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Top White House Economist Speaks to Reversing the Middle-Class Jobs Deficit at Columbia Conference

Experts Gather to Launch Center on Global Economic Governance and Discuss European Fiscal Crisis

Media contact: Tanya Domi, 212-854-5579, td207@columbia.edu

WHAT:		In his first official visit to New York, Alan Krueger, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, delivers a keynote address at Columbia University titled Reversing the Middle-Class Jobs Deficit. A panel discussion, Will Europe Derail the World Economy?, follows as the University’s School of International and Public Affairs launches its new Center on Global Economic Governance.

WHO:		Keynote address by Alan Krueger, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Panelists include Jan Svejnar,founding director ofthe Center on Global Economic Governance; Guillermo Calvo, professor of international and public affairs; John Coatsworth, Columbia provost; Merit Janow, professor of international economic law; Robert Lieberman, interim dean of the School of International and Public Affairs; Sharyn O’Halloran, professor of political economy; Jeffrey Sachs, director of Columbia’s Earth Institute; and Kathleen Hays, host of Bloomberg Radio’s Hays Advantage.

WHEN:		Thursday, April 26, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon

WEBLINK:		View livestream of Chairman Krueger’s address at www.sipa.columbia.edu/cgeg/watch.html at 9:15 a.m.

WHERE:		Rotunda, Low Memorial Library Columbia University, Morningside Heights campus Broadway at West 116 Street, Manhattan Transit: 1 train to 116 Street/Columbia University

SPONSORS:		Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs and Center on Global Economic Governance

MEDIA:		Media must register with Tanya Domi, 212-854-5579, td207@columbia.edu