GRA 2008 Conference

The Governmental Research Association 2008 Annual Conference was held in Boston on August 3-6.  The conference was co-hosted by the Boston Municipal Research Bureau, Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation and the Worcester Regional Research Bureau.  Click on the names below for a link to the presentations made at the conference.

SESSION: Government Performance: How Does Data Improve

Government?

 

Roberta R. Schaefer, Ph.D., President & CEO Worcester Regional Research Bureau

Pamela Cardillo Director, ProvStat, City of Providence Rhode Island

Stephanie Hirsch, Director, SomerStat, City of Somerville Massachusetts

Joe T. Adams, Ph.D., Research Coordinator, Public Affairs Research Council of Alabama, Birmingham, AL

                                                                                             

SESSION:  For Sale:  Government Assets

John Foote, Senior Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government

Joseph C. Aiello, Senior Investment Director, Meridiam

Joseph M. Giglio, Senior Academic Specialist, International Business & Strategy, Northeastern University
                                                                                             

SESSION:  Crisis:  Housing Foreclosures

Paul S. Willen, Senior Economist and Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Michele Mariani Vaughn, Senior Associate, Pew Center on the States  

Evelyn Friedman, Chief & Director, Department of Neighborhood Development, City of Boston 

Mossik Hacobian, Executive Director, Urban Edge Boston 
                                                                                                 

 

SESSION:  Universal Health Care:  The Massachusetts Experience

 

Rosemarie Day, Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer,    Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector

Sarah Iselin, Commissioner, Division of Health Care Finance & Policy, Executive Office of Health and Human Services

Nancy Turnbull, Associate Dean, Harvard School of Public Health, Member of the Connector Board

                                                                                                   

 

SESSION:  What is the Secret to Surviving an Economic

Downturn?

 

Michael Christensen, Ph.D., Director of the Legislative Office of Research and General Counsel for the Utah Legislature

Michael Goodman, Ph.D., Director of Economic & Public Policy Research at the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute

                                                                                                      

 

SESSION:  Education:  The K-16 Connection

 

David P. Driscoll, Former Commissioner of Education in Massachusetts

Mebane Rash Whitman, Attorney and Editor of North Carolina Insight, North Carolina Center for Public Policy Research

Harry Spence, John F. Kennedy School of Governmen

                                                                                                      

 

LUNCHEON:  Robert H. Attmore, Chairman, Governmental Accounting Standards Board