BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.0.5//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:260@newportbeach.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151023T071500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20151023T090000 DTSTAMP:20150925T213531Z URL:https://www.newportbeach.com/events/economic-forecast-for-2016-featuri ng-the-ucla-anderson-forecast/ SUMMARY:2016 Economic Forecast featuring the UCLA Anderson Forecast DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The 2016 Economic Forecast p resented by the Newport Beach Chamber of Commerce is an annual event that attracts hundreds of Orange County business leaders\, media and government officials and promises to deliver a powerful program presented by an este emed and unprecedented panel of experts.\n\nThis year's event will feature Jerry Nickelsburg and William Yu from the UCLA Anderson Forecast and Ed win Fuller from Orange County Visitors Association.\n\nBreakfast included . Self Parking - $6\n\nFor sponsorship information\, please contact Steve Rosansky at 949-729-4404 or via eMail at steve@newportbeach.com.\n\nPleas e register below to attend.\n\n\n\n UCLA Anderson Forecast Speakers\n\nJe rry Nickelsburg\, Ph.D.\n\nAdjunct Professor of Economics\, Anderson Scho ol of Management\, UCLA\n\nSenior Economist\, UCLA Anderson Forecast\n\nJ erry Nickelsburg joined the UCLA’s Anderson School of Management in 2006 . He teaches economics in the MBA program with a focus on Asian economies. At the Anderson Forecast he plays a key role in the economic modeling and forecasting of the National\, and California economies. He has conducted research in the areas of labor economics\, industrial organization\, stati stics\, and international monetary economics\, focusing on the development of new data and the application of economic theory and statistical method s to policy issues. His current academic research is on specific skills\, structural unemployment\, and the seasonal adjustment of time series. He i s a regular presenter at Economic Conferences is cited in the national med ia including the Financial Times\, Wall Street Journal\, New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, and Reuters.\n\nHe received his Ph.D. in economics fro m the University of Minnesota in 1980 specializing in monetary economics a nd econometrics. He was formerly a professor of Economics at the Universit y of Southern California and has held executive positions with McDonnell D ouglas\, FlightSafety International\, and FlightSafety Boeing during a fif teen-year span in the aviation business. He also held a position with the Federal Reserve Board of Governors developing forecasting tools\, and has advised banks\, investors and financial institutions.\n\nFrom 2000 to 2006 \, he was the Managing Principal of Deep Blue Economics\, a consulting fir m he founded. He has been the recipient of the Korda Fellowship\, USC Outs tanding Teacher\, India Chamber of Commerce Jubilee Lecturer and is a Fulb right Scholar. He has published over 100 scholarly and popular articles on monetary economics\, economic forecasting and analysis\, labor economics\ , and industrial organization and he is the author of two books on monetar y economics and exchange rates.\n\n\n\n \;\n William Yu\, Ph.D.\nUCLA Anderson Forecast Economist\n\nEmphasis on the Los Angeles economy\n\nExp ert on Asian emerging economies and U.S. impacts \n\nWilliam Yu joined th e UCLA Anderson Forecast in 2011 as an economist. At Forecast he focuses o n the economic modeling and forecasting of Los Angeles economy. He also co nducts research and forecast on Asian emerging economies\, especially Chin a\, and their impacts on the US economy. His research interests include a wide range of economic and financial issues\, such as time series economet rics\, stock\, bond\, real estate\, and commodity price dynamics\, human c apital\, early childhood education\, industry analysis\, and urban economi cs. He has published over a dozen research articles in Journal of Forecast ing\, International Journal of Forecasting\, Journal of International Mone y and Finance\, Journal of Health Care Finance\, Journal of Education Fina nce\, Economic Affairs\, and Global Economic Review\, etc.\n\nHe developed the City Human Capital Index and the Los Angeles City Employment Estimate and presented to the Mayor of Los Angeles City. He regularly presents to various local business\, nonprofit\, and government communities\, includin g Woo Greater China Business Conference\, Los Angeles City Controller and Southern California Association of Governments. He has been cited in the l ocal\, national and overseas media frequently including Wall Street Journa l\, Los Angeles Times\, Washington Post\, Time\, Bloomberg\, CBS Money Wat ch\, Al Jazeera\, U-T San Diego\, LA Daily News\, LA Daily Breeze\, Strait s Times\, NBC\, ABC\, CNBC\, CNN\, and NPR\, as well as various Chinese me dia.\n\nHe received his bachelor’s degree in finance from National Taiwa n University in 1995 and was an analyst in Fubon Financial Holding in Taip ei from 1997 to 2000. In 2006\, he received his Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Washington where he was also an economics instructo r and won two distinguished teaching awards. In 2006\, he worked for the F rank Russell Investment Group for Treasury and corporate yields modeling a nd forecasting. From 2006 to 2011\, he served as an assistant and an assoc iate professor of economics at Winona State University where he taught cou rses including forecasting methods\, managerial economics\, international economics\, intermediate macroeconomics\, introductory macroeconomics\, mo ney and banking\, and Asian economies.\n\n\n\n \;\nEdwin D. "Ed" Fulle r\n\nPresident and C.E.O.\, Orange County Visitors Association\n Internat ionally recognized hospitality industry leader\, educator &\; best se lling author\n 40-year career with Marriott International\, Inc. as Presid ent &\; Managing Director\, International Lodging\n\nInternationally re cognized hospitality industry leader\, educator and best-selling author\, Ed Fuller is President of Irvine\, California-based Laguna Strategic Advis ors\, a global consortium that provides opportunities and services to inde pendent providers of business consulting services following a 40 year care er with Marriott International\, Inc. as their President &\; Managing D irector of International Lodging.  Author of the best selling business bo ok\, “You Can’t Lead With Your Feet On The Desk”\, published in 2011 .  Over the years\, in addition to his business world experience\, Mr. Fu ller has focused his energies on supporting educational and corporate soci al responsibility activities. An active alumnus of Boston University\, he is former Vice Chairman of its Board of Overseers\, former President of th e University’s Alumni Association and a former Trustee. He currently is Chairman of its hospitality and management schools’ Advisory Boards and serves on the President’s International Advisory Board. In 1998\, he rec eived the Alumni Award\, the University’s highest honor.  Since 2012\, he has served as visiting professor of leadership at the University’s Sc hool of Hospitality.  Mr. Fuller was appointed President and Chief Execut ive Officer of the Orange County (California) Visitors Association in 2013 .[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.newportbeach.com/wp-content/uploads/ 2015/07/economicforecast2016.jpg CATEGORIES:Chamber Events,Featured LOCATION:Fairmont Newport Beach\, 4500 MacArthur Blvd.\, Newport Beach\, CA \, United States GEO:33.6672421;-117.86254659999997 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=4500 MacArthur Blvd.\, Newp ort Beach\, CA\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Fairmont Newport Beach:geo:33.6672421,-117.86254659999997 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20150308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR