There is no agenda, just good food and drinks in an authentic setting and good sohbet.
Please let me know if you are interested and can make it.
Regards,
Haluk Sardag
hsardag@sisecam.com
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We have 160 Columbia alumni in South Africa and counting!
Join fellow alumni across schools for an evening of Upper West reminiscence, networking, and drinks (cash bar) in the heart of Sandton CBD.
Did you ever wonder why we don’t have Columbia alumni activities in South Africa? This event is an important step to create the first official Columbia alumni chapter in Africa.
Please join us and show support!
Date & Time: Thursday, March 11th 6:00pm – 9:00pm
Venue: The Baron (Sandown) Shop 11, 24 Central Cnr Gwen Lane and Fredman Drive Sandown, Johannesburg
Website (with a map): http://www.dining-out.co.za/member_details-MemberID-2921.html
Contact: Sawa Nakagawa MBA/MIA ‘09 sawanakagawa@gmail.com Cell: 076-733-9018
If you have any suggestions for future Columbia alumni events in South Africa, or would like to get involved in organizing, please contact Sawa Nakagawa.
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Please also join us to honor Douglas Holloway ’78BUS, former President of NBC Television Network Distribution Partnerships and Marketing.
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Robert D. Hormats, Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, will talk about foreign economic policy issues facing the Obama Administration.
Biography:
Robert D. Hormats was formerly the vice chairman of Goldman Sachs (International). He joined Goldman Sachs in 1982.
Mr. Hormats served as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs from 1981 to 1982, Ambassador and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative from 1979 to 1981, and Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic and Business Affairs at the Department of State from 1977 to 1979. He served as a senior staff member for International Economic Affairs on the National Security Council from 1969 to 1977, where he was senior economic advisor to Dr. Henry Kissinger, General Brent Scowcroft and Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski. Mr. Hormats was a recipient of the French Legion of Honor in 1982 and the Arthur Fleming Award in 1974.
He has been a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and served on the Board of Visitors of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Dean’s Council of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
His publications include The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars from the Revolution to the War on Terror; Abraham Lincoln and the Global Economy; American Albatross: The Foreign Debt Dilemma; and Reforming the International Monetary System. Other publications include articles in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, American Banker and The Financial Times.
Mr. Hormats earned a BA with a concentration in economics and political science from Tufts University in 1965. He earned a MA in 1966 and a PhD in International Economics in 1970 from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.]]>
featuring
Robert P. Merges, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law and Technology at U.C. Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law, and a co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
who will be speaking on
The Future of Property: Individual Ownership and the Digital Age
6:00 pm - Lecture in Room 103, Jerome Greene Hall
Reception to follow.
PLEASE RSVP BY MARCH 24 TO: kernochancenter@law.columbia.edu
Inquiries to: Teresa Change at tchang@law.columbia.edu or (212) 854-6278.
Click here for the Kernochan Center's website.
Biography:
Robert P. Merges is the Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law and Technology at U.C. Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law, and a co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, one of the top-rated Intellectual Property programs among U.S. law schools. He is the co-author of leading casebooks on patent law, intellectual property, software and internet law, and has written numerous articles on the economics of intellectual property, in particular patent law. His book, “Justifying Intellectual Property,” is scheduled to be published in 2010 by Harvard University Press. Professor Merges has worked with government agencies such as the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission on IP-related policy issues. He has also consulted with leading law firms and companies, and is currently engaged as a principal in the IP business and investment firm Ovidian, LLC, in Berkeley, California. He received his B.S. from Carnegie-Mellon University, his J.D. from Yale Law School, and LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Columbia Law School in 1995.
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