Knight Kiplinger to speak at Chamber of Commerce’s 93rd Annual Dinner & Citizen of the Year Celebration

Concord, New Hampshire - The Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce will celebrate its 93rd Annual Dinner on Monday, October 29, 2012 at 5:15pm at the Grappone Conference Center at 70 Constitution Avenue, Concord. The event features guest speaker, Knight Kiplinger of Kiplinger Financial, and the announcement of the Chamber’s esteemed Citizen of the Year Award. Citizens Bank is the Presenting Sponsor.

The evening begins with a cocktail reception at 5:15 pm. The dinner hour begins at 6:15pm and will include remarks from outgoing chair, Deane Morrison of Concord Hospital, and the Chamber’s incoming chair, Mary McLaughlin of TD Bank. The evening culminates in the presentation of the Chamber’s annual Citizen of the Year Award, the recipient of which is kept top secret until the final moments of the event.

ABOUT OUR SPEAKER: Knight A. Kiplinger is an economic journalist who heads the Kiplinger financial media company in Washington, D.C.  He serves as editor in chief of all its publications, including the weekly Kiplinger Letter, monthly Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine and daily Kiplinger.com. He writes a bimonthly column on financial matters in the magazine and also writes its monthly “Money & Ethics” feature.
Mr. Kiplinger is active in nonprofit governance and philanthropy, especially in the fields of secondary education, choral music, and historic preservation. He is a frequent guest on radio and TV programs (on NPR, CNN, Fox and CNBC, among others) and has appeared on “The Diane Rehm Show,” “The Charlie Rose Show,” “The Today Show,” “CBS This Morning,” and others. He is an occasional commentator on “Marketplace,” the daily business report heard on public radio stations nationwide. As a public speaker, Kiplinger frequently addresses audiences of corporate and civic leaders, on such topics as the economic outlook, politics, investing and ethical business management. The company he heads, Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc., has been honored several times with national ethics awards for its progressive employee relations and business integrity. Kiplinger is the co-author and editor of several books, including World Boom Ahead,America in the Global ‘90s, The New American Boom, and Washington Now.

Cost is $75 per person or $560 for a table of 8. For more information or to register, please contact the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce at (603) 224-2508, info@concordnhchamber.com or visit www.concordnhchamber.com to register online.