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The Bertelsmann Foundation’s fourth annual conference (19 April 2012 in Washington, DC) included a panel entitled “In the Know, Learning to Create Jobs.” The participants were Sergio Silva do Amaral (Chairman of the China-Brazil Business Council and Brazil’s former Minister of Trade and Industry), Thomas J Donahue (President and CEO […]
If you asked me what’s the biggest difference between Stockholm, the Swedish capital and Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia where I come from, I’d answer straight off without any hesitation: it’s the temperature! It’s now roughly 2 – 5 degrees Celsius in Stockholm – which is freezing for a Cambodian whose country in April is going through its […]
During the 4th Bertelsmann Foundation on April 19th, in cooperation with China Daily, the Bertelsmann Foundation and Financial Times hosted a conversation between Charlene Barshefsky, Senior International Partner of Wilmer Hale and former U.S. Trade Representative and Ma Weihua, President and CEO of China Merchants Bank. The honored guest, Mr. […]
Jobs and growth are back in the spotlight in the Washington, DC policy conversation. Gunter Thielen, the President and CEO of the Bertelsmann Foundation, highlighted a number of outstanding issues that would be dealt with over the course of the Bertelsmann Foundation Financial Times conference on April 19th in the […]
The plight of the unemployed in the slow recovery to the global economic recession was the focus of the discussion between US Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis and her counterpart in Germany Ursula von der Leyen. The panel–held as part of the annual conference hosted by the Bertelsmann Foundation and […]
