Postponed - Post NAFTA Business Opportunities Seminar
THIS EVENT WAS POSTPONED - NEW DATE:
TUESDAY, APRIL 14. Review of competitive position of North America in current economic situation and catalyst for development of business opportunities. Highlighted Sector: Energy
Registration and Buffet Breakfast: 8:00 to 9:00 AM Overview Session: 9:00 to 9:45 AM Highlighted Economic Sector Session - Energy: 10:00 AM to 10:45 AM Business Opportunities Session: 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Post-Seminar Networking 12:00 to 12:30 PM (hosted by Miller & Chevalier)
Location: Canadian Embassy, 501 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001
Directions/Metro: Judiciary Square or Archives Metro Station
Parking Available: Several parking garages nearby (Expensive)
Admissions Price: Members of HBS Club - $40.00; Non-Members - $60.00
Presentation Background: NAFTA has vested in the sense that the all provisions are fully phased-in as of December 31, 20008. There are some who are calling for modifications and restrictions, and others who are calling for expansion, but the basic trade facilitation elements are operational.
This is an appropriate time to take stock of the situation in the context of the world economic situation and the potential of North America, and to look at practical aspects of business opportunities. We will have an overview of the North American Economic Situation in the context of NAFTA and NAFTA issues, with a review of the key economic sectors where there is existing and potential economic interaction. We will then have a focused presentation on the energy sector since it is central to the challenges and future potential of the region. There will certainly be many opportunities in getting us to a world of sustainable energy and green industry from the existing situation where 80% of our energy needs are met by fossil fuels. In the third segment of the program we will benefit from the participation of people who are actively engaged in business and business development between Mexico, Canada and the US and who are knowledgeable about opportunities with new technologies and programs to assist entrepreneurs and grow trade.
We are pleased to be able to bring together some of the most knowledgeable experts on NAFTA, key economic sectors, Energy and related issues, and business development for presentations.
Presenters include: Jon Huenemann, Principal of Miller & Chevalier (see bio below), Gary Hufbauer (see bio below) and Jeffrey Schott (see bio below), Senior Fellows at the Peterson Foundation, co-authors of NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges, Joseph Dukert, the President Elect of the US Association for Energy Economics, and author of a forthcoming book entitled Energy dealing with all major sources of energy (see bio below), Michael Eckhardt, President of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) (see bio below), Al Zapanta, President of the United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce (see bio below), Jean-Philippe Linteau, the Senior Trade Commissioner for the International Business Development and Investment Program at the Canadian Embassy in Washington (see bio below), and Matthew Nolan, a Director of the Canadian American Business Council and a Partner at Arent Fox (see bio below). This event of the HBS Club Entrepreneurship RoundTable is co-sponsored by the law firm of Miller & Chevalier, the Wharton Club of Washington, DC, The United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce and the Canadian-American Business Council.
Biographies of Presenters: Jon E. Huenemann Jon E. Huenemann is a Principal at Miller & Chevalier, a Washington, D.C. law firm, and is the Trade Policy Practice Group Coordinator. He has over 28 years of experience in global and domestic policy and related law, politics and economics. Prior to entering private practice in 2000, he held senior positions at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) over nearly 16 years, including as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative. Prior to USTR he held positions at the Treasury Department, in the office of a senior Senator on the Senate Finance Committee, at a United Nations Development Program project and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). At USTR, he was the chief advisor to the USTR on North American Affairs and the chief coordinator of the NAFTA work program for five years among many other high profile roles. As NAFTA coordinator he led negotiations on a vast range of issues, including the highest profile issues in the U.S. trade relationship with Canada and Mexico. He also oversaw the work programs in more than 20 trilateral committees and working groups covering the entire spectrum of the NAFTA disciplines. He currently advises clients on a range of complex North American trade and investment issues. Mr. Huenemann serves on various advisory boards and groups, including on the board of directors of the Chilean American Chamber of Commerce, the international advisory board of the Inter-American Dialogue's flagship publication, and the Trade Advisory Group of the Council of the Americas. He is also an Adjunct Fellow at CSIS. He has taught at the George Washington University Graduate School of Business and Public Policy, lectured at a number of universities and law schools in the US and