The Opportunity & Inclusive Growth Institute at the Minneapolis Fed will host its 2023 research conference on October 5, 2023. This event will showcase the range of frontier-style research with which the Institute engages. (Read the detailed event program and papers.)
The event’s keynote speaker will be Jed Kolko, Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs. Secretary Kolko coordinates economic analysis for the Commerce Department and provides direction and oversight for the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Before joining the Commerce Department, Kolko served as chief economist at Indeed, a global jobs site, and Trulia, an online real-estate firm.