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Weidenbaum Center Forum

Global Challenges to U.S. Business


Washington University in St. Louis

Simon Hall, May Auditorium (lower level)

March 23, 2007

 

7:30 a.m.         Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:00 a.m.         Welcome and Introductions

                              Steven S. Smith, Weidenbaum Center (Welcome)

                              Nathan Jensen, Washington University (Introduction)

8:10 a.m.         Keynote: What China Means for the United States

      Geoffrey Garrett, President of the Pacific Council on International Policy and Professor in the

     School of International Relations at the University of Southern California

8:50 a.m.         Break

9:00 a.m.         Panel 1:  Challenges to American Business Abroad

Murray Weidenbaum, Weidenbaum Center, Washington University

Charles G. Schott, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Department of the Treasury

Omar Garcia-Bolivar,  BG Consulting

10:30 a.m.       Panel 2:  Politics and Political Risk in the Developing World

Witold Henisz, Associate Professor of Management at The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania

Paul Vaaler, Associate Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Beth Simmons, Professor of Government, Harvard University

      12:00 p.m.       Adjourn

  Registration is required.  Please fill out and return the Registration Form, email Melinda Warren at warren@wustl.edu,
or call 314-935-6790, ext. 4 to register.  If registering by phone or email, be sure to leave your name, phone number,
affiliation, and email address.

*A parking pass will be mailed upon receipt of reservation.
 



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