abroad, authored many scholarly articles, and is a frequent media resource and regular speaker at professional conferences. Mr.Huenemann was also honored with a prestigious Presidential Management Fellowship. He received his BA from Richard Stockton College and his MA from American University both with honors. Gary Clyde Hufbauer Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute since 1992, was formerly the Marcus Wallenberg Professor of International Finance Diplomacy at Georgetown University (1985–92), senior fellow at the Institute (1981–85), deputy director of the International Law Institute at Georgetown University (1979–81); deputy assistant secretary for international trade and investment policy of the US Treasury (1977–79); and director of the international tax staff at the Treasury (1974–76). He has written extensively on international trade, investment, and tax issues. He is coauthor of Economic Sanctions Reconsidered, 3rd edition (2007), US Taxation of Foreign Income (2007), Toward a US-Indonesia Free Trade Agreement (2007), US-China Trade Disputes: Rising Tide, Rising Stakes (2006), The Shape of a Swiss-US Free Trade Agreement (2006), NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges (2005), Reforming the US Corporate Tax (2005), Awakening Monster: The Alien Tort Statute of 1789 (2003), The Benefits of Price Covergence (2002) and World Capital Markets (2001), and coeditor of The Ex-Im Bank in the 21st Century (2001), Unfinished Business: Telecommunications after the Uruguay Round (1997) and Flying High: Liberalizing Civil Aviation in the Asia Pacific (1996). He is author of Fundamental Tax Reform and Border Tax Adjustments (1996) and US Taxation of International Income (1992), and coauthor of Western Hemisphere Economic Integration (1994), Measuring the Costs of Protection in the United States (1994), NAFTA: An Assessment (rev. 1993), North American Free Trade (1992), Economic Sanctions Reconsidered (2d ed. 1990), Trade Policy for Troubled Industries (1986), and Subsidies in International Trade (1984). Dr. Hufbauer holds an A.B. from Harvard College, a Ph.D. in economics from King's College at Cambridge University, and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.
Jeffrey J. Schott Jeffrey J. Schott joined the Peterson Institute for International Economics in 1983 and is a senior fellow working on international trade policy and economic sanctions. During his tenure at the Institute, Schott was also a visiting lecturer at Princeton University (1994) and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University (1986–88). He was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (1982–83) and an official of the US Treasury Department (1974–82) in international trade and energy policy. During the Tokyo Round of multilateral trade negotiations, he was a member of the US delegation that negotiated the GATT Subsidies Code. Since January 2003, he has been a member of the Trade and Environment Policy Advisory Committee of the US government. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy of the US Department of State. Schott is the author, coauthor, or editor of several books on trade, including Economic Sanctions Reconsidered, 3rd edition (2007), Trade Relations Between Colombia and the United States (2006), NAFTA Revisited: Achievements and Challenges (2005), Free Trade Agreements: US Strategies and Priorities (2004), Prospects for Free Trade in the Americas (2001), Free Trade between Korea and the United States? (2001), NAFTA and the Environment: Seven Years Later (2000), The WTO After Seattle (2000), Restarting Fast Track (1998), The World Trading System: Challenges Ahead (December 1996), The Uruguay Round: An Assessment (1994), Western Hemisphere Economic Integration (1994), NAFTA: An Assessment (1993), North American Free Trade: Issues and Recommendations (1992), Economic Sanctions Reconsidered: History and Current Policy (second edition, 1990), Completing the Uruguay Round (1990), Free Trade Areas and U.S. Trade Policy (1989), and The Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement: The Global Impact (1988), as well as numerous articles on US trade policy and the GATT. Schott holds a BA degree magna cum laude from Washington University, St. Louis (1971), and an MA degree with distinction in international relations from the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University (1973).
Joseph M. Dukert Joseph M. Dukert, who is President-Elect and a Senior Fellow of USAEE, is an independent energy analyst with special expertise in North America’s energy situation. His latest book, entitled simply Energy, is scheduled for release shortly in the business and economics series of Greenwood Publishers. It deals with the problems of reconciling the potentially conflicting policy goals of adequacy, affordability, reliability, environmental acceptability, and time-deadlines in an increasingly interdependent world.
Dr. Dukert is a Senior Associate (non-resident) with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, and he wrote the chapter on North America in the 2007 CSIS book, Energy Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere: Benefits and Impediments. Over many years he has been involved in the development of critical U.S. government documents and reports, including the national energy policies published under a succession of Presidents.
