LIST OF SPEAKERS
Derek Clark MEP
Derek Roland Clark (born 10 October 1933 in Bristol) is a British politician, and Member of the European Parliament for the East Midlands region, first elected in 2004 and subsequently re-elected in 2009. He is a member of the United Kingdom Independence Party.
John William Arthur Netting
During a broad international career in high technology and precision engineering companies John Netting has held senior management and chief executive positions within both European and North American organisations. He has been involved in company start-ups, joint ventures and strategic alliances in both east and west Europe, India and South America.
He has been teaching business programmes at Oxford Brookes University since 1996. He is specializing in international relations, has a practical experience in adaptation of educational systems to the standards of high schools of Hungary, Ukraine, Russia.
Since 2000 he is Director General of Europe Business Assembly, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Wil Charles Goodheer
Wil Charles Goodheer is one of the authors of distance education in the USA, an initiator and direct executor of fundamentally new educational programmes and techniques. He is the head of the International University Vienna, Austria for 14 years.
Since 2006 he is the President of CRE. This public institution nowadays unites rectors from 84 universities from Eastern Europe, Middle Asia and Africa. He is a DPh, Proffesor.
Paul Briggs
Paul Briggs is a chief executive of the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Group, one of largest in the United Kingdom. The Chamber has got national recognition of business of the United Kingdom, is the best rating Chamber. Paul uses his abilities to develop international business including Russia, the CIS countries and Eastern Europe. Being the President of Windsor Debates and the International Club of Leaders, he actively influences on the forming of positive approaches to eurointegration development in the framework of ‘Eastern Partnership’
Christina Howell, Head of External Affairs, Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Group, United Kingdom
Christina Howell is ‘Head of External Affairs’ for Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce. Working with organisations such as Development Agencies, Government Offices, Economic Partnerships and major business she works to influence the economic fortunes of UK plc by facilitating international cooperation and awareness. Christina holds directorships and advisory positions on a range bodies concerned with the development of business in the region.
Robert Eros
Robert Eros is currently the Head of Trade at the Romanian Embassy in London with the mission to promote Romanian exports into UK markets and to attract British investments into Romania.
In the past, Robert has held the post of Production Director at Matricon Romania, managing the production process of automotive spare parts for European car manufacturers.
Educated in Romania and the United Kingdom, he holds a B.Sc. in Information Technologies and an MBA qualification at the Open University Business School.
Robert is married and enjoys literature, films and sports, especially basketball and table tennis.
Simon Garrett
Simon has been a partner at HW Oxford since the early 1990s. He trained in the City (London) office of a large national firm, now Deloitte & Touche, and was seconded to one of their Australian offices following qualification as a Chartered Accountant.
On returning to the UK, Simon worked in industry initially, principally as financial accountant in a fast food concern. Since joining Haines Watts in Oxford he specialises in audit-related work and in providing general commercial advice to businesses. Simon also works with clients in the international marketplace and has recently had liaison involvement with Haines Watt’s international network which has representation throughout the world.
Simon is a keen tennis player and has represented his club in county leagues. He enjoys travelling, and is currently studying Spanish.
Sanda Ionescu
Dr. Sanda Ionescu is the founder of The Culture Broker, and specialises in facilitation, coaching and training to foster intercultural communication and cultural integration.
With twenty years of work experience in areas as diverse as education, research, publishing, management consultancy and local government, Sanda’s constant passion has been enabling people to come to grips quickly with different, sometimes conflicting points of view. She has worked in an advisory and coaching capacity with blue-chips such as Nokia, Standard Bank of South Africa, AstraZeneca, Deutsche Bank, Motorola and Shell, with particular emphasis on facilitating leadership development workshops.
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Jerger
Jürgen Jerger, born 1965, studied economics at the University of Freiburg and the London School of Economics. In 1992, he earned his doctorate summa cum laude at the University of Freiburg with a study in labour market economics. Later on, he included monetary economics and international economics in his portfolio of interests. Having served at the department of economics in Freiburg until 1999, he then went on to positions at the universities of Giessen, Nuremberg and Duisburg-Essen. In 2002, he moved to his current position as full professor of international and monetary economics at the University of Regensburg. In 2007, he was appointed as director of the Institute for Eastern European Studies (Osteuropa-Institut) that moved from Munich to Regensburg the same year. Since 2007, Jerger also serves as visiting professor at universities in Kazakhstan.
Piotr Maciej Kaczyński
Piotr Maciej Kaczyński is a research fellow at CEPS, where he deals with the EU institutions and political integration of the EU. He authored or co-authored over 60 publications on EU politics, including the institutional reform of the EU as well as on the EU foreign policy. The latest book to which he has contributed is The Treaty of Lisbon: A Second Look at the Institutional Innovations (Brussels 2010) which is an up-to-date and behind the scene look at the emerging post-Lisbon institutional set-up of the EU. He is a consultant on Eastern Partnership and the EU Presidency-related issues with the Polish MFA (2008 onwards). Mr. Kaczyński graduated in international relations from the Warsaw University (2002) and in European studies from the College of Europe (2004). He frequently comments on European current affairs and foreign policy issues for the media in the EU and beyond. He has published in leading European newspapers in France, United Kingdom, Poland, Denmark, Ireland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and in Brussels with the EU Observer, European Voice, E!Sharp and Europe’s World.
