Federal Reserve and Royal Bank of Canada Officials Highlight Eastern Panel

A Decade Later: U.S. Financial Crisis and Economic Recession

Willimantic, CT (02/01/2019) — Jeffrey Fuhrer, executive vice president and senior policy advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, will be the guest speaker at a panel discussion at Eastern Connecticut State University on Feb. 5. Fuhrer and other panelists will discuss "A Decade Later since the U.S. Financial Crisis and Economic Recession"; the event takes place from 4-6 p.m. in the Paul E. Johnson Room of the J. Eugene Smith Library.

Fuhrer is responsible for the Federal Reserve's Bank's regional and community outreach functions. He has been an associate economist of the Federal Open Market Committee, and regularly attends key U.S. policymaking meetings with the bank's president. He has been active in economic research for more than three decades and has published extensively.

Panelists include Randall Peteros, senior vice president of wealth management with the Royal Bank of Canada and a lecturer in Eastern's Business Administration Department; Candice Deal, Eastern associate professor of accounting; and Brendan Cunningham, associate professor of economics at Eastern.

Chiaku Chukwuogor, professor of finance and chair of the Eastern's Department of Business Administration, will serve as panel moderator.

Written by Dwight Bachman

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Eastern Connecticut State University is the state of Connecticut's public liberal arts university, serving more than 5,300 students annually at its Willimantic campus and satellite locations. In addition to attracting students from 163 of Connecticut's 169 towns, Eastern also draws students from 26 other states and 20 other countries. A residential campus offering 40 majors and 65 minors, Eastern offers students a strong liberal art foundation grounded in an array of applied learning opportunities. Ranked the 25th top public university in the North Region by U.S. News and World Report in its 2018 Best College ratings, Eastern has also been awarded 'Green Campus' status by the Princeton Review eight years in a row. For more information, visit www.easternct.edu.

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