REMI cordially invites you to join us for our upcoming conference, “The Great Plains Political-Economic Outlook 2020,” that our CEO & Chief Economist Frederick Treyz, Ph.D. and Economic Associate Kyle Compton will be hosting at the Embassy Suites Denver Downtown in Denver, Colorado on Wednesday, June 10th from 8:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
In addition to our presentations evaluating the transportation, energy, and financial sectors, REMI is honored to be joined by numerous experts as they discuss the region’s most important policy decisions.
Guest speakers at this event will be discussing the following topics:
If you would like to attend this conference, please email Kendell Sweeney-Thomas at Kendell.Sweeney-Thomas@remi.com, contact us by phone at (413) 549-1169, or click below to register.
Frederick R. Treyz, Ph.D., is the Chief Economist and CEO of Regional Economic Models, Inc. (REMI), a leading provider of dynamic economic policy analysis models. He is an authority on regional macroeconomic modeling research and application.
Under Dr. Treyz’s leadership, REMI has remained at the forefront of regional modeling, and informs public policy debates through the use of REMI models to evaluate economic development, transportation, energy, taxation, and other topics. The company’s clients include federal, state, and regional agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, leading national associations, universities, and consultants.
Dr. Treyz oversees the research and development of the REMI model. He publishes in leading journals; this year he authored the paper “Immigration and United States Economic Growth,” in Business Economics, the journal of the National Association for Business Economics. He holds an A.B. in Economics from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Regional Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Prior to starting at REMI, Mr. Compton was a Research Assistant in the UMass Amherst Economics department, where he evaluated the evidence of ecosystem services for disaster risk reduction as part of a forthcoming global IPCC study. Mr. Compton was also a consultant for Verité, a nonprofit organization that conducts research, advocacy and consulting on global working conditions. At Verité, he researched the labor conditions under migrant labor firms operating in Southeast Asia and the Middle East, in addition to scoring the legal and practical labor conditions of emerging economies for a socially conscious investment fund. Building on his work for Verité, he earned the James Kindahl Award in Economics from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst for his paper, “Determinants of Forced Labor: Evidence from 21 Emerging Economies.”
Mr. Compton earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a minor in Mathematics from UMass Amherst.
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Crestone B Room
1420 Stout St.
Denver, CO 80202
Hello,
Thank you for your interest in REMI. Your registration is confirmed for our Denver Conference, “The Great Plains Political-Economic Outlook 2020,” on Wednesday, June 10th, 2020.
The event will take place from 8:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Denver Downtown, Crestone B Room on 1420 Stout St., Denver, CO 80202.
We will call a day or so before the event to confirm your attendance and to see if you have any questions. Please feel free to share the invitation with any other staff or colleagues who may be interested.
We look forward to seeing you in Denver!
Regards,
Regional Economic Models, Inc.
REMI
