Economic Challenges and Unemployment

Alice Rivlin, Brookings Institution and former OMB director, Economic Challenges and U.S. Unemployment

T.N. Srinivasan, Yale University and Stanford Center for International Development, Impact of Global Economic Shocks on India and China

Manufacturing Jobs and Middle Class Wages

George Eads, CRA International, Can the Auto Industry be Saved in the U.S.?

John Pencavel, Stanford, Labor Unions and The Employee Free Choice Act

The Policy View from the Capital (videoconference from  D.C.)

Cecilia Rouse, Council of Economic Advisers and Princeton University

Lunch, Posters, and Discussion

The Trillion Dollar Question: Will the Stimulus Bill Provide Jobs?

Brad DeLong, University of California, Berkeley

Pete Klenow, Stanford

Do High Skills Guarantee Future Success?

Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford, Why Do Specialist Physicians Earn More Than Generalist Physicians?

Andy Chan, Stanford, The Value of an MBA

Darrell Duffie, Stanford, The Future of Wall Street

Just Do It:  Recent Stanford Grads Pioneering Clean Tech

Doug Allen, E3

Dimitri Dadiomov, Better Place

Rebecca Levin, U.S. Department of Energy

The Economic Impacts of Clean Technology

Andrea Larson, University of Virginia, Clean Tech Entrepreneurship

Experimental Man: The Future of Personalized Medicine

David Ewing Duncan, Director, Center for Life Science Policy, University of California, Berkeley and Best-selling author

Reception to follow

SIEPR Policy Forum: Jobs Now, Jobs in the Future

Speaker Biographies

Doug Allen

Associate, Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc.

Doug Allen graduated from Stanford University in 2007 with a B.A. in Economics and an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering. Since graduation, he has been working as an Associate at Energy and Environmental Economics, Inc., in San Francisco, an economics-based energy sector consulting firm. He has worked on projects ranging from resource planning for small utilities to analysis of a 33% Renewable Portfolio Standard for the California Public Utilities Commission. Prior to joining E3, Doug was awarded the Donald Kennedy Environmental Fellowship at the Stockholm Environmental Institute in Sweden, and completed a senior honors thesis assessing the costs and benefits of developing a hydrogen fueling infrastructure in California.

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Jayanta Bhattacharya

Associate Professor of Medicine (Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research) and by courtesy in Health Research and Policy and Economics
Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research

Jay Bhattacharya is an associate professor of medicine and a CHP/PCOR core faculty member. His research focuses on the constraints that vulnerable populations face in making decisions that affect their health status, as well as the effects of government policies and programs designed to benefit vulnerable populations. He has published empirical economics and health services research on the elderly, adolescents, HIV/AIDS and managed care. Most recently, he has researched the regulation of the viatical-settlements market (a secondary life-insurance market that often targets HIV patients) and summer/winter differences in nutritional outcomes for low-income American families. He is also working on a project examining the labor-market conditions that help determine why some U.S. employers do not provide health insurance.

He worked for three years as an economist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, Calif., where he also taught health economics as a visiting assistant professor at the University of California-Los Angeles. He received a BA in economics, an MD and a PhD from Stanford University.

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Andy Chan

Assistant Dean and Director
MBA Career Management Center, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Andy Chan has deep experience in the field of career development and recruiting, with seven years leading the MBA Career Management Center (CMC) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB) and five years at the helm of two for-profit career development and recruiting companies. As the Assistant Dean and Director of the CMC, Andy manages the Center, which each year helps more than 800 graduate students develop their individual career vision and goals, as well as connect with thousands of world class companies. Andy teaches and advises students and alumni on career, leadership, and entrepreneurial business issues. His most popular classes are Career and Life Vision, Strategic Career Management, Networking Success, and Evaluating Offers and Negotiations.

Andy also oversees Stanford GSB’s Alumni Career Services which provides numerous career education and networking events, extensive web resources, and executive coaching services for 25,000 Stanford GSB alumni worldwide.

Prior to joining the GSB, Andy was the president and CEO of eProNet, an online recruiting and career network based on exclusive relationships with top university alumni associations, including Stanford. Prior to eProNet, he was president and CEO of MindSteps, a venture-backed corporate education software start-up whose customers included HP, Visa, Wells Fargo and Monsanto. Andy has held general management, marketing and business development positions at The Learning Company, The Clorox Company, WorldRes, SyberVision Systems, and Dole Packaged Foods Corporation. He was a management consultant at Bain & Company.

