Keynote Address

Richard Deitz

Richard Deitz serves as Regional Economics Officer and senior economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and has been with the Federal Reserve since 1998. He provides economic analysis of upstate New York for the Federal Reserve System, and often consults with state and local governments on regional economic issues.

Prior to joining the Federal Reserve, Mr. Deitz served as a professor of economics for several upstate New York colleges and universities, including Canisius College, the University of Buffalo, the Rochester Institute of Technology, Saint Lawrence University, and Binghamton University.

Currently, Mr. Deitz serves on Governor Paterson’s Council of Economic Advisors, as well as the Board of Economic Advisors for the New York State Division of the Budget and the New York State Assembly Ways and Means Committee. He also resides on the Board of Directors for the New York State Economics Association, where he served as president, and is past president of the Regional New York Center for Financial Training.

Mr. Deitz created the Empire State Manufacturing Survey, an economic indicator now followed worldwide. He has published a number of works on issues facing the upstate New York economy, as well as a number of academic papers in the field of urban and regional economics. He is often quoted in newspapers on both the regional and national levels, including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, and has appeared on CNN, CNBC, and Bloomberg Television.

Mr. Deitz has a Ph.D. in Economics from Binghamton University.

RICHARD DEITZ
Biographical Summary

August 2008