Topic: "Virginia's Economy, Looking Backward and Projecting Forward"

Agenda

This event is a celebration of the economic vitality of our region and will sell out fast. Please RSVP by noon, December 3rd by calling (434) 845-5966, emailing info@lynchburgregion.org or online.

Speaker: 

Eric Scorsone
Executive Director, Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service
Associate Professor of Public Policy 
University of Virginia 
 

Dr. Eric Scorsone is Executive Director of the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. Eric has over 25 years of public service in academic settings, as well as many years’ experience in state and local government. He has expertise in state and local public finance, community and economic development, strategic planning, capacity building, public administration and regional economics.

His most recent position before joining UVA was at Michigan State University as Associate Professor and Founding Director of the MSU Extension Center for Local Government Finance & Policy, and Director of the MSU Extension Institute of Public Utilities. He worked with many communities throughout Michigan on capacity building in public administration, economic development and strategic planning. He also did capacity building work and strategic planning with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources leadership teams. During his tenure at MSU, Dr. Scorsone went on leave for state-level appointments as Deputy State Treasurer at the Michigan Department of Treasury and Senior Economist at the Michigan Senate Fiscal Agency.

Prior to MSU, Dr. Scorsone was an assistant professor and developed award-winning extension programs in rural health economics and economic development in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of Kentucky. He worked with many communities throughout eastern Kentucky on issues related to community and economic development projects and capacity building.

Prior to Kentucky, he served as an Economist for the Colorado Governor’s Office of State Planning and Budget and as a Senior Economist for the City of Aurora, Colorado. Eric has worked on international development projects in Thailand, Macedonia and Indonesia, and has taught public performance management and public finance in the European Union at the University of Bologna, Italy, and the University of Valencia, Spain, amongst other locations. Just one example of his dedication to public service is the time he spent in Flint, Michigan, as Senior Advisor to Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley, helping coordinate MSU Extension’s response to the water and financial crisis there —work for which his team won the Abraham Lincoln Award from the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. His team worked to build the capacity of the city of Flint to manage its budget and public services during an incredibly difficult period.

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