2023 State of the West Symposium
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
366 Galvez Street Stanford, CA 94305 United States
Stanford University’s State of the West Symposium annually takes stock of the economic and fiscal health of North America’s Western region. We gather academic researchers, business and financial leaders, elected officials, agency heads, and other stakeholders to address the well-being of the millions of Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans who dwell on the sunset side of the hundredth meridian.
The 2023 symposium will mark the 10th joint program between the Bill Lane Center for the American West and SIEPR. It will focus on relations among the continent’s three sovereign nations, with special attention to the continuing crisis along the US-Mexican border – all of which runs through the four “frontline” western states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
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Agenda
Friday, May 19, 2023
Lunch
Welcome Remarks
Mark Duggan, Trione Director of SIEPR
David Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus, Founding Faculty Co-director, Bill Lane Center for the American West
Lunch Keynote
- Calixto Mateos Hanel, Managing Director of the North American Development Bank
Break
Panel discussion: Does the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) have a future?
- Honorable Perrin Beatty, PC OC, Canadian Chamber of Commerce
- Professor Renee Bowen, UCSD
- Professor Gerardo Esquivel, El Colegio de Mexico
Moderator - Professor Melanie Morten, Stanford
Break
Panel discussion: Addressing the Crisis on the US-Mexico Border
- Professor Ana Minian, Stanford
- Ben Hueso, California State Senate
- Carlos González Gutiérrez, Consul General of Mexico in San Diego
- Moderator - Ran Abramitzky, Stanford