Bob Uhlenkott is the chief research officer for the Idaho Department of Labor and has been with the department since 2000. He manages the department's Research and Analysis Unit, which is responsible for several federal and state research and survey programs. Prior to his employment with the Idaho Department of Labor, he was director of the Idaho Statistical Analysis Center at the Idaho State Police and he also worked in the Program Formulation Division of the U.S. Department of Energy where he studied leverage points of wealth creation in the U.S. economy. Bob has a Bachelors Degree in business administration from Lewis-Clark State College and a Masters in Economics specializing in labor economics from the University of Idaho. At the University of Idaho his research focused on Idaho's unemployment insurance program and measuring the solvency of the state's unemployment insurance trust fund.

Dr. Nancy Brown is currently the Dean of Workforce Development at Walters State Community College in Morristown, Tennessee. She is lead staff to the Smoky Mountains Area WIA Board, which includes 10 counties in East Tennessee. Dr. Brown was the author of successful proposals for a $1.95 million grant in the first round of the Community-Based Jobs Training funds, and for a $956,000 ARRA-funded grant to establish a Clean Energy Technology Training program at the college. Formerly she worked in economic development with the Tennessee Valley Authority and had her own consulting firm. Her Ph.D. in Higher Education and her Master of Science in Planning are from the University of Tennessee. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners and a self-professed data geek.

Dr. Robison is co-founder and a senior economist at EMSI with 30 years of international and domestic experience. He specializes in economic impact analysis, regional data development, and custom crafted community and broader area input-output models. His clients include state and federal government agencies and private industries.
Prior to EMSI, Dr. Robison served 10 years as a research faculty and consultant to the University of Idaho, where he secured a wide array of grants and contract research. Dr. Robison is recognized for his theoretical work that blends regional input-output and spatial trade theory, and for his development of community-level input-output modeling. A retrospective ranked Dr. Robison number eighteen of the top one-hundred "intellectual leaders of regional science" for the decade of the nineties (Papers in Regional Science, 83(1), 2004).

Chuck Flacks, research director, began work at the San Diego Workforce Partnership on June 4, 2007. He helps to bring labor market information and workforce development policy to employers, job seekers, community organizations, career counselors and decision makers. He is the author of the San Diego Workforce Index, a measure of the pulse of the San Diego labor market. His team recently published the Occupational Outlook Report - a primer on the hot jobs in San Diego; a study of the role of military investment on the workforce; a study on the current career pathways in hospitality and tourism; a study on real opportunities in the life sciences for people with less than a four-year degree; and a study of the emerging health information technology industry.
Prior to joining the Workforce Partnership, Chuck worked for six years at the Social and Behavioral Research Institute at California State University San Marcos. While there, his specialty was community research. He managed over a dozen research projects including program evaluations of a community building initiative in 11 Southeastern San Diego neighborhoods by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a three-year prisoner re-entry study for local nonprofit Second Chance, a three-year diabetes services delivery program for the local Council of Community Clinics, a library satisfaction survey for the City of Carlsbad and several large-scale survey research projects.
Chuck has worked with for-profit market research companies, non-profit housing and community development companies (including five years with local nonprofit MAAC Project), and elected officials including former State Senator Art Torres (Los Angeles) and former State Senator (now State Treasurer) Bill Lockyer (Hayward).
Chuck received his undergraduate degree in Sociology from UC Santa Cruz, and his Master of Public Policy Degree from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government where he specialized in housing and urban economic development policy. In 2005, Chuck completed a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy at San Diego State University. He and his wife Rebecca Klatch live in Carmel Valley with their two children, Maurice (19) and Olivia (17) and three cats. Chuck is an avid musician, runner, and Star Trek geek.

