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SUMMARY:UNLV CBER Outlook 2024
DESCRIPTION:This expert panel will present the 2024 U.S. and Southern Nevada economic forecasts\, focusing on national trends\, interest rates\, growing concerns around debt and affordability\, new business creation\, with an emphasis on how these factors may impact the region’s key industries.Join us for this unique opportunity to gain valuable insights from leading economists into the future of our economy and what to expect through 2026. \n\n\n\nGuest PanelistKenneth KimSenior Economist\, KPMG USKenneth Kim\, a seasoned economist with over 20 years of experience\, is known for his in-depth macroeconomic research and has been featured in Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal.Read more about Kenneth Kim\n\n\n\nPanelistAndrew WoodsDirector\, UNLV Center for Business and Economic ResearchAndrew’s expertise in applying data and research to strengthen organizations and communities has led him to hold many leadership positions both in the public and private sectors. He is known for his financial acumen\, vision\, reliability\, and integrity.Read more about Andrew Woods\n\n\n\nPanelistDr. Stephen M. MillerResearch Director\, UNLV Center for Business and Economic ResearchDr. Stephen M. Miller’s research interests span monetary\, macroeconomic\, and international finance theory and policy; economic growth empirics; financial institutions; and real estate lending.Read more about Dr. Miller\n\n\n\nPanel ModeratorAmber Renee DixonHost\, Emmy & Edward R. Murrow Award-Winning JournalistAmber Renee Dixon is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award-winning journalist with over a decade of experience in news reporting and anchoring. In 2022\, Amber became the host of Nevada Week on Vegas PBS\, where she and her team won a Division 1 Public Media Award for News and Public Affairs.Read more about Amber Dixon
URL:https://network.vegas/calendar/unlv-cber-outlook-2024-2/
LOCATION:Fountainbleu Las Vegas\, 2777 S Las Vegas Blvd\, Las Vegas\, Nevada\, 89109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Featured,Networking
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SUMMARY:UNLV CBER Outlook 2024
DESCRIPTION:We are thrilled to announce Amber Dixon\, Host of Nevada Week on Vegas PBS\, will be moderating our Economic Forecast Panel for Outlook. \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nRenu Khator\, Ph.D.\n\n\n\nKEYNOTE SPEAKER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCHANCELLOR AND PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON\, AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEMBER AT PNC BANK\n\n\n\nRenu Khator has been serving as chancellor of the University of Houston System and president of its flagship University of Houston campus\, since January of 2008. She broke boundaries and glass ceilings with these appointments\, as she became the first female chancellor in the state of Texas and the first Indian immigrant to lead a comprehensive research university in the U.S. \n\n\n\nShe has been named to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has served on numerous boards\, including Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas\, TIAA-CREF\, NCAA\, American Council on Education\, Association of American Colleges and Universities\, and the Greater Houston Partnership. She has been named a Global Education and Institutional Leadership Honoree by the World Affairs Council of Greater Houston\, a Houston Business Journal Women Who Mean Business Lifetime Achievement Award winner\, Houstonian of the year and inducted into the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame. In 2014\, Indian President Pranab Mukherjee presented her with the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award\, the highest distinction bestowed upon a non-resident Indian. \n\n\n\nKenneth Kim\n\n\n\nGUEST PANELIST\n\n\n\nSENIOR ECONOMIST AT KPMG US\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKenneth Kim is a Senior Economist at KPMG LLP where he brings his insight and knowledge to help clients and KPMG leadership assess the constantly evolving economic environment. Ken has more than 20 years of experience conducting macroeconomic research and communicating his findings. Prior to joining KPMG\, Ken was an economist with Merrill Lynch and later became a founding member of Stone & McCarthy Research Associates\, the first independent economic research service on the Bloomberg terminal. Ken also worked as a U.S. economist at RBC Capital Markets and senior economist at Huawei Technologies USA\, where he focused on global growth\, interest rates\, foreign exchange and formulating risk scenarios. \n\n\n\nKen is known for his rigorous and careful economic and data analysis. In June 2014\, Ken discovered a market-roiling error in the widely followed ISM manufacturing survey. As a result\, Ken was featured in Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal\, among other publications\, as this was the first such error found in the 80-year history of the survey. Ken also foresaw the approaching housing crisis in 2007 and has been instrumental to KPMG’s correct analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on the economy and key industries. \n\n\n\nAndrew Woods\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDIRECTOR\, UNLV CENTER FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH\n\n\n\nPrior to joining UNLV’s CBER\, Andrew started and ran a successful economic analysis\, financial management\, and public affairs consulting firm\, as CEO of Woods Strategies\, in Las Vegas\, Nevada. His expertise in applying data and research to strengthen organizations and communities has led him to hold many leadership positions both in the public and private sectors. He is known for his financial acumen\, vision\, reliability\, and integrity. \n\n\n\nAndrew has been involved in the public policy process on behalf of his clients and has a passion for data-driven solutions to complex problems. Andrew’s knowledge of and interest in a variety of diverse policy issues is why he is a regular contributor to journalism outlets such as Nevada Public Radio and the Las Vegas Sun. \n\n\n\nStephen M. Miller\n\n\n\nPROFESSOR\, UNLV CENTER FOR BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephen M. Miller served as director of the Center for Business and Economic Research for the last six years. He is the former chair of the Board of Directors of The Economic Club of Las Vegas\, a professor of economics\, and former department chair in the Lee Business School at the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas. \n\n\n\nPrior to that\, he was professor of economics and department head at the University of Connecticut. He also held visiting positions with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and with the Congressional Budget Office. He received higher education training at Purdue University\, receiving his bachelor’s degree with distinction in Engineering Sciences Engineering (a part of the Aeronautical Engineering School)\, and at the State University of New York at Buffalo\, receiving his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in economics. \n\n\n\nAt UNLV\, he developed with one of his M.A. students\, Mustafa Gunaydin\, the CBER-DETR Nevada Coincident and Leading Employment Indexes. These indexes track the contemporaneous and future movements in the Nevada employment markets. After becoming Director of CBER\, he developed general coincident and leading indexes for the Nevada and Southern Nevada. These indexes track the contemporaneous and future movements in the overall Nevada and Southern Nevada economies.
