Chief Econom. Ted Egan: SPOTLIGHT-SAN FRANCISCO’S ECONOMY Host: John Bardis
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Ted Egan is the Chief Economist of the City and County of San Francisco and heads up the Office of Economic Analysis in San Francisco’s Office of the Controller.
Ted is joining ERT members once again and will provide a review of the current state of San Francisco’s economy and the outlook for the next two years.
Since he joined the City in 2007, his office has published over 100 economic impact reports on policy issues like the minimum wage, affordable housing, business taxes, land use planning, sporting events, and short-term rentals. He has served as an expert witness for the City on the economics of same-sex marriage in the Prop 8 lawsuit, and in 2013 he won a Good Government award for his work re-designing the City’s business tax.
Previously, he spent ten years as a consultant with ICF International, managing economic development strategy projects across North America, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 1997, and has lectured in the Economics and City Planning departments at Berkeley for over ten years.