McClarty to Host Economic Discussion at LR Chamber Meeting

By Arkansas Business Staff
12/15/2009 10:31:05 AM

Former White House Chief of Staff Thomas F. "Mack" McLarty will host a panel of experts on the global economy at the Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce's 144th annual meeting Thursday in Little Rock.
The meeting begins at 11:30 a.m. at the Statehouse Convention Center.
The lunch event, featuring McLarty and the panel, begins at noon in the Wally Allen Ballrom. The panelists include political analyst David Gergen; Richard W. Fisher, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; and Dr. Nicholas R. Lardy, a Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, D.C.
The lunch is presented by Chesapeake Energy Corp., and the program is presented by Hickingbotham Investments Inc.
Herren Hickingbotham, a principal of Hickingbotham Investments and the chamber's 2009 chairman, will present a review of the year, and 2010 Chairman Barbara Graves, owner of Barbara Graves Intimate Fashions, will address the year ahead.

Chairman's Circle sponsorships, which include reserved, priority seating tables of 10 and promotional consideration before, during and after the event, are available for $1,500. Tables of 10 are available for $750 each; individual tickets are $75 for members and $85 for prospective members.
Space permitting, sponsorships, tables and tickets may be ordered and purchased online at www.LittleRockChamber.com or by contacting Susan Miller at (501) 377-6040.