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Julie Meier Wright

Julie Meier Wright is a retired CEO of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation, a former California Secretary of Trade & Commerce, a senior fellow of the U.S. Council on Competitiveness and of the California Council on Science & Technology. She consults on public affairs, marketing, and strategy, and is a strategic advisor to Collaborative Economics. She is also co-founder of the California Economic Summit, advisor to the Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology, and CEO of a San Diego startup spun out of UC San Diego. She served on the Sharp HealthCare Board for nine years and was named director of the year for Not-for-Profit Boards and for Companies in Transition by Corporate Directors Forum. She is on the board of the Jacobs School of Engineering and the Calit2 at UC San Diego. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland and the Stanford University Advanced Management College.

In this Saturday, June 1, 2019 file photo, then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks at an SEIU event before the 2019 California Democratic Party State Organizing Convention in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Opinion: Women will make the difference in the 2024 election

October 23, 2024 at 4:00 p.m.

Women — and the men who them — can elect a president in 2024 who will protect our Constitution and treasured freedoms. She happens to be a woman. It is time....

A pedestrian walk past the former Sempra building on Ash Street on Tuesday, December 17, 2019 in San Diego, California.

San Diego shouldn’t settle on 101 Ash Street until these conditions are met

July 21, 2022 at 2:38 p.m.

Roper is retired executive vice president and chief financial officer at SAIC and lives in La Jolla. Wright is retired CEO of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. and...

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Acts of comion and courage during the pandemic give me hope for 2022

December 28, 2021 at 12:02 a.m.

Meier Wright is a retired CEO of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. She lives in La Jolla.Years ago, I attended an ecumenical seminar where we discussed great civilizations....

FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2001 file photo, as rescue efforts continue in the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, President Bush stands with firefighter Bob Beckwith on a burnt fire truck in front of the World Trade Center during a tour of the devastation. In moments of crisis, American presidents have sought to summon words to match the moment in the hope that the power of oratory can bring order to chaos and despair.(AP Photo/Doug Mills, file)

We donated blood on 9/11, but it would not be needed. There were few survivors.

September 9, 2021 at 6:06 p.m.

Meier Wright is retired CEO of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corp. She lives in La Jolla.At 5 a.m. on the day that changed America, I turned on the...

Richard Branson answers students' questions during a news conference at Spaceport America near Truth or Consequences, N.M., on Sunday, July 11, 2021. Branson and five crewmates from his Virgin Galactic space tourism company reached an altitude of about 53 miles (88 kilometers) over the New Mexico desert before safely gliding back home to a runway landing at Spaceport America. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Don’t call Richard Branson a billionaire. After his spaceflight, call him entrepreneur and pioneer.

July 13, 2021 at 9:49 p.m.

Meier Wright is a retired CEO of the San Diego Regional Economic Development Corporation. She lives in La Jolla. As I watched the news coverage of the Virgin Galactic spaceplane, I...

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Our politicians have to tap into all of the resources our region has to offer

November 5, 2020 at 12:16 a.m.

Most local offices are officially nonpartisan though most candidates campaign as partisans these days — even as a third of San Diegans have rejected both major political parties. Once the...

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Wildfires meet technology, helping first responders

October 8, 2020 at 7:46 p.m.

Fire season has been growing longer every year with ever-more-destructive wildfires. It is one of many real-world impacts of a changing climate where global surface temperatures have soared since the...

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The finest way that we could honor the life of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

September 25, 2020 at 1:25 a.m.

Friday night I had a dream about the iconic jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg. It may have been because her death that day hit me hard.In my dream, she was visiting...

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Hope for the future in uncertain times

June 8, 2020 at 11:04 p.m.

Amid the non-stop news coverage of the dangerous global pandemic caused by a novel virus and more recently the peaceful protests of George Floyd’s tragic death hijacked by those who...

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA - AUGUST 30: The sun shines over towers carrying electical lines August 30, 2007 in South San Francisco, California. With temperatures over 100 degrees in many parts of the state, the California Independent System Operator, which manages most of the California electricity grid, is planning on declaring a minor power emergency later in the day, followed by a Stage 2 power alert during the late afternoon, indicating that power reserves have fallen below five percent. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **

Why San Diego must rethink Community Choice energy plan

July 18, 2019 at 12:18 a.m.

Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) is the latest fad captivating our political leaders. The proposed CCA would take over purchasing of electricity for residences and businesses, replacing San Diego Gas &...