Chemical Purchasing
Summit
17th - 18th September 2008, Seaport World Trade Center, Boston, USA
Kevin Swift
Chief Economist and Managing Director
AMERICAN CHEMISTRY COUNCIL
A native of Buffalo, New York, Dr. Swift is the chief economist at the American Chemistry Council (ACC) in Arlington, Virginia where he is responsible for economic and other analyses dealing with markets, energy, trade, tax and innovation, as well as monitoring business conditions and identifying emerging trends for the domestic and global chemical sector. He is an authority on the global chemical industry and his research and analyses are critical to decision-making by executives and business managers through out the industry. Dr. Swift disseminates economic and societal contributions of the business of chemistry and general information about the industry to ACC member companies, the media, Wall Street analysts, the academic community and the public in general.
Dr. Swift is a member of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) and is a member of NABE's panel of 40 professional forecasters and chairs the NABE Manufacturing Roundtable. He is also a member of the Harvard Discussion Group of Industrial Economists and is a participant in the Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank's forecasters' survey. Dr. Swift is a member of the Heritage Council of the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) and is also a member of the Commercial Development and Marketing Association (CDMA) and the Société de Chimie Industrielle. He has authored articles in such diverse journals as Business Economics, Chemistry Business, Chimica Oggi, Cost Engineering, and Hydrocarbon Processing and writes a monthly economics column in Chemical Engineering Progress. Dr. Swift has been featured on National Public Radio and has appeared on Bloomberg TV and Nightly Business Report.
