Erskine B. Bowles, President Emeritus of the University of North Carolina since January 2011, Senior Advisor to Carousel Capital since 2002 and Co-Chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform since February 2010 will be our special guest for the February 27 Town Hall Speaker’s program.
In 1993, Bowles was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve as director of the Small Business Administration, and later was tapped to serve as deputy White House chief of staff (1994‐95) and White House chief of staff (1996‐98). As chief of staff, he helped negotiate the first balanced budget in a generation. As a member of the National Economic Council and National Security Council, he helped guide domestic and foreign policy. In prior service as deputy White House chief of staff, Bowles helped direct the government’s response to the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. After he left the White House, he also served from 1999 to 2001 as a general partner of Forstmann Little, a New York‐based private equity firm.
He ran for the U.S. Senate in 2002 and 2004, and currently serves on the boards of Morgan Stanley and Cousins Properties.
Program: Erskine B. Bowles
Topic: "Practical Implications of the Debt Ceiling Level”
Date: Monday, February 27, 2012
Time: 1:00-2:00 p.m.
- President Obama appointed Bowles co-chair of the National Commission on FiscalResponsibility and Reform in 2010
- President of the multi-campus University of North Carolina (2001-10)
- Founded and served as chairman and CEO of the Charlotte-based investment banking firm that became Bowles Hollowell Connor & Co.
- Appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve as director of the Small Business Administration, then as deputy White House chief of staff (1994-95) and White Housechief of staff (1996-98)
- Appointed United Nations deputy special envoy to 13 tsunami-affected countries in Southeast Asia (2005)
Transmission Modes: NOTA and the eTech Ohio IP Network
Schools interested in participating in this educational opportunity should contact John
Ramicone at 216-916-6360 or john.ramicone@ideastream.org by February 23rd.
A program fee of $75.00 will be charged to schools not in the NOTA or NORT2H member
districts. Please process a purchase order to WVIZ/PBS Distance Learning, c/o John
Ramicone, 1375 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland 44115 and fax a copy or the p. o. number to 216-
916-6361.
For additional information on Erskine Bowles please see:
http://www.gatewayurp.com/documents/SpeakerBiographies.pdf
