Robert Mayer Evans, has lived and worked in several dozen countries covering five continents. He graduated the University of North Carolina with a degree in business, has a certificate in Chinese (Mandarin dialect) from Yale School of Far Eastern Languages, and holds four law degrees from two continents: an LLB and later a JD (Juris Doctor) from the Yale Law School, and as a Rhodes Scholar nominee to Oxford University in England, he gained a BA and then a Masters in Jurisprudence from Oxford. He has never practiced a single hour of Law. He ventured into broadcast journalism. The late Edward R. Murrow got him his first job at CBS News. When Murrow went to Washington to join the JFK New Frontier, the only person Murrow took with him from CBS News to Washington was Bob Evans. Bob worked in New York, Chicago, and Washington for CBS News, and was sent to Atlanta to open the CBS News Bureau covering the then Civil Rights Revolution, America’s war story at that time. CBS News then sent him to Moscow as a foreign correspondent to be qualified, in their words, "…to sit and think aloud on air like Eric Sevareid." As their TV and Radio Correspondent as well as Bureau Chief in Moscow, Evans covered all the USSR along the Soviet-China border across Siberia to the Pacific Coast. Evans was expelled from the USSR for his reporting. Evans then left the network to form his own business, Televans Productions. He is a TV and Film producer and director, a writer and an author, Executive Producer and the Anchor for his own TV news series. That series was a first for television in the United States as TV News for the classroom. It became the most widely syndicated program for secondary education and college in the history of Educational Television. It ran on the air for four seasons, and won every award in TV for which it was nominated. Evans is also a professional speaker and formed The Global Trends Institute. They track conditions and trends in various parts of the world to pursue Evans’ speaking ventures. Bob Evans has spent much time in the Middle East. He has worked in 11 Moslem countries, the Arab states of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq, as well as the non-Arab Moslem lands of Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan, as well as in Israel. On one two month stay in Israel he produced three shows for his own nationally syndicated TV news classroom series. The Israeli Embassy in Washington described one show as "…the best TV presentation on Palestinians and the West Bank in their film archive." He had interviewed Yassir Arafat in besieged Beirut before the PLO expulsion. Bob Evans is currently President and Founding Director of The Global Trends Institute in Atlanta giving speeches, keynotes, briefings, and executive summaries for corporation and association meetings, conventions, and executive retreats. Titles The Four Cornerstones of the Corporate House of Change Your Business Future: The Big Emerging Markets (BEM's) The Major Forces Driving the Decade of 2000-2010 Fallout From America's War on Terrorism: The Impact of Afghanistan The New War for Dominance of the American Energy Market Topics Future, International Affairs, Ethics, Technology, Environment/Green, Spouse programs Click topic above to see more speakers on that topic Speaker's Asking Fee Range $10,000 - $14,999 Click on fee range to see more speakers. This is the starting keynote fee range - other programs may be higher. State GA Click on state above to see more speakers from that state. Fees The fee range quoted means the speaker's fee starts somewhere within that range. Note that speaker's fees are subject to change and some speakers may have special fee quotes.