Conferences in the 1990s
1999 – Looking Back — “Looking Ahead: The Economic and Social Conditions of the Pacific Northwest”
Boise, Idaho
Chair: Michael H. Ferguson, Chief Economist – Idaho
Featured Speakers:
- Kurt Karl
WEFA, Inc.
- Patty Gwartney
Oregon Survey Research Laboratory
- Joseph Taylor
Iowa State University
- Vernon Henderson
Brown University
- Gene Epstein
Barron’s
- Ted Strong
Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
1998 – “Conflict and Collaboration: how Government, Business, and Academia shape the Pacific Northwest Economy”
Olympia, Washington
Chair: Lorrie Jo Brown, Washington Department of Revenue
Featured Speakers:
- Conference introduction by Gary Locke
Washington State Governor
- John Donahue
Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government
- Hugh Knox
Associate Director for Regional Economics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce
- Jack Triplett
Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution
- David Wyss
Research Director & Chief Financial Economist, DRI
1997 – “Regions in Transition”
Spokane, Washington
Featured Speakers:
- Calvin L. Beale
Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Roger E. Brinner
DRI/McGraw-Hil
- Jerry L. Jordan
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
- Jack Ward Thomas
University of Montana
1996 – “The Pacific Northwest — Opportunities, Challenges and Prospects”
Portland, Oregon
Featured Speakers:
- John Kain
Harvard University
- Paul Getman
Regional Financial Associates
- Alice Rivlin
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- Phil Burgess
Center for the New West
- Governor Cecil Andrus
Former Governor of Idaho
1995 – “Public Lands and Public Policies in the New West”
Missoula, Montana
Featured Speakers:
- Bob Gannon
Montana Power Company
- Peter Jaquette
The WEFA Group
- Emory Castle
Oregon State University
- Roger Bull
Pacific Northwest Economic Region
- George Treyz
Regional Economic Models, Inc.
1994 – “The Pacific Northwest Economy in a Competitive World”
Seattle, Washington
Featured Speakers:
- Brian Motley
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Nancy Rutledge Connery
World Bank
- David E. Raphael
Marcar Management Institute
1993 – “Pacific Northwest Economy and the Environment”
Kennewick, Washington
Featured Speakers:
- Robert Parry
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Ernie Stokes
WEFA – Canada, Toronto
- Salah El Serafy
World Bank
- Pierre Crosson
Resources for the Future
- John Warren
Research Triangle Institute
1992 – “Public Policy and Competitiveness”
Victoria, British Columbia
Featured Speakers:
- Kenneth S. Courtis
Deutsche Bank Capital Markets
- John F. Helliwell
Harvard University and University of British Columbia
- F.L.C. Reed
University of British Columbia
- Donald A. Calder
Business Planning/British Columbia Telephone Company
1991 - “The Pacific Northwest: 25 Years Retrospective and Prospective”
Portland, Oregon
Featured Speakers:
- Alice Rivlin
The Brookings Institution
- Jack Triplett
Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Nariman Behravesh
Oxford Economics
- John Meyer
Harvard University
- Mancur Olson
University of Maryland
- Charles Leven
Washington University
- Werner Z. Hirsch
University of California – Los Angeles
- W. Lee Hoskins
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
1990 – “Economic Integration in the 1990s: Issues for the Pacific Northwest”
Bellingham, Washington
Featured Speakers:
- Jack Beebe
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- William H. Cavitt
Office of Canada/U.S. Department of Commerce
- Donald Lorentz
Washington State Dept. of Trade and Economic Development
- William Schaffer
Georgia Institute of Technology
- Donald Ratajczak
Georgia State University
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2023 PNREC Keynote Speakers Announced:
Call for Abstracts
Please send your abstract submissions to Anneliese Vance-Sherman and Scott Bailey at pnrec.conf@gmail.com by February 24, 2023.
>> CALL FOR ABSTRACTS INFORMATION
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY:
Washington State University Vancouver is looking for a part-time faculty member who could teach ECON 101: Fundamentals of Microeconomics in Fall 2022 (Aug. 15-Dec. 20) on the Vancouver (WA) campus.
Required qualifications are having a master's or Ph.D. in economics. Please contact Yoshie Sano at Yoshie_sano@wsu.edu if you are interested.
PNREC 2022:
Navigating COVID-19 and Climate Disruption
in the Pacific Northwest
May 23-25, 2022
The final program for the 2022 Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference has been posted. We look forward to seeing all our speakers in Hood River, OR May 23-25.
>> FINAL PROGRAM
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