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Global Competitiveness Forum - Saudi Arabia - Bruce Fenton
The Global Competitiveness Forum ("GCF") is an annual meeting of top business executives, international political leaders, selected intellectuals, and academics who share an interest in global competitiveness. For the 2008 GCF, Saudi Arabia celebrated its new ranking in terms of "ease to do business" --rated as 23rd country worldwide and 1st in the Middle East and in the Arab world. Saudi Arabia has also greatly improved rankings by the World Bank and the World Economic Forum.
In 2007, more than 500 of these key leaders participated in the first annual GCF which included a keynote address by Bill Gates of Microsoft.
The event is held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia right before the Davos Economic Forum.
In 2008 and under the patronage of H.M. King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, the forum gathered 1,000 internationally recognized leaders. The program is designed to create a discussion platform for experts, corporate leaders, political leaders, NGOs, academics and other stakeholders.
GCF Speakers included the following people:
Mohamed Ali Alabbar
Chairman of Emaar Properties PJSC
James (Jim) F. Albaugh
Executive Vice President, The Boeing Company
President and Chief Executive Officer
Integrated Defense Systems
H.E. Amr Al-Dabbagh
Governor & Chairman, SAGIA
Khalid Al Gosaibi
Minister of Economy and Planning, Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
HE Eng. Khalid Abdullah Almolhem
Director General, Saudi Airlines
HE Dr. Mohammed Al-Suwaiyel
President, King Abdullaziz City for Science and Technology
Henry Azzam
CEO Middle East and North Africa Region (MENA) - Deutsche Bank
Mr. Alan L. Boeckmann
Chairman of the Board & CEO, Fluor Corporation
Dr. Werner Brandt
Member of the Executive Board & Chief Financial Officer, SAP AG
Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland
former Prime Minister of Norway & former Director General of the World Health Organization. Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations
Prof. Herwig Brunner
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology, Professor at the University of Stuttgart
Mr. John T. Chambers
Chairman & CEO, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Mr Victor Chu
Chairman, First Eastern Investment Group
Mr. Dick Evans
President & CEO, Alcan Inc.
Mr. Bruce Fenton
Founder & Managing Director, Atlantic Financial Inc
Mr. Mark B. Fuller
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Monitor Group
Gail D. Fosler
President and Chief Economist The Conference Board
Prof. Stéphane Garelli
Professor at IMD and at the University of Lausanne, Director World Competitiveness Center
Mr. German Gref
RF Minister of Economic Development and Trade
Anant Gupta
Founding Partner and CEO, HCL
Mr. Jean-Michel Halfon
Area President Canada / Latin America / Africa / Middle-Est
Dr. Axel Claus Heitmann
Chairman of the Board of Management, LANXESS AG
HE Eng. Mohamed Jamil Ahmed Mulla
Minister of Information and Communication Technology
Mr. Tapani Järvinen
President & CEO, Outotec
Mr Lee Yi Shyan
Minister of State for Trade and Industry
Republic of SingaporeMr. Franklin Pitcher Johnson, JR.
Founding Partner Asset Management Company
Prof. Michio Kaku
Theoretical physicist, best-selling author & popularizer of science
Mr. Younghoon David Kim
Chairman, Daesung Group
Mr. Nemir A. Kirdar
President & CEO, Investcorp.
Mr. Mikael Mäkinen
President & CEO, Cargotec
Sir Terence Matthews
Chairman, Wesley Clover
Mr. Hartmut Mehdorn
Chairman of the Management Board & CEO, DB AG
Mr. Yasuyuki Nambu
Group CEO of Pasona Group is from Japan and its official site is original Japanese site http://www.pasona.co.jp
English site is also available http://www.pasona.co.jp/english
Mr. Aref Naqvi
Executive Vice Chairman & CEO, Abraaj Capital
Prof. Jane Nelson
Senior Fellow & Director of Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
Dr. Michael E. Porter
Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School
Azim Premji
Chairman, Wipro
Dr. John Quelch
Senior Associate Dean, Harvard Business School.
Dr. Hector de J. Ruiz
Chairman & CEO, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Mr. Frank John Sixt
Executive Director & Group Finance Director, Hutchison Whampoa Limited
Mr. Don Thornhill
Chairman, National Competitiveness Council of Ireland
Mr. Nigel Turner
CEO, BMI
Prof. Laura Tyson
Professor, Haas Business and Public Policy Group at the University of California Berkeley
Dr. Daniel Vasella, M.D.
Chairman & CEO, Novartis AG.
H.E. Dr. Hashim Yamani
Minister of Commerce and Industry
Philip Yeo
Special Advisor for Economic Development
Length: 440
Rating: 4.50 (18 ratings)
Tags: Saudi Arabia Riyadh Arab Middle East economy Davos Global Competitiveness Forum world bank IMF WEF development
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Obama Campaign Stop: Economic Competitiveness Summit
Senator Barack Obama spoke at Carnegie Mellon University on June 26, 2008. Senator Obama ended his three week "Change that Works for You" tour by hosting a summit at Carnegie Mellon on ensuring America's competitiveness in the global economy. The summit brought together economic, educational, community-based and industry leaders to discuss the challenges facing our workforce and craft solutions for the 21st Century. Participating in summit were: Federico Peña, Managing Director, Vestar Capital Partners, Steve Case, Chairman & CEO, Revolution, LLC, Andy Stern, International President, SEIU, Susan Hockfield, President, MIT, Geoffrey Canada, President & CEO, Harlem Children's Zone, Lael Brainard, Vice President and Director, U.S. Competitiveness Initiative, The Brookings Institution, Eli Broad, Founder, The Broad Foundation, John P. Surma, Chairman & CEO, United States Steel Corporation, Rick Wagoner, Chairman & CEO, General Motors, Senator Barack Obama, Harold Varmus, President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Susan Castillo, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Oregon Department of Education, General Jim Jones, USMC (ret), President & CEO, Institute for 21st Century Energy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Vinod Khosla, Founder & Partner, Khosla Ventures.
