GSI conducts original research and provides regular analysis and commentary on issues and events impacting the state.
GSI's founder and current president is Regina M. Egea, who, after a 30-year career in the private sector, served in several high-level positions in the administration of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, including as chief of staff.
[3] GSI is focused on finding policy solutions that would “build a sustainable and effective economic infrastructure that supports jobs and retains valued workers,” according to New Jersey Monthly magazine.
[2] In a September 2019 op-ed in The Star-Ledger, Egea wrote: “A leading indicator of the lagging state of New Jersey’s economy was the July release of Q1 2019 Gross Domestic Product data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
The report was the basis for an op-ed that Egea co-authored with Stephen Eide of the Manhattan Institute that appeared in The Wall Street Journal.
[3][5] In the spring of 2018, GSI issued its second research report, "New Jersey's Business Tax Competitiveness: Modelling the Prospects for Growth" with research by Ernst & Young which headlined the group's first ever Economic Policy Forum, which featured a bipartisan lineup including famed economist Dr. Arthur Laffer, James Freeman of the Wall Street Journal editorial board and former New York State Tax Commissioner Dr. James Wetzler discussion the state of the U.S. economy and a second panel focused on New Jersey's economic outlook which featured Senator Steve Oroho (R), Assembly Majority Leader Lou Greenwald (D), former State Democratic Party and New Jersey State Investment Council Chairman Tom Byrne and Dan Geltrude, CPA.