Upcoming Vale Columbia Center events
As part of its activities, the Vale Columbia Center creates opportunities for leading experts from academia, government, business and non-governmental organizations to exchange views, explore new ideas and help set the policy agenda. For this purpose, it arranges conferences, symposia, and a speakers' series.
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August 18-19, 2009: The Future of Transnationalization for Emerging Market Companies (Five Diamond International Conference)
Nova Lima, Brazil
This is the second conference in the Five Diamond Conference Cycle, jointly organized by Fundação Dom Cabral (Brazil), Fudan University (China), the Indian School of Business (India), the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO (Russia), and the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment at Columbia University (United States). The Five Diamond conferences address the issues raised by the remarkable rise of outward-investing multinational firms from emerging markets: for the firms themselves, for their host countries and for their home countries.
This particular event in Brazil will focus on the future of transnationalization as seen specifically from the corporate perspective. The three core round tables address issues such as transnationalization and value creation, communication barriers and ethical dilemmas in working in other countries, and the role of knowledge and technology in successful transnationalization. There will also be panel discussions that try to put the current global crisis in a historical perspective and draw lessons and directions for emerging market multinationals.
For more information about this conference, please visit: www.fivediamondconference.org
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November 5-6, 2009: FDI, the Global Crisis and Sustainable Recovery (Fourth Columbia International Investment Conference)
Columbia University, New York
The global economic crisis has already had a tremendous effect in reducing FDI flows, and they are likely to continue to decline in 2009. At the same time, the deepening recession has made the need for such investment, and especially investments that will contribute to a sustainable recovery, ever more important. The financial crisis and recession therefore requires us to take stock of the changing trends in FDI and to discuss policy implications of encouraging FDI so that it may contribute to a robust and sustainable recovery.
The Fourth Columbia Inernational Investment Conference will address how the crisis is affecting FDI (including the impact on flows, new players, changing patters of energy sector FDI), the changing business environment for FDI (including the effect of the crisis on social conditions, CSR and resource nationalism), and public policy opportunities for a sustainable recovery (including public-private partnerships, a global bankruptcy law and a sustainable investment regime).
Confirmed speakers include:
- Jagdish N. Bhagwati, University Professor, Columbia University; Senior Fellow in International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
- Lee C. Bollinger, President, Columbia University
- Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
- Robert Orr, Assistant Secretary-General, Strategic Planning Unit, Executive Office of the Secretary-General, United Nations
- Lauge Skovgaard Poulsen, PhD-candidate, London School of Economics
- Daniel M. Price, Senior Partner for Global Issues, Sidley Austin LLP, Former Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs in the Bush Administration
- Ravi Ramamurti, CBA Distinguished Professor of International Business; Director, Center for Emerging Markets, Northeastern University
- Jeffrey D. Sachs, Director, The Earth Institute at Columbia University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Columbia University
- Manfred Schekulin, Chairperson, OECD Investment Committee
- Kari Tapiola, Executive Director, International Labour Organization
The program is available here.
If you are interested in co-sponsoring this event, please email us.