Karen Elzey is the director of Skills for America's Future, an employer-led, non-partisan partnership of businesses and community colleges. Skills for America's Future strives to improve the preparedness and competitiveness of American workers and the ability of businesses to recruit talent efficiently and effectively. By bringing together corporations, community colleges, and other workforce partners, Skills for America's Future allows these groups to better connect, coordinate, and identify opportunities for leveraging and scaling effective models. This effort-instituted to address the dual problems of high unemployment and the difficulty many employers face in finding workers with the right skills-is an initiative of the Aspen Institute.
Elzey has more than 18 years of experience in the areas of workforce development, public-private partnerships, and project management. Her previous experience includes serving as vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Institute for a Competitive Workforce, where she advanced policy positions and promoted public-private partnerships to ensure that businesses remained competitive in a global economy. Before joining the U.S. Chamber, Elzey coordinated public-private partnerships between K-12 school districts and employers for a local economic development agency in Indiana, and taught English as a Second Language in Poland.
She has a B.A. in American studies and a Master's in sports administration from Miami University (OH). She has also completed the Executive Leadership Program at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business.

Mark is a community strategy consultant with Praxis Strategy Group based in North Dakota. He is managing editor and co-founder of the population and economic analysis site NewGeography.com.
Mark's economic and population analysis work has recently appeared in Politico, Forbes, Money Magazine, the LA Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Mark is the lead analyst and co-author of Enterprising States, a U.S. Chamber of Commerce study which analyzes and profiles economic development efforts in all fifty states, now in its third year of production.
Mark recently completed Growing Wisconsin, a look at economic development strategy and the importance of manufacturing in the state. Another new report, Clues From the Past: The Midwest as an Aspirational Region, outlines a potential new economic future for the Great Lakes Region. He is currently working on a project to identify new agribusiness opportunities in North Dakota's Red River Valley and a comprehensive look at the future of the Great Plains as a region.
Mark has worked extensively on the Red River Valley Research Corridor initiative, an effort to improve the research capacity and create more high-tech jobs in the region. He has planned and implemented more than two dozen economic development action summits.

William Anderson has served as Chief Economist for the Research and Analysis Bureau since October 2006. In this position he supervises the labor market and economic research activities of a staff of 30; administers the Bureau's $4 million budget and provides useful analyses to departmental senior staff, other executive branch managers, public policymakers, the general public, and the media. Mr. Anderson earned his Master's Degree from Wayne State University and his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Michigan. Mr. Anderson's office is located in Carson City.

Todd Oldham serves as the Vice President for Economic Development and Innovative Workforce Services at Monroe Community College (MCC). He has an MBA from Chapman University in California, a bachelor's degree summa cum laude from the University of California at Los Angeles, an associate degree from Orange Coast College in California, and a certificate in project management from Boston University. As Vice President, he is responsible for leading MCC's initiatives to support regional workforce development with credit and non-credit workforce and career technical education to business and industry throughout the Rochester, New York region. The division for Economic Development and Innovative Workforce Services includes program and department areas in workforce development and corporate education, grants development, career technical education, agriculture and life sciences, and public safety training.

Rey García is the President and CEO of the Texas Association of Community Colleges (TACC) and has served in this capacity since 1995. He also oversees STARLINK and the Virtual College of Texas, and serves on the boards of several organizations: Board of Directors of the Jobs and Education for Texans (JET) Grant Program; Texas state team for the Complete College America Initiative; Board of Trustees of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (CAEL); and Board of Advisors, Western Governors University - Texas. In addition, Dr. García is the past President of the National Council of State Association Chief Executives. Besides consulting with visiting foreign delegations and the U.S. State Department, he has traveled to Latin America to consult with institutions on education policy issues. Prior to his current position, Dr. García served as Special Assistant for Education to former Texas Lieutenant Governor Bob Bullock. He also served as Education Policy Specialist for the Texas Senate Research Center, and the Director of Forensics and Instructor in the Department of Speech Communication at Texas State University in San Marcos. Rey García holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Texas at Austin, an M.A. in Communication Studies from Baylor University, and a B.A. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin.

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