DIEGO SALTES JOINS ARTBA
AS SENIOR ECONOMIST  

Industry vet brings experience from U.S. Chamber
of Commerce, American Institute of Architects
and, American Trucking Associations

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Washington, D.C. [June 06, 2007]—The American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) has hired Diego Saltes as senior economist. Saltes brings to ARTBA more than a decade of economic analysis and research expertise gained with top industry groups and trade associations. Saltes’s previous research has focused on the transportation, energy and construction markets, and macroeconomic analysis and forecasting.  As a member of the ARTBA Economics & Research team, he will help develop analyses and reports for industry professionals, members of Congress and their staffs, and federal agency officials that detail the impacts of transportation investment on the U.S. economy.

Saltes joined ARTBA from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where he served as an economist providing macroeconomic research, analysis and forecasting. He contributed to key congressional testimony on economic trends and also supported legislative proposals dealing with immigration and labor through extensive research on wages and employment. He was a regular contributor to the monthly U.S. Chamber publication, “Economics 101.”

Previously, Saltes directed market research and economic analysis for the American Institute of Architects. He developed economic models for establishing statistical relationships differentiating architecture services from overall construction spending. Saltes began his career with the American Trucking Associations, where he performed extensive research on trucking industry indicators and became a key spokesperson and lead analyst on energy market issues.

Saltes graduated cum laude with a B.A. in economics and obtained an M.S. in international economics, both from Radford University. He is currently completing a master’s degree in International Public Policy from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.

Saltes, a native of Caracas, Venezuela, is fluent in Spanish and English and is conversational in French. He resides in Arlington, Va.

Established in 1902, ARTBA is the transportation construction industry’s most respected voice in the Nation’s Capital.

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