![\"Robert](\"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Reich_Robert.jpg\")
With former Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich as a keynote speaker, this year\u2019s Economic Outlook Conference at Northern Arizona University has recaptured the attention of its longstanding audience.<\/p>\nWith former Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich as a keynote speaker, this year\u2019s Economic Outlook Conference at Northern Arizona University has recaptured the attention of its longstanding audience.<\/p>\n
The conference, presented by the Alliance Bank Business Outreach Center of the W. A. Franke College of Business, will be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Thursday, Nov. 7, at the High Country Conference Center. Individual tickets are $50, and a corporate table (seven seats) may be purchased for $300.<\/p>\n
\u201cReich is an engaging and dynamic speaker,\u201d said Wayne Fox<\/strong>, assistant dean and director of the outreach center. \u201cWe have a terrific business program and this is our signature outreach. I wanted the program this year to match that caliber.\u201d<\/p>\n While Reich will focus on the global and national outlook for 2014, other presenters will offer more local views. They include Elliott Pollack, a CEO described by Fox as \u201ca highly recognized figure\u201d in Arizona real estate, and two NAU faculty members: Ron Gunderson<\/strong>, professor of economics, and Dennis Foster<\/strong>, senior lecturer of economics.<\/p>\n Business dean Craig Van Slyke<\/strong> will moderate. NAU President John Haeger<\/strong> is scheduled to provide opening remarks.<\/p>\n Reich, named by Time<\/em> magazine as one of the 10 most successful cabinet secretaries of the past century, served under President Clinton from 1993-97. He is Chancellor\u2019s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and is well known as an active speaker, blogger and author. His film documentary, Inequality for All<\/i>, will be released nationally on Sept. 27.<\/p>\n To register, call (928) 523-3322, email fcb-eoc@nau.edu<\/a> or visit the conference website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"