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Dr. Eric Hansen

Dr. Hansen is one of the pioneers of cluster-based economic development, and continues to create new ways to stimulate private-sector development and public-private collaboration in different economic and cultural contexts around the world. His speciality is advising and motivating regional leaders in the design and execution of large-scale economic change efforts that focus on action and implementation.

Among other activities, Dr. Hansen directed successful cluster-based economic strategy projects for California, Arizona, North Dakota, Texas, the States of Tabasco, Campeche and Chihuahua in Mexico, Hong Kong, and Morocco. Moreover he has worked as a regional economist at the World Bank, taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and worked with the Iranian Plan and Budget Organization. He holds a Ph.D. in regional economics and planning from M.I.T. and a BA in economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz. He is a founder of The Competitiveness Institute and serves on the Board of the ManKind Project.