The Second Annual Telluride Economic Summit on Early Childhood Investment was held September 21-23, 2008 in Telluride, CO. This is an invitation-only event for senior business leaders and co-hosted by the Telluride Foundation.
Below is a list of confirmed speakers.
Dennis Lockhart, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Bill Watkins, Chief Executive Officer, Seagate Technology
James Heckman, 2000 Nobel Laureate in Economics, University of Chicago
Roy Romer, Chairman, Strong American Schools; former Governor of Colorado; and former Superintendant, Los Angeles Unified School District
Michael Mandel, Chief Economist, Businessweek
Robert Dugger, Managing Director, Tudor Investment Corporation and Advisory Board Chair, Partnership for America's Economic Success
Douglas Price, Managing Director, The BenjaminDouglas Companies
Paul Major, Executive Director, Telluride Foundation
The Honorable Barbara O'Brien, Lieutenant Governor of Colorado
Sara Watson, Senior Officer, The Pew Charitable Trusts and Director, Partnership for America's Economic Success
Eugene Steuerle, Vice President, The Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Maya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and Director, Fiscal Policy Program, New America Foundation
Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Dana Connors, Chief Executive Officer, Maine State Chamber of Commerce
Jon Stellmacher, Vice President, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans and founding member, Partnership for Wisconsin's Economic Success
Jessie Rasmussen, Vice President, Buffett Early Childhood Fund
Donald M. Elliman, Jr., Director, Office of Economic Development and International Trade, State of Colorado
Angela Fertig, University of Georgia
John Cook, Children's Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program
Ariel Kalil, University of Chicago
Wil Blechman, Former President, Kiwanis International
Milton Little, Jr., President, United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta
Mike Durkin, President, United Way of Massachusetts Bay
Ron Moquist, Chief Executive Officer, Raven Industries, South Dakota
Duane Benson, Executive Director, Minnesota Early Learning Fund
Colleen Chapman, Vice President, Spitfire Strategies
Elliot Regenstein, Partner, EducationCounsel LLC and former Director of Education Reform for Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich
Robert D. Powers, President, The Eufaula Agency, Inc. and Chairman, Education and Workforce Development Committee, Business Council of Alabama
Paul Hirschbiel, President, Eden Capital Corporation, Virginia
Renee Jenkins, President, American Academy of Pediatrics
Jill Sells, Director, Docs For Tots, Washington State
Lawrence McAndrews, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions
David Merage, Chairman, Merage Foundation
Elaine Weiss, Senior Associate, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Steven W. Lynn, Vice President, Unisource Energy Corporation and Tucson Power Company
The Honorable John Hickenlooper, Mayor of Denver
Karen Proctor, Vice President of Community Affairs, Scholastic, Inc.
Laurie Cantillo, Program Director, Harpo Radio
Susan Urahn, Managing Director, The Pew Charitable Trusts
Harriet Dichter, Deputy Secretary, Office of Child Development & Early Learning, State of Pennsylvania
Keynote Address
Dennis Lockhart (Speech)
"Partnership for Ameica's Economic Success: Using the Economic Message to Promote Proven Early Childhood Investments."
Sara Watson (Presentation)
"Using Economic Evidence to Promote Early Childhood Investments: What We Know, and What We Want to Know"
Elaine Weiss (Presentation)
"Economic Costs of Early Childhood Poverty"
Ariel Kalil (Presentation)
"Investments in Children's Oral Health are Investments in a Prosperous Future: Economic Costs of Oral Health Problems in the U.S."
John Cook (Presentation)
"The Long-Term Economic Costs of Asthma"
Angela R. Fertig, Ph.D. (Presentation)
"Telluride Economic Summit on Early Childhood Investment: Ratifying the Telluride Principles"
Robert H. Dugger (Presentation)
"Why We Need Business Champions for Kids"
Eugene Steuerle (Presentation)
"Increasing America's Competitive Position in the World Through Investments in Early Childhood"
James Heckman ("Schools, Skills, and Synapses")
"Effectively Communicating the Economic Message"
Alyssa Oliveri (Presentation)
Read the press release announcing the Summit.
"Weekend America: The Business of Pre-K." Weekend America. September 20 2008.
"Business group investing in kids." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. September 22 2008
The Partnership is managed by:
The Pew Charitable Trusts
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