WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2008
PUBLIC PROGRAM SPRING SERIES
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The Global Edge: Building Chicago's Human Capital
with panelists R. Eden Martin, president, Commercial Club of Chicago; Cheryle Jackson, president and chief executive officer, Chicago Urban League; and Lawrence Rothfield, cofounder and faculty director, Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago
Moderated by Henry Perritt, Jr., professor, Chicago-Kent College of Law
This final program in the three-part series will address Chicago’s human capital. Cities are people, no more and no less. The most successful cities are those that are richest in people – in educated, diverse, creative, hard-working, productive people. A global city not only attracts innovative and skilled people, but it also produces its own workforce by providing an effective educational system, from early childhood to research universities. A global city also needs to provide an exceptional quality of life where the best and the brightest want to work and live and where citizens from all backgrounds can benefit from equal economic and social opportunity. This program will feature an expert panel addressing education, social equity, immigrant integration, and quality of life. The panel will also explore ways to capitalize on Chicago’s vibrant artistic and musical talent.
 Henry Perritt, Jr. directs Chicago-Kent’s program in financial services law. He served as Chicago-Kent’s dean from 1997 to 2002 and was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in the Tenth District of Illinois in 2002. During the Ford administration, he served on the White House staff and as deputy under secretary of labor. Professor Perritt is the author of more than seventy law review articles and fifteen books on international relations and law, technology and law, employment law, and entertainment law. He sits on the board of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and is a private pilot, a sailor, and a songwriter.
R. Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial Club of Chicago and president of its Civic Committee. He is also Of Counsel at Sidley Austin, LLP, where he served as partner from 1975 to 2004 and chairman of the firm's management committee .
Cheryle Jackson is the president and chief executive officer of the Chicago Urban League, which recently published The Future of Economic Development for African Americans in the Chicago Metropolitan Area. Previously, she was the deputy chief of staff for communications for Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich.
Lawrence Rothfield is the cofounder and faculty director of the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago where he addresses the role of culture in society as well as that state’s engagement in the arts and humanities. He is the lead author of the economic impact study Chicago Music City conducted by the Cultural Policy Center.
 In October 2007, The Chicago Council released a Study Group report on Chicago’s global future, led by cochairs Michael Moskow, former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and senior fellow for the global economy at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs; Henry Perritt, Jr., professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law; and Adele Simmons, vice chair and senior executive at Chicago Metropolis 2020. The Study Group brought together more than forty representatives of the city’s civic and business leadership to define the issues and set an agenda on how Chicago can compete and thrive as a first-tier global city. This three-part series will feature each cochair moderating a local, expert panel on the three key priorities of the report: infrastructure, human capital, and global engagement.
The Blackstone Hotel
636 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
5:30 p.m. Cash bar reception
6:00 p.m. Presentation and discussion
7:15 p.m. Cash bar reception
Members $10
Nonmembers $15
President’s Circle, Corporate Members, and Student Members complimentary
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