King Banaian speaking - Wright County Development

Professor King Banaian is a professor in the Department of Economics at St. Cloud State University.  He is also interim dean of the School of Public Affairs Research Institute at SCSU.  
He holds the Ph.D. in economics from the Claremont Graduate School.  
He has consulted at the central banks of  Ukraine, Egypt and Macedonia and the ministries of finance of Indonesia, Macedonia and Armenia.  
He is author of The Ukrainian Economy since Independence (Edward Elgar, 1998), co-editor of The Design and Use of Political Economy Indicators (Palgrave, 2008) and more than forty articles and book chapters discussing monetary policy and political economy.
He is a senior policy fellow of the Center of the American Experiment in Minneapolis, MN. 
King was state representative in the Minnesota House for District 15B, 2011-13.  
He is also host of the King Banaian Show on Business1570 KYCR broadcast in Minneapolis, and co-author of the St. Cloud Quarterly Business Report.