Spring 2006
Friday, April 21, 2006
Khalid A. Al-Falih,
Senior Vice President of Industrial Relations,
Saudi Aramco
Topic: TBA
Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
Location: Mugar 200
Co-sponsored by
The Fares Center
for Eastern Mediterranean Studies
Khalid A. Al-Falih is Saudi Aramco’s senior vice president of
Industrial Relations. Prior to this, he was senior vice president of Gas
Operations. He is also a member of the Saudi Aramco Board of Directors.
Mr. Al-Falih joined the company in 1979. After several managerial assignments
in Project Management, Engineering, Refining, and Corporate Planning he became
president of the Petron Corporation, a joint venture between Saudi Aramco and
the Philippine National Oil Company.
On his return to Saudi Arabia in 2000, he played an instrumental role in
negotiations with international oil companies involved in the Kingdom’s Natural
Gas Initiative, while vice president of Gas Ventures, Development and
Coordination. Ultimately, four joint ventures were created between Saudi Aramco
and various leading IOCS.
In early 2003, Al-Falih was appointed to head a newly formed organization,
New Business Development, and in 2004 he became vice president of Exploration,
before being named senior vice president of Gas Operations.
He also serves as the Chairman of The Board of the South Rub’ Al-Khali
Company, a joint venture among Shell, Total and Saudi Aramco. He was recently
appointed to the Dammam City Municipal Council.
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Steven T. Kargman,
President,
Kargman
Associates
Topic: Opportunities and Pitfalls in Emerging Market
Restructurings: A Strategic Perspective
Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Location: Cabot 205
Reception to follow
Steven T. Kargman is the President of Kargman Associates, a New York
City-based strategic advisory firm specializing in international restructurings
and cross-border insolvencies. The firm provides strategic advice to clients
involved in complex and challenging international restructuring and cross-border
insolvency situations, with a special focus on the emerging markets. He was
formerly the senior restructuring lawyer with the Export-Import Bank of the
United States in Washington, D.C. At Ex-Im Bank, he specialized in restructuring
and project finance transactions n the emerging markets and served as the Lead
Attorney for the Bank’s Asset Management Division (the Bank’s Division
responsible for restructurings and workouts).
He has worked on major restructuring and project finance transactions
throughout Latin America and Asia in such countries as Brazil, China, Colombia,
India, Indonesia, Mexico, the Philippines, Singapore, Turkey and Venezuela.
Among other major transactions, he worked on the $13.9 billion Asia Pulp & Paper
restructuring, two of the most significant project finance restructurings in
Indonesia (the Paiton and Jawa power project restructurings), and the Dabhol
power project restructuring in India. He has also worked on some of the largest
restructuring matters in Mexico, Brazil and elsewhere in Latin America.
In his restructuring activities, he has interacted with senior officials in
the private and public sectors throughout Latin America and Asia. He has also
worked closely with senior officers of other creditor institutions, both public
and private, in the US and abroad, and he has played a leadership role on
several creditor Steering Committees and export credit agency working groups.
He previously served as General Counsel of the New York State Financial
Control Board, New York State’s financial oversight agency for New York City,
practiced corporate finance with the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton in New
York, and served as a law clerk to the Hon. Gilbert S. Merritt of the U.S. Court
of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
He has appeared on panels and lectured widely in the US and abroad on
international restructuring and project finance topics. In August 2004, he
served as a visiting lecturer for a course on international law in Rio de
Janeiro sponsored by the Organization of American States. In addition, among
other speaking engagements, he has lectured and appeared on panels before the
American Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York
(Committee on Project Finance), the Center for American and International Law
(formerly known as the Southwestern Legal Foundation), the International
Insolvency Institute, the International Law Association (American Branch), the
International Project Finance Association, the National University of Singapore
Centre for the Study of Commercial Law, the U.S.-Mexico Law Institute, and the
Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law.
He has published a number of articles on international finance topics in
leading professional publications including the International Financial Law
Review (IFLR), The International Economy, The Journal of Structured and Project
Finance, and The Journal of Private Equity as well as its Special Turnaround
Management Issue. His publications include a three-part series in IFLR on the
major challenges of emerging market restructurings.
He has served as a member of the official United States delegation for the
United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) project on the
development of a legislative guide for insolvency law and has been an adviser to
the U.S. Department of State on international insolvency issues. He served from
2001-2004 as an adjunct faculty member at American University’s Washington
College of Law for a course on international project finance law.
He currently serves as Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee on International
Bankruptcy of the American Bar Association’s Business Bankruptcy Committee. He
is a founding member of the International Insolvency Institute as well as a
member of the International Bar Association (Section on Insolvency,
Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights) and the Association of the Bar of the City
of New York. He is also a member of the Brazilian-American Chamber of Commerce
and the United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce (Northeast Chapter).
