Frederick R. Treyz, Ph.D. is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Economist at Regional Economic Models, Inc. (REMI), a leading provider of dynamic economic and demographic modeling software and consulting. He is an authority on analyzing public policies and their regional macroeconomic and population impacts. Under Dr. Treyz’s leadership, REMI has shaped public policy debates by helping clients evaluate economic development, transportation, energy, immigration reform, and other topics. The company’s clients include federal, state, and regional agencies, metropolitan planning organizations, leading national associations, universities, and consultants who seek to analyze the implications of public policy.
Dr. Treyz 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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During his Ph.D. study, Dr. Choi explored the economic effects of land value taxation in an urban area, which was featured in Land Economics in 2015. He thinks that the efficiency and other positive impacts of land value taxation should be more widely spread in the country. Although he has some working papers in progress, they await publication. In addition to his role at the OTA, Dr. Choi imparts his knowledge as an online instructor in economics at the Liberty University Business School.
A native of Korea, Dr. Choi relocated to the U.S. in 2000. He achieved his Ph.D. in economics from Georgia State University in 2006. Prior to his joining the team of the OTA, he contributed as a postdoctoral researcher at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has a lovely wife and two grown-up daughters and one son in college.
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) [5] => Array ( [speakers_name] => Peter Gunther [speakers_designation] => Senior Research Fellow at the University of Connecticut [speakers_image] => Array ( [ID] => 13715 [id] => 13715 [title] => Peter Gunther [filename] => Peter-Gunther-e1760447997396.png [filesize] => 67159 [url] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Peter-Gunther-e1760447997396.png [link] => https://www.remi.com/events-site/transportation-and-economic-development-conference/peter-gunther/ [alt] => [author] => 1012 [description] => [caption] => [name] => peter-gunther [status] => inherit [uploaded_to] => 13530 [date] => 2022-07-06 16:22:05 [modified] => 2022-07-06 16:22:05 [menu_order] => 0 [mime_type] => image/png [type] => image [subtype] => png [icon] => https://www.remi.com/wp-includes/images/media/default.png [width] => 269 [height] => 250 [sizes] => Array ( [thumbnail] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Peter-Gunther-150x150.png [thumbnail-width] => 150 [thumbnail-height] => 150 [medium] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Peter-Gunther-300x278.png [medium-width] => 300 [medium-height] => 278 [medium_large] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Peter-Gunther-e1760447997396.png [medium_large-width] => 269 [medium_large-height] => 250 [large] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Peter-Gunther-e1760447997396.png [large-width] => 269 [large-height] => 250 [1536x1536] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Peter-Gunther-e1760447997396.png [1536x1536-width] => 269 [1536x1536-height] => 250 [2048x2048] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Peter-Gunther-e1760447997396.png [2048x2048-width] => 269 [2048x2048-height] => 250 ) ) [speakers_description] =>Peter’s impact analyses have covered enhanced exports of electricity from Canada to the United States, (for Atomic Energy of Canada). Connecticut economic impacts include scaling offshore wind developments (Vinelands), and, increased electricity demand from accelerated adoption of electric vehicle with and without peak pricing by Connecticut census districts including differential timing of required capital appropriations (Regional Economic Model Inc’s. seminars). He is currently expanding CCEA’s Connecticut studies to cover types of EVs being adopted extended to market saturation. His and Fred Carstensen’s work on the expansion of UConn’s Medical School assisted in making the case resulting in its catalytic expansion of medical technologies in Connecticut.
In previous positions, Peter instigated policies that have shaped Canada and Sudan. As a member of Health Canada’s committee evaluating research into the non-medical use of drugs at the University of Waterloo, he convinced Health Canada to initiate it’s funding of impacts from secondhand tobacco smoke which resulted vast legislative and regulatory changes to curtail cancer causing impacts. As Chief of Contentious Issues on the Canadian Constitution, he undertook the R&D and later wrote, the soon to be, Prime Minister’s St John’s speech that resulted in Federal legislation awarding revenues from offshore resources to the provinces. For Africa’s International Government Authority on Development, he advised its panel on the Division of Wealth between North and South Sudan at the Sudanese Peace Negotiation, including heated pipeline and ocean tanker transportation of highly viscose crude oil from Southern wells across the North via Port Sudan to China.
