Economic Advisors

  • Paul Dimond
    As board chair for a major private real estate firm and a former economic adviser to a U.S. president, two Michigan governors and two mayors of major Michigan cities as well as counsel to numerous partnerships, Paul R. Dimond is in a strategic position to help his clients frame and achieve their goals in complex real estate transactions. These include acquisition, development, approvals and entitlements, private and public financing, federal, state and local tax, leasing and reorganization, refinancing, sale or exchange.
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  • ROBERT E. LITAN

    Robert E. Litan is a senior fellow in the Economic Studies program at the Brookings Institution. Litan pursues a wide-ranging research agenda, which includes topics in regulation, financial institutions, telecommunications and general economic policy. He is also the vice-president for research and policy at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, where he oversees a multi-million dollar budget for academic research relating to entrepreneurship.

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  • ANGELA GLOVER BLACKWELL

    Angela Glover Blackwell is founder and chief executive officer of PolicyLink, a national research and action institute advancing economic and social equity.  By Lifting Up What Works®—using research to understand and demonstrate the possibilities for positive change—PolicyLink presents new and innovative solutions to old problems. 

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  • BRUCE J. KATZ

    Bruce Katz is a vice president at the Brookings Institution and founding director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. The Metro Program seeks to redefine the challenges facing cities and metropolitan areas by publishing cutting edge research on major demographic, market, development and governance trends.

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  • LESLIE MCGRANAHAN

    Leslie McGranahan is an economist in the regional analysis team of the economic research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Her research interests include the effectiveness of antipoverty programs, government expenditure on low-income populations and the intergenerational transmission of wealth and inequality.

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  • WILLIAM TESTA

    Bill Testa is vice president and director of regional programs in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Testa has broadly written in the areas of economic growth and development, the Midwest economy and state–local public finance. He directed a comprehensive long-term study and forecast of the Midwest economy, Assessing the Midwest Economy: Looking Back for the Future, and has fashioned a series of conferences on school reform.

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  • MAUDE TOUSSAINT-COMEAU

    Maude Toussaint-Comeau is an economist in the microeconomics team of the economic research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. In that position, Toussaint-Comeau conducts research on consumer finance and access to credit by vulnerable populations.

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Strategic investments and regional collaboration are helping the New Economy Initiative and partner organizations promote economic revitalization in southeast Michigan.

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