Conferences in the 2000s
2009 – “Recession and Recovery: Current Impacts and Future Opportunities for the Pacific Northwest”
Vancouver, Washington
Chair: Scott Bailey, Washington Employment Security Department
Featured Speakers:
- David Wyss
Chief Economist, Standard & Poor’s, New York
- Yves Smith
Aurora Advisers
- Bill Beyers
University of Washington
- Bob Baugh
AFL-CIO
2008 – “Innovation in the Northwest”
Tacoma, Washington
Chair: Paul Sommers, Seattle University
Featured Speakers:
- Nigel Gault
Global Insight
- Heike Mayer
Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia Tech
- Maryann Feldman
Professor, University of North Carolina
2007 – “Technology and Science in Regional Economic Development”
Richland, Washington
Chair: Michael J. Scott, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Featured Speakers:
- Angelos Angelou
Founder and CEO, Angelou Economics, Austin, Texas
- David Wyss
Chief Economist, Standard & Poor’s, New York
- Paul Peterson
Professor, Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
2006 – “Economic and Policy Issues on the Pacific Northwest’s Horizon”
Portland, Oregon
Chair: Tom Potiowsky, State of Oregon Office of Economic Analysis
Featured Speakers:
- Paul R. Krugman
Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University
- Anthony Downs
Senior Fellow, Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings Institution
- Nigel Gault
Director, US Macroeconomic Service, Global Insight, Inc.
2005 – “New Economic Horizons”
Bellingham, Washington
Chair: Hart Hodges, Western Washington University
Featured Speakers:
- David Wyss
Chief Economist, Standard & Poor’s
- Mark Drabenstott
Director, Center for the Study of Rural America, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
- Irving Mintzer
Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Change, University of Maryland, College Park
- Roger Bolton
William Brough Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Williams College
2004 – “New Formulas and Partnerships Emerging”
Tacoma, Washington
Chair: Riley Moore, Saint Martin’s College
Featured Speakers:
- Benjii Bittle
Arts Administrator, Economic Development Department, City of Tacoma
- Josh Farley
Assistant Professor, Community Development and Applied Economics, Associate Professor, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, U. of Vermont
- William H. Gates, Sr.
Founding partner, Preston Gates & Ellis Chair, 2002 Washington State Tax Structure Study Committee
- Geoffrey J.D. Hewings
Professor, Departments of Geography, and Urban and Regional Planning Director, Regional Economics Applications Laboratory, University of Illinois
- Ron Irvine
Owner, Vashon Winery
- Desmond O’Rourke
Professor Emeritus, Agricultural and Resource Economics Department, Washington State University, Head and Founder, Belrose, Inc.
- David Wyss
Chief Economist, Standard & Poor’s
2003 – “Picking Up the Pieces: Challenges to Recovery and Growth in the Pacific Northwest”
Spokane, Washington
Chair: Tom Trulove, Eastern Washington University
Featured Speakers:
- Nariman Behravesh
Chief Economist and Managing Director, Global Insights
- Mark R. Drabenstott
Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Director, Center for the Study of Rural America
- Thomas Rice
Professor and Vice-Chair, Department of Health Services, UCLA
- Jeffrey J. Schott
Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics, Washington D.C.
2002 – “Challenges to Economic Security”
Portland, Oregon
Chair: Terry Morlan, Northwest Power Planning Council
Featured Speakers:
- Alice M. Rivlin
Senior Fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution
- James K. Galbraith
University of Texas
- Dallas Burtraw
Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future
- Mark Zandi
Chief Economist and co-founder of Economy.com
2001 – “Knowledge, Resources and Public Policy for the New Regional Economy”
Victoria, British Columbia
Chair: D.C. Lawless, B.C. Ministry of Finance and Corporate Relations
Featured Speakers:
- Kenneth S. Courtis
Goldman Sachs
- John Lipsky
J.P. Morgan
- Don Drummond
TD Bank Financial Group
- Philip Resnick
University of British Columbia
- Peter Kuhn
University of California at Santa Barbara
- Peter H. Pearse
University of British Columbia
2000 – “Beyond 2000: Regional, Border and Global Issues for the Pacific Northwest”
Bellingham, Washington
Chair: David E. Merrifield, Western Washington University
Featured Speakers:
- Honorable Roger Simmons, P.C.
Consul General of Canada, Seattle
- Alison Lynn Reaser
Bank of America Asset Management Group
- Dale Orr
WEFA Inc.
- Ann Markusen
University of Minnesota
- Gary Hufbauer
Institute of International Economics, Washington D.C.
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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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