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Randall Kempner is Vice President for Regional Innovation at the Council on Competitiveness. Mr. Kempner brings over a decade of work in the field of national and international development consulting to the council. In leading the council's regional innovation program area, Mr. Kempner has directed regional economic development initiatives in Central New Mexico, Northeast Ohio, Rochester, New York, St. Louis, West Michigan, Wilmington, Delaware and the Inland Northwest region of Washington and Idaho. He is the council's lead technical assistance advisor on the Department of Labor's Workforce Innovation in Regional Development (WIRED) initiative.
Prior to joining the council in 2003, Mr. Kempner served as Vice President of OTF Group, an international consulting firm that advises regions and nations on how to create competitive advantage. While there, he served as the lead advisor to the Clusters of Innovation Initiative, the council's seminal regional economic development research project. At OTF, he helped design and deliver over a dozen competitiveness seminars for a diverse range of institutions, including the World Bank, USAID and the government of the Dominican Republic.
Mr. Kempner has an extensive international background, having led comprehensive competitiveness projects in Bermuda, Colombia, El Salvador, and Peru. He has worked in a wide variety of industry clusters, including agro-industry, apparel, biotechnology and tourism.
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