• Peter O’Donohue
• Perry B. Newman
• Ken Oplinger
• Peter Vigue
• Andrew Hamilton
• Marc A. Jacques
• Patrick Binns
• Michel Têtu
• John Herron

“Cross-Border Economic Integration in the Northeast:

Current Status, Future Prospects”

Day 1: Monday, April 23, 2012

Welcome: Paul W. Ferguson, President, University of Maine

• Plenary Speaker: John Butera, State of Maine Economic Advisor

First Panel: “Current Trends in Regional Economic Integration”

 Panel Chair: Marc Jacques, Canadian Consulate, Boston

• William Beardsley, Commissioner of the Maine Department of Conservation
• George Criner, Director, School of Economics, University of Maine
• Jean-Stéphane Bernard, Québec Government Representative

• John Herron, Atlantica Centre for Energy, Saint John, New Brunswick

Second Panel: “Case Studies in Regional Economic Integration”

       Panel Chair: Dan McKay, Eaton Peabody

• Greg Blunden, Vice President of Business Development, Bangor Hydro Electric
• Bret Vicary, Vice President, Forestry & Natural Resource Consulting, James W. Sewall Company

• Andrew Lively, Director of Marketing, Cooke Aquaculture

Evening Dinner- “The Changing Context for Bilateral Relations: New Realities, Reoccuring Tensions”

• Plenary Speaker: Peter Morici, Professor of International Business at the University of Maryland

Day 2: Tuesday, April 24, 2012

• Presentation by Peter Vigue on the East/West Highway proposal

Third Panel: “Future Prospects in Regional Economic Integration: The Politics”

 Panel Chair: Howard Cody, Canadian Studies/Political Science, University of Maine

• Patrick Binns, Consul General, Canadian Consulate, Boston
• Peter O’Donohue, Consul General, U.S. Consulate, Quebec City

•  Ken Oplinger, President/CEO Bellingham/Whatcom Chamber of Commerce

Fourth Panel: “Future Prospects in Regional Economic Integration: The Economics”

Panel Chair: Andy Hamilton, Eaton Peabody

• Bruno Larue, Canada Research Chair in International Agri-food Trade, Director of the Center for Research in the Economics of Agri-Food, Université Laval

• Michel Têtu, Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency
• Peter Vigue, Cianbro

• Plenary Speaker: Perry Newman, Atlantica Group

End of Conference

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