Manfred Keil, Ph.D.
Chief Economist
Inland Empire Economic Center
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Email: manfred.keil@claremontmckenna.edu
Dr. Manfred Keil is the Inland Empire Economic Partnership’s Chief Economist. He is the Associate Director of the Lowe Institute of Political Economy and Associate Professor of Economics at Claremont McKenna College. Dr. Keil has been involved in the analysis and forecasting of economic activity in the Inland Empire since the beginning of the project in 2009. His teaching duties at Claremont McKenna College involve statistics, econometrics, and macroeconomics. In addition, he has lectured at Claremont Graduate University, Pomona College, and Scripps College. Professor Keil received his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in 1985 and has been a Fulbright Scholar. He arrived in Claremont in 1995 after holding appointments in Montreal, Boston, and Essex, England. His research interests are in comparative economic performance of geographic areas, politico-economic interaction, and forecasting. He is involved in popularizing data science programs at the Claremont Colleges and has been the lead CMC faculty in the joint CMC-Yonsei University (Yonsei School of Business) program in Seoul, Korea, for the last seven years. In addition, he has been involved in teaching quantitative courses in the CMC Silicon Valley Program in the Bay Area.
Robert Kleinhenz, Ph.D.,
Senior Fellow
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Email: robert@kleinhenzeconomics.com
Dr. Robert Kleinhenz is the Principal Economist and Founder of the firm Kleinhenz Economics. A leading voice on the economy, Dr. Kleinhenz has over 30 years of experience and expertise. He has worked with numerous clients in the private sector, the public sector, and academia, and has produced a variety of economic forecasts, economic impact studies, industry studies, housing analyses, and public policy analyses. In addition to his duties with Kleinhenz Economics, Robert is a Senior Research Fellow with the Inland Empire Economic Partnership. Dr. Kleinhenz is on the faculty at Cal State Long Beach and Associate Director of the University’s Office of Economic Research.
Fernando Lozano, Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
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Email: fernando.lozano@pomona.edu
Fernando Lozano is a labor economist and Professor of Economics at Pomona. His research focuses primarily on domestic immigration issues. He won the College’s Wig Distinguished Professor award in 2008 and chaired the College’s Faculty Executive Committee during the 2013-2014 school year.
Ken Miller, J.D., Ph.D.
Fellow
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Email: kmiller@cmc.edu
Miller’s research focuses on state government institutions, with an emphasis on direct democracy and the interaction between law and politics. His publications include Texas vs. California: A History of Their Struggle for the Future of America (Oxford University Press, 2020), Direct Democracy and the Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2009), and co-edited volumes Parchment Barriers: Political Polarization and the Limits of Constitutional Order (University Press of Kansas, 2018) and The New Political Geography of California (Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2008).
Previously, Miller was the Ann and Herbert Vaughan Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University (2011-2012) and a visiting scholar at the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at Southern Methodist University (2017-2018).
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