ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

Learn how Gwinnett and the metro Atlanta region currently fares and its economic predictions for 2018.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Mark Vitner is a managing director and senior economist at Wells Fargo, responsible for tracking U.S. and regional economic trends. His commentary has been featured in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and many other publications.

He also writes for the company’s Monthly Economic Outlook report and the Weekly Economic & Financial Commentary and provides regular updates on the housing markets, commercial real estate, regional economies, consumer spending and issues impacting small business.

Vitner joined a Wells Fargo predecessor institution in 1993. Before that, he was as an economist for Barnett Banks in Jacksonville, Florida. Originally from Atlanta, Mark earned a B.B.A. in economics from the University of Georgia and an M.B.A. from the University of North Florida. He has completed further graduate work in economics at the University of Florida. He also completed the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Advanced Training in Economics program at Carnegie Mellon University.

He is a member of NABE and is also a member of that group’s inaugural Certified Business Economist class. He is a past president and co-founder of the NABE Charlotte chapter, The Charlotte Economics Club. He serves as a distinguished lecturer and practitioner at the University of Georgia. He is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association and the Western Economic Association. He also chaired the Economic Advisory Council for the California Chamber of Commerce for three years. He currently serves as the chief economist for the North Carolina chapter of the CCIM Institute, which confers the Certified Commercial Investment Member designation. He is a member of the Blue Chip economic forecasting panel and the Western Blue Chip forecasts panel serves on the Joint Advisory Board of Economists for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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