After Dinner Speakers: Jim Rogers, Sally Gray, Lord Desai

Jim Rogers made what he describes as "more money than I knew existed in the world," managing the Quantum Fund in the 1970's. In the years since retiring at age 37, he has very successfully invested his own funds, been a finance professor at Columbia University, hosted television programs on WCBS, FNN and CNBC, and is a regular contributor to Worth. But Rogers is also renowned for being cut from a different cloth than most people on Wall Street. Not satisfied with an earlier record-setting trip around the world atop a motorcycle--a trip that inspired his first bestseller, Investment Biker, and for which TIME called him the "Indiana Jones of finance"--he set out again to chronicle the world during the three years of the turn of the Millennium. He completed the 116-country, 152,000-mile overland trip, setting another Guinness World Record along the way. He writes about his extraordinary travels and discoveries in Adventure Capitalist, to be published next spring. Bringing these journeys to life at the lecture podium, Rogers offers individuals and corporations alike a lively, ground-level analysis of tomorrow's economic gold mines, while thrilling them with stories of his exciting adventures. He mixes wit with sometimes contrarian wisdom that offers new and enlightened ways to view our world.