Global Summit 2022 - Rejuvenating Industrial Heartlands

Global Summit 2022 - Erie - Rejuvenating Industrial Heartlands: Key to Healing Polarized Politics and Strengthen Western Democracy
Speaker: John C. Austin, MPA
Panelists: Andy Westwood, Florence Hennart, Tiziano Dell’Olmo, Benoît Nadler, Hélène Laueriere, Michael Schwarze-Rodrian, John Morgan

John Austin is making his first appearance at the Global Summit discussing "Rejuvenating Industrial Heartlands: Key to Healing Polarized Politics and Strengthening Western Democracy." In a series of publications on The Avenue since the 2016 presidential election, he has underscored the importance of understanding the economy and politics of midwestern swing states.

Austin is the former president of the Michigan State Board of Education. He directs the Michigan Economic Center, a center for ideas and networking to advance Michigan's economic transformation. Austin also serves as a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings Metro, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the Upjohn Institute. Additionally, he lectures on economic issues at the University of Michigan.

In 2020, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs released Austin's report, "A Global Midwest: The Path to New Prosperity," which provides an updated analysis of the Great Lakes-Midwest economy. At the Michigan Economic Center, Austin has spurred work to transform Michigan's economy and to help position it to be a leader in the coming "Green and Blue" sustainable economy, referring to land and lake.

In 2006, Austin created and directed the "Great Lakes Economic Initiative" for Brookings, where he authored reports that helped shape the region's economic development agenda leading to federal support for Great Lakes clean-up and restoration and touting Great Lakes water resources as an economic asset. Austin received his master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College in Economics & Political Science.

Recorded at Gannon University - Erie, PA on 11/9/22

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