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LinkedIn executive Rand Ghayad speaking at Leadership Q&A on March 21

by Tom Perry

Marietta, Ohio (03/07/2023) — Rand Ghayad, Head of Economics and Global Labor Markets at LinkedIn, will headline the March Leadership Q&A at Marietta College on Tuesday, March 21st. The Q&A starts at 7:00 p.m. in the Timothy O. Cooper Auditorium (Thomas 124).

This event is free and open to the public.

Ghayad is also a faculty member at Harvard University, where he teaches economics and public policy courses. Before joining LinkedIn, he worked at the International Monetary Fund, advising governments and sovereign states on macroeconomic and labor market reforms, including job creation, unemployment, and inequality issues.

Ghayad began his career as an economist at the Brookings Institution. He has also held various positions at the Federal Reserve Bank, International Labor Organization, and MIT. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Northeastern University.

He will also speak at the Economic Roundtable of the Ohio Valley Luncheon at noon, Wednesday, March 22nd, at the Marietta Country Club. His talk will be focused on "Making Sense of the Labor Market."

Located in Marietta, Ohio, at the confluence of the Muskingum and Ohio rivers, Marietta College is a four-year liberal arts college. Tracing its roots to the Muskingum Academy back in 1797, the College was officially chartered in 1835. Today Marietta College serves a body of 1,200 full-time students. The College offers more than 50 majors and is consistently ranked as one of the top regional comprehensive colleges by U.S. News & World Report and The Princeton Review. Marietta was selected seventh in the nation according to the Brookings Institution's rankings of colleges by their highest value added, regardless of major.

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