Speaker: Dana Johnson, Chief Economist, Comerica Bank

ICIS is the premier international conference on information systems

Speaker, Mark Hollis, Athletic Director, Michigan State University

The monthly GB Club luncheons provide outstanding speakers and relaxed networking opportunities. With extensive international experience, the speakers wrap personal insights around a practical and up-to-the-minute approach to conducting international trade. The luncheons are open to the general public. Typically, about 100 business executives, public policy makers, and academics attend each luncheon.

Speaker: Jack Kresnak, CEO, Michigan's Children

William Holstein, author of WHY GM MATTERS: Inside the Race to Transform an American Icon, will hold a press conference & offer the keynote address at a fundraising luncheon to benefit the annual Lansing Diversity Celebration and a planned manufacturing diversity summit. A book signing will follow lunch.

Expert Panel discusses involvement with Michigan's Transportation Funding Task Force.

In consultation with the National Advisory Committee, the conference program will be developed to: 1) highlight the significant impacts of Title VI programs in the United States over the past 50 years; 2) demonstrate the pressing need for Title VI programs given future and current needs; and, 3) address future directions of Title VI programs. Presenters at the conference will include invited keynote speakers to be determined in consultation with the National Advisory Committee. In addition, concurrent breakout session panels will include speakers solicited in a "Call for Proposals."

Dr. Jeong is an assistant professor of economics at Vanderbilt University. He will present "Complementarity and Transition to Modern Economic Growth." This paper addresses an interesting question in economic development, the nature of the transition to sustained economic growth. He proposes and analyzes a new growth model that is able to generate a gradual transition to sustained growth. He then estimates key model parameters using data from Thailand's economic transition of 1976-1996, and finally shows that model simulations replicate well Thailand's economic transition.

The monthly GB Club luncheons provide outstanding speakers and relaxed networking opportunities. With extensive international experience, the speakers wrap personal insights around a practical and up-to-the-minute approach to conducting international trade. The luncheons are open to the general public. Typically, about 100 business executives, public policy makers, and academics attend each luncheon.