Biography of Dr. Loren Scott Dr. Scott is President and founder of the firm, Loren C. Scott & Associates, Inc., a 25-year firm that provides economic consulting and public speaking services for a wide range of clients. Consulting activities include impact studies, forecasting services, analysis of policy proposals, and general economic analyses. The objective is to put together the very best team of associates to attack the problems of their clients. Dr. Scott makes 50-70 presentations a year on the state of---and the outlook for---the economy. He is well-known on the speaking circuit as an entertaining speaker who also provides a lot of meat for listeners to chew on. He is one of the 32-member National Business Economic Issues Council, which meets quarterly to discuss issues of state, national, and international interest. Dr. Scott is an energy specialist on the NBEIC. He has been interviewed recently on MSNBC, CNBC, and Bloomberg TV and his work has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and the Moscow Times, to name a few. He was on the Economics Department faculty at Louisiana State University from 1969 to 1998, where he rose through the ranks from Assistant Professor to the holder of the Freeport-McMoran endowed Chair of Economics. He is presently Professor Emeritus of Economics at LSU.
Over the thirteen-year period from 1983-96, Dr. Scott was the chairman of the Economics Department at LSU. During that time, the Department's ranking among the 3,000 economics departments in the U.S. rose from 101st to 38th. He received 7 awards at LSU for outstanding classroom teaching.
Dr. Scott is co-developer of the Louisiana econometric model, a model used for providing annual forecasts of the Louisiana economy, which are released each fall.
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