Careers in Economics:There Can Be a Good Life After College

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Careers - Class/Workshop - Clark University Only

Date & Time: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
2:00 PM-3:00 PM
Suggested Audiences: College
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Clark University: Jonas Clark Hall
Room 120
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01610
Sponsored by: The Economics Department & Career Services (Facilitator: Professor Brown/David)
Description: Are you interested in a Career utilizing your Economics Major or Minor? Mr. Cary Leahey '74 will be on campus to talk about his own career path and how you can use your Clark degree to it's full advantage. Mr. Leahey will cover coursework at Clark and the ideal economics training needed. He will also discuss opportunities available to students with an Economics degree and how to get that first (and second) job.

M. Cary Leahey '74 is Senior Managing Director with Decision Economics, a consulting firm with offices in New York, Boston, and London. He writes regularly for the daily and weekly publications for client readership and provides advice and commentary as needed to clients. He has been seen from time to time on CBS, BBC, CNBC, CNN, Fox, PBS, NPR, Bloomberg, and Reuters.

Previously, he served as Director and Senior Economist at Deutsche Bank, where he was the principal economist served the equities market division. Before that he served as Managing Director and Senior Economist at Primark Decision Economics. He was also Chief U.S. Economist with High Frequency Economics, where he wrote the Daily Notes on the U.S. Economy. Prior to that, he was Chief U.S. Financial Markets Economist at Lehman Brothers. He served as the senior "Fed-watcher" on the fixed income desk and contributed to the weekly market outlook distributed by the firm. He made numerous presentations to clients and internals on the economic and financial markets outlook.

He has also worked as Director of Economic Forecasting at General Motors in New York, where he was responsible for the internal worldwide economic outlook. In particular, he worked closely with the asset management and treasurers office staff in strategic investment and product planning issues. He has also served as a senior economist at Data Resources, Inc., a major economic consulting firm. At DRI, he worked regularly on the monthly forecast and specialized in the federal and municipal budget outlooks. And before that he worked as an economist as the White House Office of Management and Budget and the Council of Economic Advisers in the 1970s.

He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Clark University. He taught at Swarthmore College, the Wharton School, and Boston University. His publications include "Linking Business Decisions to Macroeconomic Models," in Business Economics and "The Impact of Environmental Controls on Capital Formation," in The Government and Capital Formation. He has been listed in Who's Who in Finance and Industry since 1987 and Who's Who since 1999.

More Information: E-mail: careers@clarku.edu
Entered by: Clark University: Career Services

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