Mr. Kiplinger is editor in chief of The Kiplinger Letter, Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine and KiplingerForecasts.com. The Letter, a weekly publication started in 1923, has more than 150,000 subscribers. Kiplinger's Personal Finance, the first magazine in the field of personal money management, was founded in 1947 and today has a monthly circulation of more than 900,000.

KiplingerForecasts.com is a daily forecasting service that alerts executives to coming changes in economic conditions, demographics, technology, politics and government regulation.

Mr. Kiplinger came to the Kiplinger organization in 1983, following 13 years in newspaper journalism as a Washington correspondent and editor. For six years he was Washington bureau chief for Ottaway Newspapers, Inc., a chain of 22 daily papers owned by Dow Jones & Company.

In the late 1980s Mr. Kiplinger co-authored two best-selling forecast books which contradicted the prevailing pessimism of that time, accurately predicting that the United States would set the global pace for economic growth and technology leadership in the 1990s. In his most recent book, s (1998), Mr. Kiplinger forecast that the U.S. will continue to benefit from soaring productivity and surging trade with the expanding economies of Asia, Latin America and Eastern Europe.

Mr. Kiplinger is a frequent guest on radio and TV (CNN, Fox and CNBC, among others), and he has appeared on "Wall Street Week with Louis Rukeyser,” “The Today Show,” “CBS This Morning” and “The Larry King Show.” He is an occasional commentator on "Marketplace," the daily business report heard on public radio stations nationwide.

A graduate of Cornell University, Mr. Kiplinger did graduate study in international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University.