) [6] => Array ( [speakers_name] => Indraneel Kumar, Ph.D. [speakers_designation] => Director for the Purdue Center for Regional Development [speakers_image] => Array ( [ID] => 14839 [id] => 14839 [title] => 2025 Indraneel Portrait [filename] => 2025-Indraneel-Portrait-e1760448020455.png [filesize] => 20711 [url] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Indraneel-Portrait-e1760448020455.png [link] => https://www.remi.com/remis-40th-annual-users-conference/2025-indraneel-portrait/ [alt] => [author] => 1012 [description] => [caption] => [name] => 2025-indraneel-portrait [status] => inherit [uploaded_to] => 14585 [date] => 2025-10-13 13:11:08 [modified] => 2025-10-13 13:11:08 [menu_order] => 0 [mime_type] => image/png [type] => image [subtype] => png [icon] => https://www.remi.com/wp-includes/images/media/default.png [width] => 207 [height] => 250 [sizes] => Array ( [thumbnail] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Indraneel-Portrait-150x150.png [thumbnail-width] => 150 [thumbnail-height] => 150 [medium] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Indraneel-Portrait-249x300.png [medium-width] => 249 [medium-height] => 300 [medium_large] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Indraneel-Portrait-e1760448020455.png [medium_large-width] => 207 [medium_large-height] => 250 [large] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Indraneel-Portrait-e1760448020455.png [large-width] => 207 [large-height] => 250 [1536x1536] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Indraneel-Portrait-e1760448020455.png [1536x1536-width] => 207 [1536x1536-height] => 250 [2048x2048] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025-Indraneel-Portrait-e1760448020455.png [2048x2048-width] => 207 [2048x2048-height] => 250 ) ) [speakers_description] =>Indraneel Kumar is the Director for the Purdue Center for Regional Development (PCRD). Indraneel has been at PCRD since its inception in 2005. He focuses on regional demographics, economic and workforce analysis, identification of new sources of data, GIS databases, spatial analysis, and quantitative methods. Indraneel earned a Ph.D. in Transportation and Infrastructure Systems from the Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering at Purdue University in 2014. He has been a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners since 2006. He serves as the principal investigator in federal-sponsored research projects on economic competitiveness, evaluation of technology hubs, and technical assistance to regional organizations.
) [7] => Array ( [speakers_name] => Jerry Hayes [speakers_designation] => Senior Vice President of Research & Development at REMI [speakers_image] => Array ( [ID] => 10648 [id] => 10648 [title] => Jerry-Hayes-small [filename] => Jerry-Hayes-small-e1760448157981.jpg [filesize] => 17499 [url] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jerry-Hayes-small-e1760448157981.jpg [link] => https://www.remi.com/events-site/savethedate/jerry-hayes-small-2/ [alt] => [author] => 1 [description] => [caption] => [name] => jerry-hayes-small-2 [status] => inherit [uploaded_to] => 10443 [date] => 2020-08-21 19:51:16 [modified] => 2020-08-21 19:51:16 [menu_order] => 0 [mime_type] => image/jpeg [type] => image [subtype] => jpeg [icon] => https://www.remi.com/wp-includes/images/media/default.png [width] => 250 [height] => 250 [sizes] => Array ( [thumbnail] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jerry-Hayes-small-150x150.jpg [thumbnail-width] => 150 [thumbnail-height] => 150 [medium] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jerry-Hayes-small-e1760448157981.jpg [medium-width] => 250 [medium-height] => 250 [medium_large] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jerry-Hayes-small-e1760448157981.jpg [medium_large-width] => 250 [medium_large-height] => 250 [large] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jerry-Hayes-small-e1760448157981.jpg [large-width] => 250 [large-height] => 250 [1536x1536] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jerry-Hayes-small-e1760448157981.jpg [1536x1536-width] => 250 [1536x1536-height] => 250 [2048x2048] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Jerry-Hayes-small-e1760448157981.jpg [2048x2048-width] => 250 [2048x2048-height] => 250 ) ) [speakers_description] =>Jerry Hayes is Vice President of Research & Development at REMI, where he oversees the Research and Development department. He is the Project Manager for all model developments, helping to design new software features and products and make programming changes to the model structure and interface.
Since joining REMI in 2002, Mr. Hayes has contributed to most areas of software development, including improving and optimizing existing model code and processes, designing and implementing new features, working on new products, and managing software development. He has also been involved in analyzing and processing data, testing, and troubleshooting.
Mr. Hayes received a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Dr. Evangelakis is an experienced Economic Researcher and Analyst. Highlights of his published work include a review of the non-pecuniary benefits of professional sports stadiums, a municipal-level revenue analysis of Florida property tax reform, an exposition of novel macroeconomic measures of the digital economy, and an economic and demographic analysis of the U.S. immigrant population.
Dr. Evangelakis holds Ph.D. and Master’s degrees in Economics from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Mathematics from Swarthmore College.
