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Dr. Rajeev Dhawan
Associate Professor of Management and
Director, Economic Forecasting Center
J. Mack Robinson College of Business
Georgia State University
Rajeev Dhawan is Director of the Economic Forecasting Center at Georgia State University in Atlanta where he develops forecasts for the U.S., Southeast regional, and local metro Atlanta economies. He has received several awards for his forecasting accuracy, including most accurate GDP forecast by Bloomberg News in 2005. Dhawan appears regularly in the local and national media, is a popular speaker, regularly briefs the boards of private companies and serves on the Georgia Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors. His recent research has focused on the effects of rising oil prices on the national economy. He earned a B.A. in Economics, with honors, from St. Stephen's College in India, an M.A. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics in India and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.
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Colonel Warren G. Ward
Director, Strategic Plans and Programs
Headquarters Eighth Air Force
Colonel Warren G. Ward is the Director, Strategic Plans and Programs, Headquarters Eighth Air Force where he is responsible for oversight of the organization’s planning, programming, budgeting and execution cycle for cyber programs. He is rated as a Command Pilot with both combat and combat support hours. Colonel Ward graduated from Ashdown High School in Ashdown, Arkansas in 1980. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and was commissioned through the AFROTC program at Louisiana Tech University in 1985. After serving two years at the USAF Armament Laboratory, Eglin AFB Florida, he reported to Vance AFB Oklahoma for undergraduate pilot training.
After earning his wings, Colonel Ward trained as a B-52 pilot and served with the 441st Bomb Squadron at Mather AFB and then moved to Barksdale AFB for service with the 596th and 96th Bomb Squadrons. While at Barksdale, he piloted one of seven aircraft on the opening strike of Operation DESERT STORM, a 35.4-hour sortie against time-critical Iraqi targets, the first operational use of the Conventional Air Launched Cruise Missile. He was assigned as the executive officer to the vice commander of Eighth Air Force in October 1995.
In July 1998, Colonel Ward reported to Maxwell AFB Alabama as a student at Air Command and Staff College. He then served on the staff of United States Strategic Command, Offutt AFB Nebraska from September 1999 to September 2002 as a cruise missile strike planner and chief of the deliberate plans branch. He reported to the 25th Flying Training Squadron at Vance in March 2003. In December 2003, he was assigned as the Chief of Safety, 71st Flying Training Wing, Vance AFB Oklahoma. From September 2004 through June 2006, he commanded the 321st Training Squadron at Lackland AFB where his instructor team was responsible for transforming more than 10,500 civilian recruits into warrior Airmen to replenish the service’s combat capability. From July 2006 through June 2007, he was a USAF research fellow at Argonne National Laboratory where he focused his efforts to understand the Department of Energy’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership initiative, particularly in the area of spent nuclear fuel reprocessing.
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Dr. Jerry L. Wall, SPHR, APD
Dean, College of Business
Northwestern State University of Louisiana
wall@nsula.edu
Dr. Jerry L. Wall is Dean of the College of Business and a Professor of Management at Northwestern State University of Louisiana. His doctorate is from the University of Missouri—Columbia and he has earlier degrees from East Carolina University and Oklahoma State University. He also holds advanced accreditations in Human Resources Management. He is a graduate of Leadership Louisiana, was a member of the Louisiana Data Base Commission, LIDEA, and the CABL Tax Institute among other activities. He served as President of the national Association for University Business & Economic Research (AUBER), and on the national board of directors of the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA), a 370,000 member organization. He just stepped down from the Presidency of the 225 member Downtown Monroe Rotary Club and has been very active in Rotary for almost 25 years.
In his previous job as Director of the Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER) at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, Dr. Wall collected, processed, analyzed, and disseminated information on northern Louisiana, the region and the state and was frequently called upon by statewide and national media for commentary on economic and business events.
CBER operated the Louisiana Electronic Assistance Program (LEAP)—an Internet data base providing information about Louisiana to the world and compiled the Louisiana Parish Profiles. CBER also operated a Telephone Survey Center which accomplished thousands of calls monthly concerning health related and other studies for various clients. CBER conducted the statewide Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Study as well as dozens of other studies for the Louisiana Office of Public Health, other state health agencies and the U. S. Centers for Disease Control for over 15 years.
Dr. Wall’s teaching has included graduate and undergraduate courses in International Business, Business Research, Human Resources and Strategic Management. Dr. Wall has had extensive experience in small business development and consulting and served six years as the Director of a Small Business Institute. Over the last thirty years he has conducted numerous management development seminars and acted as consultant for private, public and non-profit organizations. He is the author/co-author of over one hundred articles, papers and books and at various times has served as the editor or co-editor of four different publications.
Dr. Wall retired in 1995 as a Colonel in the Army Reserve after spending thirty-one years assigned to the intelligence field. However, he finished his career with a five year tour as Comptroller for the 412th Engineer Command--a job that involved financial operations on four continents.
Dr. Wall is biographed in various issues of Marquis's Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the South & Southwest and Who's Who in American Education.
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