Atlanta Fed CEO to Address Conference

According the MTSU's Record: Dennis P. Lockhart, 14th president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, will be the keynote speaker at the 15th annual Economic Outlook Conference at MTSU, which will be held Friday, Sept. 28, in the James Union Building. Registration at the door will begin at 8:15 a.m. The no-fee conference will adjourn at 1:15 p.m.

"Lockhart, who will speak at 9 a.m., assumed his new post in March and is responsible for the bank's monetary policy, supervision, regulation and payment services. From 2001 to 2003, he was managing partner at the New York-based private equity firm Zephyr Management, with reaches into Africa and Latin America. Prior to that, he served as executive vice president and director at Heller Financial and as president of Heller International Group, which conducted business in North and South America, Europe and Asia. Previously, he worked at Citicorp/Citibank (now Citigroup) and once served in Iran as chief operating office of a banking joint venture between Citibank and an Iranian affiliate.

"Dr. Donald Ratajczak, Regent's Professor of Economics Emeritus at Georgia State University and nationally known economic forecaster, will address the noon luncheon audience. Ratajczak served as director of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State for 27 years. In 1994, he received the Blue Chip award for forecasting accuracy during the four previous years. He appears regularly on CNBC and writes a weekly column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Business Week has cited Ratajczak for his accuracy in predicting national trends. He received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College and his doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology."