Timothy F. Slaper

Biography

As Research Director, Dr. Slaper {slay-per} leads a team engaged in industry and workforce analysis, fostering regional economic growth and resiliency, measuring innovation, trade and foreign investment analysis, and measuring educational and training program performance.

Timothy is the principal investigator for a U.S. Department of Commerce project on regional economic development. National in scope, the project is building a county-based data set and web tool for economic development practitioners, as well as policymakers and researchers, to assess a region’s innovative capacity, resilience and economic performance.

The IBRC aims to provide economic development practitioners, as well as the Indiana Department of Workforce Development, the data, analytical tools and practical research to help address the challenges of improving economic outcomes in today's rapidly changing world.

Before joining the IBRC, Timothy served as Senior Economist on the Joint Economic Committee of Congress researching topics such as the effect of high energy prices on economic output and the effectiveness of investment incentives in encouraging economic growth. He cut his teeth as an economist at the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Timothy earned his doctorate in economics at The American University in Washington DC. He is also an alumnus of Miami University in Oxford Ohio.