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Your Grandfather's Economics Will Improve Yours: Looking at the Details and Using Leading Barometers to Assess Business Cycle Turns -- Dr. Thomas Kevin Swift, Chief Economist, American Chemistry Council

June 6, 2018
Wednesday 11:45 AM
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Your Grandfather's Economics Will Improve Yours: Looking at the Details and Using Leading Barometers to Assess Business Cycle Turns

Dr. Thomas Kevin Swift, CBE, Chief Economist and Managing Director, American Chemistry Council

Recent research has determined that weak performance among industrials can be traced to several missteps: 1) bad acquisitions often related to timing; 2) mismanaging the business cycle and costs; and 3) becoming too complex or unfocused. All of these are areas in which the business economist can contribute to the bottom line. This presentation will focus on the middle consideration – using the tools of business cycle analysis to assess business cycle turns.


Dr. Thomas Kevin Swift

Dr. Swift is the chief economist at the American Chemistry Council (ACC) in Washington, DC where he is responsible for economic analyses dealing with markets, energy, trade, tax, and innovation, as well as monitoring business conditions, identifying emerging trends, and assessing the economic and societal contributions of chemistry. Prior to joining the ACC, Dr. Swift held senior level and executive positions at two major industrial market research consultancies. He started his career at Dow Chemical USA.

Dr. Swift is a member of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE), Society of Business Economists (UK), the Harvard Discussion Group of Industrial Economists, and the National Business Economics Issues Council (NBEIC), and the Charlotte Economics Club (CEC). He is a member of The Wall Street Journal Forecasters’ Survey panel, NABE’s panel of forecasters, and a participant in the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank's forecasters' survey. After serving on the board of directors of NABE he chaired the NABE Education Committee and for his service as a professional economist and contributions to the profession, he was elected a NABE Fellow. Dr. Swift was also one of the first to achieve NABE’s Certified Business Economist (CBE) designation. He has begun serving as vice president of NABE for the 2017/18 term and is currently on the board of directors of the National Economists Club (NEC).

Dr. Swift is a graduate of Ashland College with a BA degree and a graduate of Case Western Reserve University with an MA degree in Economics. He is also a graduate of Anglia Polytechnic University with a doctorate in business administration (DBA) degree and has completed studies at Harvard University and the University of Oxford.

Dr. Swift is an adjunct professor of business economics at the University of Mary Washington. He is also a member of the Heritage Council of the Chemical Heritage Foundation.


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Location:
CU-Executive Education Center, Auditorium
1250 14th Street
Suite 150
Denver, CO