At the inaugural Global Fleet Management Conference Phoenix, Marco Annunziata, chief economist and executive director of Global Market Insight at GE, will give the dinner keynote address, covering the state of the global economy, on Sept. 30.

Annunziata will cover the current dynamics of the global economy by region and the forces impacting economic activity, along with a forecast of future trends.

You can register for the inaugural Global Fleet Management Conference Phoenix here.

Annunziata is responsible for global economic, financial and market analysis to support GE’s business strategy. He is the author of “The Economics of the Financial Crisis,” published by Palgrave MacMillan. He has twice won the Rybczynski Prize for best paper in business economics, awarded by the Society of Business Economists in London.

Annunziata joined GE in Jan. 2011 after spending his career up to that point in the financial sector. Prior to his joining GE, he was chief economist at Unicredit, and previously chief economist for the Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa region at Deutsche Bank in London. Prior to Deutsche Bank, he spent six years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, where he split his time between emerging markets and advanced economies, and was involved in both regular country consultations and program loan negotiations.

Annunziata holds a PhD in Economics from Princeton University and a BA in Economics from the University of Bologna in Italy.

For more information about the Global Fleet Management Phoenix at www.globalfleetconference.com.