Andy is dedicated to teaching and encouraging people to discover and realize their career and life vision. Outside his work at Stanford, Andy serves as an executive coach and advisor to CEOs and executives.

Andy is also an academic advisor to Stanford undergraduate students, the faculty advisor for the business school Christians in Business club, and a group leader for 9th grade boys at his church. He coaches a girls youth soccer team and has held other volunteer leadership and teaching positions at his church. He is a board member of Sports Challenge, a non-profit serving Stanford athletes.

As a Stanford alumnus (BA ’84, MBA ’88), former varsity swimmer and class president, Andy is a steadfast supporter of Stanford. He was a chairman of the Stanford Athletic Board and the events co-chairperson for his 20th year undergraduate Stanford reunion. Andy and his wife, Jessie, have three children, Alex (15), Natalie (10) and Angela (6).

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Dimitri Dadiomov

Business Development, North America, Better Place

Dimitri Dadiomov is part of the business-development team focused on markets in North America. In this capacity, he is responsible for evaluating and prioritizing potential markets for Better Place. He works with governments, energy companies, investors, and other key stakeholders with the ultimate goal of creating charging networks to support the mass adoption of electric vehicles.

Prior to joining Better Place, Dimitri worked for Intellectual Ventures, where he focused primarily on clean energy innovations. He was part of the team working with Better Place founder Shai Agassi on formulation of the Better Place model and the original business plan prior to the company’s official launch in 2007.

Dimitri earned a B.S. in Energy Science and Technology and a B.A. in Economics with honors from Stanford University. While there, he served as Co-President of the Business Association of Stanford Engineering Students (BASES), one of the world’s largest student organizations focused on entrepreneurship, with over 5,000 active members.

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J. Bradford DeLong

Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Brad DeLong is a professor of economics at U.C. Berkeley, chair of the Political Economy of Industrial Societies major, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was educated at Harvard University, where he received his PhD in 1987. He joined UC Berkeley as an associate professor in 1993. He became a full professor in 1997.

Professor DeLong also served in the U.S. government as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 1993 to 1995. He worked on the Clinton Administration's 1993 budget, on the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, on the North American Free Trade Agreement, on macroeconomic policy, and on the unsuccessful health care reform effort.

Before joining the Treasury Department, Professor DeLong was Danziger Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He has also been a John M. Olin Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, an Assistant Professor of Economics at Boston University, and a Lecturer in the Department of Economics at M.I.T.

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Darrell Duffie

Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Darrell Duffie is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at The Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, where he has been a member of the finance faculty since receiving his Ph.D. at Stanford in 1984. Among other books, Duffie is the author of Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory (Princeton University Press, third edition 2001) and a co-author with Ken Singleton of Credit Risk (Princeton University Press, 2004). His recent research focuses on asset pricing, credit risk, fixed-income securities, and over-the-counter markets. Duffie is a Fellow and member of the Council of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the 2003 IAFE/Sunguard Financial Engineer of the Year, a Fellow of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the President of The American Finance Association, http://www.stanford.edu/~duffie/

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David E. Duncan

Best-selling author, Experimental Man
Director, Center for Life Science Policy, University of California, Berkeley

David Ewing Duncan is the Chief Correspondent on public radio’s Biotech Nation and a commentator on NPR’s Morning Edition. He’s a contributing editor and columnist for Condé Nast Portfolio, and a former contributing editor for Discover and Wired. He was a freelance producer and correspondent for ABC’s Nightline and a correspondent with NOVA. He has written for National Geographic, Fortune, the Atlantic, Harper’s, and many others. He’s the author of several books, including Calendar, an international bestseller published in 19 languages. He is the Director of the Center for Life Science Policy at UC Berkeley and is a sought-after speaker. He has won numerous awards, including an AAAS Science Journalism Award.

