 1987 stock market crash and a magazine award from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He has taught journalism at the City College of New York and Columbia University and has been the president of five journalism groups, including the 3,000-member Society of American Business Editors and Writers.
He has received a number of career achievement awards, including the Loeb Foundation's Lifetime Achievement Award, given to an individual whose body of work in business, financial and economic news exemplifies journalistic excellence. He was named to the Financial Journalism Hall of Fame by the New York Financial Writers’ Association, only the seventh person so honored in the group’s 78-year history.
Kandel is a graduate of Brooklyn College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and has received three honorary doctorate degrees – from Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania; Bethany College in West Virginia, and Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire.
6:15pm
Historian of the International Monetary Fund
James Boughton: James Boughton is Historian of the International Monetary Fund and, since 2001, Assistant Director in the Strategy, Policy, and Review Department at the IMF. From 1981 until he was named Historian in 1992, he held various positions in the IMF Research Department. Dr. Boughton holds a Ph.D. in economics from Duke University, and before joining the IMF staff, he was Professor of Economics at Indiana University and had served as an economist at the OECD in Paris. His publications include a textbook on money and banking, a book on the U.S. Federal funds market, several books that he edited or co-edited, and articles in professional journals on international finance, monetary theory and policy, international policy coordination, and the history of economic thought. He is currently writing a sequel to his book, Silent Revolution, which covered the history of the IMF from 1979 to 1989.
6:25 pm
US Economy
Economy.Com: Joseph Brusuelas is a director at Moody's Economy.com, where he covers the U.S. and global economies for the Dismal Scientist web site. Formerly, he was the chief economist at Merk Investments L.L.C. and chief U.S. economist at IDEAglobal. Joe has completed all but the dissertation portion of a Ph.D. in political economy and public policy at the University of Southern California. He holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in political science from San Diego State University.
6:35 pm
New England Economy
Ross Gittell: Ross Gittell is the James R. Carter Professor of Management at the University of New Hampshire's Whittemore School of Business and Economics. He is the author of two books and over 70 academic articles. In 2002 Professor Gittell received the University of New Hampshire’s Excellence in Public Service award and in 2004 the University’s Outstanding Associate Professor award. He is Vice President, forecast manager and on the board of the New England Economic Partnership and also on the boards of the Exeter Trust Company, the Endowment for Health, the Foundation for Healthy Communities and Exeter Hospital. Professor Gittell is a senior fellow at the Carsey Institute at UNH and an academic fellow at the Center for Transformation and Strategic Initiatives at the London School of Economics. Professor Gittell’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Energy Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, M.B.A. from University of California at Berkeley, and A.B from the University of Chicago.
6:45
Financial Markets
Jeff Coons, Ph. D, CFA: Undergraduate degree in Economics from University of Rochester and doctorate in Economics at Temple University. Jeff holds Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Jeff has worked at Manning & Napier for over twenty years. He began his career in 1985 and served as the equity research coordinator and he returned in 1993 after his doctoral studies. Jeff is Co-Director of Research responsible for management and oversight of the research process, as well as the measurement and monitoring of portfolio risk relative to client objectives.
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