Dr. Dunkelberg, professor and former dean of the School of Business and Management at Temple University, is a nationally known authority on small business, entrepreneurship, consumer credit, and government policy. He is a Fellow and past president of NABE, the National Association for Business Economics. Since 1971, he has served as Chief Economist for the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). In that capacity, he is responsible for NFIB’s monthly survey of the attitudes and plans of independent business leaders, and he authors a monthly report that explains the survey results. He is much in demand on the national stage, having appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and numerous local news and business TV and radio shows. At this year’s Outlook Conference, he presented “Economic Recovery: Will Small Business Provide the Jobs?”