Salt Lake City Treasurer Buzz Hunt has been elected president of the Wasatch Front Economic Forum, a local chapter of the National Association of Business Economists that meets monthly from September through May.
He succeeds Kelly K. Matthews, senior vice president and economist for First Security Corp.Other officers are Mike Christensen, director of the Utah Foundation, executive vice president; Lecia Parks Langston, chief economist for the Utah Department of Employment Security, vice president; Paul Morley, coordinator of public relations for the Salt Lake City Branch of the Federal Reserve Bank, treasurer; and William W. Wallace, vice president and investment department manager for Key Bank of Utah, secretary.
Hunt said the group's next meeting will be in September.