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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members
Pages 121-136
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Trade and Investment Policy, which was co-chaired by former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and former Senate Majority Leader Thomas Daschle. He was also the project director for the 2009 Independent Task Force on U.S.
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He has published a number of research and policy papers and has written or edited 17 books including "Transition and Structural Change in the North American Labour Market" (with Michael Abbott and Richard Chaykowski, 1997) , "Canadian Immigration Policy for the 21st Century" (with Alan Green and Jeffrey Reitz, 2003)
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Her background in business strategy development, economic analysis and measurement provided business insight and methodologies to analyzing risk and measuring risk management effectiveness. Over the preceding decade of her career, she held several strategy development roles.
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Senator Ken Salazar's legislative team, working with him to develop his legislative agenda on a host of issues including labor, civil rights, judicial nominations and immigration. She advised Senator Salazar during the comprehensive immigration reform debates of 2006 and 2007 in which Senator Salazar was a key member of the bipartisan group pressing for reform.
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, the Committee on Assuring a Future U.S.-based Nuclear Chemistry Expertise, the Committee on National Statistics Panel on Developing Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators for the Future, the Committee on Capitalizing on the Diversity of the Science and Engineering Workforce in Industry, the Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists, the Committee on Demographic and Economic Impacts of Immigration, and the joint NAS, NAE and IOM study on Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United States.
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Migration Policy Institute, the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council/APEC, the World Health Organization, and the Global Forum of Federations. In 2005-2006 she was appointed to an Expert Panel of Three by Federal Cabinet to complete the most extensive evaluation of Australia's skilled migration program in 20 years (all fields)
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In 2012, he was named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for distinguished service to population research, particularly the study of international migration, population geography and mobility, and through leadership roles with national and international organizations.
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science and engineering workforce, and the 2008-2009 recession in Germany. WILLIAM KAMELA Bill Kamela is the senior federal policy lead for the Microsoft Corporation on workforce readiness and immigration related issues.
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WILLIAM LINCOLN William Lincoln is an assistant professor at the The Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
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He has published in journals such as Demography, American Economic Review, Population and Development Review, Industrial Relations and Work and Occupations. His research interests include immigration policy, labor force, economic development, Mexico-US migration, education and the global mobility of the highly skilled.
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He has published over 90 articles in journals such as Quarterly Journal of Economics, Science, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of the European Economic Association, American Economic Journal: Applied Micro, Journal of Econometrics, and all leading development journals. He is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Development Economics, the World Bank Economic Review, the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and Migration Studies.
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As a labor economist at the Dallas Fed, she analyzes the regional economy, with special focus on labor markets and demographic change. She is also adjunct professor at Baylor University and a Tower Center Fellow at The Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University.
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Memorial Award in 2001; an Invited Professorship Award from the Japan Ministry of Science, Education and Culture in 2002; and the Christian Friedrich Schoenbein Gold Medal from the European Fuel Cell Forum in 2006. He has served on the editorial boards of the Elsevier's Journal of Power Sources, the Fuel Cell Virtual Journal, and the ASME's Journal of Fuel Cell Science and Technology.
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She served on the National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council, National Institutes of Health, 20052009 and served on the Advisory Committee of the Social, Behavioral, and Economics Program, National Science Foundation, 2001-2008. She was a member of the European Commission High-Level Expert Group that authored the report "Frontier Research: The European Challenge." She has served on a number of National Research Council committees including the committee on Dimensions, Causes, and Implications of Recent Trends in the Careers of Life Scientists, Committee on Methods of Forecasting Demand and Supply of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers, and the Committee on Policy Implications of International Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars in the United States.
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. He is a demographer, with research interests that include the causes and consequences of very low fertility rates; the processes and implications of international migration; and patterns and trends in science and engineering labor markets in the United States and elsewhere.
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She is also a research fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany.
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