After Dinner Speakers: Alvin Toffler, Ian St. John, Eddie Jordan

Alvin Toffler has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, a Visiting Professor at Cornell University, a faculty member of the New School for Social Research, a White House correspondent, an editor of Fortune magazine, and a business consultant. He holds honorary doctorates in letters, law, science and -- from Keio University in Tokyo -- in managment science. In France, where the Tofflers' work has won the prestigious Prix du Mellieur Livre Etranger, he has been named an Officier de L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Toffler together with his spouse and co-author, Heidi Toffler, has authored the best-selling futurist novels Future Shock and The Third Wave, as well as Powershift, War and Anti-War, and, most recently, Creating a New Civilization.