NABE 2010 ANNUAL MEETING TO FOCUS ON CHALLENGES TO ECONOMIC PROSPERITY

As the world economy continues to recover from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, the 2010 NABE Annual Meeting, scheduled for October 9-12 in Denver, Colorado, will provide a forum for many of the world's leading economists to discuss the long-term outlook for the U.S. and global economies. Organized around the theme, "Mile-High Challenges to Economic Prosperity," the conference will also center on the enduring challenges and potential opportunities that will impact and influence business decisions and policymaking over the next decade.

"This year's annual meeting will take place at a time when the world economy is at a critical juncture," said NABE President Lynn Reaser, chief economist at Point Loma Nazarene University. "While we continue to recover from lingering strains on financial markets and recession, it is also important that we prepare a path of sustainable growth. NABE's Denver sessions will feature leading global economists addressing fiscal and monetary policy, financial markets under a new regulatory landscape, energy, education, health care, and other topics that will demand much of the focus of policymakers, business leaders, and the public at large during the coming decade."

The gathering, which is the fifty-second annual meeting hosted by NABE, will bring together a wide variety of policymakers, corporate leaders, and scholars.  Confirmed speakers at press time include: National Economic Council Deputy Director Jason Furman; Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig; Macroeconomic Advisers Vice Chairman Laurence Meyer, who will participate in a panel discussion and debate with Stanford University Economics Professor John Taylor moderated by CNBC Senior Economics Reporter Steve Liesman; Urban Institute Fellow Rudolph Penner; Nobel Laureate A. Michael Spence; Google Chief Economist Hal Varian; Oxford Economics Chairman and Chief Economist John Walker; and Janet Yellen, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, who is slated to receive the 2010 Adam Smith Award, NABE's highest honor.

"We want to ensure that our attendees have the opportunity to learn and to network in a setting that allows them to focus on their professional development, and to make the most of the time that they will spend away from their offices," said Robert Fry, senior economist at DuPont, and chair of the NABE 2010 Annual Meeting Planning Committee. "To that end, we've once again added a Saturday night dinner event to the schedule. This year's dinner will include a speech by economic columnist Robert Samuelson of Newsweek and the Washington Post."

Topics to be addressed include: the importance of small business in domestic job creation; the mounting  sovereign debt crisis; the future of the real estate/construction sector; health-care policy; the long-term outlook for the U.S. auto industry; renewable energy; monetary policy; and the direction of oil prices.

In addition to those mentioned above, conference speakers include: Bill Colton, vice president, Corporate Planning, ExxonMobil; Carol Corrado, senior advisor and research director in economics at The Conference Board; Tony Crescenzi, senior vice president, market strategist, and portfolio manager, PIMCO; Michael
Dowling, president and CEO, North Shore--Long Island Jewish Health System; Mark Finley, general manager, Global Energy Markets & US Economics, BP America, Inc.; Robert Gordon, professor, Northwestern University; Richard Jackson, director and senior fellow of the Global Aging Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; Rod Lache, equity analyst, Deutsche Bank; Michael
Marrese, managing director and head of Economics and Strategy, JP Morgan Chase; Chad Moutray, chief economist, U.S. Small Business Administration; Glenn Mueller, real estate investment strategist, Dividend Capital; Charles Steindel, senior vice president, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Joe Swedish, CEO,
Trinity Health; and Philip Verleger, principal, PK Verleger, LLC.