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The Urban Studies Programs2004-2005 Speakers SeriesDr. Ann Markusen Ann Markusen is an economist and Fesler-Lampert Professor of Planning and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, where she also directs the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics. Professor Markusen received a Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Service at Georgetown University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics at Michigan State University, and has held faculty positions at the University of Colorado, University of California Berkeley, Northwestern and Rutgers Universities. Markusen has served as a Brookings Institution Economic Policy Fellow and a Fulbright Lecturer in Brazil and has consulted for the Clinton Administration, the World Bank and the OECD. She has served as a consultant to the cities of Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Berkeley, and Chicago, and to the states of Michigan, Ohio, and California on industrial retention and economic development efforts. Her work on industrial development includes a major study of the mid-western steel industry, Betting on the Basics, for the City of Chicago, and a study on The California Software Industry for the California Commission on Industrial Innovation. Markusen served as Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (1995-2002) and as an Executive Committee and Board member for the Economic Policy Institute (1994-2002). In October of 2000, she was appointed by the President and approved by the Congress to serve on the ten-member National Commission on the Use of Offsets in Defense Trade and its companion President's Council on Offsets in Commercial Trade. In 1999, she complete two terms as Chair of the Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and in 2000, she served as President of the North American Regional Science Association. Markusen was a participant in President-elect Clinton's Economic Summit in 1992. Markusen is the author of dozens of articles and book chapters and a dozen books, including From Defense to Development (Routledge, 2003), America's Peace Dividend (Columbia International Affairs On-line, 2000), Second Tier Cities (University of Minnesota Press, 1999), Arming the Future (Council on Foreign Relations, 1998), Trading Industries, Trading Regions (Guilford, 1993), Dismantling the Cold War Economy (Basic Books 1992), The Rise of the Gunbelt (Oxford 1991), Regions: the Economics and Politics of Territory (Rowman and Allenheld 1987), High Tech America (Unwin Hyman 1986) and Profit Cycles, Oligopoly and Regional Development (MIT Press 1985). She frequently writes for a broader public, including in magazines such as The American Prospect, Harper's and Foreign Policy, and op eds in major newspapers including The International Herald Tribune, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Duluth News-Tribune, Los Angeles Daily News, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Christian Science Monitor. Her most recent public policy work includes The Case for a Substantial Increase in the Minimum Wage (Humphrey Institute, 2003) and The Artistic Dividend (Humphrey Institute, 2003). At the Humphrey Institute, Markusen teaches Introduction to Urban and Regional Planning; Regional, Economic Development and Workforce Planning; Writing for Planners; and Current Planning Practice. She also recently completed a three-year term as Director of the Institute's interdisciplinary Master of Urban and Regional Planning degree. |
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