2012 UC San Diego Economics Roundtable Lecture Series
Corporate Sponsor
Economics Roundtable Contact
Briana Weisinger
UC San Diego Department of Economics
Phone: 858-534-9710
Fax: 858-822-2657
Information & Forms
The UC San Diego Economics Roundtable is organized by the UC San Diego Department of Economics. The purpose of the Roundtable is to provide top business professionals and community leaders in the San Diego region with the opportunity to share the views and opinions of renowned experts in the fields of economics, finance, business and public policy. Members of the Roundtable will share insights with their counterparts in the business community and with members of the UC San Diego faculty.
Online Registration
Please note that you will need your Social Security number or a Student ID Number (supplied to you by calling UC San Diego Student Services at 858-534-3400) when completing the online registration. Registration for each lecture is $50 or, if you register for the entire series you'll receive a 25% discount for a total cost of $150.00.
Economics Roundtable Lecture Series 2012 ($150.00)
Economics Roundtable 2012 Lecture One - Doss ($50.00)
Economics Roundtable 2012 Lecture Two - Duffie ($50.00)
Economics Roundtable 2012 Lecture Three - Clarida ($50.00)
Economics Roundtable 2012 Lecture Four - Naughton ($50.00)
Marc Doss
Regional Chief Investment Officer, Wells Fargo Wealth Management Group
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Continental Breakfast)
UC San Diego Faculty Club
"The Global Economy at a Crossroads - An Investment Strategy Perspective"
Marc Doss is the Wells Fargo Private Bank Regional Chief Investment Officer for the California Region. His responsibilities include leading the region's investment professionals who offer high net worth individuals a customized, comprehensive approach to portfolio management. In addition, the investment team provides clients access to four other key Wealth Management services: private banking, trust, estate, and financial planning. Mr. Doss works closely with the Regional Managing Directors to convey key economic, market, and investment strategy messages across the entire state of California. He serves as the region's investment thought leader by speaking at client events and writing commentary.
Doss is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a Certified Financial Planner. He earned a Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego School of Law and holds a degree in Economics and Political Science from the University of Illinois. He is a Trustee for the San Diego County Retirement Association and previously served as the President of the CFA Society in San Diego. He also served four years of active duty and eight years in the reserves as a U.S. Naval Officer.
Darrell Duffie
Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
Thursday, April 12, 2012
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Continental Breakfast)
UC San Diego Faculty Club
"Replumbing the Financial System: Uneven Progress"
Darrel Duffie is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Duffie is the author of books and research articles on asset valuation, credit risk, derivative securities, banking, and over-the-counter markets. He is a fellow and member of the Council of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Financial Advisory Roundtable of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, and was President of the American Finance Association in 2009.
Duffie is widely published and his three most recent books are: How Big Banks Fail - And What to Do About It, Measuring Corporate Default Risk, and Dark Markets. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University in 1984.
Richard Clarida
C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Global Strategic Advisor, PIMCO
Thursday, May 10, 2012
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Continental Breakfast)
UC San Diego Faculty Club
"Outlook for the Global Economy, Policy, and Markets"
Richard H. Clarida is the C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics at Columbia University and Global Strategic Advisor with PIMCO. From February 2002 until May 2003, Clarida served as the Assistant Secretary of the United States Treasury for Economic Policy and was awarded The Treasury Medal in recognition for his record of outstanding service to the Treasury Department by Treasury Secretary John Snow.
From 1997 until 2001, Clarida served as chairman of the Department of Economics at Columbia University. Earlier in his career, Clarida taught at Yale University and served in the Administration of President Ronald Regan as Senior Staff Economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Clarida has published numerous, frequently cited articles in leading academic journals on monetary policy, exchange rates, interest rates, and international capital flows. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and was editor of, and director of the project on, G7 Current Account Imbalances: Sustainability Adjustment. In 2004, 2007, and 2010 he served as co-editor of the NBER International Series on Macroeconomics. Clarida recieved his B.S. from the University of Illinois with Bronze Tablet honors and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Barry Naughton
So Kwanlok Professor, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, UC San Diego
Thursday, July 12, 2012
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Continental Breakfast)
UC San Diego Faculty Club
"Can China Make the Transition to Stable, Balanced Growth?"
Barry Naughton, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, is one of the world's top experts on the Chinese economy. His most recent book is The Chinese Economy: Transitions and Growth, a comprehensive survey of the Chinese economy published by MIT Press in 2007, which has been translated into Chinese and Korean. Naughton has published extensively on four interrelated areas: market transition; industry and technology; foreign trade; and Chinese political economy. His first book, a pioneering study of Chinese economic reform, Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993 (Cambridget University Press, 1995) won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. Naughton publishes extensively in top economics and social science journals. He also publishes regular quarterly analyses of China's economic policy-making online at China Leadership Monitor.
Naughton received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1986. Naughton was named the So Kuanlok Professor at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego in 1998. He has consulted extensively for the World Bank, as well as for corporate clients. Naughton is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a non-resident fellow of the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.
Acknowledgements
The Department of Economics gratefully acknowledges the 2011 UC San Diego Economics Roundtable Steering Committee for their support:
Jeffrey Elman |
Alan. N. Nevin Principal The London Group Realty Advisors |
Rick F. Hall President and CEO La Jolla Bank |
Don Billings Principal Promontory Financial Group |
Bill Nelson Board of Directors Regents Bank |
Marjorie Flavin Associate Professor of Economics UC San Diego |
Donald Smythe Professor of Law California Western School of Law |
Jeffrey Lewin Partner Sullivan Hill Lewin Rez & Engel |
Nils Clark |
Mary Walshok Associate Vice Chancellor for Public Programs Dean of Extension UC San Diego |
The UCSD Economics Roundtable thanks Corporate Sponsor Wells Fargo and Table Underwriters La Jolla Bank, The London Group Realty Advisors, UC San Diego School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, The San Diego Daily Transcript, Sullivan Hill Lewin Rez & Engel, Regents Bank, Reis Investment Management, California Western School of Law, and UCSD-TV for their generous support of this series.
