Northeast Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition  Author Biographies and Presentations

Jeffrey B. Carr
Corporate President and Economist, EPR

Keynote
 
Mr. Carr has over 25 years of experience in economics, economic forecasting, tax-fiscal impact analysis, tax revenue forecasting, and preparing and presenting state economic-fiscal data to bond rating agency personnel. Mr. Carr has served as the consulting State Economist and Principal Revenues Analyst for over 16 years and 3 gubernatorial administrations in Vermont. He serves as a consulting economist to several Vermont state agencies and a number of businesses and business associations in northern New England.

Previous to his employment at EPR, Mr. Carr served as Legislative Director and Economist for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He also has served in the Executive Branch of Vermont government (in the State Planning Office—later the Office of Policy Research and Coordination), as Research Director for a United States Senate campaign, and as Director of Research for a national education organization specializing in federal fiscal policy analysis. He has been the State Forecast Manager for the New England Economic Partnership for the past 16 years. He taught economics in the Graduate School at St. Michael’s College in Winooski, VT.

Mr. Carr holds an M.S. degree in Agricultural Economics and a B.S. Degree in Animal Sciences from the University of Vermont. He currently serves as Chair of the Essex Town Selectboard, Essex, Vermont—the second largest municipality in the state, and is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Chittenden County Metropolitan Planning Organization in charge of regional transportation planning in northwest Vermont.

2007 Keynote Address
Regional Economic Forecast