A former Luce Scholar in Singapore, he received his B.A. with Honors from
Swarthmore College (Phi Beta Kappa), where he was awarded the Flack Achievement
Award and Sarah Kaighn Cooper Scholarship for academic distinction. He received
his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal,
chairman of the Yale Association of International Law, and chairman of Yale
Legislative Services.
Monday, March 13, 2006
Topic:
Enlightened Power: How Women are Transforming Leadership
Time: 6:00-8:00pm followed by reception and book signing
Location: Asean Auditorium
RSVP and more information at:
http://www.fletcher.tufts.edu/enlightened_power
Speakers:
- Linda Coughlin, Chief Administrative Officer, Cendant
Corporation
- Ellen Wingard, Executive Coach & Co-Editor, Enlightened
Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership.
- Mary Puma, J79’, Chairman & CEO, Axcelis Technologies,
Inc.
- Evelyn Murphy, Author: Getting Even. Why Women Don't Get
Paid Like Men and What to Do About It.
Thursday, March 2, 2006
Dr. Fred Wiersema,
Business Strategist,
The
Customer Strategy Group LLC
Topic:Driving Customer Growth in an Increasingly International
Competitive Market
Time: 5:00pm presentation followed by reception.
Location: Cabot 702
Dr. Fred Wiersema is a highly respected business strategist,
keynote speaker, author, and senior management educator who is best known for
his work with market leaders and a series of influential books on their winning
practices. Born in the Netherlands, he is an internationally renown champion of
customer intimacy and solution-based marketing. For over two decades, he has
worked with many of the largest multinationals, providing his incisive
perspectives to guide executives around the world to sharpen their customer
strategies and pursue customer growth. He is frequently featured on CNN, CNBC,
BBC-TV, has published in The Harvard Business Review and has been featured in
Fortune, Business Week and numerous other business publications.
His book publications include The Discipline of Market Leaders,
the New York Times best-seller and #1 Business Week book he co-authored in 1994.
The book urges companies to create superior value propositions by sharply
focusing their business models and corporate cultures on either operational
excellence, customer intimacy or product leadership. His follow-up work,
Customer Intimacy, discusses how winning firms build and leverage
closer connections with their most valued customers. His latest book,
The New Market Leaders: Who's Winning and How in the Battle for Customers,
was named "Best business book of the year 2001" by Management Team, the #1
business magazine in Holland.
Dr. Wiersema is founder of The Customer Strategy Group LLC, an advisory
practice that helps senior executives to strengthen their leadership role and
invigorate customer growth. Before starting his own practice in 1995, he was a
senior partner with CSC Index, an international management consultancy, where he
consulted with Fortune-100 companies. Prior to that, he was a high tech
executive and business school professor. Dr. Wiersema holds a doctorate from
Harvard Business School.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
Iqbal Z. Quadir,
Founder,
GrameenPhone
Topic: Strengthening the Hands of Citizens: The GrameenPhone Story
Time: 5:00pm presentation followed by reception.
Location: Cabot 702
**Co-sponsored by The International Communications Club.**
News Article:
“Strengthening the Hands of Citizens”: Iqbal Quadir talks about the
GrameenPhone Story
Iqbal Z. Quadir founded GrameenPhone in collaboration with Grameen
Bank of Bangladesh and Telenor AS of Norway. GrameenPhone provides
telephone access throughout Bangladesh, including to its rural poor, by
adding cellular telephony to village-based micro-enterprise. In January
1999, the World Economic Forum based in Davos, Switzerland honored him
as a "Global Leader for Tomorrow." Quadir worked as a vice president of
Atrium Capital Corp. and was an associate at Security Pacific Merchant
Bank and Coopers & Lybrand, and earlier as a consultant to the World
Bank in Washington, D.C. He received an MBA and an MA from the Wharton
School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BS with Honors from Swarthmore
College.
Fall 2005
Monday, September 12, 2005
Stephen B. Young,
Global Executive Director,
The
Caux Round Table
Topic:
Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with Public Good
Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
Location: Cabot 702
Stephen B. Young, Global Executive Director of the Caux Round
Table, is a lawyer and writer. He has served as Dean of the Hamline
University School of Law and as an Assistant Dean at the Harvard Law
School. He has taught law and Vietnamese history.