He has been a senior advisor to the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation and a consultant to the International Energy Agency. He has lectured at a number of universities in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, as well as at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Notre Dame (magna cum laude); and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in international relations from Johns Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies. Michael T. Eckhart Michael Eckhart is founding President and a member of the Board of Directors of the American Council On Renewable Energy (ACORE). He also is co-chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE), a member of the Steering Committee of the REN 21 global policy network, and co-head of the North American Secretariat of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP). He is a 2008 recipient of the Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship, a 2006 recipient of RSA's Good Deal for All Award, and a three-time participant in the Clinton Global Initiative. In 1998 he was named Renewable Energy Man of the Year of India for his work in bringing financing to solar energy markets, and in 1999 formed a $50 million joint venture between Shell and ESKOM in South Africa which electrified 10,000 off-grid homes with solar home systems. He has over 25 years of experience in renewable energy, power generation, high technology, and finance. Previously, he was Chairman/CEO of United Power Systems, Inc.; Co-founder and Vice President of the venture capital firm Aret. Mr. Eckhart is a graduate ofthe Harvard Business School. Al Zapanta Al Zapanta is the President and CEO of the United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce and is responsible for operations in eight regional offices in the United States and nine in Mexico. He holds the rank of Major General in the US Army Reserve. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School and the Inter-American Defense College of the National War College who has had a remarkable and varied career in the military service, in the private sector and in government. He received a plethora of decorations in the Vietnam War, led a UN peacekeeping force in the Western Sahara, and was recently awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal with respect to Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Restore Hope in Somalia and Restore Democracy in Haiti. In the private sector he worked as an industrial engineer for Bethlehem Steel and had a long career for ARCO that included serving as the company’s Director of Government Affairs, negotiating agreements with Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) and the acquisition of the copper mines of Anaconda, as well as, work on legislation concerning oil and gas, environmental and transport matters.He has held numerous Presidential appointments starting as a White House Fellow and progressing to Assistant Secretary of the Interior, and has headed and served on commissions and missions with respect to matters such as infrastructure, transportation, energy, water resources, international trade technology and various investigations, has served as Chairman of the Reserve Forces Policy Board at the Defense Department, and since 2001 has served as a private sector delegate to the U.S. - Mexico Partnership for Prosperity. James R. Jones Ambassador Jones' practice at Manatt Jones focuses on international trade, investment and commerce, business-government relations and financial services. He also has worked extensively with global distribution and marketing organizations targeting Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. Ambassador Jones' practice at Manatt Jones focuses on international trade, investment and commerce, business-government relations and fincancial services. He also has worked extensively with global distribution and marketing organizations targeting Latin America, Asia and the Middle East. Prior to joining Manatt Ambassador Jones served as during the Mexican peso crisis and the passage and implementation of NAFTA; he launched new, cooperative efforts to combat drug trafficking, and for assisting U.S. businesses with commercial ventures. Ambassador Jones served as President at Warnaco International and Chairman and CEO of the American Stock Exchange in New York. He served for 15 yeas as member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma - he was Chairman of the House Budget Committee and ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, where he was active in tax, international trade, Social Security and healthcare policy. Ambassador Jones served as Chief of Staff in Lybdon Johnson's White House, and was the youngest person ever to be appointed to that position.
Jean-Philippe Linteau Jean-Philippe Linteau is the Senior Trade Commissioner for the International Business Development and Investment Program at the Canadian Embassy in Washington. Mr. Linteau joined the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in 1997 and was posted to South Korea, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. Mr. Linteau holds a Masters in Environmental Science from the University of Toronto and a B.Sc. In agriculture from McGill University in Montreal. Prior to joining the Canadian Government, Mr. Linteau managed an environmental NGO in Montreal. Matthew Nolan Matthew Nolan, A Director of the Canadian-American Business Council, is a partner of the Arent Fox law firm. His international trade and business regulation practice encompasses customs regulations and disputes, import investigations, US export controls and trade sanctions, trade and investment disputes, trade poticy and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. With over twenty years of experience, he has worked extensively on issues pertaining to trade and investment in the Americas, South Africa, Turkey and other countries. Matt also has experience in international commercial transactions, disputes and arbitrations.
Matt has worked extensively in Canada and Mexico on issues related to the North American Free Trade Agreement,. He has worked for many major US and foreign corporations on a variety of international trade and business matters in a wide gamut of industries. Mr. Nolan has published numerous professional articles. He has a BA from Tufts University, a JD from Georgetown University, and a MA from the George Washington University.
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