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DEL.ICIO.USSouthern Co.’s Ratcliffe to host ‘Squawk Box’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s becoming a regular featurer — Atlanta’s business leaders guest hosting CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
On Wednesday morning, Southern Co. CEO David Ratcliffe will sit in the guest host chair from 7 a.m. to 9 am. Less than a month ago, Home Depot co-founder, Bernie Marcus, was in the same TV host spot.
Ratcliffe has invited two fellow trustees from the Federal Reserve Board of Atlanta to be his guests during the show.
Those two guests are: Lee Thomas, the former president of Georgia-Pacific and currently the CEO of Rayonier, a forest products and timber company in Florida; and Larkin Martin, managing partner of Atlanta-based Martin Farms, and she also is the current chair of Atlanta’s Federal Reserve Bank.
Ratcliffe expects the two-hour show to cover all sorts of issues from energy policy, the presidential election, climate change policy and the economy.
“I would love to talk about new nuclear power plants, but they’ll probably want to talk about the economy,” Ratcliffe said in a phone conversation today. “I think we’ll end up talking about energy and environmental issues.”
Atlanta’s executives began getting featured spots on the Squawk Box after the show did one of its traveling broadcasts from here on May 16th. The shows, broadcast from both the new World of Coca-Cola and the Georgia Aquarium, featured interviews with both Ratcliffe and Marcus as well as several others, including Aflac’s Dan Amos and SunTrust CEO James Wells.
By the way, Racliffe also is planning to attend both political conventions later this summer.
“We have participated in the past in the Republican convention, and I thought it would make sense to attend the Democratic National Convention as well,” Ratcliffe said.
Ratcliffe is the current chair of the Edison Electric Institute, an industry association, for a one-year term. And he felt it was important for him to attend both conventions as part of his leadership role in that organization.
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