CHESTERTOWN, MD—Financial expert Clifford Rossi will get personal about the deficit when he delivers an Alex. Brown Lecture in business on Thursday, March 28. His talk, “Fiscal Follies – How the Looming U.S. Debt Problems Affect Your Wallet, Jobs and Future,” will take place at 6:30 p.m. in Litrenta Lecture Hall, Toll Science Center, on the Washington College campus, 300 Washington Avenue. Sponsored by the Alex. Brown Student Investment Program, the event is free and open to the public.

Rossi is Tyser Teaching Fellow and Managing Director of the Center for Financial Policy at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Prior to entering academia, he worked nearly 25 years in banking and government and held senior executive roles in risk management at several of the nation’s largest financial services companies.