Post NAFTA Business Opportunities Seminar - PRESENTATIONS POSTED
Review of competitive position of North America in current economic situation and catalyst for development of business opportunities. Highlighted Sector: Energy
PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE: NAFTA MYTHS AND REALITY - CLICK HERE JOSEPH DUKERT, ENERGY AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES - CLICK HERE MICHAEL ECKART, GREEN ENERGY IN NORTH AMERICA - CLICK HERE 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 Informal Networking Luncheon 12:00 to 12:30 PM (hosted by Miller & Chevalier) Click here to buy tickets!!!
Location: Canadian Embassy, 501 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20001
Directions/Metro: Judiciary Square or Archives Metro Station
Parking Available: Several parking garages nearby
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.
Misconceptions and Reality. Taken together the group of NAFTA experts whom we have been fortunate enough to assemble for the April 14 seminar at the Canadian Embassy exist on a different plane of reality than we civilians do.
For them North America does not represent the worn-out remnant of an imperial empire flanked by a northern wasteland and a southern basket case. They don’t see three dogs fighting over the meager bones of insufficient economic sustenance. Our speakers are not preoccupied with so-called great sucking sounds, disputes over duties on timber, fishing rights, and a seemingly un-winnable war against drug lords and kidnappers. They have greater awareness than the popular press which continually implies that NAFTA has hurt the United States. They know that the impact of NAFTA has already been colossal. Since the beginning of 1994 when implementation began, annual trade between the NAFTA nations has more than tripled to about a trillion dollars. During the same period annual manufacturing output in the US increased by 58% and employment increased by 24% They see a region with fabulous tools to face global competition in the 21th Century even in the worst of circumstances. If global warming continues to accelerate, Canada is poised to become the most prosperous country in the world, and it will probably be populated one day largely by people who used to live in the United States and Mexico.
North America has extensive natural and human resources. Americans tend to think of Mexico as inhabited largely by people capable only of performing migratory labor. As it happens, with a population less than 50% of that of the US, Mexico graduates 50% more engineers each year than does the US, and has a thriving high-tech sector in Jalisco. Americans scoff at Canada’s public health system which orthodox laissez faire economists are sure will keep the country from technological progress. In reality Toronto has the one of the world’s leading edge centers for health industry entrepreneurship.
Speakers’ Background. The only regret that we should have about the “Post-NAFTA Business Opportunities Seminar” is that it is just a half-day.
Our speakers include three experts who have participated in the negotiation and administration of NAFTA, written about NAFTA, been involved with NAFTA-related projects and conflicts, and dealt extensively with questions of economic development in key sectors (e.g. agriculture, natural resources, energy, manufacturing, services), social needs and potential, and the competitive position in the world of North America.
We have two of the country’s most knowledgeable energy experts – one of whom has just published a comprehensive book on sources of energy and the manner in which their development, exploitation and consumption interact, and the other who heads the leading organization that deals with the challenges and potential of renewable energy.
Presenters include the person who implemented NAFTA as American Ambassador to Mexico, an active reserve, much-decorated general who happens to be the CEO of the United States-Mexico Chamber of Commerce at a time when drug-related violence has become a military problem, and the people who deal on a day-to-day basis with NAFTA-related economic development projects in Washington for the Canadian and Mexican governments, as well as a Canadian businessman responsible for a Canadian-American project that produced a pilot-training system in civil and military versions that will be used by the Canadian and American Air Forces and marketed around the world. 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, President of the US Association for Energy Economics, and author of a just-published 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); Hector Marquez, Director of the NAFTA Office at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, DC; James Jones, former US Ambassador to Mexico at the time of the Peso crisis and implementation of NAFTA, and a partner at Manatt Jones (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); Jean-Michel Comtois, Vice President of CMC Electronics (see bio below). Moderators: Overview Session - Paul Lyons, President, HBS Club of Washington, DC Energy Session - Rob Silverman, Vice-President, Programs, HBS Club of Washington, DC Business Opportunities Session - Bob Kolodney, Coordinator, Entrepreneurship RT, HBS Club of Washington, DC 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 isthe Trade Policy Practice Group Coordinator. He has over 28 years ofexperience in global and domestic policy and related law, politics andeconomics. Prior to entering private practice in 2000, he heldsenior positions at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) overnearly 16 years, including as Assistant U.S. Trade Representative. Priorto USTR he held positions at the Treasury Department, in the office of asenior Senator on the Senate Finance Committee, at aUnited Nations Development Program project and at the Center for Strategicand International Studies (CSIS). At USTR, he was the chief advisor to the USTR on NorthAmerican Affairs and the chief coordinator of the NAFTA work program for fiveyears among many other high profile roles. As NAFTA coordinator heled negotiations on a vast range of issues, including the highest profileissues in the U.S. trade relationshipwith Canada and Mexico. Healso oversaw the work programs in more than 20 trilateral committeesand working groups covering the entire spectrum of the NAFTAdisciplines. He currently advises clients on a range of complex NorthAmerican trade and investment issues. Mr. Huenemann serves on various advisory boards andgroups, including on the board of directors of the ChileanAmerican Chamber of Commerce, the international advisory board of theInter-American Dialogue's flagship publication, and the Trade AdvisoryGroup of the Council of the Americas. He is also an Adjunct Fellow at CSIS. He has taught at theGeorge Washington University Graduate School of Business and Public Policy,lectured at a number of universities and law schools in the US and abroad, authoredmany scholarly articles, and is a frequent media resource and regular speakerat professional conferences. Mr.Huenemann was also honored with aprestigious 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 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. Prior to joining Manatt, Ambassador Jones served as U.S. Ambassador to Mexico 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.
Jean-Michel Comtois Jean-Michel Comtoisjoined CMC as Vice President Government & Public Affairs in February2000. He was appointed Vice President of CMC Electronics’ MilitaryAviation business unit in November 2004. In leading the Military Aviationbusiness, Mr. Comtois oversees operations in Sugar Grove, Illinois; Ottawa, Ontario; and Montreal Quebec. Mr. Comtois is a retired General officer and fighter pilot in the Canadian Armed Forces. He has had extensive command and leadership experience first as a CF-18 Squadron Commander and then as a Wing Commander of an operational CF-18 Wing. Subsequently, he was Command Director of the NORAD Command Centre in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, and Deputy Commander of the Continental U.S. NORAD region with over 10,000 personnel who operated fighter and surveillance assets throughout the U.S. He later joined the Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) and held the position of Director General of Management Renewal Services at DND headquarters in Ottawa. In this post, he spearheaded alternate service delivery initiatives, business process re-engineering, modeling and decision support services. He is a Member of the Order of St-John; recipient of the Canadian Order of Military Merit, the American Legion of Merit and the American Meritorious Service Medal. Jean-Michel received a B.A. in Economics and Commerce from the Royal Military College in Kingston,Ontario, in 1971. He also graduated from the National Defence College Course for Prospective General Officers in 1994
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