) [9] => Array ( [speakers_name] => Scott Nystrom [speakers_designation] => Director of Research and Analytics for the Climate Leadership Council [speakers_image] => Array ( [ID] => 14846 [id] => 14846 [title] => Nystrom Headshot 1 [filename] => Nystrom-Headshot-1-scaled-e1760462581399.jpg [filesize] => 30594 [url] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Nystrom-Headshot-1-scaled-e1760462581399.jpg [link] => https://www.remi.com/remis-40th-annual-users-conference/nystrom-headshot-1-2/ [alt] => [author] => 1012 [description] => [caption] => Climate Leadership Council, Headshots, October 10, 2023, Washington, D.C. (Rodney Choice/Choice Photography/www.choicephotography.com [name] => nystrom-headshot-1-2 [status] => inherit [uploaded_to] => 14585 [date] => 2025-10-14 17:22:44 [modified] => 2025-10-14 17:22:44 [menu_order] => 0 [mime_type] => image/jpeg [type] => image [subtype] => jpeg [icon] => https://www.remi.com/wp-includes/images/media/default.png [width] => 193 [height] => 250 [sizes] => Array ( [thumbnail] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Nystrom-Headshot-1-150x150.jpg [thumbnail-width] => 150 [thumbnail-height] => 150 [medium] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Nystrom-Headshot-1-232x300.jpg [medium-width] => 232 [medium-height] => 300 [medium_large] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Nystrom-Headshot-1-768x994.jpg [medium_large-width] => 768 [medium_large-height] => 994 [large] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Nystrom-Headshot-1-791x1024.jpg [large-width] => 791 [large-height] => 1024 [1536x1536] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Nystrom-Headshot-1-1187x1536.jpg [1536x1536-width] => 1187 [1536x1536-height] => 1536 [2048x2048] => https://www.remi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Nystrom-Headshot-1-1582x2048.jpg [2048x2048-width] => 1582 [2048x2048-height] => 2048 ) ) [speakers_description] =>Scott Nystrom is the director of research and analytics for the Climate Leadership Council. In this capacity, he provides oversight and guidance to research initiatives and policy development across all major focus areas of the organization. He leads the Council’s quantitative modeling of economic impacts, energy markets, international trade, and fiscal policy.
Scott comes to the Council after a five-year software career and seven-year consulting career. In these roles, Scott conducted studies related to climate policy, demographics, economic development, the energy sector, fiscal policy, healthcare policy, international trade, labor relations, scope emissions, and transportation.
Prior to the Council, Scott worked for FTI Consulting. He was the co-lead and lead economist of its impacts and policy analysis practice. Prior to his time at FTI Consulting, Scott worked for Regional Economic Models, Inc. (“REMI”). He holds a B.A. in History, B.S. in Economics, and M.A. in Economic History from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.
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REMI is thrilled to announce that our 2025 Users’ Conference will be held at Weber’s Boutique Hotel in Ann Arbor, Michigan from October 22nd-24th. More information will be shared to this page as it becomes available. Please reach out to Event Coordinator Brian Riel at brian.riel@remi.com if you have any questions about this conference.
Please click the “Register” tab and fill out all fields if you are planning on attending.
If you have conducted research recently using REMI, we would be thrilled to invite you to present on one of our many developing panels at this event. There will be panels relating to transportation, fiscal analysis, affordable housing, energy, and more. Please reach out to Brian Riel at brian.riel@remi.com if you are interested.
On Friday, October 24th at 1:00pm ET during the conference, attendees will have the option to visit the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation. REMI will be providing transportation to this activity. To learn more about this event and to RSVP, please click here.
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This years conference will be hosted at Weber’s Boutique Hotel & Restaurant in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Weber’s has an indoor salt water pool, sauna, hot tub, and a 24 hour gym. The hotel is also home to the famous Weber’s Restaurant.
REMI has negotiated a discounted room rate for attendees of $149 or $169 (depending on room selected) for the duration of the conference. Click here to book your room online. You can also book your room by calling Weber’s Boutique Hotel directly at 734-769-2500 and mentioning the REMI conference. After September 9th you will be required to call the hotel to book your room.
On September 9th, half of the remaining rooms in the hotel block will be made available to the public, and you will no longer be able to use the direct link to book your room. September 21st is the final day of the block unless the block fills early. Attendees can still book with our negotiated discounted room rate after our block expires by calling the hotel, permitted that the hotel has rooms available.
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We are very excited for you to join us at this years Users’ Conference occurring from Wednesday October 22nd to Friday October 24th in Ann Arbor, Michigan at Weber’s Boutique Hotel! We are still in the process of planning this conference, and will release more information through email and here on our website as it becomes available to share. Please direct any questions to event coordinator Brian Riel at brian.riel@remi.com.
You can book your hotel room in our discounted hotel block by clicking here. Please note that the deadline to book within this block is October, 2nd. We anticipate that these rooms will fill by then however, so we encourage you to book well in advance of that day.
Have you conducted research recently using REMI? If so, we would be thrilled to have you present at this years conference! Please send an email to event coordinator Brian Riel at brian.riel@remi.com, and we would gladly fit you into one of our developing panels.
We are accepting submissions for the George I. Treyz Award for Excellence in Economic Analysis till August 1st. If you have conducted a report using REMI recently and want to be considered for the award, please fill out the form under the “GIT Award Submissions” tab here on our website.
We look forward to seeing you in Ann Arbor!
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