Robert T. Parry

THOUSAND OAKS, CA - California Lutheran University will present a discussion of the eurozone crisis and its implications for the United States on Monday, Feb. 13.

The free event will be held in the Lundring Events Center on the Thousand Oaks campus. It is the last in the Silver Anniversary Distinguished Speaker Series celebrating the formation of CLU’s Graduate School of Education and School of Management.

Networking will begin at 6 p.m. and the discussion will follow at 6:30 p.m.

The speakers will be Robert T. Parry, former president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Henning Bohn, an economics professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. Bill Watkins, executive director of the CLU Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, will moderate.

Parry retired from the Federal Reserve in 2004 after more than 18 years at the helm in San Francisco. He is a board member of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a private, nonprofit and nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. He is also on the board of directors of PACCAR Inc. and Janus Capital Group Inc. He holds a doctorate in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Bohn’s research and teaching focus on macroeconomics, public economics and international finance. He has published scholarly articles on topics including government debt, public debt management and international capital flows. He received a doctorate in economics from Stanford University in 1986 under the guidance of Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Watkins helped launch CLU CERF in 2009. He has provided unflinching forecasts for more than a decade and has been widely published and quoted in academic journals and the media. He formerly served as the executive director of UCSB’s Economic Forecast Project and an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. He has a doctorate in economics from UCSB.

Lundring Events Center is located in the Gilbert Sports and Fitness Center, which is north of Olsen Road near Mounclef Boulevard on the Thousand Oaks campus.

Reservations are requested by Feb. 11 to Lauren Amundson at lamundso@callutheran.edu or 805-493-3445.