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Partners and Faculty

Partners


Economics Symposium Partners/Faculty: Mary Brown, Thomas R. Brown Family Foundations, Jack Cox, President, The Communications Institute, Professor Price Fishback, University of Arizona, Judith Gans, University of Arizona, John Humenik, Publisher/Editor, Arizona Daily Star, and Professor Joseph Kalt, Harvard University. The Economics and Public Policy Project is guided and overseen by several respected economists at leading academic institutions. Programs are also cosponsored by academics institutions, foundations and media organizations.


The project is chaired by two leading scholar

* Dr. Joseph Kalt, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
* Dr. Mark Zupan, Dean, William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration, University of Rochester.

Academic institutions participating in the project include,

* The Udall Center for Studies on Public Policy, University of Arizona – The Udall Center’s Immigration Program, which is studying the impact of immigration on the Arizona economy, is developing TCI's immigration programs. The Udall Center's immigration program is headed by scholar Judith Gans.

* The University of Southern California – Scholars and leaders from the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development and the Marshall School of Business are assisting the Institute in developing programs associated with the project.

* Congressional Quarterly – Federal policy will be critically important to programs conducted by the project. CQ will be working with the Institute on the programs and provide content and expertise.
Other participating institutions include Stanford University, the RAND Corporation, University of Pennsylvania, and the University of California. Where appropriate, the project will seek the involvement of government experts, such as those from the Congressional Budget Office.

Dr. Kaltalso heads the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. He is published widely in the area of natural resources economics and policy including The Economics and Politics of Oil Price Regulation; Federal Policy in the Post-Embargo Era, Drawing the Line on Natural Gas Regulation. He received his B.A. from Stanford University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Dr. Zupan has also served as Dean, Eller College of Business and Public Administration at University of Arizona, Associate Professor, School of Business Administration, University of Southern California, and as Visiting Professor, Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He received a B.A. in Economics from Harvard University and Ph.D. in Economics from MIT with his research focusing in Industrial Organization, Regulation, and Political Economy.