About the Speakers:

Prof. Donald Carli
Donald Carli is a full time faculty member in the Department of Advertising, Design and Graphic Arts at New York City College of Technology, The City University of New York and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Communication.

He is also founder and President of Nima Hunter, Inc. a consulting firm established in 1986 providing Fortune 500 companies with marketing research, market analysis, technology assessment and strategic planning services related to graphic communication technologies and related business processes.

Dr. Erica Groshen
Erica Groshen is currently the Assistant Vice President, Research and Market Analysis Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. She conducts research on labor markets over the business cycle, wage rigidity and dispersion, and the role of employers in labor market outcomes. She is a leader of the International Wage Flexibility Project and co-authored the recently released book How New is the "New Employment Contract"? from the W.E. Upjohn Institute Press. She also edits the Bank's Economic and Policy Review, the flagship publication of the Research Department. Her fields of interest include employers' role in market outcomes, inequality, recessions' labor market impacts, wage flexibility. She obtained her PhD in Economics from Harvard University in 1986 and holds a M.A. in Economics from Harvard (1983).

George Weyerhaeuser, Jr.
George H. Weyerhaeuser Jr., serves as Senior Vice President, Technology, responsible for Corporate Research and Development at Weyerhaeuser Corp. Weyerhaeuser is Senior Vice President, Technology chair of the Canadian National Advisory Board on Forestry Research. Weyerhaeuser is chairman of the Forest Alliance of British Columbia. He is a director of the Dietzen Corporation and Clearwater Management Company and a board member of the Thea Foss Waterway Public Development Authority.

Weyerhaeuser joined the company in Dierks, Arkansas in 1978 where he held various positions including technical forester and contract logger administrator before becoming sawmill supervisor in 1980. He moved to the Valliant Oklahoma operations in 1981 where he assumed several company roles before being named vice president and mill manager for Containerboard in 1987. In 1990, Weyerhaeuser moved to Corporate Headquarters in Federal Way to become vice president, manufacturing for Weyerhaeuser pulp & paper businesses. He served as president and chief executive officer of Weyerhaeuser Canada from June 1993 to May 1998.

Weyerhaeuser received his bachelor's degree in Philosophy/Mathematics from Yale University in 1976 and a masters of science from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1986. Weyerhaeuser's great great grandfather was Frederick Weyerhaeuser, one of the Weyerhaeuser Company founders in 1900.