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Join us for a breakfast at the July Chamber Member Meeting. Our guest speaker will be Mouhcine Guettabi, Associate Professor of Economic for the Cameron School of Business at UNCW. 

Mouhcine Guettabi joined the University of North Carolina Wilmington in August 2021. He is serving as both an Associate professor as well as the area’s regional economist. He regularly monitors the areas economic indicators and produces economic analysis and forecasts. Before joining UNCW, he was an associate professor of economics at the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA). During his time there, he regularly produced economic forecasts, analyzed the state’s finances, conducted analysis on key policy issues, and testified in front of the legislature. On the academic front, he is an applied microeconomist with two main streams of research: the effect of natural resources on households and communities, and the socioeconomic effects of unconditional cash transfers. His recently published research can be found in some of the leading economic journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, and the Journal of Regional Science.  He earned his PhD in economics with an emphasis on Urban and Regional Economics from Oklahoma State University in 2012.