In anticipation of the presidential election this fall, Carnegie Mellon has extended invitations to speak on campus to both Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama. The university does not support or oppose any particular candidate and maintains an open door policy to all presidential candidates.
Length: 6473
Rating: 4.40 (38 ratings)
Tags: Carnegie Mellon Presidential Campaign 2008 Barack Obama
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Pakistani cinema showcasing Bollywood
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Pakistani cinema showcasing Bollywood
Cinema owners in Pakistan are trying to showcase movies that attract families and young viewers. The latest Bollywood flick running to packed houses within Pakistan is Akshay Kumar, Katrina Kaif starrer 'Singh is King'- the movie has been a complete delight for any Pakistani moviegoer passionate about the Bollywood films. Pakistan and India might have their long held differences, but nothing can deny the fact that Pakistanis prefer Indian film productions that are slick and lavishly produced. It is also no secret that most travel abroad just to watch the latest Bollywood flick starring their favorite actors and actresses. It is vital that the Pakistani government remove the ban on showcasing Indian movies so that their exhibition and distribution pours in money vital to revive our production houses. This will help increase the competitiveness of the Pakistani cinema besides keeping the country's millions entertained.
Length: 99
Rating: 0.00 (0 ratings)
Tags: Global report Pakistani cinema Singh Is King Indian films Bollywood Pakistan film industry India
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Dennis Kucinich slams bailout plan on The Rachel Maddow Show
The Wall Street bailout bill is a lot of things -- a giveaway, a heist, a legislative manifestation of crony corruption. But it's structure is pure authoritarian capitalism. Whether you think handing over $700 billion to speculators will help our economy or not (and many economists believe it will hurt it), it is undeniable that this bill vests authoritarian power in the hands of the Treasury Secretary -- and that is a radical departure from the fundamental tenets of our democracy.
What has differentiated America from other countries is our reliance on institutions rather than individuals. When we have faced crises, we have built institutions (think about the alphabet soup agencies out of the New Deal), not czars. That's what democracies do - they build nations of laws and institutions, not cults of personality.
This is clearly changing now. We saw Paul Bremer appointed monarch of Iraq after the invasion and we see Congress about to hand over its power of the purse to Henry Paulson so that he can be the financial despot, free to buy and sell whatever securities he feels like, with almost no oversight.
Perhaps this reflects a wider trend. We have become a country that has one national religion: presidentialism. That's the religion that says the president is an all-powerful deity - and the Oval Office is a position that is the only one that matters. That this outlook is fundamentally undemocratic and offensive to the principles of our Founding Fathers seems completely forgotten. We have embraced czarism with the zeal of cult worshipers -- and now this zeal has global economic forces at its back.
We are trying to economically compete with anti-democratic forces that can make financial decisions without any public input at all. As we saw with the debate over the bailout bill, the transnational corporate elite tell us our democracy and its careful deliberations are hurting our ability to make quick decisions in this global market -- and therefore that democracy must be subverted to the will of capitalism. Thus, a bill is rushed through Congress in a week that hands 5 percent of our entire economy to one man, Hank Paulson...Capitalism is trying to euthanize democracy in the name of economic competitiveness -- and that is going to make this country a very different -- and in my opinion, a much scarier -- one from what it once was.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/the-murder-of-democracy-a_b_131606.html
All presidential campaigns over-promise. But the perception that Obama must radically pare back his ambitious spending proposals--a perception widely shared in Washington--makes several fundamental errors. For one thing, it misunderstands the nature of a Wall Street "bailout"--which, properly constructed, shouldn't seriously deplete federal funds. More important, the conventional analysis ignores the fact that we face deep economic problems besides the financial crisis--problems that only government can fix. The case for Obama's spending agenda hasn't suddenly become weaker. If anything, it's actually grown a bit stronger...the culprit behind the rising cost of Medicare and Medicaid is the overall price of medical care, which the federal government currently has limited power to control. Ultimately, the only hope lies in a comprehensive reform of health care--one that reduces expensive over-treatment while creating a unified system in which it's possible for the government to exert more pricing power. And, while a reform like Obama's might not accomplish that right away, it would take the essential first steps.
Another way to prepare for future financial obligations is to help the economy grow faster, which would increase tax revenue and make the government's debt seem smaller by comparison. But, over the last decade, we've spent too little on educating our workforce and developing infrastructure essential to growth. We've also been too slow to focus on energy independence. It's imperative to make up for that neglect now, particularly given what's happened on Wall Street.
Obama would do well to remind them that their party has pursued different priorities before. Back in 1932, Franklin Roosevelt promised a balanced budget, then presided over one of the most famous federal spending binges in history. That turned out well, both for the party and the nation. There's no reason it can't happen again.
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8c40a373-af0a-4efe-af99-6ac7835b9daa&p=3
Length: 484
Rating: 5.00 (11 ratings)
Tags: Dennis kucinich Wall Street bail out the Rachel Maddow show Barack Obama Sarah Palin john Mccain Joe Biden economy tax
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Newton Faulkner - Dream Catch Me - Video Competition Entry
Winner of a Newton Faulkner video competition in 2007 to create a video for the single.
Since then have been commissioned to create another, more ambitious video for his latest single "Gone In The Morning".
Taken from his debut album Hand Built By Robots.
Thanks to TC and DR x
Length: 236
Rating: 4.90 (58 ratings)
Tags: Newton Faulkner Dream Catch Me
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