[Env seminars] "China: Opportunities & Challenges for the Chemical Industry", F.Keeth (Shell Chem) 3/2/06

[Karen Gibson]

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> Technology Executives @MIT Lecture Series
>
> Sponsored by the Office of Corporate Relations
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> Fran Keeth
> Executive Vice President
> Shell Chemicals
>
> "China: Opportunities and Challenges for the
> Chemical Industry in the Next Decade"
>
> Thursday, March 2, 2006 @ 5:00 pm
> Building 66 Room 110
> Refreshments to follow
>
>
> Abstract:
> Over the next 5 to 10 years China's continuing and rapid economic  
> growth will offer very significant business opportunities for foreign  
> chemical companies.  These will include opportunities to import  
> products to China and to manufacture and trade within China. However  
> those opportunities will come with significant changes. Shell  
> Chemicals' global business strategy is increasingly focusing on China  
> and Asian Pacific and Ms. Keeth will discuss how we approach the  
> challenges and opportunities of doing business in China.
>
> Biography:
> Fran Keeth holds both global and regional positions with Shell. At the  
> global level she is Executive Vice President Chemicals. At the  
> regional level she is President of Shell Chemical LP, a US operating  
> company. Fran is on the Board of the American Chemistry Council and  
> chairs the Board Committee on Responsible Care as well as being a  
> member of the Executive Committee and Long Range Research Committee.  
> Fran also serves on the board of the International Council of Chemical  
> Associations.
>
> Fran earned a bachelor's degree in accounting, an MBA and a JD degree,  
> all from the University of Houston in Texas. She joined Shell Oil  
> Company in 1970 where she held positions of increasing responsibility  
> in the Head Office Finance and Tax departments. In 1988, she assumed  
> the position of Assistant General Counsel, Litigation & Research. She  
> was named General Manager, Auditing, in 1989, and General Manager,  
> Products Finance, in 1991. In 1992, she moved to London to handle a  
> series of assignments in Shell International Petroleum Company as  
> Deputy Group Controller, Area Coordinator for the Far East, and  
> Finance Manager, Oil Products.
> In 1996, Fran left Shell to join Mobil Corporation as Controller and  
> Principal Accounting Officer. A year later, she returned to Shell and  
> assumed the position of Executive Vice President (EVP) Finance and  
> Business Systems, for Shell Chemicals Limited. She was appointed to  
> the position of EVP - Customer Fulfilment and Product Business Units  
> in 2001 and assumed her current role in January 2005.
>
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>  Associate Director, Office of Corporate Relations
>  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Karen  L. Gibson
Program Assistant
MIT Laboratory For Energy and the Environment
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(1 Amherst St., E40-469 - for DHL and FedEx)
Cambridge, MA 02139  USA
Tel:  1 (617) 258-6368; Fax:  1 (617) 258-6590

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