Welcome to Todd's world

Dinner with my old friend Todd Buchholz. We first met, in Washington DC, in 1983. I was there as a guest of the Young America's Foundation and as an up-and-coming "young American" Todd was given the job of looking after us. Today, according to the Penguin website:

Todd G. Buchholz is an internationally acclaimed economist who advises ABC News, as well as some of the world's leading investment funds. He has served as a director of economic policy at the White House and is a contributing editor for Worth magazine. Buchholz holds advanced degrees from Cambridge University and Harvard Law School and was awarded the Allyn Young Teaching Prize by Harvard University's Department of Economics.

There's more. A best-selling author, Todd's books have been published in dozens of languages and, earlier this year, his first novel was published. He has guest hosted several television programmes in America and, intriguingly, is credited as co-producer of Jersey Boys, the smash hit Broadway musical which opens in the West End in February 2008. (When I ask him about this it turns out he's an investor. It's his first flutter in this particular minefield and, true to form, the show's success is making him another small fortune.)

Hopefully, he'll be back in London for the West End premiere which coincides with the UK publication of his new book, New Ideas from Dead CEOs. A special Free Society event may be in order ...