Speakers

Anirban Basu
Chief Economist
Associated Builders and Contractors
Anirban Basu is Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) chief economist. His primary responsibility is to provide ABC members with timely, comprehensive analyses on important trends in the U.S. commercial and industrial construction industry. He produces ABC’s Construction Backlog Indicator (CBI) which is based on a monthly survey of various ABC members and measures work to be performed by contractors to assess the health of the construction industry.
In addition, he produces the one-page, economic news report Construction Economic Update, with analysis of one or a combination of the following federal government economic indicators including construction spending, employment, producer price index and gross domestic product. Basu also writes a monthly article for Construction Executive magazine.
Basu is Chairman and CEO of Sage Policy Group, Inc., an economic and policy consulting firm in Baltimore, Maryland. He is one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s most recognizable economists, in part because of his consulting work on behalf of numerous clients, including prominent developers, bankers, brokerage houses, energy suppliers and law firms.
Basu has Bachelor of Science degree in foreign service from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He received a Master of Public Policy degree from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1992, and a Master of Arts degree in mathematical economics from the University of Maryland in 1998. Additionally, Basu received a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2003, and is a member of the Maryland bar.

Eric Belsky
Managing Director
Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
Eric Belsky is Managing Director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University and Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The Center is a collaborative venture of the Graduate School of Design and the John F. Kennedy School of Government. The Center conducts research on the nation’s most critical housing and urban issues.

Prior to his Harvard appointments, Dr. Belsky led the Housing Finance and Credit Analysis Group at PriceWaterhouseCoopers LLP. He has also held the positions of Director of Housing Finance Research at Fannie Mae, Senior Economist at the National Association of Home Builders, and Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Dr. Belsky currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Housing Research and Housing Policy Debate, the board of the Opportunity Finance Network, the Affordable Housing Advisory Council of Fannie Mae, and the National Advisory Council of CredAbility. In 2001 and 2002, Dr. Belsky also served as Research Director for the bipartisan Millennial Housing Commission established by the Congress of the United States.

Dr. Belsky has extensive experience conducting research on housing markets, housing finance, and housing policy. He has published numerous articles in trade publications and academic journals. He has co-edited four books: Low-Income Homeownership: Examining the Unexamined Goal (2002), Building Assets, Building Credit: Creating Wealth in Low-Income Communities (2005), Revisiting Rental Housing (2008), and Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit Revisited (2008).


Governor John H. Sununu
Dr. Sununu is a former Governor of New Hampshire (1983-1989) and former White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush. He was the chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party from 2009 to 2011. He earned a B.S., a Master's degree, and a Ph.D. from MIT, all in mechanical engineering. From 1968 until 1973, he was Associate Dean of the College of Engineering at Tufts University and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He served on the Advisory Board of the Technology and Policy Program at MIT from 1984 until 1989. Dr. Sununu is currently serving as industry liaison and advisor for the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub.
 

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