Prince Owusu

Experience

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  The Conference Board

  Jul 2001 - Mar 2017

  Senior Economist

  • Developed, maintained and ran macroeconomic model to produce quarterly medium term (5-yr range) economic forecast for Canada's Regional Economies for the past 16 years along with written analytical report and providing media commentaries and responding to client request.• Also produced once a year long-term (25-yr range) forecast along with estimates of the potential output for each Regional Economy.• Covered the energy sector outlook including prices, investments, production and trade in the Conference Board of Canada's Economic Outlook Services.• Engineered process improvement to significantly reduce forecast update schedules.• Completed several economic impact studies and alternative scenarios in the areas of natural disaster, energy sector development, public sector infrastructure programs. human capital developments.• Vetted macroeconomic model used for economic forecasting that underpins government budgetary process and provided findings and recommendations that formed part of the audit of the overall quality and integrity of government's financial management control systems.• Embedding Input-Output (I-O) block into macroeconomic model to provide capabilities for sectorial analysis• Excellent mentoring skills including Eviews Training to clients Show less

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  Export Development Canada | Exportation et développement Canada

  Apr 2017 - now

  Senior Economist

  •Provides macroeconomic and monetary policy views of the US, Canada and Mexico economies for EDC's flagship Global Economic Outlook. Previously covered Germany's economy for EDC's Global Economic Outlook.• Monitor, analyze and forecast Canadian exports of agri-food, fisheries, fertilizers, and lumber. •Monitors global economic and geopolitical developments and leveraging those information to provide economic forecast and scenario analysis. •Developing and managing macroeconomic models used for economic forecasting• Expert use of stochastic macroeconomic models (including the Oxford Economic Model) to generate economic scenarios and stress testing in a regulated environment including working with validators and auditors• Produced quarterly report on economic performance and trends for assigned markets and sectors along with high caliber custom reports for governments, agencies and multinational companies.•Provide key input and insights in the development of alternative scenarios for corporate IFRS 9 financial planning requirement•Coordinate and document the macroeconomic forecasting and scenario development processes to ensure compliance with corporate audit and IFRS 9 requirement•Respond to inquiries from regulators, auditors, model validators and executives about scenario results•Ensure that forecast and scenario building adheres to regulatory standards and that best practices are applied in producing forecast and scenario •Co-ordinate the integration and application of scenario outputs in areas of accounting and risk.•Undertaken several high caliber custom economic impact studies, provided econometric/modeling training for clients using Eviews econometric software.•An experienced mentor to junior staff. Show less