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On Friday, February 16, 2018 at the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington, the New Castle County Economic Development Council will host its 11th Annual Economic Forecast lunch presentation that will recap the economic activities of 2017 and discusses the outlook for the economy in 2018.  

Our featured speaker will be Dr. Anirban Basu.  Dr. Basu is Chairman & CEO of Sage Policy Group, Inc., an economic and policy consulting firm in Baltimore , Maryland .  Dr. Basu is one of the Mid-Atlantic region’s most recognizable economists, in part because of his consulting work on behalf of numerous clients, including prominent developers, bankers, brokerage houses, energy suppliers and law firms.  On behalf of government agencies and non-profit organizations, Mr. Basu has written several high-profile economic development strategies.  In recent years, he has focused upon health economics, the economics of education and economic development.  He currently lectures at Johns Hopkins University in micro-, macro-, international and urban economics.