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Featuring Guest Speaker, Dr. Paul Isely

Forecasts are crucial for helping businesses make important decisions including strategic planning, investing, and hiring. Economic forecasting involves pulling together data from sectors across the spectrum of industries and making recommendations that help businesses and governments mitigate the innate uncertainty that comes from predicting the future. 

Join us as we welcome economist Dr. Paul Isely of Grand Valley State University who will explain the analysis of data and share the forecast for our local and state economy. In order to provide the most accurate outlook, Dr. Isely has crafted a survey specifically for Ottawa County to gather hyper-local data, offering a clearer, more actionable view of what's ahead for the lakeshore. 

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About Dr. Paul Isely 

Dr. Paul Isely is currently the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the Seidman College of Business at Grand Valley State University. He joined the GVSU faculty in 1995, after earning his Ph.D. in Economics from Purdue University. He also holds an M.S. in Economics from Purdue University and a dual B.S. in Physics and Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research and teaching interests include firm/country level innovation, environmental economics, and regional forecasting.