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George Eads

Senior Consultant, CRA International

George C. Eads is a Senior Consultant in the Washington DC office of CRA International, an economics, finance, and business consulting firm that works with businesses, law firms, accounting firms, and governments in providing a wide range of services.  He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1968 and has held full-time faculty positions at several leading US universities.  Between 1979 and 1981 Dr. Eads was a Member of President Carter’s Council of Economic Advisers.  During that time, he was responsible for the CEA’s activities relating to the automotive industry. From 1986 to 1994 he served as General Motors’ Chief Economist and as a GM Vice President.  Between 1999 and 2004, Dr. Eads devoted most of his time to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD’s) Sustainable Mobility Project. During the Project’s second and final phase, he was its Lead Consultant.  In this capacity, he oversaw the drafting of the SMP’s final report, Mobility 2030: Meeting the Challenges to Sustainability.  He is now serving as the Lead Consultant in the WBCSD’s Mobility for Development (M4D) Project, a project exploring mobility conditions and needs in Tanzania, India, China, and Brazil.  Dr. Eads recently served as a member of the National Research Council’s (NRC’s) Committee on Climate Change and US Transportation.  He currently is a member of the NRC’s Committee on Potential Energy Savings & GHG Reduction from Transportation and a member of the Panel on Limiting the Magnitude of Future Climate Change (Mitigation) of the NRC’s America’s Climate Choices project.

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Pete Klenow

Landau Professor in Economic Policy and Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Pete Klenow received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, where he is currently Landau Professor of Economics and the Gordon and Betty Moore Fellow at SIEPR. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, for whom he organizes conferences on Economic Growth. He is a consultant to the Federal Reserve Banks of San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Kansas City, a member of the World Bank’s Microeconomics of Growth Advisory Board, and Macroeconomics Program Director for the International Growth Centre in London. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Journal of Economic Perspectives. He has previously served on the Board of Editors of the American Economic Review and the Review of Economic Dynamics. He has an ongoing Intergovernmental Personnel Assignment with the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Klenow specializes in macroeconomics, with emphasis on prices, productivity and economic growth.

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Andrea Larson

Associate Professor of Business Administration
Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

Associate Professor of Business Administration Andrea Larson has served for 20 years on the faculty of The Darden School teaching in the MBA program and in Executive Education in the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainable business. Sustainable business is a "triple bottom line" approach by corporations incorporating economic, social and environmental performance considerations into operations and strategy. Building upon earlier research in entrepreneurship, alliances, and network organizations, her current research, teaching, and curriculum development focuses on innovation by companies engaged in sustainable business as a strategic and competitive advantage. Her publications have appeared in journals including Administrative Science Quarterly, The Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Interfaces (international operations journal,special issue on sustainable business practices). Her work has also appeared in edited volumes on innovation, green chemistry, ethics, and entrepreneurship.

Larson was co-founder in 2002 of The Ingenuity Project, a multifaceted program to integrate theory and practice on entrepreneurship/innovation together with sustainable business practices, and to encourage their use in management education as well as corporations. Entrepreneurship theory, green chemistry design, industrial ecology, and cradle to cradle design were illustrative of the core approach.

She holds a PhD from Harvard University, awarded jointly by the Harvard Business School and the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

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John Pencavel

The Pauline K. Levin-Robert L. Levin and Pauline C. Levin-Abraham Levin Professor in the School of Humanities & Sciences & Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at SIEPR

John Pencavel is the Pauline K. Levin-Robert L. Levin and Pauline C. Levin-Abraham Levin Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University. He received his education at schools in London, at University College (University of London), and at Princeton University. He joined Stanford University in 1969. He served as Chair of the Department of Economics for five years. He has taught classes in economic theory and econometrics and he now teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Labor Economics. His research has spanned issues concerning the operation of labor markets in the United States and in other countries. In 2008, he was awarded the Jacob Mincer Award for Lifetime Contributions to Labor Economics. He served as editor of the Journal of Economic Literature from 1986 to 1998 and was President of the Society of Labor Economists in 2005-06. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank and to various government bodies on labor market issues. He hikes, gardens, reads fiction and non-fiction, and enjoys his family.

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Alice M. Rivlin

Visiting professor, Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University
Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program, Brookings

Alice M. Rivlin is a visiting professor at the Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University and a senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at Brookings. She directs Brookings Greater Washington Research. Before returning to Brookings, Ms. Rivlin served as vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board (1996-99). She was director of the White House Office of Management and Budget in the first Clinton Administration. She also chaired the District of Columbia Financial Management Assistance Authority.

