Session 4: The U.S. Wine Industry – It’s Future in U.S. and Global Markets
The session will discuss the economic role of the U.S. wine industry and how it is changing in response to consumers, regulation, and import pressures.
Presentations
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Speakers
Christopher Swann
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Christopher Swann is an economist at the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). He writes the article, “GDP and the Economy” for the monthly publication, Survey of Current Business, and develops research and communications on NIPA and industry topics. Before joining BEA he was a senior consultant and economist at Global Insight, Inc in the macro and international areas, and in telecommunications industry analysis. He began his career at Bell Atlantic (Verizon) where he was engaged in regulatory, corporate planning, product management, and business research. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Washington University, St. Louis, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics from Temple University in Philadelphia. He is a Past President of the Philadelphia Chapter, a Past Chair of the NABE Technology Roundtable, and currently serves as a member of the NABE Board of Directors.
Barbara Insel
MKF Research LLC
Barbara joined MKF Research as Managing Director in 2004, having spent more than twenty years in international investment research and strategy, with senior positions at such firms as Salomon Brothers, Morgan Stanley Asset Management and Kleinwort Benson. Throughout her career, Barbara has been involved in wine-related investments and transactions from Latin America though Eastern Europe. Originally from New York, she lived and worked there, London, Prague and Moscow along with much of Latin America and Asia. She was one of the founders of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, created to rebuild Eastern Europe and Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.
Tracy Genessen
Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
Tracy Genesen is a seasoned trial and appellate attorney who is a partner in the San Francisco office of Kirkland. She directs a variety of complex multi-district federal court litigation focusing primarily on constitutional challenges to state alcohol regulatory statutes. Ms. Genesen provides legal guidance to wine industry trade associations and serves as the national spokesperson on the legal and public policy aspects of direct shipping of wine to consumers. She has provided strategic and substantive advice to legal team and wine industry trade associations on direct shipping lawsuits.
Ms. Genesen's experience includes serving as Legal Director for the Coalition for Free Trade and Counsel to Family Winemakers of California. She has directed and coordinated co-counsel and wine industry leaders in the writing of merits and amicus briefs; co-authored amicus briefs for submission to the United States Supreme Court and the Fourth, Fifth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeals; advocated public policy reform before numerous federal and state agencies; provided legal guidance to wine industry trade associations and served as the national spokesperson on the legal and public policy aspects of direct shipping of wine to consumers. She has also represented state governmental agencies in land use and Fair Political Practice Act litigation and handled professional liability and attorney discipline matters.
Ms. Genesen has managed high-volume complex civil litigation cases in the health care and software industries. In addition, she served on a litigation team that successfully defended a corporation in a healthcare fraud prosecution. She has also served as an in-house ethics advisor and has litigated professional liability and attorney discipline matters.
Ms. Genesen served as primary legal and policy advisor to the Chief Trial Counsel with particular emphasis on high profile attorney discipline cases such as the O.J. Simpson criminal lawyers, the lawyers for the Menendez brothers, and the Stephen Yagman matters. She has advocated discipline reform legislation before the California legislature and governmental agencies, taught "Ethics in the Courtroom" to the California judiciary, and acted as the legal spokesperson for the attorney discipline system.
