Dr. Curtin has been a featured annual speaker at the Economic Outlook Conference since 1976 when he became Director of Michigan’s world-renowned Survey of Consumers. He is truly an expert on the American household as consumer, and his research into the measurement of consumer sentiment has produced the only survey measure which is an official component of the Index of Leading Economic Indicators. In recent years, he has consulted with officials seeking to establish consumer surveys in Russia, China, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Indonesia. At this year’s Outlook Conference, he presented “The 2010 Outlook for Consumption”