Workshop on Regional Economic Development in New Orleans

from left: Guenther Bischof, Director, CenterAustria at UNO; Jodok Schaeffer of Alpla (Atlanta, GA); Aimee Quirck, Office of Economic Development, City of New Orleans; Franz Roessler, Austrian Trade Commissioner in Chicago

From October 20-21, 2013, a workshop focusing on regional economic development in Europe and the United States took place at the University of New Orleans (UNO). Participants of the event, which was sponsored by the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation and CenterAustria at UNO, included professors and officials from Austria, speakers from UNO and other U.S. universities and representatives of economic development groups. Former Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch, a fellow at Harvard University and chairman of the Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation, and Ronald Hall, Directorate General for Regional & Urban Policy at the European Commission, were among the experts sharing their experiences.

The workshop in the news: 

http://www.nola.com/business/index.ssf/2013/10/economics_panelists_compare_po.html

from left: Jodok Schaeffer; Aimee Quirck; Franz Roessler; Dominik Knoll, CEO, World Trade Center, New Orleans

from left: Franz Roessler; Ronald Hall, European Commission; Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch; Elisabeth Springer, University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna; Guenther Bischof; Martin Hendel, University of Vienna; Jodok Schaeffer

from left: Ronald Hall; Marion Wieser, University of Innsbruck

from left: Dr. Walter Crane; Elisabeth Springler