Susan Helper, Chief Economist, Economics & Statistics Administration

Chief Economist Dr. Sue Helper will discuss the supply chain innovation initiative recently announced by the President, in which the Department of Commerce is playing a key role.  Dr. Helper recently wrote about the initiative and a new White House-Department of Commerce report that examines the importance of reinvesting in America's supply chain to enable innovation.  The report, "Supply Chain Innovation: Strengthening America's Small Manufacturers," identifies potential barriers as well as solutions – laying the path toward sustained manufacturing growth and strength, at home and abroad, now and into the future. 

Please join Dr. Helper as she discusses the ample opportunities that exist for government at all levels to partner with the private sector to promote supply chain innovation and thus foster a continued manufacturing renaissance, now and into the future.

About Dr. Helper
Chief Economist Susan Helper is on leave from the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, where she is the Carlton Professor of Economics. She was formerly the chair of the Economics Department, and has been a visiting scholar at University of Oxford, the University of California (Berkeley), Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research focuses on the globalization of supply chains, and on how U.S. manufacturing might be revitalized.  To read more about Ms. Helper, please see her full biography.

Location Details:
Commerce Research Library, Room 1894
U.S. Department of Commerce
1401 Constitution Avenue, NW 20230
(Please do not use the building's main entrance for this special event.  Instead please use the building entrance at Pennsylvania & 15th. 
Doors will open at 11:45am.)

Accessibility: This program will be physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other accommodations should be directed to the Commerce Research Library at 202-482-1154.