Economic Heavyweights Gather at Economic Summit

Press Advisory: Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

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What is the outlook for the Global Environment? Will Education improve and really teach our children the basics? How do businesses today come out on top Competing in the Global Economy? These are just a few of the topics that will be discussed when economists from around the globe gather on Friday, March 7, 2008 (from 8am through 8pm) to review and analyze three of the top economic issues of the year at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) Economic Summit. The day-long event will conclude with a speech given by Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson.

Who: Lawrence Summers, former Harvard University president and former Secretary of the Treasury; Steven Chu, director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Nobel Prize in Physics, 1997; Lawrence Goulder, Shuzo Nishihara Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics, Stanford University and SIEPR Senior Fellow; Caroline Hoxby, professor of economics, Stanford University; SIEPR and Hoover Senior Fellow; David Walker, Comptroller General of the United States; Anne Mulcahy, chairman and CEO, Xerox Corp; Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and President, Sun Microsystems; Ben Stein, economist and New York Times columnist; Seema Jayachandran, assistant professor, Department of Economics, Stanford University; George Shultz, former Secretary of State and SIEPR Honorary chair; James Woolsey, vice president, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.; Brad DeLong, Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley; Alan Taylor, Professor of Economics, University of California, Davis; David Dollar, Country Director, China and Mongolia, World Bank; Leo Wolinsky, Associate Editor, Los Angeles Times; Craig Newmark, Founder, Craigslist; James Bettinger, Director, Knight Fellowships, Stanford University; David Wessel, Economics Editor, Wall Street Journal; Lewis Alexander, Chief Economist, Citi; Robert Parry, Director, Countrywide Financial Corporation (CFC) and Countrywide Bank; Former President, SF Federal Reserve and Henry Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury and many other policy makers and economists will come together to discuss some of the most important economic topics of the day.

What: A West Coast Economic Summit; bringing together national and international economists to join forces with the policy making and corporate communities.

Where: Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, 326 Galvez St., Stanford Campus

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL:

MICHELLE MOSMAN AT 650-725-1872 (CELL) 650-722-0798

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The Economic Summit is sponsored by the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), an independent, non-partisan research institute at Stanford University. Founded in 1982, SIEPR conducts research on important economic policy issues facing the United States and other countries. SIEPR's goal is to inform policy makers and to influence their decisions with long-term policy solutions. In the course of their research, SIEPR faculty train Ph.D. students as future economic policy analysts.

/PRNewswire-USNewswire - March 5/ SOURCE Stanford Institute For Economic Policy Research

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