Professor David A. Kirby
David A. Kirby is Vodafone Professor of Business Administration and Founding Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, Economics and Political Science at The British University in Egypt, where he is a member of the University’s Senior Management Team. He is a career academic with research, teaching and senior management experience in the Universities of Liverpool, Wales and Middlesex, respectively, and at the Manchester and Durham University Business Schools, as well as visiting appointments overseas, primarily in Scandinavia and South Africa. Currently he holds an adjunct Professorship at the University of South Australia and Visiting Chairs at Loughborough and Reading Universities in the UK. He has some 30 years experience as a teacher, trainer, researcher and consultant in the field of Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management, both in the UK and internationally, and was a pioneer of entrepreneurship education in the UK. For his pioneering research and teaching in the field he was awarded, in 2006, the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion. He is a former Director of the UK Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the Association of Business Schools, and a former Senior Vice President and Director of the International Council for Small Business.
Dr. Nick Saville
Nick Saville is Director of Research and Validation at Cambridge ESOL where he has worked since 1989. He is the representative of Cambridge ESOL in ALTE and has close involvement with Council of Europe projects, including the CEFR, the Reference Level Descriptions (English Profile) and assessment of languages for migration.
Bent Sorensen
Bent Sorensen, Head of Communication at the European Training Foundation (ETF), an Italian-based EU agency specialised in human capital development, education and labour market reform in 29 countries neighbouring the EU. Bent Sorensen is a journalist and he has worked as a reporter and co-editor-in-chief at the Danish national newspapers Berlingske and B.T. Prior to his appointment at the ETF he worked as Head of the Information and Communication Department of the EU’s European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) in Vienna.
Geoffrey Sturgess, Partner, Blake Lapthorn solicitors
Geoffrey joined Blake Lapthorn in 2001 and heads the Commercial / Intellectual Property & IT team. Geoffrey specialises in UK and International commercial contracts, particularly in franchising, IP and IT. He acts on large commercial technology transactions, advising brand owners and specifically franchisors, as well as having a speciality in practical IP advice and transactional work for start-up technology businesses.
Geoffrey spent the first eleven years of his legal career in industry, the last four of which as deputy head of the legal department of food-to-engineering conglomerate, Unigate Plc.
Geoffrey is a regular writer and an entertaining speaker on legal issues for business people.
Mykhailo Chernysh, President, PE ‘Serviceagrotrade’, Ukraine
The doctor of agricultural sciences, associate professor, expert-advisor on the questions of the newest agrotechnologies.
President of the PE ‘Serviceagrotrade’, which introduces 5 years innovative technologies in the agrarian industry of Ukraine. The company was founded in 2003 and several years after gained a leading position in the market.
‘Our purpose is not to feed a plant with the calculated dose of fertilizer but to create the favorable radical environment that will give active signal to start and powerful development of culture for a further increase of crop yield from 30 %…’
Professor Mica Jovanovic
PhD was born in 1953 in Knjazevac, East Serbia. He finished grammar school in Bor (1972), and Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade (1976). He obtained a Master degree from the same Faculty in 1979 in the area of work sociology. His first doctoral thesis was completed at the University of London in 1983 (Management and Industrial Relations), and second (Organizational Sciences) at University of Maribor in 1991. He started his university career immediately after graduating, in 1976, and became the full time professor in 1996.
In the period 1976-1991 he worked at the University of Belgrade (periodically due to commitments in England), and since 1991 he had worked in ‘Megatrend’ Business School. He was a Dean of the Graduate School of Management in Zajecar between 1997 and 1999, when he became the rector of Megatrend University in Belgrade.
Prof. Dr. Olena Bykovska
Prof. Bykovska was born on July 13, 1974 in Kyiv. She combines scientific, pedagogical and organisational activities. She was a member of expert commissions for development and implementation of the Extra-School Institutions Programme for 2002-2008; for the conception of the bill “Of the Juvenile Health Improvement and Recreation” and other normative legal documents in the field of extra-school education. Her scientific work in extra-school education was used in government reports on the state of children in Ukraine. The results of her scientific pedagogical activity are presented in over 70 publications including 22 monographs, as well as manuals and programmes. Her works have been published in Russia, Poland and Slovakia.
Ahmet Erentok
Ahmet Erentok is the Honorary Chairman of the Azerbaijan Turkey Business Association (ATIB) and First Vice-President of the Union of Black Sea and Caspian Confederation of Enterprises (UBCCE). Mr. Erentok is also the Chairman of Ata Holding Group of Companies and ICOM Group USA, ICOM Capital Group and ICOM Advisors.
He was born in 1962 in Ankara, and received his BSc (Business and Management) at Buckingham University and MA in International Affairs at Brooklyn College, New York University.
As well as founding several companies involved in the development of regional investment, consulting and advisory services covering the geographic locations Turkey, Azerbaijan/Caucasus, the Balkans, Russia and Central Asia, he’s worked for government agencies, corporations, banks, financial institutions and institutional investors worldwide.
Dr. Obaid Saqer Busit
Obaid graduated in law from UAE University in 1984. Subsequently, he studied in United States of America at the University of San Diego, where he gained his Master’s degree in Comparative Law in1986, and at Durham University in England where he gained his Doctorate in Commercial Arbitration in 1991. Thereafter, he practiced on his own account in Dubai before becoming Director General of Dubai’s Department of Ports and Customs in 1994. In the same year, he was appointed Chairman of the UAE Customs Council. Many honors followed, culminating in his election in July 2000, to the post of Chairman of the World Customs Organisation Council, the first Arab to hold this important and prestigious post.
Obaid combines sound practical commonsense with his academic interests. He is the author of many learned articles published in international legal journals. Between 1991 and 2005, he was a lecturer at his old university at Al Ain. Obaid’s specialty areas are international trade, agency and distribution, intellectual property and arbitration.
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