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February 29 - March 1, 2012

St. Cloud, Minnesota

The Winter Institute is an annual summit hosted by the Department of Economics, School of Public Affairs, St. Cloud State University. Minnesota is famous for its winter season and every year we use this opportunity to gather the best minds in the region and the country to share their thoughts and ideas on various economics issues with audience from Minnesota and the Midwest. The Winter Institute is important forum for the members of the community to generate ideas that can foster growth and development in greater St. Cloud area, central Minnesota, and beyond.

Many prominent economists and policy makers, for examples, Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize Laureate Milton Friedman and Federal Reserve Chairman Benjamin Bernanke, have been our keynote speakers at the Winter Institute in the past 49 years. Visit our Past Winter Institutes for more information on previous speakers.

On February 29 and March 1, 2012, we will celebrate our 50th anniversary. We will continue the tradition and have prepared an exciting program to warm up the temperature:

• Dinner on February 29, 2012 will feature our first corporate leader speaker

Judy Poferl, CEO, Northern States Power Company - Minnesota, Xcel Energy

What the Sisters of St. Benedict Taught Me about Sharing, Caring and Being Green

• Three keynote speeches by leading natural resources economists and macroeconomists

Lynn Scarlett, Co-Director of the Center for the Management of Ecological Wealth, Resources for the Future and former U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior

Environmental Entrepreneurship: Beyond Green Technology

James D. Hamilton, Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego and co-author of Econbrowser blog.

Oil Prices, Exhaustible Resources and Economic Growth

Richard D. Morgenstern, Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future and former Director, Office of Policy Analysis, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Regulation on Green House Gases in the United States

• A luncheon speech by famous economic journalist, columnist and author Chris Farrell of Minnesota Public Radio

• Annual Economic Outlook panel with prominent economic forecasters including Scott Anderson (Wells Fargo), James Hamilton, Steve Hine (MN Department of Employment and Economic Development) and our own King Banaian.

• A business panel Going Green: the Whys and the Hows featuring regional business leaders (co-organized by the Initiative Foundation and St. Cloud Area Chamber of Commerce)

On this website, you will find the information you need about the program, the speakers, the panelists and the relevant logistics.

For more information, please click the link Contact Us and you will find the contact information of people who can answer your questions.

We look forward to seeing you this winter!