January 16 Chapter Lunch | Louisville Forward Local Project Spotlight
About the Presentation
Presenter: Mary Ellen Wiederwohl
Louisville is a city on the move with more than 71,000 new jobs, 2,500 new businesses, and $12 billion in new capital investment. Join us for our January meeting as we host Mary Ellen Wiederwohl, Chief of Louisville Forward, and hear from her on the state of Louisville's economy and the top developments to look forward to in 2018 and beyond!
About Our Presenter
Mary Ellen Wiederwohl joined Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer’s administration in 2012, and in 2014, Fischer tapped her to lead Louisville Forward – the city’s new, integrated approach to economic and community development.
Louisville Forward combines business attraction, expansion, and retention activities with all of the city’s real estate functions and talent development to present a unified solution for job growth and quality of place. Louisville Forward has been named a Top Ten Economic Development Organization three times (2014, 2015, 2016) by Site Selection Magazine, the leading trade publication for economic development, with announced projects totaling over $5 billion of investment and more than 21,500 new jobs over the last three years.
She has provided leadership for several of Mayor Fischer’s major initiatives, including his Strategic Plan, the Vision Louisville 25-year advanced plan, the Move Louisville strategic multi-modal transportation plan, the city’s first sustainability plan, the Global Louisville Action Plan and the Vision Russell Initiative, which recently won a HUD Choice Neighborhoods implementation grant.
Before joining the Fischer administration, Mary Ellen worked in public affairs in both the public and private sectors.
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