2007 Corporate Conference "Beyond the Next Quarter: The Forces Shaping the Future"

Conference

2007 Corporate Conference "Beyond the Next Quarter: The Forces Shaping the Future"

March 8, 2007 - March 9, 2007

The Council’s Corporate Conference 2007, Beyond the Next Quarter: Forces Shaping the Future, featured global leaders and scenario-based approaches to consider the current forces that may affect the future of international business and policy. Speakers at the conference included Exxon Mobil Chairman and CEO Rex W. Tillerson, a panel featuring NYSE Group CEO John Thain and Chicago Mercantile Exchange CEO Craig Donohue, and an opening lunch panel that looked at “The Economic View from Abroad,” which featured Fred Hu, managing director and co-head of China investment banking at Goldman Sachs (Asia), and Tulio Vera, managing director, head of emerging market macro and debt strategy at Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., and Andrew Crockett, president, J.P. Morgan Chase International. Leading thinkers on climate change were also featured in a panel, including Fred Krupp, president of Environmental Defense, Elizabeth Economy, the Council's C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asia studies, and Meg McDonald, president, Alcoa Foundation.

Meetings

Corporate Conference 2007 - "The Business of Climate Change"

Corporate Meeting

March 9, 2007

Speakers:	Elizabeth C. Economy, C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director of Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
	Fred Krupp, President, Environmental Defense
	Meg McDonald, Director, Global Issues, and President, Alcoa Foundation, Alcoa
Presider:	David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Carlyle Group

Corporate Conference 2007 - Scenario-Based Breakout Sessions

Corporate Meeting

March 9, 2007

Corporate Conference 2007 - "The View from Washington: The New Congress and Looking Ahead to 2008"

Corporate Meeting

March 9, 2007

Speakers:	John M. Quinn, Founder and Co-Chairman, Quinn Gillespie & Associates LLC
	Vin Weber, Partner, Clark & Weinstock
Presider:	Nancy E. Roman, Vice President and Washington Director, Council on Foreign Relations

Corporate Conference 2007 - Closing Lunch and Discussion

Corporate Meeting

March 9, 2007

Speaker:	Rex W. Tillerson, Chairman and CEO, Exxon Mobil Corporation
Presider:	Christine Todd Whitman, President, The Whitman Strategy Group

Corporate Conference 2007 - "The Economic View from Abroad"

Corporate Meeting

March 8, 2007

Speakers:	Andrew Crockett, President, JPMorgan Chase International
	Fred Hu, Managing Director and Co-Head of China Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs (Asia) LLC
	Tulio Vera, Managing Director and Head, Emerging Market Macro and Debt Strategy, Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Presider:	Sebastian Mallaby, Director, Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations

Corporate Conference 2007 - McKinsey Executive Roundtable Series in International Economics: The Future of Global Capital Markets

Corporate Meeting

March 8, 2007

Presider:	Hal Scott, Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems, and Director, Program on International Financial Systems, Harvard Law School
Speakers:	Craig Donohue, Chief Executive Officer, Chicago Mercantile Exchange
	John Thain, Chief Executive Officer, NYSE Group, Inc.

The McKinsey Executive Roundtable Series in International Economics is presented by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and the Corporate Program.

Corporate Conference 2007 - Scenario-Based Breakout Sessions

Corporate Meeting

March 8, 2007

Corporate Conference 2007 - "Assessing Geopolitical Risk in a Volatile World"

Corporate Meeting

March 8, 2007

Speakers:	Richard N. Haass, President, Council on Foreign Relations
	Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Director, Center for the Study of Globalization, Yale University
Presider:	Chrystia Freeland, Managing Editor, The Financial Times

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Sebastian Mallaby
Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics
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2007 Corporate Conference "Beyond the Next Quarter: The Forces Shaping the Future"

New CFR Books

New Council Special Reports

Global FDI Policy

Dealing with Damascus

David Rockefeller Studies Program Contacts

The Think Tank

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