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Kelly K Matthews
Presentation Summary - Utah's Economic Outlook
• How do Utah unemployment numbers compare to national statistics
• How are real estate sales and new-home construction weathering the current economy?
• How are stimulus packages affecting the economy?
• Are gasoline prices affecting alternative energy development?
• Recession or inflation?
Biography
Dr. Kelly Matthews is responsible for local, regional and national economic analysis and forecasting. He is also the Wells Fargo government affairs officer in Utah. He is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
His research and opinions are widely read by the financial and business community, and he is regularly quoted in newspapers, radio and television news coverage.
Dr. Matthews joined Wells Fargo as an economist in 2000 when First Security Corporation merged with Wells Fargo. He served as First Security’s chief economist for 27 years. He started his economics career with the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, N.Y., responsible for international forecasting from 1968 – 1970. He was an adjunct professor of finance at the University of Utah from 1975 – 2006.
Dr. Matthews earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1973.
Active in community, state and economic interests, Dr. Matthews has been a member of the Governmental Affairs Committee of the Financial Services Roundtable based in Washington, D.C. since 1995; a member of the Government Affairs Committee of the Utah Bankers Association since 2000; a member of the Coalition for Utah’s Future Board of Trustees since 2001; president of the Utah Council on Economic Education since 1980 and chairman of the board of Intermountain Health Care’s Home Care since 2005.
Dr. Matthews served as chairman of the board of the Salt Lake Convention & Visitors Bureau from 2003 – 2005.
He and his wife Mary Lynn are natives of Montpelier, Idaho. They have three children.
Presentation Summary - Utah's Economic Outlook
• How do Utah unemployment numbers compare to national statistics
• How are real estate sales and new-home construction weathering the current economy?
• How are stimulus packages affecting the economy?
• Are gasoline prices affecting alternative energy development?
• Recession or inflation?
Biography
Dr. Kelly Matthews is responsible for local, regional and national economic analysis and forecasting. He is also the Wells Fargo government affairs officer in Utah. He is based in Salt Lake City, Utah.
His research and opinions are widely read by the financial and business community, and he is regularly quoted in newspapers, radio and television news coverage.
Dr. Matthews joined Wells Fargo as an economist in 2000 when First Security Corporation merged with Wells Fargo. He served as First Security’s chief economist for 27 years. He started his economics career with the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, N.Y., responsible for international forecasting from 1968 – 1970. He was an adjunct professor of finance at the University of Utah from 1975 – 2006.
Dr. Matthews earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, in 1973.
Active in community, state and economic interests, Dr. Matthews has been a member of the Governmental Affairs Committee of the Financial Services Roundtable based in Washington, D.C. since 1995; a member of the Government Affairs Committee of the Utah Bankers Association since 2000; a member of the Coalition for Utah’s Future Board of Trustees since 2001; president of the Utah Council on Economic Education since 1980 and chairman of the board of Intermountain Health Care’s Home Care since 2005.
Dr. Matthews served as chairman of the board of the Salt Lake Convention & Visitors Bureau from 2003 – 2005.
He and his wife Mary Lynn are natives of Montpelier, Idaho. They have three children.
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