April 28-30, 2025

All Speakers

Dog and cat food research experts who will present at Petfood Forum & Petfood Essentials

Ernie Tedeschi
Director of Economics
Budget Lab at Yale Law School
Ernie Tedeschi is a macroeconomist with private sector, government and academic experience. He is currently the director of economics at the Budget Lab at Yale Law School and is also a visiting fellow at the Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy at Georgetown University. Until March 2024, Tedeschi was the chief economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), where he briefed the president on incoming economic data. Prior to CEA, he was managing director and head of fiscal analysis at Evercore ISI, a macro advisory firm, and an economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Tedeschi completed his undergraduate studies at Stanford University and graduate work at the University of California at Berkeley.
Date/TimeTitle
Tue Apr 29
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Welcome and opening keynote: Macro-economic outlook and what it means for pet food companies and pet owners
KCCC 2103A-C
Ernie Tedeschi, director of economics, Budget Lab at Yale Law School, provides a forecast for upcoming changes and events with the economy, inflation, consumer spending, the labor force, the financial markets and other key indicators, helping pet food businesses plan for what may come next. His outlook focuses on the U.S. and offers an overview of the global economy, including key pet food regions or markets.