IRA KALISH

Deloitte Research

Director of Global Economics

WHAT WILL 2012 BRING FOR GLOBAL RETAIL?

Where does the world go from here? How about the retail industry?

Today, we are living in an intricate transition period in global economy where the pace of change has become so rapid.

The retail industry is also affected and re-characterized by these shifts of this new era. We see this alteration in news headlines (Italy’s debt crisis, U.S. credit rating, etc) and in current but overlooked affairs (the reduction in migration to big cities in China).

Prominent in global economic and consumer trends, Deloitte’s Ira Kalish will give his insights on the economy of latest developments, their effects on retail and the direction of the world economy in 2012.

A lesson to learn: a “case study” with the guidance of the much anticipated speaker of Retail Days…

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IRA KALISH As an expert on global retail and economic issues, Ira Kalish has written reports on the economies and consumer markets of Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, China, Japan, Mexico, and South America. His remarks have been published by the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, the Economist, the Financial Times. Prior to his work at Deloitte, Ira was a chief economist at Retail Forward, director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, vice-president at Bankers Trust Corp., and researcher at the Institute of International Economics.