Ms. Rivlin was the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office (1975-83). She was director of the Economic Studies Program at Brookings. She also served at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Ms. Rivlin received a MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship, taught at Harvard, George Mason, and The New School Universities, has served on the Boards of Directors of several corporations, and as President of the American Economic Association. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange.

She is a frequent contributor to newspapers, television, and radio, and is currently a regular commentator on Nightly Business Report. Her books include Systematic Thinking for Social Action (l971), Reviving the American Dream (1992), and Beyond the Dot.coms (with Robert Litan, 2001). She is co-editor of the Restoring Fiscal Sanity series: Restoring Fiscal Sanity: How to Balance the Budget (2004, with Isabel Sawhill) Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2005: Meeting the Long-Run Challenges (with Isabel Sawhill), and Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007: The Health Spending Challenge (with Joseph Antos), as well as of The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution (2001, with Robert Litan).

Ms. Rivlin was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Bloomington, Indiana. She received a B.A. in economics from Bryn Mawr College; and a Ph.D. from Radcliffe College (Harvard University) in economics 1958. She is married to economist Sidney G. Winter, who is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She has three children and four grandchildren.

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Cecilia Rouse

Member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers
Cecilia Rouse is a member of the Council of Economic Advisers.

Rouse is currently on leave from Princeton University, where she is the Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs. She has been a senior editor of The Future of Children and the Journal of Labor Economics.

Her research focuses on labor economics and the economics of education. Recent research includes studying Florida’s school accountability and voucher programs, technology-based programs in schools in large urban districts, strategies for increasing educational attainment among community college students, and the impact of student loans on post-college occupational choices.

Other topics have included the study of the economic benefit of community college attendance, the Milwaukee Parent Choice Program, and the effects of education inputs on student achievement. She has also studied the existence of discrimination in symphony orchestras, unions in South Africa, and the effect of financial aid on college matriculation.

Rouse is the founding director of the Princeton University Education Research Section, and has been the director of the Industrial Relations Section. She was a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on the Transition to Adulthood. Rouse served in the National Economic Council under President William J. Clinton from 1998 to 1999. She received her Ph.D in economics from Harvard University.

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T. N. Srinivasan

Samuel C. Park, Jr. Professor of Economics and Professor in International and Area Studies at Yale University Visiting Professor, Stanford Center for International Development (SCID)

T. N. Srinivasan is a Ph.D. from and Samuel C. Park, Jr. Professor of Economics and Professor in International and Area Studies at Yale University.  Formerly a Professor, and later Research Professor, at the Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi (1964-1977), he has taught at numerous universities in the US.  His research interests include the Indian Economy, International Trade, Development, Agricultural Economics and Microeconomic Theory.  He has published extensively in these areas.  His most recent book on India was Reintegrating India with the World Economy with Suresh D. Tendulkar in 2003.  His other books on India include Eight Lectures on India’s Economic Reforms, (New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000), Agriculture, Growth and Redistribution of Income:  Policy Analysis with a General Equilibrium Model of India, co-authored with N. S. S. Narayana and K. Parikh, (Amsterdam:  North Holland and Bombay:  Allied  Publishers, 1991) and   Foreign Trade Regimes and Economic Development:  India, co-authored with Jagdish Bhagwati, (Columbia University Press, New York, NY, 1975),  He has co-edited several books including Federalism and Economic Reform:  International Perspectives, co-edited with Jessica Seddon Wallack (New York:  Cambridge UP, 2006), Frontiers in Applied General Equilibrium Modeling:  Essays in Honor of Herbert Scarf, co-edited with Timothy J. Kehoe and John Whalley (New York:  Cambridge UP, 2005), Poverty and Income Distribution in India, co-edited with P. K. Bardhan, (Statistical Publishing Society, Calcutta, India, 1974), and Scheduling the Operations of the Bhakra System, co-authored with B. S. Minhas, K. S. Parikh, S. A. Marglin and T. E. Weisskopf, (Statistical Publishing Society, Calcutta, India, 1972).

He is a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences and Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He was named Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association in 2003 and was awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award of the Government of India in 2007.  In 1975 he was awarded the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal (International Award) of the Indian Econometric Society.