WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Communications Workers of America, The Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor at Georgetown University and the Center for Economic and Policy Research will host leading policy experts as they outline an agenda for meeting America’s competitive challenges through its capacity for innovation.
Entitled “Jobs, Inequality and the Public Sector: Improving the Economic Competitive and Innovative Capacity of the U.S.,” the roundtable discussion will include representatives from the White House, Goldman Sachs and McKinsey & Co. The forum seeks to inform the consultation process of the Department of Commerce as it prepares its comprehensive study of the economic competitiveness and innovative capacity of the United States. An Innovation Advisory Board of leaders in academia, business and labor was created to work in consultation with the Department of Commerce on this important report.
WHO: Leading Experts on the U.S. Economy from Business, the Public Sector and Academia.
WHAT: Afternoon Roundtable.
WHERE: Georgetown University Law School, 600 N. New Jersey Ave. NW, Washington D.C.
WHEN: 1 p.m. Tuesday, October, 11, 2011
(See Attached Agenda)
Agenda
1:00-1:20 – Welcome and Introduction
Georgetown Law School Dean
Larry Cohen, Communications Workers of
America
1:20-1:40 – Opening Remarks
Katharine Abraham, CEA
1:45-3:00 – Panel/Roundtable 1: Competitiveness, Job Creation, and Inequality
1:45-1:50: Moderator, Ed Montgomery, Georgetown School of Public Policy
1:50-2:20:
Panelists
Richard Freeman, Harvard University
Margaret Blair, Vanderbilt
University Law School
Michael Greenberger, University of Maryland
Law School
2:20-2:30: Respondents
Abby Cohen, Goldman Sachs
James Manyika, McKinsey & Company
2:30-3:00: Q&A
3:00-3:15 – Break
3:15 – 4:30 – Panel/Roundtable 2: Role of public sector in innovation
3:15-3:20: Moderator, Dean Baker, CEPR
3:20-3:50: Panelists
Kate Gordon, CAP
J. Erik Garr, Diamond Management & Technology
Consultants
Matthew Keller, Southern Methodist University
3:50-4:00: Respondent, Mark Doms, DoC chief economist
4:00-4:30: Q&A
4:30-4:35 – Introduction
Katie Corrigan, Kalmanovitz
4:35-4:55 – Closing Remarks
Terrell McSweeny, Domestic Policy Advisor to the V.P.