Renowned International
Trade Experts Address SPP Classes
Students
who sign up for SPP Professor Stuart Malawer’s
International Trade Relations (603) and Global
Trade Wars (711) classes may expect just another
course filled with lectures about theory and
politics. However, they get more than they bargain
for. Malawer, who brings to the classroom his
background as an international trade lawyer with
a Ph.D. in international relations, gives students
an opportunity to interact with some of Virginia’s
and Washington, D.C.’s most successful
professionals and practitioners in the field
of international trade. These guest speakers,
known to rub elbows with Washington’s elite,
help him to shed light on what it’s
really like to work and compete in a global
marketplace.
“My
students don’t
get as worked up over theory or political debates
as they do about learning practical skills. All
these speakers bring something to the table that
they really want to know about how trade and
business are conducted in the marketplace today,” Malawer
said. Students’ interest in the practical
side of policymaking reflects their backgrounds
as professionals in the private sector and as
government consults, he added.
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Dr. Stuart Malawer
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Sharing their
insights on everything from how to start a global
business to the Bush administration’s foreign
trade policies, recent speakers have included: -
Bart Fisher, an investment banker
and lawyer for U.S. industries. He is involved
in filing a
World Trade
Organization complaint against the China
currency regime.
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Dr. Arun Sood, Chairman of the
Department of Computer
Sciences in the School of Information,
Technology and Engineering at GMU. He is an expert
on outsourcing
services in India.
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Jeffrey Nuechterlein,
a venture capitalist with ISIS Capital, LLC.,
in Alexandria, and an expert on comparative
venture capital regimes in Europe and
Asia.
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Bob Brumley, President and CEO
of Pegasus Global LLC, an international advisory
firm specializing
in technology
solutions, capital formation and project
finance. He also served as General Counsel to
the U.S. Department
of Commerce during the Reagan Administration.
His focus has been on operating a global enterprise
and the role
of entrepreneurship in the global marketplace.
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Peter
S. Watson, President and CEO of the Overseas
Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)
and former Chairman of the U.S. International
Trade Commission. His recent
expertise has been in making $100
million commitments for trade and development in
developing
areas such
as the Ukraine and Southern Africa.
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Mike
Kelley, Counsel to Emerging Markets Partnership
(AIG-GE Capital). His expertise
is in private equity funding trade and investment
in Latin America.
Malawer said that the speakers
have been greatly impressed by his
students. “They think the students
are really engaged and attuned to what
they were talking
about,” he said, adding, “They
also are impressed that ICP
has so many students from
countries around the world.”
Malawer balances the speakers’ visits with an interactive teaching approach
that includes online material, power point presentations and team projects. “My
focus is on bringing to bear my legal, political and business expertise to
critical trade policy issues of the day for those actually engaged in the global
marketplace,” he said, adding, “My teaching
approach is best summed up as understanding public
policy for the marketplace or public policy for
the private sector.”
For more information about Malawer’s
classes or the featured speakers, visit his
homepage:
http://www.InternationalTradeRelations.com. |
