Post by B on Oct 5, 2008 18:43:35 GMT -5
MAJOR economic meeting going down in DC right now, not on news, ends 10/7[/b]
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"... There is a MAJOR economic meeting going on right now in DC, with some MAJOR players... and it ends on Oct 7th.
This is long but very worth it and it's taken me hours.
October 4th - 7th, 2008 at the Marriott in DC (across the street from the US Treasury Department, as is listed on the website), the following list of people will be speaking at the NABE (national assoc for business economics) meeting.
The topic? Addressing Future Economic Challenges
The topics of prior conferences:
2007 - "Global Integration, Competition, and Innovation" San Francisco CA, September 9-11, 2007
2003- "Hard Lessons of the "New Economy"" Atlanta, GA
2002- "Understanding Cycles and Shocks", Washington, DC
Now look at who's attending:
Lakshman R. Achuthan
Economic Cycle Research Institute
He is a member of Time magazine’s board of economists, the New York City Economic Advisory Panel, The Levy Economics Institute’s Board of Governors and serves as trustee on a number of non-profit boards. Lakshman is the co-author of Beating the Business Cycle: How to Predict and Profit from Turning Points in the Economy published by Doubleday.
Martin Neil Baily
The Brookings Institution
He has served as an academic advisor to the Federal Reserve Board and testified numerous times before Congress.
Sheila Bair
Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Sheila C. Bair was sworn in as the 19th Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on June 26, 2006.
Linda Barrington
The Conference Board
Barrington has authored several Conference Board publications including: America’s Full-Time Working Poor Reap Limited Gains in The New Economy; and Perspectives on a Global Economy: Are Poor Nations Closing the Gap in Living Standards? Her recent presentations include: "Changing Demographics—Poverty Risk for Full-time Workers in the New American Economy".
Ben Bernanke
Chairman, Federal Reserve Board
That says enough.
Richard Brown
FDIC
Guy F. Caruso
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Prior to joining DOE, Mr. Caruso worked at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) as an International Energy Economist in the Office of Economic Research.
Abby Joseph Cohen
Goldman Sachs
Abby joined Goldman Sachs in 1990 having specialized in quantitative strategy and economics at other major financial firms. She began her career as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC. She is on the board of the Council for Excellence in Government, the national board of the Smithsonian Institution, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Robert H. Dugger
Tudor Investment Corporation
Robert Dugger is Managing Director of Tudor Investment Corporation. He was previously director for policy and chief economist at the American Bankers Association, leading a panel of nationally recognized bank officers in developing a plan to deal with the U.S. savings and loan crisis. Dugger served as the chief economist of the Senate Banking Committee and senior staff member of the Financial Institutions Subcommittee of the House Financial Institutions Committee. Dugger began his career at the Federal Reserve Board.
Mark J. Finley
BP America, Inc.
Mark Finley is General Manager, Global Energy Markets and US Economics at BP. He is responsible for BP's long- and short-term analysis of global energy markets. He also manages the annual production of the BP Statistical Review of World Energy--a well-known resource on global energy data now in its 57th year. He regularly presents BP’s views on global energy markets to external audiences.
Gary Gensler
Representative for the Obama Campaign
Gary Gensler spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs, making partner when he was 30, becoming head of the company's fixed income and currency trading operation in Tokyo by the mid-'90s, and eventually the company's co-head of finance. Coincidentally, Gensler has a twin brother Robert Gensler who runs an actively-managed fund for T. Rowe Price.
Howard Gruenspecht
U.S. Energy Information Administration
Robert Hall
Stanford University
Hall has advised a number of government agencies on national economic policy, including the Justice Department, the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Congressional Budget Office, where he serves on the Advisory Committee.
Kevin Hassett
American Enterprise Institute
Kevin Hassett directs economic policy studies at AEI. His research interests include tax policy, the U.S. economy, the stock market, and investments. He is also a weekly columnist for Bloomberg. Before joining AEI, Hassett was a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor of economics and finance at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University.
