US Leadership in the Asia Pacific: Trade in the Post Economic Crisis World
Mr Peter Allgeier
27 October 2009
On 27 October 2009, in collaboration with Eisenhower Fellowships and Ministry of Trade and Industry, CGL organised a dialogue session with Mr Peter Allgeier on the key challenges facing US trade in the Asia Pacific region. Moderated by Professor Tommy Koh, Ambassador-At-Large, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the session also discussed what the likely US responses will be, and how the US should tee itself up during Singapore and Japan’s APEC chairmanship and position itself for chairing APEC in 2011.
Former Deputy USTR and US Ambassador to the WTO Mr Peter Allgeier joined C&M International, Ltd. (CMI) as President on September 8, 2009, after nearly three decades at the Office of the USTR, where he was a negotiator on nearly every major US trade initiative since the Carter Administration.
From 2001-2009, Ambassador Allgeier served as Deputy USTR, nominated for this position by President George W. Bush. He served as US Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the WTO in Geneva, Switzerland from October 2005 until August 2009. During his career at USTR, Mr Allgeier has conducted major negotiations with countries throughout Asia, Europe (including the former Soviet Union), the Middle East, and Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as multilateral negotiations in the United Nations, the WTO, and its predecessor organization, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
Prior to joining USTR in June 1980, Mr Allgeier was an international economist with the US Agency for International Development (AID). He also was a Visiting Instructor of Economics at Duke University. Mr Allgeier graduated cum laude from Brown University, with an A.B. in international relations. He earned a Masters Degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He has a Ph.D. in international economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also was a Rockefeller Fellow at Harvard Divinity School.
Mr Allgeier has received various awards and accolades, including the Presidential Distinguished Rank Award, which is the highest performance honor bestowed on career federal officials. He also is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Washington International Trade Association (WITA) and the Woodrow Wilson Distinguished Alumnus Award from Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Emerging Strategic Issues and Wildcards
Peter Schwartz
27 July 2009
Peter Schwartz is cofounder and chairman of Global Business Network, a Monitor Group company, and a partner of the Monitor Group, a family of professional services firms devoted to enhancing client competitiveness. An internationally renowned futurist and business strategist, Mr Schwartz specialises in scenario planning, working with corporations, governments, and institutions to create alternative perspectives of the future and develop robust strategies for a changing and uncertain world.
From 1982 to 1986, Mr Schwartz headed scenario planning for the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies in London. His team conducted comprehensive analyses of the global business and political environment and worked with senior management to create successful strategies. Before joining Royal Dutch/Shell, Schwartz directed the Strategic Environment Center at SRI International. The Center researched the business milieu, lifestyles, and consumer values, and conducted scenario planning for corporate and government clients.
Mr Schwartz is the author of Inevitable Surprises (Gotham, 2003), a provocative look at the dynamic forces at play in the world today and their implications for business and society. His first book, The Art of the Long View (Doubleday Currency, 1991; audio tape, 1995; paperback, 1996), is considered a seminal publication on scenario planning and has been translated into multiple languages. He is also the co-author of The Long Boom (Perseus, 1999), a vision for the world characterised by global openness, prosperity, and discovery; When Good Companies Do Bad Things (Wiley, 1999), an examination of, and argument for, corporate social responsibility; and China's Futures (Jossey-Bass, 2001), which describes very different scenarios for China and their international implications. He publishes and lectures widely and served as a script consultant on the films “The Minority Report”, “Deep Impact”, “Sneakers” and “War Games”. Mr Schwartz received a B.S. in aeronautical engineering and astronautics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Growth and Innovation in the Post-Crisis World
Professor Clayton M. Christensen
29 May 2009
Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Technology & Operations Management and General Management faculty groups. His research and teaching interests centre on the management issues related to the development and commercialisation of technological and business model innovation. Specific areas of focus include developing organisational capabilities and finding new markets for new technologies.
Prior to joining the HBS faculty, Prof Christensen served as chairman and president of Ceramics Process Systems Corporation (CPS), a firm he co-founded with several MIT professors in 1984. CPS is a leading developer of products and manufacturing processes using high-technology metals and ceramics such as silicon nitride and silicon carbide. From 1979 to 1984, he worked as a consultant and project manager with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where he was instrumental in founding the firm's manufacturing strategy consulting practice. In 1982, Prof Christensen was named a White House Fellow, and served through 1983 (on a leave of absence from BCG) as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole.
Prof Christensen is the bestselling author of five books, including his seminal work The Innovator's Dilemma (Harvard Business Press, 1997) which received the Global Business Book Award for the best business book of the year, The Innovator’s Solution (2003), and Seeing What’s Next (2004). Recently, Prof Christensen has focused the lens of disruptive innovation on social issues such as education and health care. Disrupting Class (McGraw-Hill, 2008) looks at the root causes of why schools struggle and offers solutions, while The Innovator's Prescription (McGraw-Hill, 2009) examines how to fix our healthcare system.
Prof Christensen's writings have been featured in a variety of publications, and have won a number of awards, such as the Best Dissertation Award from The Institute of Management Sciences for his doctoral thesis on technology development in the disk drive industry; the Production and Operations Management Society's 1991 William Abernathy Award, presented to the author of the best paper in the management of technology; the Newcomen Society’s award for the best paper in business history in 1993; and the 1995, 2001, and 2008 McKinsey Awards for articles published in the Harvard Business Review.
Social Innovation and Social Enterprise: Implications for Public Policy
Professor Peter Shergold
23 February 2009
Professor Peter Shergold explored through his lecture three interwoven developments that together have the potential to transform the delivery of public services to the people. First, the creation of competitive social markets for public goods that establish the entitlements and obligations of citizens; second, the increased role of traditional not-for-profit organisations (NPO) and emerging social enterprises (SE) in the implementation of these publicly-funded programmes; and third, the capacity of governments to tailor service delivery to the needs of place, communities, or individuals. See Lecture Notes
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