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The Challenge of Change: What to Expect from the Obama White House
Barack Obama is taking office in a time of historic challenges, and is looking to the nation’s universities for solutions. Berkeley is at the forefront of this policy shift, with Berkeley professors serving as top advisors on economic policy and climate change.
Join us as two of Berkeley’s most prominent economists, Henry Brady and Severin Borenstein, discuss how the current financial crisis and its fallout will impact the president’s ambitious agenda for public policy and energy reform.
Program for all events
6 to 7 p.m. — Reception with hors d’oeuvres and no-host bar
an opportunity to network with fellow Cal alumni, parents, and friends of the University
7 to 8:30 p.m. — Lecture and Q&A session
$20 per person • $25 at the door • Seating is limited.
Speakers
HENRY BRADY
Henry Brady is a political scientist and economist with interests in electoral politics and political participation, social welfare policy, political polling and policy-oriented surveys, statistical methodology, use of computers in management of social programs, political participation, and the dynamics of public opinion and political campaigns. Brady has worked for the federal Office of Management and Budget and other organizations in Washington, D.C. Professor Brady received his Ph.D. in Economics and Political Science from MIT in 1980 and has co-authored two books, including Letting the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election (1992), which won Canada’s Harold Adams Innis Award, and Voice and Equality: Civic Voluntarism in American Politics (1995). Brady has also authored numerous articles on political participation, political methodology, the dynamics of public opinion, and other topics.
SEVERIN BORENSTEIN
Severin Borenstein is E.T. Grether Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy at the Haas School of Business, Director of the University of California Energy Institute, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA. He is also an affiliated professor in the Agricultural and Resource Economics department and the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley. He received his B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in 1978 and Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1983. His research focuses on business competition, strategy, and regulation. He has published extensively on the airline, oil and gasoline, and electricity markets, as well as on insurance, e-commerce, mining, natural gas and other industries. Borenstein was a member of the Governing Board of the California Power Exchange from 1997 until 2003 and served on the California Attorney General’s gasoline price taskforce from 1999 to 2000. Most recently, his research has focused on the evolving airline industry, real-time retail electricity pricing, and the economics of renewable energy and climate change.
