Atlanta – Lawrence "Larry" Reed, president of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) and president emeritus of the Mackinac Center, will keynote "The Seven Principles of Sound Public Policy," a Georgia Public Policy Foundation noon Policy Briefing Luncheon on Tuesday, April 27, at Atlanta's Commerce Club.

Reed, who served two decades as president of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy in Lansing, Mich., became the Mackinac Center's president emeritus in 2008 upon assuming his duties as president of FEE, one of the oldest and most respected economics institutes in America. Under his leadership, the Mackinac Center emerged as the nation's largest and one of the most effective and prolific of more than 40 state-based free market think tanks.

Reed was first elected in 1994 to the Board of Trustees of FEE, publisher of the journal The Freeman, for which he writes a column entitled “Ideas and Consequences.” In 1998, he was elected chairman of FEE’s Board of Trustees and reelected chairman in 1999 and 2000.

The author of five books, more than 1,000 newspaper columns and articles, 200 radio commentaries and dozens of articles in magazines and journals at home and abroad, Reed has written for The Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, Baltimore Sun, Detroit News and Detroit Free Press, among many others. His most recent book is "Striking the Root: Essays on Liberty."

Reed’s interests in political and economic affairs have taken him as a freelance journalist to 69 countries on six continents since 1985, including five visits to Russia, five to China, four to Nicaragua, three to Poland, five to Kenya, and others to such places as Cambodia, East Germany, Mozambique, Haiti, Japan, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Honduras, Greece, Italy, Australia, Slovenia, Croatia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Singapore, Israel, Egypt, Malaysia, Vietnam, Iceland and New Zealand. Since 1978, he has delivered more than 1,000 speeches in 40 states and 15 foreign countries, including one at People’s University in Beijing.

Registration for this event is $35. The deadline to register is Friday, April 23. To register, click on this link: http://www.gppf.org/default.asp?pt=eventdescr&EI=69.