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Statistics...Telling the Economic Story
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Session 3: International Statistics
Andrea Keenan, AM Best, moderator
Data Producer:
Rob Edwards, International Monetary Fund Slide Show (PDF 157 K)
Case Studies:
Patrick Casey, TTX Company Slide Show (PDF 410 K)
Michael Warren, Toyota Slide Show (PDF 264 K)
Andrea Keenan is a Senior Financial Analyst at the A.M. Best Company. She specializes in country risk and its affects on insurance industries and therefore its impact on insurance company ratings. She previously worked as US Economic Analyst for Toyota Motor North America in New York and as an Analyst for International Technology and Trade Associates in Washington, DC. She received an M.A. from The American University’s School of International Service and B.A. from York College of Pennsylvania.
Rob Edwards
Director of the Statistics Department
International Monetary Fund
Rob Edwards commenced duty as Director of the Statistics Department on September 1, 2004. Prior to joining the Fund in 2004, Mr. Edwards was Deputy Australian Statistician, Economic Statistics, at the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). In this position he was responsible for all aspects of the ABS program of economic statistics including its economic censuses and surveys, national and international accounts, prices, public and private finance statistics, and statistics on international trade in goods and services.
Mr. Edwards joined the ABS in November 1968 and held senior executive positions in statistical and user services, corporate services, population and social statistics as well as economic statistics. He was a member of the ABS executive management team for over 20 years. He received the Australian Public Service Medal in 2004 for distinguished service in economic statistics in Australia, and in the international statistical community.
Mr. Edwards represented Australia in many international statistical fora. In 1995 he headed the United Nations Expert Group on Critical Problems in Economic Statistics; that Group's work has significantly influenced the work of the United Nations Statistical Commission since then. Mr. Edwards is a past Vice President of the International Association for Official Statistics.
Mr. Edwards is placing emphasis on ensuring the Statistics Department provides high-quality statistical services within the Fund as well as serving the national and international statistical communities. He is pursuing interests in the updating of the international standards for macroeconomic statistics; in training and technical assistance; and in the Fund's surveillance work through the Review of Standards and Codes (Data Module) and the Special Data Dissemination Standards (SDDS) and the General Data Dissemination System (GDDS).
Mr. Edwards, a citizen of Australia, holds a B. Comm (Honors) (Economics) from the University of Melbourne. He is married with two children.
Patrick CaseyPatrick Casey is director of business forecasting and planning for TTX Company. Pat started his transportation career with Chessie System Railroads in 1983. He worked for Chessie and its successor, CSX, for 17 years in forecasting, market research and marketing. Pat joined TTX in his current position in May of 2000.
A native of Baltimore, Pat holds a bachelors degree in economics from Towson University and a masters degree in economics from the University of Delaware. He is a member of the National Association for Business Economic, the Chicago Association for Business Economics, the Intermodal Association of North America, the Intermodal Association of Chicago and the Midwest Foreign Commerce Club. Pat lives with his wife and three children in Lombard, Illinois.Michael Warren
Toyota Motor Company
Michael Warren was recently promoted to National Manager of the Latin American Research & Area Marketing Group at Toyota Motor North America, with offices in Miami and New York. The group consists of a four-person team in New York City that provides political economic forecasts to help determine automotive sales forecasts in the region and a two-person area marketing team in Miami. The group also analyzes how trade agreements will impact vehicle sourcing in the region. Dr. Warren has been with Toyota in 1998.
Prior to coming to Toyota, Michael worked at Polyconomics as the Latin American strategist from 1997 to 1998. His job was to alert portfolio managers and Fortune 500 companies of investment opportunities and provide timely political economic risk analysis that would affect equity and bond prices in the region. He also assisted the company expanding the client base to Latin America.
Mr. Warren also served as a military intelligence analyst for the US Army Reserve for 22 years; he was called up three times to active duty over the past seven years. His last tour occurred after the 9/11 terrorist attacks when he spent more than one year at the National Ground Intelligence Center.
Dr. Warren holds a Ph.D. from Tulane University and wrote his dissertation on the Brazilian industrial sector. He has taught courses at Tulane University and William Carey College. He has published articles/op-eds in the Wall Street Journal and professional journals, has spoken at conferences sponsored by the Council of the America, Inter-American Dialogue, and EM Warburg Pincus. He has also served as a board member on the Inter-American Advisory Group from 1999-2000.
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