Former Detroit Manager Orr to Speak at Boston Conference

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Former Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr will deliver the keynote address Aug. 7 in Boston at the fourth annual municipal finance conference hosted by Brandeis International Business School and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

The conference will run from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the fourth floor of the Federal Reserve on 600 Atlantic Ave. Orr will speak at 12:45.

Orr, now a partner with law firm Jones Day, oversaw the largest and most complicated municipal bankruptcy proceeding in U.S. history.

The one-day conference will highlight practice-relevant and policy-relevant research on municipal finance and further a dialogue among market participants and academic researchers. Panel topics include investing in and trading municipal bonds; international municipal markets; municipal bond markets and the economy; and emerging areas of concern in the municipal marketplace.

Brandeis finance professor Daniel Bergstresser and Federal Reserve Bank of Boston vice president Robert Triest are coordinating the event.

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