RE Seminar: Knight Kiplinger
Date: Thursday, November 19th
When: 4:30-6:30 with reception to follow in the Regents Lounge in the Statler Hotel
Where: Beck 198
Attire: Business
Knight Kiplinger
Editor in Chief of The Kiplinger Letter
The Cornell Program in Real Estate welcomes Knight Kiplinger, editor in chief of The Kiplinger Letter, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine and Kiplinger.com, to the Real Estate Industry Seminar this Thursday to discuss real estate within its broad economic and investment context.
Knight Kiplinger is one of America’s most respected economic journalists and business forecasters, and is known through his writing, speeches and appearances on major TV and radio networks to cut through the complexity of financial subjects with clarity and foresight. The Kiplinger Letter, a weekly publication started in 1923, is the most widely read and longest-published business forecasting publication in the world. Mr. Kiplinger’s company, Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc., was the Washington regional and national winner of the 2002 Business Ethics Award in the small-business category, awarded each year by the Society of Financial Service Professionals. In 2007 it was recognized by Ethisphere magazine as one of the “World’s Most Ethical Companies.” In addition to publishing, the Kiplinger organization has engaged in real estate investing for many years, with raw land and commercial buildings in the Washington metropolitan area and in Florida. Mr. Kiplinger came to the Kiplinger organization in 1983, following 13 years in newspaper journalism as a Washington correspondent and editor. For six years he was Washington bureau chief for Ottaway Newspapers, Inc., a chain of 22 daily papers owned by Dow Jones & Company.
In the late 1980s Mr. Kiplinger co-authored two best-selling forecast books which contradicted the prevailing pessimism of that time, accurately predicting that the United States would set the global pace for economic growth and technology leadership in the 1990s. In World Boom Ahead (1998), Mr. Kiplinger forecast that the U.S. will continue to benefit from soaring productivity and surging trade with the expanding economies of Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Mr. Kiplinger is a frequent guest on national radio and TV networks, including NPR, CNN, Fox and CNBC. He is an occasional commentator on “Marketplace,” the daily business report heard on public radio stations nationwide.
A graduate of Cornell University, Mr. Kiplinger also did graduate study in international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University, and is a member of the Cornell Real Estate Council.