January 27, 2005, 7:00 – 9:30 am
Austin Convention Center Ballroom

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Featured Speakers

Zanny Minton Beddoes

Economics Correspondent, The Economist magazine, Washington D.C.

Angelos Angelou
Principal and Chief Economist, AngelouEconomics, Austin, TX

Professional Biographies:

Zanny Minton Beddoes
Ms. Zanny Minton Beddoes is The Economist’s economics correspondent in Washington DC. She is responsible for coverage of the American economy, economic policy and issues surrounding globalisation. Before moving to Washington in April 1996, Ms. Minton Beddoes was The Economist’s emerging-markets correspondent based in London. She has written surveys of the World Economy, Latin American finance, global finance and Central Asia.

Ms. Minton Beddoes joined The Economist in 1994 after spending two years as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Before joining the IMF, she worked as an adviser to the Minister of Finance in Poland, as part of a small group headed by Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard University.

Ms. Minton Beddoes has written extensively about the American economy and international financial policy. She has published in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, and has testified before Congress on the introduction of the Euro.

Ms. Minton Beddoes is a regular panelist on “Tucker Carlson Unfiltered” (PBS) and commentator on “Marketplace” (NPR). She has also appeared on CNN, MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour, CNBC, and “Public Interest”. She is a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Committee for Economic Development.

Angelos Angelou
Angelos Angelou is the founder and CEO of AngelouEconomics, an Austin, Texas, based consulting firm specializing in the technology industry and the communities seeking to recruit them. The company is a leading economic development and site selection firm with an impressive record of helping its clients recruit technology companies and improve their economies. In the firm’s 7-year history, it has provided economic development and recruitment services worldwide. Clients include Orlando, Florida; The State of Texas; The State of New York; New Orleans, Louisiana; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Huntsville, Alabama; Lincoln, Nebraska; Northwest North Carolina; Santa Fe, New Mexico; Portugal; and the Czech Republic.

AngelouEconomics has provided site selection services and location data for some of the largest companies in the world, including AMD, Dell Computer, Intel, Compaq, Applied Materials, Oracle, Sulzer Medica, and M+W Zander.

Angelos is the author of the highly regarded Economic & Technology Forecast for the greater Austin metropolitan area. He has authored the annual event since 1984, and today it attracts more than 1,000 Austin dignitaries each year.

Prior to forming AngelouEconomics, Angelos was Vice President of Economic Development at the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce. During his 11-year career with the chamber, he played a major role in bringing more than 400 corporations employing some 70,000 people to Austin. The recruitment team, under his direction, garnered an impressive string of successes, helping to draw major high tech projects such as SEMATECH, Applied Materials, Apple Computer and Samsung to the area. A highly visible leader in the field of economic development across the US, Angelos is widely regarded as the chief architect in the establishment of Austin as another Silicon Valley.

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