The World Policy Institute invites you to join the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs for a panel discussion and luncheon:

Top Risks and Ethical Decisions 2009

This panel will showcase prominent experts and their predictions about the ethical implications of global political risk for 2009. Aimed at decision makers in corporate, government, and nonprofit sectors, the panel seeks to provide a stimulating preface to the critical global political, social, and economic shifts for the year ahead. Using Eurasia Group's Top Risks as a starting point for identifying the major global challenges in 2009, the discussion will examine the ethical aspects of each issue, and how best these dynamic and complex challenges can be met.

Speakers

Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group, will start the discussion, outlining his firm's Top Risks. From financial regulation to climate change and energy security, Bremmer will kick off the event with an engaging synopsis of the causes and effects of the most dramatic geopolitical shifts likely to pose challenges for global markets over the next twelve months.

Michele Wucker, executive director of World Policy Institute, will highlight the ethical dimensions of the top risks for 2009, focusing on the role of civil society, migration flows, and the long-term interests of corporations.

Art Kleiner, editor-in-chief of Booz & Company's strategy+business magazine and a long-time management expert, will elaborate on the tools that decision makers need to effectively manage global political risk and the practical linkages between policy and implementation.

Thomas Stewart, chief marketing and knowledge officer, Booz & Company, will moderate the discussion.

Support for this luncheon also comes from the Eurasia Group, Booz & Company's strategy+business magazine, SAP, Merck, and New York University's Center for Global Affairs.
 

Top Risks and Ethical Decisions 2009

WHEN:
Tuesday, January 13
12 - 2 PM

WHERE:
Global Policy Innovations
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
170 East 64th Street
New York, NY 10065-7478
212.838.4120

RSVP:
The luncheon cost is $50 (fee can be waived for students, academics, journalists, and nonprofit professionals), $30 for Carnegie Council members.

Please send your RSVP and payment info to:
gpievents@cceia.org

Speaker Biographies
 

Ian Bremmer

Ian Bremmer is president of Eurasia Group, the political risk consultancy, and a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute. Bremmer's research focuses on US foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. He is the author of five books, including Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States, which became the standard college text on the post-Soviet states, and most recently, The J Curve: A New Way to Understand the Rise and Fall of Nations. Bremmer has also published over 100 articles and essays in International Affairs, Harvard Business Review, The New Republic, The New Statesman, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times. He is a columnist for The Financial Times, contributing editor at The National Interest, and a political commentator on CNN, FoxNews and CNBC.


Art Kleiner

Art Kleiner is the editor-in-chief of strategy+business, the quarterly management magazine published by Booz & Company. He is a writer, lecturer, and commentator, with a background in business management, interactive media, corporate environmentalism, education, scenario planning, and organizational learning. His published books include The Age of Heretics: A History of the Radical Thinkers Who Reinvented Corporate Management (2nd ed., 2008, Wiley) and Who Really Matters: The Core Group Theory of Power, Privilege, and Success (2003, Doubleday). In addition, he was the editorial director of the best-selling Fifth Discipline Fieldbook series with Peter Senge, and coauthored Schools That Learn (2000, Doubleday) and The Dance of Change (1999, Doubleday).


Michele Wucker

Michele Wucker is Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the World Policy Institute. She is co-founder of WPI's Immigrant Voting Project and Citizenship and Security Program, and is a research fellow at the Immigration Policy Center. Ms. Wucker lectures frequently about immigration, cross-cultural conflict and conciliation, and Caribbean politics, and she is the recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on changing views of citizenship, exclusion, and belonging. Formerly Latin America bureau chief for International Financing Review, Ms. Wucker has written for many U.S. and Latin American publications including The American Prospect, America Economia, The Guardian, Newsday, The New York Times, Texas Observer, Valor Economico, Tikkun, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and World Policy Journal. She is the author of LOCKOUT: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right (Public Affairs 2006/paperback 2007; a Washington Post Book World "Best Nonfiction of 2006" Selection) and Why The Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle For Hispaniola (FSG/Hill & Wang, 1999).