Meeting Agenda * Latin America: Ex-Im Bank Country Risk Outlook * Russia: Perspectives on Russian Risk Assessment * India: Business Climate * United States: Recovery or Decline * Coface Outlook and Ratings

This special interest group of the AMA has a long history of partnership with the annual UIC Marketing and Entrepreneurship Research Symposium. At this year's Research Symposium, we are instituting a consortium for doctoral students to encourage and guide students who are considering or are researching the intersecting domains of marketing and entrepreneurship. Doctoral students selected for the consortium will have their Symposium fees waived, have complimentary meals during the official portion of the Consortium and the Symposium, and have a portion of their hotel expenses subsidized.

The CIMaR 2008 Conference will be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 18-21 June, 2008. It will be hosted by NUPIN, the Center for Research on the Internationalization of the Firm at the Coppead Graduate School of Business of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and by IAG, the Business School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro.

Michael G. Morris, chairman, president and chief executive officer of American Electric Power Co., Inc., will speak.

The 2008 meeting will be held in Milan, Italy, June 30- July 3, 2008. The host school is the Bocconi University Strategic Management Institute. More information will be posted as details are finalized. We invite all of our members to join us in 2008 in Milan!

Speaker: John Kelley, Manager, Online Sales & Operations, Google Ann Arbor

Jean-pierre Novak, Invest in France Agency - French Embassy will present "France: A Country on the Move."

Sessions include: Overview of French Economy (with an emphasis on technology/energy), Protecting your Name and Logo when you do Business Internationally, & Renewable Fuels and Incentives to Export

Speaker: Daniel J. Loepp, President & CEO, BlueCross BlueShield

The Global Business Club of Mid-Michigan focuses on global issues of interest to the mid-Michigan business community. In this role, the GB Club is dedicated to supporting global business growth of the State of Michigan and its diverse manufacturing and service organizations. The main activity of the GB Club is the luncheon speaker series.