The global, national and state economy will be the focus of Berry College’s 2009 Business Outlook Conference. This year’s event will be April 22 in Ford Dining Hall.
The keynote speaker will be Rajeev Dhawan, associate professor of managerial sciences and director of the Economic Forecasting Center in the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.
Conference registration is $30 per person; corporate tables for as many as eight people may be reserved for $200. Guests must register by April 13 to guarantee lunch. Lunch will be served at 11:30 a.m.; the official program gets under way at 12:15 p.m.
In addition to Dhawan’s lecture, the event also will feature a question-and-answer session and closing remarks by Al Hodge, president and chief executive officer of the Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce.
For more information, contact Nancy Johnston at 706-238-5835 or njohnston@berry.edu. The conference is sponsored by the chamber of commerce and Berry’s Campbell School of Business.
As a director of one of the nation’s premier forecasting centers, Dhawan develops economic forecasts for the U.S., Southeast regional and local metro economies.
He is a sought-after international speaker who has presented at conferences in Spain, Argentina, Canada, Sweden, Japan, India and the Dominican Republic as well as sites across the United States.
As a consultant, he has been commissioned to prepare economic impact reports, home price forecast models and public policy recommendations.
Dhawan has served as an advisor to numerous local and state government agencies as well as publicly held companies such as Georgia Power, Morgan Keegan and Turner Broadcasting. Additionally, he has served on the Georgia Governor’s Council of Economic Advisers since 2004.