Erik Heitfield
Federal Reserve Board
Devon Herrick
Senior Fellow, National Center for Policy Analysis
Chair, NABE Health Economics Roundtable
David Heuther
National Association of Manufacturers
Sydney Smith Hicks
NABE Corporate Planning Roundtable Chair
Prior to Sterling Commerce, Hicks gained an extensive knowledge of banking and electronic transactions at NationsBank, a predecessor of Bank of America, where she served as senior vice president of Transaction Solutions and Image Initiatives. Hicks was chief economist for NCNB (and First Republic and InterFirst), financial economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a visiting scholar for the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Adviser to Senator McCain
Dr. Holtz-Eakin most recently served as the Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and the Paul A. Volcker Chair in International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Michael Horowitz
Medical Insights International
Gene Huang
FedEx Corporation
He is responsible for forecasting global economic and financial conditions. Gene is a member of the Blue Chip Consensus Panel, which provides the economic consensus used by policy makers as well as the business community, the Wall Street Journal Economic Panel and BusinessWeek Magazine’s Business Outlook Panel. Gene is frequently interviewed by leading news journals in the U.S. and has made appearances on Bloomberg TV as an economic commentator. He has also occasionally served in an advisory capacity to U.S. Federal Government agencies and international organizations.
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick
Ford Motor Company
NABE President
Prior to joining Ford, she was a senior economist at Mellon Bank from 1990 to 1996, and assistant professor of economics at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, during the late 1980s.
Sara L. Johnson
Global Insight
Global Insight provides economic forecasts and analyses of 204 countries as well as research studies of critical economic issues. She was previously North American Research Director and Chief Regional Economist with Standard & Poor’s DRI, a predecessor of Global Insight.
Joseph Kennedy
Economic Statistics Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
Kevin Kliesen
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
An important aspect of this position also involves speaking to the general public about the U.S. economy, monetary policy developments and the economic outlook.
Kalpana Kochhar
International Monetary Fund
Laurence Kotlikoff
Boston University
Professor Kotlikoff has served as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Harvard Institute for International Development, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Swedish Ministry of Finance, the Norwegian Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Italy, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, the Government of Russia, the Government of Ukraine, the Government of Bolivia, the Government of Bulgaria, the Treasury of New Zealand, the Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Joint Committee on Taxation, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, The American Council of Life Insurance, Merrill Lynch, Fidelity Investments, AT&T, AON Corp., and other major U.S. corporations.
Paul Krugman
Princeton University
op-ed columnist for The New York Times. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Group of Thirty. He has served as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations, as well as to a number of countries including Portugal and the Philippines. His previous work, THE GREAT UNRAVELING, was highly praised and became a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback.
Edward Lazear
Council of Economic Advisers
Lazear has advised many governments throughout the world including Russia, Romania, Republic of Georgia and Ukraine and recently was a member of Governor Schwarzenegger’s Council of Economic Advisers.
Wei Li
Darden School of Business
University of Virginia
Dr. Li is an expert on the Chinese economy and markets.
Steve Liesman
CNBC
As CNBC’s Senior Economics Reporter, Steve Liesman reports on all aspects of the economy including the Federal Reserve Bank and major economic indicators. He appears on "Squawk Box" (M-F, 6-9 a.m. ET), as well as other CNBC programs throughout the Business Day. Liesman joined CNBC from The Wall Street Journal where he served as a senior economics reporter covering monetary policy, international economics, academic research and productivity. Prior to joining the Journal in 1994, Liesman was the business editor for The Moscow Times, where, as the founding business editor for the country’s first English language daily newspaper, he helped create the publication’s stock index, which was the country’s first.
John Lipsky
International Monetary Fund
John Lipsky assumed the position of First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund on September 1, 2006.
Before coming to the Fund, Mr. Lipsky was Vice Chairman of the JPMorgan Investment Bank Before joining Salomon Brothers in 1984, he spent a decade at the IMF, where he helped manage the Fund's exchange rate surveillance procedure and analyzed developments in international capital market.
Stuart Mackintosh
Group of 30
Previously Mr. Mackintosh was a Washington-based economist and country risk manager for Mitsubishi International Corporation. Before locating to the U.S., Mr. Mackintosh was Chief of Staff and principal speechwriter for leading politicians in the European Parliament.
Christopher L. Magee
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Magee had 35 years of experience at Ford Motor Company ranging from early research and technology implementation work to later executive positions in Product Development emphasizing vehicle systems and program initiation activities.
Catherine L. Mann
Brandeis University
Peterson Institute for International Economics
She has also been a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics since 1997. Previously, she served as assistant director of the International Finance Division at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, senior international economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers at the White House, and adviser to the chief economist at the World Bank. She is author or coauthor of two books that focus on the policy foundations for effective use of technology for domestic development and external competitiveness. APEC and the New Economy (2002) was presented to and endorsed by APEC Leaders at their meeting in Shanghai, China.
James Meil
Eaton Corporation
James P. Meil is chief economist with Eaton Corporation, a global diversified industrial manufacturer with 2007 annual sales of $13 billion. He is a panel member for Blue Chip, Consensus Economics, USA Today, Philadelphia Fed Reserve & Wall Street Journal outlook surveys.
