Jim Rogers is the author of Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers (published by Random House).  An entertaining speaker, he mixes wit with sometimes contrarian wisdom that offers new and enlightened ways to view our world.
 
He is an investor who has been chronicled in Jon Train’s The New Money Masters, Jack Schwager’s Market Wizards, and other books.  He has been frequently featured in Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times, and most national news publications dealing with the economy or finance. He also has appeared on nearly every news and public affairs television program – both network and cable – and has been a columnist in various media offering his insight on finance, investment, politics, history, foreign policy and social issues and how they interact. He sometimes is a visiting professor at Columbia University.
 
During 1990-1992, Jim Rogers rode his motorcycle 104,710km around the world, crossing six continents and setting a Guinness World Record while fulfilling a life-long dream of seeing the world from atop a motorcycle. Investment Biker was a result of that trip.
 
Not satisfied with surviving that outing, he set out again on Jan. 1, 1999, with Paige Parker to chronicle the world during the three years of the turn of the Millennium – 1999-2001.  They have returned from a 116-country, 152,000-mile overland trip the likes of which has never been done before – they have been awarded a Guinness World Record. His unique ground-level observations illuminate, startle and amuse.
 
Despite the danger and adventure, Jim and Paige found time to marry on Jan. 1, 2000.
 
He currently is working on a second book, due to hit bookstores in May 2003, detailing the insights, adventure and observations from his recently completed trip.
 
Born in 1942, Rogers’ entrepreneurial efforts started early in Demopolis, Alabama, where he was reared.  He had his first job at age five, picking up bottles at baseball games.  At age six, he won the concession to sell soft drinks and peanuts at Little League games.  His father lent him one hundred dollars to buy a peanut parcher, which put Rogers in business.  Five years later, after taking out profits along the way, he paid off his start-up loan and had a hundred dollars in the bank.
 
Winning a scholarship to Yale, Rogers was coxswain on the crew.  Toward the end of his four years there, he received an academic scholarship to Oxford, where he attended Balliol College and studied politics, philosophy, and economics.  He also became the first person form Demopolis ever to cox the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race on the Thames.  It was during the summer of 1964, while working for Dominick & Dominick, that Rogers fell in love with Wall Street.  And that’s exactly where he headed after Oxford and a stint in the Army.
 
After apprenticing with Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder in the early 1970s. Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership.  During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained more than 4000%, while the S&P rose less than 50%.  Rogers then decided to retire – at age 37.  However, he didn’t remain idle.
 
Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers kept busy serving as a professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and, in 1989 and 1990, as the moderator of WCBS’s ‘The Dreyfus Roundtable’ and FNN’s ‘The Profit Motive with Jim Rogers’.  At the same time, he was laying the groundwork for an around-the-world motorcycle trip.
 
In 1990-1992, Rogers and a companion motorcycled 65,065 miles across six continents, a feat that landed them in the Guinness Book of World Records.  As a private investor, he constantly analyzed the countries through which he traveled for investment ideas.  Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers, a best seller, chronicled that trip, revealing one nation after the next in which gradually weakening currencies and political structures had suddenly collapsed, resulting in total national ruin.  He gets to the heart of what’s driving successful nations and economies upward and what’s slashing troubled ones downward.
 
Incidentally, Rogers found the peanut parcher in his parents’ attic a few years back.  It still works.

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