Ed Morrison, M.B.A., J.D.
is a member of the staff of the Center for Regional Development at Purdue University. In recent years, he has been developing new, network-based models for economic and workforce development that emphasize the strategic value of focused regional collaborations and open innovation in today's global economy. He has developed new disciplines in regional strategy for open networks, called Strategic Doing. He teaches the advanced strategy lab at the University of Oklahoma Economic Development Institute. For more than twenty years, he conducted strategy projects with economic and workforce developers in the U.S. that won the first Arthur D. Little Award for excellence in economic development presented by the American Economic Development Council. Ed worked for Telesis, a corporate strategy consulting firm where he served on consulting teams for clients such as Ford Motor Company, Volvo and General Electric. Early in his professional career in Washington, D.C., he served as a Congressional Legislative Assistant, Staff Attorney in the Federal Trade Commission and Staff Counsel in the U.S. Senate.