Sneak Preview:  Annual Meeting Set for San Francisco

The locale is enticing – both in its scenic beauty and its significance as a major center of trade and finance on the U.S. shores of the Pacific Rim.    What better place than San Francisco for NABE’s 49th Annual Meeting focusing on  “Global Integration and the Pacific Partnership?”  

Early registration is already underway for the three-day meeting, set for Sept. 9-11 at the Grand Hyatt, centrally located in the City by the Bay.   The annual meeting will offer NABE’s trademark general sessions with top policymakers and leading private economists, a host of concurrent sessions, and ample networking opportunities during special tours and receptions.

Keynote speakers already confirmed include Janet Yellen, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Edward Lazear, chairman of President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers.

Stanford University economist John B.Taylor will receive the Adam Smith Award and will deliver the Adam Smith address during the meeting. NABE President Carl Tannenbaum, LaSalle Bank.ABN AMRO, announced at the March Policy Conference that Taylor, who served as undersecretary of Treasury for international affairs from 2001-2005, is the recipient of this year’s Adam Smith Award, NABE’s highest honor.

Catherine Mann, Brandeis University and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, is the chair of the annual meeting’s planning committee. Assisting her are Lynn Reaser, Bank of America; Gene Huang, FedEx Corp., and Chris Varvares, Macroeconomic Advisers.

 Annual meeting sessions will focus on:

• Asset markets, including China and emerging economies and U.S. venture capital
• Infrastructure challenges, including U.S. port congestion
• Trade issues such as building a “south-south” China-Brazil-Africa nexus
• People flows, including immigration policies
• Environmental concerns such as the costs of global warming
• Military/security/political issues including large stock of U.S. treasury securities

Plan to arrive early on Sunday, Sept. 9, for an informational and entertaining skills seminar on presentation skills.  The instructor will video tape and replay interviews with three volunteers and then critique, offering observations on what the individuals could have done to have enhanced the interviews.  He will give tips for not only presentations to the media but also to general audiences.

Enjoy a Saturday evening dinner cruise, a Sunday night reception in the Carnelian Room atop the Bank of America building, and a reception at the Federal Reserve Bank on Monday evening.   And the small dinner events will be available—back by popular demand. A special wine tour is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 11, for those staying on.

Travel Information

Register at Grand Hyatt San Francisco, 345 Stockton Street, before Aug. 17 to receive the discounted room rate of $199 single/double. For room reservations phone 1-800-223-1234 or 1-415-398-1234 and mention NABE to receive the discounted rate. Discounted rates are good until August 17, 2007 or until NABE's room block is filled. Register early as hotel rooms in San Francisco fill rapidly this time of year.
Find details of the annual meeting at: http://nabe.com/am2007/index.html

Register online at: https://secure.icglink.com/nabe/am07reg.html