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The Nashville panel discussion was moderated by CED President Charles Kolb (left), and included remarks from James Beard, Dr. Dan Cornfield, Dr. Linda Distlerath, and Dr. James Foster.
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CED, as part of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation's "Americans in the World" initiative, is working to engage members of the nonprofit and policy communities in a combined effort to bring international events and issues home to Americans. CED is planning a multi-year campaign to educate and involve Americans in this national dialogue and build a broader understanding of the world outside our borders.
CED's efforts are designed to address key issues of globalization included in CED's 2002 policy statement, A Shared Future: Reducing Global Poverty. CED recently released two updates to the policy statement that look closer at the specific issues of corporate engagement and the role of women in development.
The first update, Reducing Global Poverty: Engaging the Global Enterprise, recommends that U.S.-based enterprises strive to maintain the same high standards of corporate engagement in all countries in which they operate, making no distinction between operations in the United States and abroad, yet recognizing that specific actions need to take into account national customs and traditions. The second update, Reducing Global Poverty: The Role of Women in Development, recommends that businesses based in the U.S. support the equal status of women in all their practices and programs in developing countries.
As part of this inititive, CED is co-hosting a number of community "town-hall" forums across the country. CED is tying international business to local concerns by assembling local policy, academic, and business communities to discuss U.S. interests in globalization and reducing global poverty, and how globalization is directly affecting the citizens of these communities.
Issues Being Addressed
- U.S. interests in globalization and reducing global poverty
- The importance of open trade, increased foreign direct investment, and increased funding for development assistance
- The need to improve developing countries' education, health, governance, and economic policies
- The importance of development strategies that focus on the role of women.
Dallas, TX
CED co-hosted the first globalization town hall forum with XTO Energy, Inc., the Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce and the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, in Dallas, TX, on August 22nd 2003. Welcome and opening remarks were provided by Bill Thornton, President & CEO, Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. CED Trustee Steffen E. Palko, Vice Chairman & President, XTO Energy, Inc., provided the keynote presentation at the Dallas breakfast event, and Jan Hart Black, President, Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce closed the session.
The panel discussion included comments from: Dr. Jim Hollifield, Arnold Professor of International Political Economics, Director of John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Science, and Director of International Studies, Southern Methodist University; Dr. Harold G. Jeffcoat, President, Texas Wesleyan University; and J. Kenneth Menges Jr., Managing Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.
Nashville, TN
Chancellor Gordon Gee provided the keynote at address at CED's Nashville forum.
On September 17th, 2003, CED Trustees joined close to 100 business, academic and policy leaders on Vanderbilt University's Peabody campus in Nashville, TN for a luncheon forum.
CED Trustee Edmund B. Fitzgerald, Managing Director, Woodmont Associates, provided the opening remarks, and Dr. Gordon Gee, CED Trustee and Vanderbilt University Chancellor, provided the keynote address at the co-sponsored event. The forum's panel discussion included remarks from James S. Beard, President, Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation, and CED Trustee; Dr. Daniel B. Cornfield, Vanderbilt Professor of Sociology and Acting Director of the Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies; Dr. Linda M. Distlerath, Vice President, Global Health Policy, Merck & Co., Inc., and CED Trustee; Dr. James E. Foster, Vanderbilt Professor of Economics and Director, Graduate Program in Economic Development.
Durham, NC
On November 11th, CED Trustees joined over 80 representatives from the Research Triangle Park business, academic, and policy community at the Washington Duke Inn for a breakfast discussion on the local implications of globalization.
CED Trustee Dr. Tallman Trask, Executive Vice President, Duke University, provided the opening remarks while CED President Charles Kolb spoke on CED's efforts surrounding the "Americans in the World" program. The keynote address, provided by Robert Ingram, Vice Chairman, Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, considered the challenges and implications of drug importation. Mayor Bill Bell provided closing remarks.
The Durham forum's panel discussion included remarks from Rex Adams, Professor of Business Administration, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, and CED Trustee; Dr. Elizabeth Kiss, Director, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University; Thomas D. White, President, Durham Chamber of Commerce; and Nancy Wysenski, President/CEO of EMD Pharmaceuticals.
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