Wharton Club’s 2012 Economic Forecast Seminar
Thursday, January 12, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Nova Southeastern University
Huizenga Business School
Knight Auditorium
Carl Desantis Building
Ray Ferrero Jr. Boulevard (SW 75th Avenue)
Davie, Florida 33314
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Click here to register
Parking information: Multi-story parking located on the opposite side of Ray Ferrero Blvd. across from the Carl Desantis Bldg.
Cost for this event: $25.00 per person
If you have any questions or encounter any difficulties registering, please contact Danna Daughtry, Club Administrator at (786) 206-4867 or admin@whartonsouthfla.com.
Tom Cunningham, Vice President, Senior Economist, and Regional Executive Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Prior to his appointment as regional executive, he was associate director of research. He has served as a vice president in the research department, where he has been responsible for the regional and Latin American research teams. He has served on the Bank’s Personnel, Information Technology, and Risk Management Committees and as a member of the Federal Reserve System’s Information Security Group and Technology Services Council. He also was the acting director of the Bank’s Center for Real Estate Analytics and the interim head of the finance group.
Dr. Cunningham joined the Bank as an economist with the macropolicy group in 1985, specializing in macroeconomics and monetary theory. He previously worked as an economics instructor at Barnard College at Columbia University.
He is a member of the American Economic Association, the Western Economic Association, and the Southern Economic Association. Dr. Cunningham has published numerous professional articles.
A native of Reedley, California, he received a bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in economics from California State University, Fresno. He earned a master’s degree, a master of philosophy, and a PhD in economics from Columbia University. He has attended the executive development program at the Wharton School.
Kenneth H. Thomas, Ph.D., Lecturer in Finance, The Wharton School Banking Expert and Economist
Kenneth H. Thomas, Ph.D. is a Miami-based banking expert and economist who has been a consultant to numerous banks and financial institutions as well as to several community and government entities since 1969.
Dr. Thomas has advised state and federal bank regulators on different public policy issues, including training federal bank examiners. He has testified before Congress and federal bank regulators several times on various bank regulatory and public policy issues such as the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA), federal deposit insurance, and related bank regulatory and public policy issues. He has written two books on CRA, and many of the recommendations in them were directly implemented into current bank regulations.
He grew up in Miami and received a B.S.B.A. degree with High Honors in Finance from the University of Florida; an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Miami; and, an M.A. in Finance and Ph.D. in Business and Applied Economics with a major in Finance from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Thomas taught finance at the University of Miami and later joined the faculty at Wharton where he has been a Lecturer in Finance since 1970. He teaches banking and monetary economics at Wharton and received an “Excellence in Teaching� award in 2001 and 2004.
He is a regular speaker and writer in the banking and thrift industries and is regularly quoted in local, regional, national, and international articles on these topics. He has appeared frequently on ABC radio, Bloomberg radio and TV, CBC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, Nightly Business News, and NPR.
