2008 Housing Forecast Speakers

John Mitchell John Mitchell received his B.A. from Williams College and his M.S.

and Ph.D. from the University of Oregon. He joined U.S. Bancorp in 1983. He was Chief

Economist of U.S. Bancorp until 1998 and served as Economist Western Region for U.S.

Bank until July of 2007. His regional publications include: The Economic Update, the

Business Barometer, U.S. Territory, and Oregon Tidbits. He currently writes a column

for Oregon Business Magazine. He was a business analyst for KPTV in Portland. He

has been making economic presentations on the nation and the region for more than

35 years.

Jerry Johnson Jerry Johnson is a real estate market and regional economic

development consultant. He has consulted on a broad range of real estate development

and land use economic topics for public and private-sector clients.

As a principal with Johnson Gardner, Mr. Johnson is involved in research, design,

economic and financial modeling, and market analysis for the real estate community.

Johnson’s experience includes real estate market forecasting and analysis for such

clients as Weyerhaeuser, Altamont, Trammel Crow Residential, GSL Properties and

Polygon NW.

David Ludwig Ludwig is president of Vista Market Intelligence. Vista will be previewing

estimated sales and volume, based upon its Fall 2007 Tracking Study, and discussing

consumer attitudes and expectations for the homebuilding and remodeling markets.

He will offer the consumer point of view about factors that will impact your business

in 2008 and beyond.