[LCM Events] FW: HBS and the Business of Peace in the Middle East. Keynote Speaker - Sir Ronald Cohen - Tomorrow 4/3

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Keynote Speaker - Sir Ronald Cohen - Tomorrow 4/3
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HBS and the Business of Peace in the Middle East



This year, seven EC students have been working to examine ways that
international business leaders can help to promote cooperation and
peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Brought together by our
genuine interest in a peaceful resolution to the conflict in the
Middle East, this multinational and multi-religious group is
determined to promote tangible actions that we and other graduate
students can undertake while at school and as future leaders around
the world.



Please join us tomorrow, April 3rd, 2009 in Aldrich 112 between 3-5PM
for a very special event examining the role that young business
leaders can play in promoting peace.





Keynote Speaker

3:00-3:45PM





Sir Ronald Cohen - Founder, Apax Partners and the Portland Trust







Panel – International Leaders Making Peace Their Business

Moderated by Professor Daniel Isenberg

3:45-4:45PM







Dr. Ziad Asali: Co- Chair, US Palestinian Partnership







Dr. Anne-Marie Codur: Co-Founder, the University of the Middle East









Assaf A. Harlap – HBS Class of 2010 and founder, “Middle East
Education through Technology” (MEET)







Adam Neiman – Founder and CEO, No Sweat Apparel





We will also have HBS faculty on hand to facilitate a brief classroom
discussion after our speakers.

4:45PM – 5:00PM







It is our hope that this conference will only be the first of many
such events at HBS and other business schools around the world. We are
actively involved in ensuring that our initiative finds a permanent
home on this campus and that a group of students like us will
participate in a similar field study every year.  Please let us know
if you are interested in being involved during this or the next
academic year.





***The purpose of this event is to examine practical steps that
students and the business community can take to promote peace. We have
found that a focus on the future rather than past grievances
facilitates this type of discussion.  This event is not a forum for
political discourse or pointing fingers. People who bring inflammatory
pamphlets or who otherwise disturb the discussion will be asked to
leave.***





Thank you for your support!



Hosam Arab (Palestine)

Ariel Rotter (Israel)

Seth Ross (Canada)

Heloise Temple (France)

Dalia Rahman (Sudan)

Hicham Fadel (Lebanon)

Ari Bloom (US)







Additional Info





Sir Ronald Cohen





Ronald Cohen is a founder of the private-equity industry in Europe and
one of the world's leading private-equity investors.



At the age of 26, after a successful academic career at Oxford
University and Harvard Business School, he co-founded the firm that
became Apax Partners. When he stepped down from the chairmanship
thirty-three years later, Apax was the largest global private-equity
firm based in Europe, with an impressive investment record, more than
$20 billion under management, offices in eight countries, and more
than 300 staff.



Ronald Cohen is chairman of Bridges Ventures and The Portland Trust,
which seek to provide private-sector, commercial solutions to problems
of social deprivation in Britain and to conflict in the Middle East.
He is chairman of the Social Investment Task Force and of the
Commission on Unclaimed Assets.



He is a trustee of the British Museum and of the International
Institute for Strategic Studies. He is also chairman of Portland
Capital, an investment management firm.

A recipient of the British Venture Capital Association's Hall of Fame
award and the Harvard Business School's Alumni Achievement Award, he
is also an honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and a member of
the Board of Overseers of Harvard College. He was knighted in 2001 for
his services to venture capital.



Born in Egypt, he is based in London with his wife and two children.





Dr. Ziad Asali and The US – Palestinian Partnership





Ziad J. Asali, M.D., is Co- Chair of the US- Palestinian Partnership
and the President and founder of the American Task Force on Palestine,
a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, non-partisan organization based in Washington,
DC.

Dr. Asali is a long-time activist on Middle East issues. He has been a
member of the Chairman's Council of American-Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee (ADC) since 1982, and has served as ADC’s President from
2001-2003. He served as the President of the Arab-American University
Graduates (AAUG) from 1993-1995, and was Chairman of the American
Committee on Jerusalem (ACJ), which he co-founded, from 1995-2003.

