Atlanta Advisory Committee Meeting with Dr. Eloisa Klementich, Invest Atlanta

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Name: Atlanta Advisory Committee Meeting with Dr. Eloisa Klementich, Invest Atlanta
Date: September 7, 2022
Time: 8:15 AM - 9:15 AM EDT
Registration: Register Now
Event Description:
***Location Change***
As of September 2022, our Atlanta Advisory Committee will be back in the Selig's newly renovated office on Spring St. for our monthly meetings.
 
Join the Council for Quality Growth's Atlanta Advisory Meeting on September 7, 2022 at 8:15 AM in-person at Selig's office building with Dr. Eloisa Klementich, President & CEO, Invest Atlanta.

Dr. Eloisa Klementich
President & CEO
Invest Atlanta


As President and CEO of Invest Atlanta, Dr. Eloisa Klementich is transforming economic development in the city of Atlanta through strategic initiatives to increase equity and prosperity for all Atlantans. She leads a nationally recognized economic development agency accredited by the International Economic Development Council and has shaped the Invest Atlanta organization around equity to ensure all Invest Atlanta programs focus on this fundamental outcome.
 
Since being named CEO of Invest Atlanta in 2016, the agency has had many notable accomplishments under Eloisa’s leadership. She commissioned Atlanta’s first economic development strategy driven by economic mobility, fostered an internal culture at Invest Atlanta focused on equity, and led the integration of Atlanta’s workforce development agency and Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative programs into Invest Atlanta to create a more comprehensive economic development solution for the city.
 
During her time as President and CEO, Eloisa and the Invest Atlanta team have produced significant economic development results, including facilitating the creation of 6,100 affordable housing units, 43,000 new fulltime jobs, 140 small business loans and grants, 423 down payment assistance grants and $6.8 billion dollars of new capital investment in the city. These and other Invest Atlanta economic development results have made a $15 billion economic impact on the city.
 
As a certified economic developer and notable economic development expert, Eloisa has spent the last two decades solving complex challenges at the city, state, and national levels. Before coming to Invest Atlanta, Eloisa served as special assistant for economic development at the U.S. Economic Development Administration in the Office of the Secretary. She served as California’s assistant deputy secretary for economic development and commerce and has held various roles with city governments, including a consultant for Mexico’s President Vicente Fox, working on best practices for addressing constituent issues and requests.
 
Eloisa is also active in various business, civic, and community organizations. She serves as a board member for the International Economic Development Council, the Women’s Entrepreneurship Initiative, Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs, Atlanta Technical College, the Urban Land Institute, the Westside Future Fund, and Atlanta Emerging Markets, Inc.
 
She has received the Steward Wylie/Wesley John Gaines President’s Leadership Award from Morris Brown College, Atlanta Business League’s 2021 Catalyst Award, ULI Atlanta’s The Leaders 2021, 2020 Diamond Award, 2019 Women Who Mean Business award, 2018 Henry Hill Robinson Award ACBR, 2017 Walker's Legacy Women in Economic Development Award, and the 2017 National Association of Minority Contractors Georgia Chapter’s Public-Sector Award. In addition, Eloisa has been listed in Atlanta Magazine’s Atlanta 500 list of the city’s most powerful leaders for the last three years.
 
Eloisa holds a bachelor’s degree from Pitzer College, as well as master’s degrees in urban planning and Latin American affairs from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MBA from el Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey. She received her doctorate degree in public administration from the University of LaVerne and is currently an adjunct professor of business administration at the University of Maryland.
 
Eloisa is a graduate of Leadership Atlanta Class of 2017 and was a participant in the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Regional Leadership Initiative in 2015. She has also been featured in Delta Sky magazine’s “Faces of Atlanta Business” in 2017 and the Atlanta Business Chronicle’s “People to Watch in 2017.”
 
Event Sponsors:
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Location:
IN-PERSON at Selig Enterprises
1100 Spring Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30309


ONLINE via Zoom Video Conference
*Zoom details will be sent only to virtual registrants the day before the meeting.
Date/Time Information:
First Wednesday of Every Month
8:15 - 9:15 AM
Contact Information:
Joseph Santoro
Fees/Admission:
Free to all Council members, elected officials, and staff
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