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Session 14: The Economic Outlook
SPONSOR: Ford Motor Company
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Speakers
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick
Ford Motor Company
NABE President
Ellen Hughes-Cromwick is a director and chief economist at Ford Motor Company. She joined Ford in 1996, and now directs the corporate economics group with major responsibility for the company’s global economic and automotive industry forecasts. Prior to joining Ford, she was a senior economist at Mellon Bank from 1990 to 1996, and assistant professor of economics at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, during the late 1980s. She served for two years as a staff economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during the Reagan Administration. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame, a master’s degree in international development, and a PhD in economics at Clark University in Massachusetts. She was recently appointed to the Congressional Budget Office Panel of Economic Advisers.
For the previous four consecutive years, Ellen has served as co-chair of NABE’s Annual March Policy Conference held in Washington, DC.
Donald B. Marron Jr.
Council of Economic Advisers
Donald B. Marron is currently Senior Economic Adviser at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. In that capacity, he analyzes a broad range of macroeconomic, fiscal, regulatory, and international policy issues.
Dr. Marron was previously Deputy Director of the Congressional Budget Office, including more than a year as its Acting Director. He also served as the CEA’s Chief Economist, and was the Executive Director and Chief Economist of the Congress’s Joint Economic Committee.
Before his government service, Dr. Marron was chief financial officer of a medical software start-up in Austin, Texas and a principal with the Washington, D.C., office of Charles River Associates, where he provided business consulting and litigation support to companies in a variety of industries. He also served as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business from 1994 to 1998, where he taught courses in microeconomics, entrepreneurial finance and private equity, and environmental policy.
Dr. Marron has testified numerous times before Congress and has published articles on a broad range of topics, including tax policy, intellectual property, and energy and environmental policy. He received his B.A in Mathematics from Harvard College and his Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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