Stanford
Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

Sixth Annual State of the West Symposium

Event Details:

Thursday, December 1, 2016
12:00am - 11:55pm PST

Location

SIEPR Gunn Building
Koret-Taube Conference Center
366 Galvez St.
Stanford, CA 94305
United States

Contact

(650) 724-9278
Sixth Annual State of the West Symposium

The State of the West Symposium is an annual gathering at Stanford University to take stock of the economic and fiscal health of the western region. It features academic researchers, business and investment practitioners, and other stakeholders concerned with the well-being of the millions of Americans who dwell on the sunset side of the Hundredth Meridian.

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Admission

By Invitation Only

 

Welcome Remarks by Mark Duggan and Bruce Cain


Mark G. Duggan, The Trione Director of SIEPR; The Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Bruce Cain, Spence and Cleone Eccles Family Director of The Bill Lane Center for the American West; Charles Louis Ducommun Professor in Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University

Gitane De Silva

Gitane De Silva, Alberta’s Senior Representative to the United States
 
Moderator: 
John B. Shoven, Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Buzz and Barbara McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Senior Fellow and Director Emeritus, SIEPR

 Walls or Portals? The Future of the U.S. – Mexico Border

Felicia Escobar, Special Assistant to the President for Immigration Policy, The White House
Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow and Director, U.S. Immigration Policy, Migration Policy Institute
Giovanni Peri, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Economics, UC Davis
Todd Schulte, President, FWD.us
Moderator: 
Bruce Cain, Spence and Cleone Eccles Family Director of The Bill Lane Center for the American West; Charles Louis Ducommun Professor in Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
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Giovanni Peri
Felicia Escobar
Doris Meissner
Todd Schulte

 In the Eye of the Storm: Where is the Health Care System Headed Post-Trump?

Leonard D. Schaeffer, Judge Robert Maclay Widney Chair and Professor at the University of Southern California; founding Chairman and CEO of WellPoint (1992 – 2004)  
Charles W. Sorenson, Emeritus President and Chief Executive Officer, Intermountain Healthcare 
Saum Sutaria, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Moderator: 
Mark G. Duggan, The Trione Director of SIEPR; The Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics, Stanford University
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Leonard Schaeffer
Charles Sorenson
Saum Sutaria
Discussion

Governor Butch Otter 

The Honorable C.L. "Butch" Otter, Governor of the State of Idaho
 
Moderator: 
David M. Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus, Stanford University; Director Emeritus, The Bill Lane Center for the American West

 

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