Young writes monthly for the web magazine Fifthcolumnmag.com. He has
written Moral Capitalism, the Tradition of Human Rights in China and
Vietnam, and Cuoc Chien Thang Bi Bo Lo (Nguyen Van Hung, Translator). He
has published law review articles on ethics, jurisprudence, the law of
negligence, fiduciary theory, the status of refugees, Chinese moral and
political theory, Vietnamese history, the cultures and politics of
Thailand and Vietnam, He has been published in the Wall Street Journal,
the Washington Post and the New York Times. He has written on foreign
affairs for the Pioneer Press, politics and culture for the Minnesota
Journal of Law and Politics, and commentary for the StarTribune. While
Dean of the Hamline University School of Law he initiated the Journal of
Law and Religion.
As
an attorney, Young has both served corporate clients in business
transactions and litigated in state and federal courts.
Young has served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations. He
was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and is a member of the
American Law Institute. He served with USAID in village development in
the Republic of Vietnam and was Honorary Consul General of Singapore in
Minnesota.
Young was a court appointed arbitrator for the Prudential Securities
Inc. litigation and has arbitrated cases under Minnesota’s No Fault
automobile accident statute.
In 1966 Young discovered the bronze-age site of Ban Chiang in
northeast Thailand, now a UNESCO world heritage site.
After attending high school in Bangkok, Thailand, Young studied
anthropology and government at Harvard College, participating in the
Chiapas field research project and he took his law degree at Harvard Law
School where he was Chair of the Board of Student Advisors.
Young has studied Latin, French, Tzotzil, Thai, Vietnamese and
classical Chinese characters.
In 1975 Young initiated efforts to open the United States to refugees
from South Vietnam and later served on the Citizens Commission for
Indochinese Refugees. He later suggested the framework of a United
Nations trusteeship interim administration for Cambodia as a means to
end the civil war in that country.
Monday, October 3, 2005
Marcel Legrand
SVP, Strategy & Corporate Planning,
Monster Worldwide
Topic:
A Day in the Life of an International Corporate & Marketing Strategist
Time: 11:30am - 1:30pm
Location: Cabot 702
Sign up required
Marcel Legrand serves as Sr. Vice President of Strategy & Corporate
Planning for Monster Worldwide (NASDAQ: "MNST"), the leading global
online network for careers, connecting the most progressive companies
with the most qualified career-minded individuals. He is currently
responsible for the overall strategic and directional influence of the
business in addition to overseeing partnerships, acquisitions, and
expansion efforts. Earlier in his career with Monster, Marcel was
responsible for Product Management. Before that time, he led the firm's
expansion efforts from four (4) sites to a network of seventeen (17)
sites worldwide, as Sr. VP of Global Development. Prior to joining
Monster, Marcel held various positions at parent company, TMP Worldwide
(now Monster Worldwide) in New York. His eight-year career at the NY
headquarters spanned multiple divisions, to include Direct Marketing,
Advertising and Communications, and Corporate. Legrand's tenure at
Monster Worldwide coincided with the firm's aggressive growth and
Monster leveraged his expertise in corporate strategy, mergers &
acquisitions, marketing management, and service operations. Marcel holds
an MBA and also received a Master's Degree in Economics and
International Business from Columbia University. He is married, has 3
children and enjoys reading, percussion instruments, soccer, competitive
triathlons and desserts.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Milton Ezrati
Senior Economic Strategist,
Lord
Abbett
Topic:
The Economics and Politics of Asian Currency Policy, Exports, and
Investments
Time: 11:30am - 12:45pm
Location: Cabot 702
Milton Ezrati is the Senior Economic Strategist at Lord Abbett and
an Affiliate of the Center on Human Capital and Economic Growth in the
Department of Economics at State University of New York, Buffalo. Milton
is a 25-year Wall Street veteran, a well-known expert on a range of
global and domestic financial issues and is a regular contributor to a
wide range of national business publications. Has published in American
Economic review and is on the peer review committees for the Journal of
Money, Credit and Banking and the Asian Journal.
Milton is also a columnist for The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan’s leading
financial daily, and the author of the celebrated book, Kawari: “How
Japan's Economic and Cultural Transformation Will Alter the Balance of
Power Among Nations” (Addison Wesley, 2000).
In addition, Milton is an expert on topics ranging from policy and
regulation to global market movement to personal finance, and has
written for Barrons, The International Herald Tribune, The Harvard
Business Review, and Investors Business Daily. From 2000-2001 Milton was
a guest commentator on CNBC’s Morning Call, and is currently a guest
host on “Open Exchange” on Bloomberg TV.
Milton has been listed in the Who’s Who of Finance and Industry, and Who’s
Who-America for the past 5 years. He is a member of the National
Association of Business Economists, the American Economic Association,
and the National Associations of Scholars.
