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"Politics and Business in Russia After the Elections"
Thursday, April 24, 2008
9:00 AM-10:00 AM Eastern

Speaker: Stanislav Shekshnia, Affiliate Professor INSEAD, author, entrepreneur

(Dr. Shekshnia last spoke to NABE members at a teleconference sponsored by the International Roundtable on February 28, 2005.)

Podcast available

Biography

Stanislav Shekshnia brings a prospective of a business executive and academic. His specific areas of interest are leadership, entrepreneurship, leadership development and succession, emerging economies, cross-cultural management, organizational culture, and change management.

In 1991-2002 Stanislav Shekshnia held positions of CEO of Alfa-Telecom, President and CEO, Millicom International Cellular, Russia and CIS, Chief Operating Officer of VimpelCom, Director of Human Resources, Central and Eastern Europe of Otis Elevator. He served as Chairman of SUEK, Vimpelcom-R and a board member of a number of Russian and international companies. Currently Stanislav is a member of a Supervisory Board of DTEK, the largest Ukrainian energy company.

Dr. Shekshnia has over 15 years of graduate level teaching experience. He is an Affiliate Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD; he has taught graduate and executive courses in entrepreneurship, leadership, international management and people management and lectured at ESCP-EAP, HEC, Northeastern University, California State University at Hayworth, Stockholm School of Economics, Moscow State University, International Management Institute in St. Petersburg.

In 2002 Stanislav Shekshnia co-founded Zest Leadership international consultancy. With Zest Leadership he concentrates on leadership, leadership development, organizational development and intercultural management. Dr. Shekshnia provides personal coaching to business owners and corporate executives. His clients have included BP, TNK-BP, Cisco, Enskilda Securities, Siegwerk, Ipsen, Meditel, United Technologies, Norilsk Nickel, EdP, Telefonica, KAMAZ, Megafone, IlimPulpEnterprise.

Dr. Shekshnia is the author, co-author, or editor of 5 books, including “The New Russian
Business Leaders” (2004 with M. Kets de Vries, K. Korotov, E. Florent-Treacy), Corporate Governance in Russia (2004, edit. with S. Puffer and D. McCarthy), Russian management bestseller Managing People in Contemporary Organization (seven editions since 1995). His work appeared in such journals as The Academy of Management Executive, The European Management Journal, Harvard Business Review Russia, Harvard Business Review Germany, Journal of West-East Business, Case Research Journal, California Management Review, Compensation and Benefits Review, Journal of Management Inquiry, The International Executive, L’Expansion Management Review, Russian business daily Vedomosty, Expert, Management, Personnel Management, Personnel Mix, Kariera and Kompania magazines.

Stanislav Shekshnia lives in Paris, but frequently travels to his mother land for business and
hunting expeditions.

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Asian Outlook and Prospects for Industries" Teleconference
Monday, April 7, 2008
2:00-3:00 PM Eastern

“The ADB’s 2008 Asian Development Outlook”
Ifzal Ali, Chief Economist, Asian Development Bank Slideshow

“Which Industries Gain and Which Lose in a Slowing Asian Economy?”
Mark Killion, CFA, Managing Director, World Industry Services, Global Insight Slideshow

Podcast available

Moderator:
Stuart Mackintosh, International Roundtable Chair/Executive Director, The Group of Thirty

Ifzal Ali will discuss Asian economic development and the impact of global financial markets, the effects of U.S. credit crunch, whether rising food and energy prices will fan inflationary flames across the region, and how policymakers should deal with rising inflation and a slowdown in global growth. Mark Killion will follow with a discussion of the changing prospects for industry activity, spending and profits, and more. He will show which sectors are the likely winners and losers in Asia and will compare those to the rest of the world. Please join us for this timely teleconference.

“Asian Capital Markets”
Thursday, May 17, 2007
11 AM to 12 Noon EDT

David Hale, Hale Advisors, LLC

David has recently met with officials and business leaders in Korea, Japan and China. This teleconference will draw from those meetings.

