Sam A. Williams - Harvard MBA Graduate and Atlanta-Area Policy Leader
Thursday, September 6, 2018
The Origins of National Economic Development Week
An administrator and educator whose work spans the public and private spheres, Sam A. Williams has served as president of both the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and Central Atlanta Progress - an organization that helped create infrastructure for the 1996 Olympics. Now a professor of practice at Georgia State University, Sam A. Williams holds active membership in multiple associations, including the International Economic Development Council (IEDC). He was a featured speaker at IEDC's international meeting in New Orleans,January 2015, where he talked about his new book, The CEO As Urban Statesman, which gave examples of cities where business leaders were tapped to solve economic development challenges.
With 5,000 members, the IEDC is the largest nonpartisan nonprofit association that exclusively serves economic developers. The IEDC created Economic Development Week in 2016 as part of its overarching mission of economic development.
The first Economic Development Week coincided with the 90th anniversary of the IEDC and was conceived to further public awareness of regional programs that create jobs and advance opportunities for career development. The event has since expanded to incorporate 450 local campaigns across the United States and Canada. Each of these campaigns spearheads multiple public outreach initiatives through a range of traditional and digital media outlets.
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