Meeting Speaker for July 22, 2013 - Jock O'Connell

Posted by Bob Rosenberg 
on Jul 16, 2013
 

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Putting Sacramento on the Globalization Map

 

Jock O'Connell is widely regarded as one of California's foremost authorities on world trade, global economic trends, and the internationalization of the Golden State's economy.

A former staff adviser to the California Commission for Economic Development and member of the California Economic Strategy Panel's Technical Advisory Group, Mr. O'Connell is currently the International Trade Adviser to Beacon Economics.

He is the author of numerous articles on economic, political and trade issues that have appeared in The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times as well as the Sacramento Bee.

Mr. O'Connell has spoken before a diverse array of business organizations and other groups during his career, including Russia's Institute for USA and Canada Studies in Moscow; Japan's Keidanren in Tokyo; the Confederation of British Industry in London; the Foreign Trade Association of Southern California in Los Angeles; and the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco.

Mr. O'Connell has been a lecturer at the University of California at Davis and at California State University, Sacramento. For several years, he was also the International Trade and Economics Advisor at the University of California Center in Sacramento, where he lectured and organized workshops and seminars designed to keep California's policymakers informed of the latest developments in world trade and their effect on California's economy.

The primary emphasis of Mr. O'Connell's consulting work involves the logistics of foreign trade and, more specifically, the condition of California's international trade infrastructure.

Mr. O'Connell grew up on the coast of Maine and received his B.A. from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts before pursuing doctoral studies at the University of California at Davis. He has also attended the Institute of European Studies (University of Vienna) in Austria and the London School of Economics, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.