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Dear
AIB Colleagues,
Our 7th Annual Global Business Forum
at Baylor University (Waco, Texas)
will run during the week after our Spring Break, March 18-22, 2013, and our theme will be
Emerging Africa: Poverty Reduction and Wealth Creation. Our speakers will include:
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Chantal Accrombessy, Ecobank Benin (largest bank network in Africa)
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Moses Acquaah, U. of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Cynthia Akuetteh, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of African Affairs
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John M. Andersen, U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration
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Constant D. Beugré, Delaware State U.
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Stephen Hayes, CEO of Corporate Council on Africa
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Eileen Kwesiga, Bryant U.
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Vijay Mahajan, U. of Texas at Austin & author, “Africa Rising”
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John Mukum Mbaku, Weber State U. & Brookings Institution
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Isaac M. Mbiti, Southern Methodist U.
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Megan Rapp, U.S. Agency for International Development
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David Zoogah, Morgan State U.
See the Forum website for a full schedule, information about speakers, updates, and, later, for videos:
http://www.baylor.edu/globalbusiness
All of the events are free and we hope
that some of you will join us, but
please register here if you will attend the
keynote dinner on Wednesday, March 20, and/or the luncheon on Thursday, March 21, where seating is limited. All events will be held in the Blume Conference Center on the 5th floor of the Cashion
building, located here on the Baylor Waco campus.
Please contact
[log in to unmask] (phone 254-710-6048) or me if you have questions.
Best wishes,
Steve Gardner
Herman Brown Professor of Economics
Chairman, Department of Economics
Director, McBride Center for International Business
Baylor University