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Session 4: The Industry Outlook
Sunday, 2:00- 3:15 PM, Ballroom C
Our panelists review the global outlook for the oil, automobiles, electronics, and the housing industries, touching upon topical regulatory and legislative issues.
Session Downloads
Auto Industry Outlook, Ellen Hughes-Cromwick (slides)
Links of Interest
NABE Industry Survey, July 2004
Speakers
Rosemary D. Marcuss
Bureau of Economic Analysis,
presiding
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick
Director, Corporate Economics & Strategic Issues,
Ford Motor Company
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick joined Ford in 1996. Ellen directs the corporate economics group with major responsibility for the Company's global economic and automotive industry forecasts used to support business strategy, finance, and planning. She leads the group's effort on special industry studies and strategic issues that provide input to the Company's evaluation of business risks and opportunities in global markets. Ellen oversees the group's publications, including the Global Business Summary, and provides presentations to both external groups and internal customers. Ellen serves on the Company's Treasury Matters Committee, Global Risk Management Committee and advises the finance team on business issues relating to the global external environment for the automotive industry.
Prior to joining Ford, Ellen was a senior economist at Mellon Bank from 1990 to 1996. Her major responsibilities included the monthly U.S. macroeconomic forecast, credit markets outlook, and industry analysis. Ellen began doing research on emerging markets for Mellon’s clients and for its trade finance business in 1994, focusing on selected Latin and Asian markets as well as South Africa.
Before her experience at Mellon, Ellen was assistant professor of economics at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She also served for two years as a staff economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers during the Reagan Administration. Ellen received her Bachelor's Degree in Government and French Language at the University of Notre Dame, a Master's Degree in International Development and a Ph.D. in Economics at Clark University in Massachusetts.
David W. Berson
Fannie Mae
Thomas Davis
Motorola
