An Ambassador’s Challenge:

MyronDefending the U.S. Business Image Abroad In the Midst of Corporate Scandals at Home

Date: November 9, 2006

Time: 3 pm, reception at 5 pm

Place: Southern New Hampshire University 2500 N. River Road, Manchester, NH


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Moderator:

  • Myron Kandel, founding financial editor and economic commentator, CNN, and former financial editor of the Washington Star, New York Herald Tribune and New York Post.

Speakers:

  • Elizabeth Jones
    • Elizabeth Jones, executive vice president, APCO Worldwide, has extensive international experience in Europe, Eurasia, South Asia and the Middle East. She spent 35 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, where she achieved the highest rank of Career Ambassador and served as Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia.
    • Ambassador Jones designed U.S. policies for NATO and European Union countries, Russia, Ukraine, the Caucasus and Central Asia and supervised 54 U. S. Ambassadors and their embassies.
    • Among many other posts in her distinguished career, she served as U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan; principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Near East Bureau; senior advisor for Caspian Energy Diplomacy; executive assistant to Secretary of State Warren Christopher; and Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassies in Bonn, Germany, and Islamabad, Pakistan.
    • Ambassador Jones received a bachelor of arts in history from Swarthmore College and a master of arts in international relations and strategic studies from Boston University’s Berlin Campus.
  • Cynthia P. Schneider
    • Cynthia P. Schneider was an associate professor of art history at Georgetown University when President Clinton appointed her to be Ambassador to the Netherlands in 1998.
    • As Ambassador, she led initiatives in the fields of biotechnology, education and public policy, and culture. She organized international conferences on biotechnology, the environment and cyber security and was a forceful advocate of the U.S. aerospace and defense industries. In recognition of those efforts, the Defense Department awarded her the Exceptional Public Service Order.
    • An expert on Rembrandt and Dutch art of the 17th century, she was assistant curator of European paintings at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts before joining the Georgetown faculty in 1984. Following her service in the Netherlands, she returned to Georgetown, where she teaches in both the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Foreign Service. She holds undergraduate and doctoral degrees in fine arts from Harvard and is currently working on a book on culture and diplomacy.
    • Ambassador Schneider has been a member of the supervisory board of the international food conglomerate Royal Ahold.
  • Carl Spielvogel
    • Carl Spielvogel served as U.S. Ambassador to the Slovak Republic from 2000-2001, following a distinguished career in advertising and communications.
    • He served as chairman and chief executive of several of the world’s largest global marketing and communications companies, including Backer Spielvogel Bates Worldwide, which conducted trade and commerce in 55 countries. He was vice chairman of the Interpublic Group of Companies and was chairman of the executive committee and general manager of McCann-Erickson Inc., Interpublic's largest company. He was also chairman and CEO of the United Auto Group. He currently serves as chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Financial Times and as CEO of Carl Spielvogel Associates, an international investment, marketing and management company.
    • Ambassador Spielvogel started his working career at The New York Times, rising to reporter and columnist before leaving to make his mark in advertising. In 1995 President Clinton appointed him to the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors, which is responsible for the Voice of America, Radio Free Europe and all other non-military media of the U.S. government. He has served on the boards of a number of publicly-owned companies, as well as many charitable, public-policy and cultural institutions.
    • He is a graduate of Baruch College of the City University of New York and is married to Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, author of 18 books on art, architecture and public policy.