Dr. Schwartz began working for General Motors in 1985 as the Industrial Relations Staff labor economist. He became General Director of Analysis & Strategic Planning in 1989 and assumed his current position in 1992. He has been on the General Motors negotiation team for the past seven sets of national negotiations. His duties, in addition to negotiations planning, include supervising the job security and employee placement function, workforce forecasting, reporting of current employment, and linking workforce and manufacturing strategies. Before coming to GM, he taught economics and industrial relations at the University of Michigan for seven years. In addition, he taught industrial relations at Wayne State University and the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He was a research scientist at the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations while teaching at the University of Michigan. He earned his doctorate in economics at the University of Michigan, with a specialty in labor economics. At this year’s Outlook Conference, he presented “The Auto Industry—A Look Back and a Look Forward”