Boston, MA Seminar Populism, Policy Analysis and the Economy

SPEAKERS

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  Igor Linkov

  U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center

  Dr. Igor Linkov is the Risk and Decision Science Focus Area Lead with the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center. He is an Adjunct Professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and Professor of Practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Linkov has managed multiple risk assessments and risk management projects in the areas of environmental management, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, climate change, and systems vulnerability. He is currently developing resilience assessment and management approaches for infrastructure and cyber systems. As a one of the leaders of the USACE Resilience PDT, he is working on developing the USACE Resilience Roadmap and is part of several Interagency Committees and Working Groups tasked with developing resilience metrics and resilience management approaches. He has published widely on environmental policy, environmental modeling, and risk analysis, including fourteen books and over 250 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. Dr. Linkov is Society for Risk Analysis Fellow and recipient of 2005 Chauncey Starr Award for exceptional contribution to Risk Analysis and 2014 Outstanding Practitioner Award.

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  Frederick Treyz, Ph.D.

  REMI

  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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  Chris Judson

  REMI

  Chris Judson is a Managing Economic Associate at REMI. Mr. Judson, who joined REMI in 2011, specializes in transportation, energy, and the environment. Since arriving at REMI, Mr. Judson has consulted for a number of clients on topics including medical research, labor force economics, and natural disasters. He provides client support in selecting inputs, conducting simulations, and analyzing results, and he creates and hosts public online seminars and training presentations on a variety of modeling topics. Mr. Judson co-authored an academic journal article titled, “Decision framework for evaluating the macroeconomic risks and policy impacts of cyber attacks”. He holds a B.A. in economics from Western New England University, with a concentration in business.

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  Elliot Jerry

  REMI

  Elliot Jerry is an Economic Associate at REMI. Mr. Jerry assists clients in evaluating policy change using dynamic economic modeling and contributes to the company’s business development efforts. Prior to starting at REMI, Mr. Jerry served as a research assistant for the Undergraduate Research Engagement Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He collaborated with a team of undergraduates compiling research and data on global business elite networks. He also assisted UMass Prof. Kevin L. Young with research for a conference paper presented at the 2017 Institute for New Economic Thinking Conference. Mr. Jerry earlier served as an intern at U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Springfield, MA office, conducting research, assisting with event preparation, and facilitating communication between federal agencies and constituents. He also served as a field organizer for U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign in Massachusetts. Mr. Jerry holds Master of Science in Development Studies from London School of Economics and Political Science and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from UMass Amherst.