Cocoa’s 16th Annual Economic Development Update Breakfast Set Jan. 16 at Cocoa Civic Center
By Space Coast Daily // January 4, 2018
Sean Snaith, Ph.D. WILL BE Keynote Speaker
BREVARD COUNTY • COCOA, FLORIDA – Cocoa’s 16th Annual Economic Development Update Breakfast is set January 12 beginning at 7:30 a.m. at the Cocoa Civic Center located at 430 Delannoy Avenue.
Learn about the economic growth that has occurred over the last year as well as what’s on the horizon through strategic development that is paving a way to a prosperous future for Cocoa. A complimentary hot breakfast will be provided.
The Keynote Speaker will be Sean Snaith, Ph.D., who will present “The Economy 10 Years after the Start of the Great Recession.”
Snaith is the director of the University of Central Florida’s Institute for Economic Competitiveness and a nationally recognized economist in the field of business and economic forecasting.
He is the recipient of multiple awards for the accuracy of his forecasts, his research and his teaching. Snaith has served as a consultant for local governments and multinational corporations such as Compaq, Dell and IBM.
Before joining UCF’s College of Business, he held teaching positions at Pennsylvania State University, American University in Cairo, the University of North Dakota and the University of the Pacific.
Snaith is frequently interviewed in international, national and regional media. He has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The New York Times, The Economist and The Guardian and has appeared on CNBC, Fox Business Network, The Nightly News with Brian Williams, Al Jazeera, the BBC and CBC, China Central TV, Sky News, Nippon TV and the Business News Network, based in Toronto.
Snaith is a sought-after speaker known for his engaging and humorous presentations. He has built a national reputation for his unique ability to explain complex subject matter in a digestible manner. He earned praise from one business editor for having “an uncanny knack of making economics not only understandable but interesting.”
Snaith is a member of several economic organizations and national economic forecasting panels, including The Wall Street Journal‘s Economic Forecasting Survey, the Associated Press’ Economy Survey, CNNMoney.com’s Survey of Leading Economists, USA Today‘s Survey of Top Economists, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s Survey of Professional Forecasters, Bloomberg and Reuters.
Snaith holds a B.S. in Economics from Allegheny College and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from Pennsylvania State University.
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