This teleconference has been turned into a NABE Premium Podcast. It can be purchased for $10 on the NABE secure server.

“Emerging Markets and Volatility”

Tuesday, March 27, 2007
11:00 AM EDT

Since the stock market downturn in the China on Feb. 27, markets in Asia and the rest of the world have tumbled. Join us at this teleconference sponsored by the International Roundtable to understand about volatility in emerging markets and whether there is a bumpy road ahead.

Speaker:Nariman Behravesh, Chief Economist, Global Insight
Stuart Mackintosh, IRT Officer and Executive Director, The Group of Thirty, will moderate.

This is a free NABE podcast, and can be downloaded from the NABE Podcasts page or via an iTunes subscription.

Download slide show (PDF, 280 K) NABE members only.

Thursday, May 4, 2006

Replay of "Financial Market Reform in China"

Sponsored by the International Roundtable

Speakers:
James Dorn, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cato Institute and
John Thompson, Financial Economist, former Financial Advisor, OECD Financial Affairs and Enterprise Directorate
Moderator: Patrick Casey, AVP Forecasting & Planning, TTX Company

While China's currency policy continues to make headlines, that policy is but one aspect of evolving Chinese financial markets. The broader financial context, including issues such as capital controls, interest rate policy, price stability, privatization, savings rates, domestic equity ownership and foreign investment all will affect the health of China's economy and the direction of its vital trade relationship with the U.S. Both speakers bring their in-depth understanding of China to this discussion of the challenges of and prospects for Chinese financial reform.

AgPaper (PDF)
China Capital Markets (PDF)
Financial Regulation in China (PDF)
Governance in Banks of China (PDF)
Economic Development Bulletin (PDF)

Podcast

This teleconference is available as a free podcast. See the NABE Podcasting page for details.

Thursday, Feb 9, 2006

Replay of “Currency Outlook 2006: Currencies in the Europe and Asia”

Podcast replay of this Teleconference sponsored by the NABE International Roundtable

Originally held Thursday, February 9, 2006, 12 Noon EST

Speakers:
Europe--Paul Donovan, Deputy Head, Global Economics, UBS Investment Bank
Asia--Todd Lee, Managing Director, Greater China, Global Insight
Sara Johnson, IRT Director and Managing Director, Global Macroeconomics, Global Insight, will moderate

Todd Lee's slide show (PDF, 140 K)

This is a free NABE podcast.

Wednesday, Feb 1, 2006

Teleconference: “Currency Outlook 2006:Currencies in the Americas”

Speakers:
Canada--Tim O’Neill, O’Neill Strategic Economics, Ontario, Canada
Latin America--Michael Warren, National Manager, Toyota Motor North America

This is a free NABE podcast.

Thursday, June 9, 2005

“Brazil's Competitive Advantages”

Speaker:
Affonso Pastore, LatinSource’s economist in Brazil, President and Founder of A.C. Pastore & Associados, an economic consulting firm based in Sao Paulo.

Moderator:
Catherine Mann, International Roundtable Chair

Teleconference slide show

Affonso Celso Pastore serves as LatinSource’s economist in Brazil and is President and Founder of A.C. Pastore & Associados, an economic consulting firm based in Sao Paulo.

Dr. Pastore was President of the Central Bank of Brazil from 1983-1985. He previously served as Secretary of Finance for the State of Sao Paulo, and prior to that as Director of Research for the Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas, a foundation associated with the Department of Economics at the University of São Paulo. He also served as Director of Research at the “Fundação Centro de Estudos do Comércio Exterior” (FUNCEX).

Dr. Pastore received both his Bachelor and his Doctorate degrees in Economics from the Universidade de Sao Paulo, where he held the positions of Professor and Dean of the Department of Economics from 1978 to 1999. He continues teaching graduate courses at the Fundação Getulio Vargas/RJ on “Open Economy Macroeconomics”, “Money and Banking” and “Econometrics”.