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Luis A. Viada
Senior Vice President,
Global Resource Management,
The McGraw-Hill Companies
Topic:
The Case for Global Offshoring
As part of Prof. Richard Thoman's "Managing the Global Organization" class
Time: 2:45 - 3:45pm
Location: Mugar 200
Luis A. Viada is the Senior Vice President for Global Resource
Management for the McGraw-Hill Companies. Until recently, he was
Managing Director for Global Development where he directed the
corporation’s business development activities outside of the U.S.,
including acquisitions, joint ventures, and alliances across all
business segments.
Prior to joining the McGraw-Hill Companies, Mr. Viada was the Latin
American region head for the Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services where he
had overall management of the company’s analytical resources, business
development, and operation in the region. Mr. Viada came to Standard &
Poor’s after 16 years of international corporate banking with Citibank,
where he held senior positions in Asia, the Middle East, and Latin
America.
Mr. Viada serves on the boards of the Council of the Americas, Pro Mujer
International, and the Corporate Advisory Board of the National Council
of La Raza, and is a Trustee of the Turtle Bay Music School. He is an
active member of the Inter-American Dialogue, the Hispanic Federation,
and the US-China Business Council. He holds a MS degree from the
Georgetown School of Foreign Service and a BA degree in Political
Science from Tufts University.
Monday, November 14, 2005
Margaret (Margo) Loebl
Group Vice President - Finance
Archer Daniels Midland
Topic:
Agribusiness...another global revolution!
Time: 11:30 am- 12:45pm
Location: Cabot 205
Margaret (Margo) Loebl is Group Vice President-Finance for Archer
Daniels Midland Company (ADM), which is headquartered in Decatur,
Illinois. Ms. Loebl joined ADM in 2002 and has had several years of
experience in international finance. Loebl is responsible for the
development of a global finance service group to satisfy the growing
needs of ADM's global operations. She currently has direct
responsibility for ADM’s corporate planning and business development,
global treasury, credit, private equity, foreign exchange, marketable
securities and payroll. She also sits on the boards of ADM’s various
financial service companies. Just prior to joining ADM, Ms. Loebl served
as Vice President, Corporate Finance of NIKE , where her
responsibilities included treasury, tax and risk management of its
global corporate finance functions. Prior to joining NIKE in 2000, she
spent 13 years with General Motors Corporation in various finance and
control positions around the world. Loebl has worked or lived in
Germany, Mexico, Canada, and Brazil. She speaks German, Spanish, and
Portuguese. Ms. Loebl received her Bachelor of Arts degree in German and
Economics from Wellesley College in 1982 and she received a Masters of
Business Administration from the University of Chicago in 1986.
Tuesday, November 22, 2005
Ms. Tomye Tierney
Vice President and General Manager of Emerging Markets,
Genzyme Corporation
Topic: HBS Case Study review and discussion of Genzyme’s
Gaucher Initiative: Global Risk and Responsibility (visit
Blackboard to read the case)
Time: 9:55am - 11:10am
Location: Mugar 235
As part of Prof. Nathalie Laidler-Kylander's
International Marketing Class
** All are welcome to attend; case preparation highly recommended **
Luncheon discussion on Corporate Social Responsibility & Challenges
of Entering Emerging Markets
Co-sponsored by
The Net Impact Group
Time: 11:30am - 12:30pm
Location: Murrow Room, G210
** Sign up required to attend; attendance is limited **
Tomye Tierney is a Vice President and General Manager of Emerging
Markets at Genzyme Corporation in Cambridge, MA with the company for 15
years. Tomye has pioneered many of the international markets in the
Therapeutics business. She has lived and worked in Europe, Africa and
Asia. After an expatriate assignment in Singapore, Tomye returned to the
States in 1998 to conceptualized and implement an innovative partnership
between Genzyme and an NGO partner (Project HOPE) which would give
patients with rare, genetic diseases in developing countries, access to
the company’s life-saving drugs regardless of ability to pay.
Building on the success of the first humanitarian program, additional
programs have been developed for successive new products at Genzyme.
Working relationships have been developed with other non-profits such as
Partners in Health, ANERA, World Reach and others to ensure patients
everywhere can be served.
Tomye spent 14 years with the Hyland Division, Baxter International,
progressing from Market Research Analyst through increasing positions of
responsibility in the international arena, to Regional Director,
Europe/Africa/Middle East.
She received BA degree in Economics (Magna cum laude) from California
State University, Long Beach in 1979 and followed with an MBA from the
University of Southern California in 1983.
Tomye serves on several of the following boards: WorldBoston/World
Affairs Council, Advisory Board, The Genzyme Charitable foundations,
Inc., President’s Circle, The Asia Society, and International Advisor-
Northeastern University, International Studies.
For more information on the International Business Program and its
Global Speaker Series, please contact: Dorothy Orszulak, Associate
Program Director at
Dorothy.Orszulak@tufts.edu
or 617-627-3665.
