To provide an update on the Texas Economy.

This program will consist of a presentation, requiring no advance preparation.

Mine K. Yücel is vice president and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, where she has been since 1989.  She heads the Bank’s micro/regional/energy group and is also the director of publications for the Research Department.  Yücel analyzes the regional economy and energy markets on an ongoing basis and has published numerous articles on energy and regional growth. 

Yücel is president of the International Association of Energy Economics, an institution with 102 member countries, and past president of the United States Association of Energy Economics (USAEE).  She has served on the executive boards of these two organizations as well as Executive Women of Dallas, Dallas Area Business Economists, the Dallas Chapter of Women in Technology International, Inc. and the Greater Dallas Chamber’s Board of Economists.  In 2006, she was chosen as a recipient of the Key Women in Energy – Global award.  She received the USAEE Senior Fellow Award in 2007 and the Energy Journal Best Paper Award in 2009.

Before joining the Bank, she was an assistant professor of economics at Louisiana State University.  She has a BS and a MS in mathematics from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, and a PhD in economics from Rice University in Houston.