Dr. Pastore has written numerous articles published in major journals that focus on monetary and stabilization policies, and on international monetary issues. He has also devoted his studies to the problems of agriculture within the Brazilian economy.

Tuesday, May 3, 2005

Recent Developments in International Corporate Governance, with a Focus on Trans-Atlantic Issues

Speakers are

Holly Gregory, Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges and
Grant Kirkpatrick, Senior Economist, OECD.

William Witherwell, OECD,moderater

February 28, 2005

Russia and Its Economic and Business Environment

Overview/Economic Outlook:

William Tompson, Senior Economist, South-East Europe/NIS, Economics Department, OECD
Rudiger Ahrend, Economist, South-East Europe/NIS, Economics Department, OECD

Russian Business:

Stanislav Shekshnia, Adjunct Professor INSEAD, author, entrepreneur

Rudiger Ahrend is Economist for the NIS and South-eastern Europe in the Non-member Economies Division of the OECD Economics Department, and is the co-author of the OECD Economic Surveys of Romania (2002) and Russia (2004). He specialises in macro-economics and the political economy of emerging markets, and has published numerous journal and newspaper articles in the field. He has previously worked as a researcher, independent consultant, as well as an advisor to governments in various transition countries.

OECD Slide Show

William Tompson is Senior Economist for the NIS and South-eastern Europe in the Economics Department of the OECD. He is on leave from the University of London, where he is Reader in Politics, and he is also an associate fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs. Dr Tompson is the author of Khrushchev: A Political Life (Macmillan/St Martin's, 1997) and The Soviet Union under Brezhnev (Longman, 2003), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on Soviet and Russian politics and economic policy. Together with Rudiger Ahrend, he prepared the fifth OECD Economic Survey of the Russian Federation, which appeared in July 2004.

Stanislav Shekshnia is an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD. Dr. Shekshnia spent 10 years as a business executive and entrepreneur in France, USA, Russia and Central Europe. He has master's degree in Economics and Ph.D. from Moscow State University and MBA from Northeastern University in Boston. In 1991-2002 Stanislav Shekshnia held positions of Director of Human Resources, Central and Eastern Europe for Otis Elevator, President and CEO, Millicom International Cellular, Russia and CIS, Chief Operating Officer of VimpelCom, CEO of Alfa-Telecom. He served as Chairman of Vimpelcom-R and board member of a number of Russian companies.

Dr. Shekshnia has over 15 years of graduate level teaching experience in Russia, France and United States. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 5 books, including Russian management bestseller Managing People in Contemporary Organization (seven editions since 1995), Group Focus (2003, with M.Rousseau-Ovchinnikov) , Kak Eto Skazat Po-Russki: Western Management Methods in Russia (2003), Corporate Governance in Russia (edit. with S. Puffer and D. McCarthy upcoming) , New Russian Business Leaders (with M. Kets de Vries and associates, upcoming). He has published book chapters, articles, executive commentaries, interviews and case studies on entrepreneurship, leadership, people management, intercultural management and business and management in Russia.

Shekshnia slide show

Dec 17, 2004

"Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Prospects for the Dollar"

Catherine Mann, Institute for International Economics

Slideshow (PDF, 282 K)

April 16, 2004

Joint Teleconference with Technology Roundtable
Catherine Mann, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics
Off-shore Outsourcing

Feb 4,2004

"Trade Security and Trade Facilitation: Must They Conflict?"

Our speakers will be:

K. Jack Riley, Director, RAND Public Safety and Justice, RAND Corporation. (Dr. Riley also directs the Homeland Security Center in RAND's National Security Research Center.)
Greg Moxness, Director, Office of Regulatory and Economic Analysis in the Office of Transportation Security Policy, Department of Homeland Security
Brian Rankin Staples, Principal, Trade Facilitation Services (Ottawa)

Catherine Mann, Institute for International Economics, will moderate.

