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The National Symposium : Schedule & Panelists : Steve Forbes
Steve Forbes
Steve Forbes is President and CEO of Forbes and Editor-in-Chief of Forbes magazine. Since he entered the position, Forbes has expanded to include Forbes FYI, Forbes ASAP, Forbes Global, a Japanese-language edition of Forbes, Forbes Brasil, the Gilder Technology Report, and Forbes.com. He resumed this role in February 2000 after a leave of absence to campaign for the Republican nomination for the Presidency. Forbes ran for the Republican nomination in both 1996 and 2000 on a platform of a flat tax, medical savings accounts, a new Social Security System for working Americans, school choice, term limits, and a strong national defense.
From 1996 to 1999 Forbes was also Honorary Chairman of Americans for Hope, Growth, and Opportunity; a grassroots, issues advocacy organization founded to advance pro-growth, pro-freedom, and pro-family issues. From December 1993 until June 1996, Forbes served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Empower America, a political reform organization founded by Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett and Jeane Kirkpatrick.
In 1985, President Ronald Reagan named Forbes Chairman of the bi-partisan Board for International Broadcasting, where Forbes oversaw the operation of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. Forbes was reappointed to his post by President George Bush and served there until 1993.
Forbes serves on the Board of Trustees of Princeton University, The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation, and the National Taxpayers Union, and is on the Board of Overseers of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He holds honorary degrees from Lycoming College, Jacksonville University, Heidelberg College, Iona College, Kean College, New York Institute of Technology, Lock Haven University, Westminster College, Francisco Marroquin University, Sacred Heart University, Centenary College, Pepperdine University, Lynn University, Lehigh University and New Hampshire College. He is the author of A New Birth of Freedom, (Regnery, 1999).
Forbes was born on July 18, 1947 in Morristown, New Jersey. He graduated cum laude in 1966 from Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, and received a B.A. in history from Princeton in 1970. At Princeton, he was the founding editor of Business Today, which became the country's largest magazine published by students for students, with a circulation of 200,000. The magazine continues to be published today by Princeton undergraduates.