August 21st - Speaker Series Luncheon: Jim E.
Rogers, Chairman, President, and CEO of Duke Energy Corporation.
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July
2008
July
25th:
Speaker
Series Luncheon: Dr. Theo
Sommer, Editor-at-Large of
DIE ZEIT.
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8th Annual Bastille Day Festival
hosted by the French American Chamber of Commerce
of North Carolina Inc. (FACCNC).
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Dr.
Theo
Sommer,
Editor-at-Large,
DIE ZEIT
The
State
of
the
Trans-Atlantic
Relationship:
U.S.
–
German
Relations
Date:
Thursday,
July
25th,
2008 Location:
The
Westin
(Uptown
Charlotte)
Google
Map Time:
12 Noon Cost:
$
35
(members);
$ 45
(non-members)
Presenting
Sponsor
Reservation
Information
WACC Members $ 35
Non-Members $ 45
Biography
Summary:
Dr.
Sommer
was
born
in
1930
in
Constance,
Germany
and
grew
up
in
Schwäbisch
Gmünd.
He
studied
History,
Political
Science
and
International
Relations
in
Sweden,
at
Manchester
College,
North
Manchester,
Ind.,
and
the
University
of
Chicago;
Sommer
wrote
his
Ph.D.
thesis
on
“Germany
and
Japan
between
the
Powers,
1935-1940“
(University
of
Tübingen,
1962).
He
was
a
1960
participant
in
Henry
Kissinger’s
International
Summer
Seminar,
Harvard
University
and
a
reader
for
Political
Science
at
the
University
of
Hamburg
from
1967-1970.
In
1972,
Sommer
lectured
at
Harvard
University’s
Center
for
European
Studies.
Foreign
Editor
DIE
ZEIT
1958,
Deputy
Editor
1968;
Chief
of
Planning
Staff,
Ministry
of
Defence,
Bonn
1969/70;
Editor-in-Chief
DIE
ZEIT
1973;
Publisher
DIE
ZEIT
1992;
Editor-at-Large,
April
1,
2000.
Event Sponsorship and/or Table Purchase:
For information on event sponsorship and/or table purchases, please contact Charlotte Klopp, Director of Programming and Development at 704-687-7759 or e-mail cklopp@worldaffairscharlotte.org
Jim
Rogers,
Chairman
of the
Board,
President,
and
Chief
Executive
Officer
of Duke
Energy
Corporation
Duke
Energy's
Role in
Building
a
Low-Carbon
Global
Economy
Date:
Thursday,
August
21, 2008
Location:
The
Westin
(Uptown
Charlotte)
Google
Map Time:
12 Noon
Cost:
$
45
(members);
$ 55
(non-members)
He
will
give us
his perspectives
on the
key
energy,
economic
and
environmental
challenges
faced by
the
world
today in
addition
to Duke
Energy’s
response
to
global
climate
change.
Presenting
Sponsor
Reservation
Information
WACC Members $ 45
Non-Members $ 55
Additional information regarding Jim Rogers and Duke Energy (links below):
A Green Coal Baron?- New York Times Magazine (June 22, 2008) Site registration may be required to access.
"When I met with Jim Rogers one day this spring, he tossed back two double espressos in a single hour. A charming and natty 60-year-old, Rogers is the chief executive of the electric company Duke Energy. But he has none of the macho, cowboy stolidity you might expect in an energy C.E.O. Instead, he lives to brainstorm. He spends more than half his time on the road, a perennial fixture at wonky gatherings like the Davos World Economic Forum and the Clinton Global Initiative, corralling “clean energy” thinkers and listening eagerly to their ideas. The day we met, he was brimming with enthusiasm for a new approach to solar power. Solar is currently too expensive to make economic sense, according to Rogers, because the cost to put panels on a roof is greater than what a household would save on electricity. But what if Duke bought panels en masse, driving the price down, and installed them itself — free?"(More...)
For information on event sponsorship and/or table purchases, please contact Charlotte Klopp, Director of Programming and Development at 704-687-7759 or e-mail cklopp@worldaffairscharlotte.org
Professor M S Swaminathan, Member of
Parliament (Rajya Sabha) and Chairman of M S
Swaminathan Research Foundati on. an>
Global Food Crisis: The Origins and Solutions - One
Nations' Response; India ’s Food Security Scenario
Photo:
Dr. M S Swaminathan, World Food
Prize Winner 1987 (above)
Professor M S Swaminathan has been acclaimed by the TIME magazine as
one of the twenty most influential
Asians of the 20th century and one
of the only three from India, the
other two being Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore. The India
Today, a leading journal of India ,
has described him as one of the 60
most eminent Indians. He has been
described by the United Nations
Environment Program as "the Father
of Economic Ecology" because of his
leadership of the ever-green
revolution movement in agriculture
and by Javier Perez de Cuellar,
Secretary General of the United
Nations, as "a living legend who
will go into the annals of history
as a world scientist of rare
distinction"..
A plant geneticist by training,
Professor Swaminathan's
contributions to the agricultural
renaissance of India have led to his
being widely referred to as the
scientific leader of the green
revolution movement. His advocacy of
sustainable agriculture leading to
an ever-green revolution makes him
an acknowledged world leader in the
field of sustainable food security.
Photo:
Dr. Jayaraman Raja, Senior Associate
Provost of UNC Charlotte asking a
question during Q&A session
Photo:
Left to Right - Ljubomir (LJ)
Stambuk, Executive Director of World
Affairs Council of Charlotte; Dr. M
S Swaminathan, World Food Prize
Winner (1987)
Dr. Jay
Bryson Director,
Global
Economist,
Wachovia
Corporation
Thursday,
May 22,
2008 Global Recession? Does
the U.S. Economy Pull Everybody Else Under?”
(Photo: Dr. Jay Bryson, Global
Economist, Wachovia Corp.)
(Photo:
Business
Breakfast
Series
Attendees)
Plan on
joining
us at
our next
Business
Breakfast
Series
this
fall for a
roundup
of how
global
events
impact
the
business
community
in the
Charlotte
area.
Voyager's ClubThursday,
May 29th, 2008
Hon. Eric
Levinson,
Former
Justice Attaché to Iraq and senior representative of the U.S.
Department of Justice assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad
Justice and Rule of Law: Are the Nation's Policing
and Judiciary Institutions Fostering a New Day for the People of Iraq?
Check
out our
post-Ireland trip
update (*to be updated soon)Cancellations must
be made at least three (3) business days prior to the program for a
full refund. In the event you are not able to cancel before that deadline, we encourage you to find someone to attend in your absence
as we cannot issue a refund after our numbers have been guaranteed.
If you have reserved a seat and were
planning on paying at the door but were not
able to attend, you are still
responsible for the reservation cost.
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to
see photos from the World
Citizen Award 2006 Dinner
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TMS Events
The World Affairs Councils of America,
with over 500,000 members and 87 affiliated organizations across the
nation, honored our Council with the President’s Award for Outstanding
Achievement in 2007 during its Annual Conference held in February 2008.
The President’s Award is awarded annually to Councils that have shown
extraordinary innovation, growth, outreach, and impact. The World
Affairs Council of Charlotte earned the distinction of being the most
dynamic midsize Council in the nation for 2007.
Justice and Rule of Law: Are the Nation's Policing
and Judiciary Institutions Fostering a New Day for the People of Iraq?
(Photo: Dr. Jay Bryson, Global
Economist, Wachovia Corp.)