K. Jack Riley was appointed Director of RAND Public Safety and Justice in September 1999 and the Director of the National Security Research Division's Homeland Security Center in September 2003. He is also co-director of RAND's Center for Terrorism Risk Management policy. In these capacities, he manages RAND's relationship with the Department of Homeland Security and coordinates much of RAND's homeland security work on issues such as deterrence, prevention and preemption; domestic preparedness; and consequence mitigation. He leads a variety of research efforts on counterterrorism, homeland security, and terrorism risk management with public and private sector clients, including a current project that updates the first empirical analyses of preparedness for domestic terrorism (Domestic Terrorism: A National Assessment of State and Local Preparedness, RAND, 1995). The revised version of the national survey will be released early in 2004. His recent homeland security publications include: California's Vulnerability to Terrorism (RAND, 2002) and The Implications of the September 11th Terrorism Attacks for California (RAND, 2002).

Jack is active in research areas beyond homeland security, including gun violence and drug policy. He currently serves as co-PI on a project funded by the Department of Justice to analyze gun trace data and to assist law enforcement with designing effective illegal gun market disruption strategies. His recent publications include: Reducing Gun Violence: Results from an Intervention in East Los Angeles (RAND, 2003) and From Boston to Boyle Heights: The Process and Prospects of a "Pulling Levers" Strategy in a Los Angeles Barrio (Wadsworth, 2002). Currently, he is funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to analyze prosecution and sentencing of drug offenders in California. His recent publications include: "UNCOPE: A Brief Substance Dependence Screen for Use with Arrestees," (Journal of Drug Issues, 2003); "Monitoring the Crack Epidemic through Urine Testing: Establishment of Routine Detection Methods," (Addiction Biology, 2001); and "The Validity of Adult Arrestee Self-Reports of Crack Cocaine Use, (Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2001)."

Since 2000, Jack has served on the admissions committee of the RAND Graduate School. He also serves on the advisory board of the Forensic Science Institute at CSU-LA and on the Homeland Security Advisory Council for metropolitan Los Angeles.

From 1995 to 1999, Jack was with the US Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice. Jack received his BA (economics and Russian) from the University of Michigan in 1986; his MS (foreign service) from Georgetown in 1988; and his PhD (public policy analysis) from the RAND Graduate School in 1993.

Greg Moxness graduated from Coe College, 1977, with a major in economics. He spent ten years as an Air Force pilot and plans officer. He left Air Force for graduate school in Public Administration. He came to Washington, DC, as part of the Postal Services revival of the management intern program. After the internship, he spent 13 years as an economist and marketing specialist. He has had responsibilities for salary and benefit modeling, budget systems, national sales accountability, and forecasting.

He joined Transportation Security Administration in February of 2003 as an economist in Regulatory and Economic Analysis of the Office of Transportation Security Policy. In October, he was named Director, Office of Regulatory and Economic Analysis. Greg is responsible for the cost-benefit analysis of proposed regulations as well as other economic analysis for TSA. His primary interest is fostering improved public decision making with solid analytical analysis and procedures and advocating public service.

Brian R. Staples is a Senior International Trade Expert with 20 years progressive experience covering a broad knowledge of technical trade fundamentals such as valuation, duty and tax deferral programs, rules of origin and the Harmonized System of Classification, combined with an interest in trade policy.

He is a Principal (1998 - Present) with Trade Facilitation Services, Ottawa, Ontario; and a Senior Fellow (1999 - Present), Technical Trade and Customs Reform Advisor to the Centre forTrade Policy and Law, Ottawa, Ontario. He is a Member of the Trade Policy Committee, Canadian Council for International Business (Canadian Secretariat of the International Chamber of Commerce and the Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the O.E.C.D.) and member of the International Affairs Committee, Canadian Chamber of Commerce.

He has a Bachelor of Arts in Law and Philosophy, Carleton University (1989), and a Diploma from the International Freight Forwarders Association (1993).