URL:https://network.vegas/calendar/unlv-cber-outlook-2024/
LOCATION:Fountainbleu Las Vegas\, 2777 S Las Vegas Blvd\, Las Vegas\, Nevada\, 89109\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Featured,Government & Education,Las Vegas Business
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SUMMARY:UNLV's CBER Brews & Economic Views
DESCRIPTION:Brews and Economic Views: Housing – Panelists \n\n\n\nInterested in being a panelist for our next event? Contact us at cber@unlv.edu \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShawn McCoy\, Ph.D.\n\n\n\nDr. Shawn McCoy is an economics professor\, who specializes in urban-\, environmental-\, and health-related issues. His research focuses on identifying cause-and-effect relationships between social problems\, local economies\, and the environment. His published works or works in-progress have explored a wide range of topics\, including the effect of wildfires and other storm damage on real estate transactions and homeowners’ perceptions of disaster risk; how mass shootings and terrorism affect communities; and connections between disease and urban development\, and fracking and indoor radon levels in homes. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNicholas Irwin\, Ph.D.\n\n\n\nDr. Nicholas Irwin specializes in the fields of housing economics\, urban economics\, environmental economics\, and land use. He has published extensively in the world’s leading journals across these areas including the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics\, the Journal of Environmental Economics\, Land Economics\, the Journal of Real Estate Research\, and Regional Science and Urban Economics. His research follows two veins: the first explores the decision-making of homeowners as it relates to their housing investment decisions through the choice to install photovoltaic technology\, reduce water usage\, or engage in large-scale renovations. The second explores how homebuyers respond to information shocks related to environmental hazards\, adjustments to school attendance boundaries\, and changes in local public goods. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Armstrong\n\n\n\nChris Armstrong is the Senior Vice President of Development at Olympia Companies. He focuses on land development\, development agreements\, planning and entitlements\, commercial asset management\, and Olympia’s outdoor media. Chris received his Bachelor’s from Queens University at Kingston\, Canada\, and a Masters in Urban Planning from McGill University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Merced\n\n\n\nMichelle Merced has lived in Southern Nevada since the 90’s and has been in the Real Estate industry for over 19 years. She came to Neighborhood Housing Services of Southern Nevada to give back through education during the height of foreclosure in 2008. During that time\, she assisted with teaching homebuyer education classes to future first-time homebuyers\, and since then\, she has been hired to be part of NHSSN. Michelle and her team have administered over $12mm in down payment assistance\, helped over 3000+ families purchase their first home\, and educated over 8500+ families through homebuyer education. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndrew Kjellman\n\n\n\nAndrew Kjellman is the Senior Director of the Metropolitan Planning Organization at the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada\, where he began in 2011. In his role\, he provides oversight of all federal transportation funding\, and leads regional planning studies and initiatives. He moved to Las Vegas after graduating with a transportation-focus from Portland State University\, and received a bachelor’s degree in environmental planning from Western Washington University\, and a master’s degree in public policy from the University of Washington. After college\, he bought an around-the-world plane ticket and traveled for a year – the highlight being a bicycle trip through the temples of Angkor Wat in Cambodia.  
URL:https://network.vegas/calendar/unlvs-cber-brews-economic-views/
LOCATION:Lovelady Brewing Company\, 20 South Water Street\, Henderson\, NV\, 89015\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,Government & Education,Las Vegas Business,Networking,Real Estate & Construction
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