Fareed Mohamedi
PFC Energy
Fareed has been at PFC Energy since 1990. He has also worked at Moody's Investors Service as the lead country analyst for a number of petroleum and gas producing countries, at the Institute of International Finance in the Middle East and Asia departments, at the World Bank's Africa department, at Wharton Econometrics Forecasting Associates' Middle East service and at the economic research section of the Ministry of Finance and National Economy in Bahrain. In the 1970s, he managed several parts of his family business which had branches in Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Martha Moore
Moore Economics
Michael Mussa
Peterson Institute for International Economics
Michael Mussa, senior fellow since 2001, served as Economic Counselor and Director of the Department of Research at the International Monetary Fund from 1991-2001, where he was responsible for advising the Management of the Fund and the Fund's Executive Board on broad issues of economic policy and for providing analysis of ongoing developments in the world economy.
Rudolph Penner
The Urban Institute
He is the author of numerous books, pamphlets and articles on tax and spending policy and has authored columns for various newspapers including the New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times.
Edmund Phelps
McVicker Professor of Political Economy, Columbia University
William Poole
Cato Institute
Distinguished Scholar in Residence, University of Delaware
Poole retired as President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis in March 2008.
Sara B. Potter
Factset
Lynn Reaser
Bank of America Investment Strategies Group
Harvey Rosenblum
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Harvey Rosenblum is executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. His current research interests focus on monetary policy, inflation and the growing impact of globalization on the U.S. economy and businesses.
Jeffrey Sachs
Columbia University
He is also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Brian Sack
Macroeconomic Advisers
Dr. Sack joined the staff of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve in 1997 and became the head of the Monetary and Financial Market Analysis section in 2003.
Kenneth D. Simonson
Associated General Contractors of America
Ken Simonson joined AGC of America on September 10, 2001. Ever since Day Two he has been provided insight into what was happening to the economy and what it implied for construction and related industries. He is interviewed and quoted almost daily by local and national media, including The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Business Week, and CNBC He also worked with the President’s Commission on Industrial Competitiveness, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and an economic consulting firm.
Renee-Marie Stephano
Medical Tourism Association
Lawrence Summers
Harvard University
Lawrence H. Summers is President Emeritus of Harvard University, former Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, and in the past decade served in a series of senior public policy positions, including Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, from 1999 to 2000. Mr. Summers took leave from Harvard in 1991 to return to Washington, this time as vice president of development economics and chief economist of the World Bank. During this time, he worked closely with Secretary Rubin and Alan Greenspan LLD '99 (hon.), chairman of the Federal Reserve System, in crafting government policy responses to financial crises in major developing countries. Internationally, he worked to reform the international financial architecture and the International Monetary Fund, to secure debt relief for the world’s poorest countries, and to combat international money laundering. Additionally, Mr. Summers is a part time managing director of the D.E. Shaw Group, a member of the boards of the Brookings Institution, the Center on Global Development, the Institute for International Economics, the Global Fund for Children’s Vaccines, and the Partnership for Public Service. He holds membership in the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the Bretton Woods Committee, the Council on Competitiveness, and the UNCTAD Panel of Eminent Persons.
Thomas Kevin Swift
American Chemistry Council
Diane C. Swonk
Mesirow Financial
Diane sits on several advisory committees to the Federal Reserve Board, its regional banks and the Council of Economic Advisers for the White House. Most recently, she was re-appointed to serve on the Congressional Budget Office's panel of economic advisers.
John Tarnoff
DreamWorks Animation
John Tarnoff is Head of Show Development at DreamWorks Animation. John has been in the motion picture business for 25 years as a producer and studio executive, supervising films such as Diner, Pink Floyd: The Wall, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and The Power of One during the 80s and early 90s. He branched into multimedia, writing and producing CD-ROM games in the early 90s, including War Games, based on the MGM movie, and Big Brother, based on George Orwell’s classic novel, 1984. Prior to joining DreamWorks, from 1996 until 2002, John was the co-founder and C.E.O. of Talkie, Inc an internet technology company that pioneered online conversational animated characters for marketing, brand building, lead generation, customer service and training. To develop its products, the company created proprietary artificial intelligence and behavioral animation software.
Chris Varvares
Macroeconomic Advisers
The firm became Macroeconomic Advisers in June of 1996 when Dr. Meyer left the firm to join the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Meyer returned to the firm in the summer of 2002 following his term at the Fed.
David Wessel
The Wall Street Journal
He also appears frequently on CNBC and National Public Radio.
Judy Woodruff
The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer
Kay Wortman
Kay Wortman Inc."