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Global Business Summit on International Trade

  • Wednesday, November 08, 2017
  • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
  • Dining Center Banquet Hall, Southern NH University, 2500 N. River Road, Manchester NH 03106

Registration

  • Support the Council as a Consul Sponsor of the Global Business Summit! Benefits include publicity of your name or company and 2 tickets.
  • ID required at door.


PRE-REGISTRATION CLOSED; TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR AT 5:30 PM!

GLOBAL BUSINESS SUMMIT

FEATURING AMBASSADOR RUFUS YERXA

International trade is a critical piece of New Hampshire's economic success: exports of New Hampshire products topped $4 billion last year and trade supports nearly 25% of the state's jobs. How will the current political climate impact free and fair trade? Ambassador Rufus Yerxa, President of the National Foreign Trade Council, will outline the benefits of an open, rules-based world economy and the impact of international trade on businesses, government and  communities.

PANEL DISCUSSION: Kedar Gupta, ARC Energy; Charlotte Broaden, SNHU; moderated by Fred Kocher, host of "NH Business with Fred Kocher" on WMUR.

 New Hampshire's top 10 export markets, as of April 2017: China, Canada , Mexico, Japan, Germany , Spain, Ireland, United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands.

Dining Center, Southern NH University2500 N. River Road, Manchester NH 03106 (Parking is available in Lots 12-C and 26-C

5:30 PM- Reception; 6:30 PM- Program

EARLY BIRD Tickets: $25/Council Member; $35/Not-yet-member; SNHU students free (with advance registration)

AT THE DOOR- all tickets $35

PRESENTED BY:

     

SPONSORED BY:


  

          


PATRONS:

Charles & Barbara Bickford; Sarah Demers; Joan & Alan Reische; Jack & Carol Resch; Steve Solomon; Virginia & Joe Szymanowski

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

 Ambassador Rufus Yerxa became President of the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC) in May 2016. As president, he oversees NFTC’s efforts in favor of a more open, rules based world economy, focusing on key issues to U.S. competitiveness such as international trade and tax policy, economic sanctions, export finance and human resource management. He has more than three decades of experience as a lawyer, diplomat, U.S. trade negotiator and international official. He has been in key policymaking and management roles in Congress, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) and the World Trade Organization (WTO), and also spent several years in private law practice and the corporate world. As Deputy Director General of the WTO from 2002 to 2013 he helped to broaden its membership and strengthen its role as the principal rules-based institution governing world trade. Prior to this, from 1989 to 1995, he served as Deputy USTR under both a Republican and a Democratic President, first as the Geneva-based Ambassador to the GATT (the predecessor organization to the WTO) and subsequently as the Washington Deputy. Earlier in his government career (1981 to 1989) he was with the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was Staff Director of the Subcommittee on Trade. He began his government career as a legal advisor with the U.S. International Trade Commission. After leaving government service in 1995 and prior to joining the WTO he spent five years in the private sector, first as the Brussels-based partner with a major U.S. law firm and later as European general counsel for a Fortune 500 company. Rufus is a native of Washington State. He received his BA in political science from the University of Washington (1973), his JD from Seattle University School of Law (1976) and an LLB in international Law from the University of Cambridge in England (1977). He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, and is also a Visiting Professor with the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS). 


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