Launched by President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice, and U.S. business leaders, the U.S.-Palestinian Partnership
(UPP) focuses on creating economic opportunity for the Palestinian
people and helping prepare Palestinian youth for the responsibilities
of citizenship and good governance. UPP was launched to facilitate
progress toward a two-state solution, wherein Israel and Palestine can
live side by side, in peace, security and prosperity. By demonstrating
a willingness to work with responsible Palestinian leaders and
institutions, this public-private partnership aims to increase support
for a Palestinian leadership committed to peace and willing to
negotiate the political compromises required to reach this important
goal.



The Partnership is presently focused on enhancing four youth centers
to inspire, educate, and prepare Palestinian youth; developing quick
impact projects to promote job creation and economic growth; and
encouraging investment opportunities through Prime Minister Salam
Fayyad's Palestine Investment Conference.





Dr. Anne-Marie Codur and The University of the Middle East



Anne-Marie Codur was a co-founder of the University of the Middle East
Project in 1996-97. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from the
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po). A French citizen
with Moroccan origins, she has worked in the field of sustainable
development policies and practices in developing countries and in
particular in North Africa. Dr. Codur has been a Consultant on
Population and Environment in the Maghreb, for the United Nations Fund
for Population in Rabat, Morocco, and has extensively taught and given
conferences on sustainable development in North Africa, associated
with the MED-CAMPUS program of the European Community linking
universities from the North and the South of the Mediterranean. Dr.
Codur has been an Associate Researcher at the Center for Population
Studies at Harvard University and the Global Development and
Environmental Institute at Tufts University.



The University of the Middle East Project (UME) is an independent
non-profit and non-governmental organization promoting educational
leadership for critical thinking, open inquiry, cross-cultural
understanding and regional cooperation in the Middle East and North
Africa.

A vision of education as a bridge among people and cultures.
An institution of higher learning striving for academic excellence in
educational leadership.
An NGO working with educators at the grassroots level in the Middle
East and North Africa.
An inclusive attitude open to individuals of any nationality,
religion, ethnicity or gender who share the goal of a more open,
socially equitable, democratic, and environmentally sustainable Middle
East and North Africa.





Assaf Harlap and MEET



Assaf is the co-founder of MEET and is currently perusing his MBA at
Harvard Business School. Before Harvard, he worked in business
development and marketing in Colmobil Corp, Israel's largest car
importer and distributor. Assaf is a graduate of the School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London, where
he majored in Japanese Studies. Beyond Japanese, his passion for new
languages and cultures draws him to seek proficiency in Arabic and
Mandarin Chinese. During the past eight years Assaf has been
traveling, working or studying in Asia, Australia, Europe, and Africa.



Middle East Education through Technology (MEET) is an innovative
social start-up founded in 2003 by a group of Palestinian and Israeli
young professionals. MEET utilizes technology and business, in order
to create a common professional network between Palestinian and
Israeli youth while providing them with individual and group skills.



Working closely with MIT, MEET aims to create a pool of future
Palestinian and Israeli business, policy and community leaders who
share a common professional language and have the experience of
working together. Representing a unique educational model, MEET
developed a three-year computer science, business, and
entrepreneurship program for Palestinian and Israeli high school
students. The three year program, which is held in Jerusalem, is made
up of intense summer sessions and yearlong work on joint programming
projects.

http://meet.mit.edu





Adam Neiman and No Sweat Apparel



No Sweat Apparel was founded in 2000 and produces union-made,
sweatshop free clothing in the US, Canada and the developing world.
The company’s organic cotton T-shirts are produced at a Palestinian
owned factory on Virgin Mary Street in Bethlehem. Although economic
development is no substitute for a diplomatic settlement, no
settlement can survive without a sustainable Palestinian economy. So
while waiting for a political resolution No Sweat has created a
mechanism for ordinary citizens of good faith to build good will on
the ground & support the peace to come. The company markets these
T-shirts wholesale (blank or custom printed) to Jewish, Muslim,
Christian & secular schools & camps in the United States.

The concept is simple: When faced with an apparently irresolvable
conflict, if there is any one thing all parties agree on-do that one
thing and see what happens.



Professor Daniel Isenberg



Daniel Isenberg is Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the
Harvard Business School in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, where
he designed and teaches the second-year elective, International
Entrepreneurship and the required first year course, The
Entrepreneurial Manager. Dan is also involved in various HBS
activities related to globalization, including serving as a faculty
leader in the new International Immersion program for MBA students.