The Economic Club of Memphis

Speakers: 1974-1998

1998

William Poole
President and CEO of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Oleg M. Sokolov
Ambassador of the Russian Federation

Dr. Arthur Schlesinger
Historian

Dr. Franz Vrenitzky
Prime Minister of Austria

1997

Pat Williams, Sr.
Executive Vice President of Orlando Magic

Dr. Grzegorz W. Kolodko
Minister of Finance of Poland

1996

Arthur Leavitt
Chairman of U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

1995

Lamar Alexander
Secretary of Education

1994

Warren Rudman
U.S. Senator

1993

Frederick Smith
CEO of FedEx Corp.

1992

Victor Kremenyuk
U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences

1991

Paul Tutor Jones
CEO of Tudor Investment Co.

1990

Jim Sasser
U.S. Senator

1989

Dr. Lawrence Klein
Nobel Laureate

Leonard Silk
Columnist, New York Times

1988

Col. Frank Borman
President of Eastern Airlines

Lady Diana Elles
Chairperson of the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Community on economic unification

Douglas Fraser
President emeritus, UAW

Sen. William Proximire
U.S. Senator, Wisconsin

General Bernard Rogers
Former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO

Dr. Robert Triffin
Book author and head of banking reorganization missions to Latin America and Iran

1987

Dr. William J. Baumol
Professor at New York University and Princeton University

Abba Eban
Israeli Ambassador to the U.N.

Dr. Philip Glaessner
Consultant to World Bank on Third World debt crisis

Bernard Kalb
Former State Department offical and correspondent for NBC, CBS, and New York Times

Richard Lesher
President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and syndicated columnist

Admiral Stansfield Turner
Former director, CIA

1986

Malcolm Fraser
Prime Minister of Australia

Saburo Okita
Former president, Japanese Economic Research Centre and Minister of Foreign Affairs

William Seidman
Chairman, FDIC

Dr. Amartya Sen
Drummond professor of political economy, Oxford University

Albert Sommers
Former chairman, Price Advisory Commission of U.S. Council of Wage and Price Stability and chief economist of the Conference Board

1985

Dr. Gary Becker
Professor of economics and sociology, University of Chicago and research associate, Economic Research Center, National Opinion Research Center

Bela Csikos-Nagy
Hungarian Minister of State and executive co-chairman of the Council of Industrial Policy in Hungary

Helmut Schmidt
Chancellor of West Germany

Oleg Sokolov
Minister and acting Soviet Union ambassador to the U.S.

Kurt Waldheim
Former secretary general, U.N. and president of Austria

Paul Warnke
Former chief negotiator for SALT (1977- 78) and consultant to the U.S. Secreatary of State

1984

Dr. James Buchanan
Nobel laureate in economics

Robert McNamara
President of the World Bank

Leonard Silk
Columnist, New York Times

Henry Wallich
Former senior consultant to the Secretary of State, member of President Eisenhower's Council of Economic Advisors, and member of the Federal Reserve Board

1983

Admiral Hyman Rcikover
Developer of the world's first nuclear submarine, the U.S.S. Nautilus

Dr. Robert Solow
Nobel laureate in economics

Bernard Vernier-Palliez
French ambassador to the U.S.

1981

Arthur Sulzberger
Publisher of The New York Times

1980

Edmond Muskie
Secretary of State

1979

Dr. John Silber
President of Boston University

1978

Authur Burns
Chairman of Federal Reserve Board

1977

William Safire
Columnist

1976

William Seidman
FDIC Chairman

1975

Harry Reasoner
CBS Newscaster

Dr. John K Galbraith
Economist

1974

Dr. Arthur Schlesinger
Historian

Elliot Richardson
Attorney General

William Proxmire
U.S. Senator

Gunnar Myrdal
Economist