State of the West Agenda

11:45 – 1:30
Lunch and Talk
John Williams, Executive Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
1:30 – 1:45
Break
1:45 – 3:00
Pensions

Joseph Dear, Chief Investment Officer, California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS)
Joe Nation, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, Stanford University; former California State Assemblyman

Moderator: John Shoven, Wallace R. Hawley Director, SIEPR; Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics, Stanford University
3:00 – 4:15
Environment
Lawrence Goulder, Shuzo Nishihara Professor in Environmental & Resource Economics; Chair, Economics Department, Stanford University
Donald Kennedy, President, Emeritus, Stanford University; Bing Professor of Environmental Science, Emeritus; Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment
Nancy Pfund, Managing Partner, DBL Investors


Moderator: Jon Christensen, Executive Director, The Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University

4:15 – 4:30
Break
4:30 – 5:45
Economy
Edward Leamer, Director, UCLA Anderson Forecast
Kenneth T. Rosen, Chair, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, University of California, Berkeley
 
Moderator: David Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus, Stanford University; Faculty Co-Director, The Bill Lane Center for the American West, Stanford University
5:45 – 6:45
Reception
7:00 – 9:00
Dinner and Keynote
Brian Schweitzer, Governor of Montana