Session 7: Immigration—Friend or Foe?
Globalization through cross-border flows of people is becoming an ever-greater policy and business issue. What are the facts and fault lines? What should be the policy?
Sponsor: Regional/Utility Roundtable
Presentations
Links of Interest
Speakers
Ann Dunbar
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Rakesh Kochhar
Pew Hispanic Center
Rakesh Kochhar is Associate Director for Research at the Pew Hispanic Center. Dr. Kochhar’s work at the Center focuses on trends in the employment, income and wealth of Hispanic workers and households. He has served as President of the Society of Government Economists and as an International Economics Fellow of the Ford Foundation. Dr. Kochhar received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Delhi, India and completed his doctoral studies in economics at Brown University.
Pia M. Orrenius
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Pia Orrenius is a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. As a labor economist and member of the regional group, she analyzes the regional economy, with special focus on the border region. Orrenius’s research also focuses on the causes and consequences of Mexico–U.S. migration, illegal immigration, and U.S. immigration policy. Orrenius spent the 2004–2005 academic year as senior economist on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President, Washington D.C., where she advised the Bush administration on labor, health and immigration issues.
Orrenius is affiliated with several academic institutions. She is a Tower Center Fellow at the Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University and a Research Fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor in Bonn, Germany. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles and bachelor degrees in economics and Spanish from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
William F. Ford
Middle Tennessee State University
William F. Ford holds the Weatherford Chair of Finance at Middle Tennessee State University. Previously, he held appointments at the University of Denver and within the banking industry, including president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.
