On business, WTO and law
On May 22, 2013 the experts from Geneva (Switzerland) read two lectures at the Faculty of Management and Marketing of Kalashnikov ISTU: Gertrude Nimako-Boateng, Executive Director of International Trade Institute for West Africa (lecture: “The multilateral trading system: the rights and obligations of WTO member states”) and Roy Damary, Professor of Economics, President of Russian-Swiss Club, President of INSAM: the Graduate Institute of Business and Management, founder of Geopolitical Research Foundation “Geopol Services S.A.”, member of Coordination Council of the International Union of Economists (lecture: “The encouragement of innovation: macro- and microeconomics complement each other”). Our Swiss guests read the lectures in English but they speak Russian well.
Gertrude Nimako-Boatengis a graduate of two British universities in the field of law, she studied the Russian language at Pushkin Russian Language Institute and is an expert in international commercial (trade) law of World Trade Organization.
According to her, the topic of her lecture is urgent: “… Russia joined WTO only a year ago becoming a 156th member of the organization.The Russian market is open, and this means that foreign companies – the suppliers of services and goods – will be very active at the market. If local businessmen are not ready for the appearance of new strong competitors, the risks are inevitable for them. Not only todays’s students but also entrepreneurs-practitioners have to understand how it works, to know the adopted rules and duties in the field of public and private law. This is a complex and interesting process, with its pluses and minuses – and it is important “to know the pluses”.
Roy Damary is a British citizen residing in Switzerland, a graduate of Engineering Science with First Class Honors from Oxford University and M.B.A. with High Distinction from Harvard Business School, an industrial market business consultant in Western Europe and promoter of goods, lecturer of Geneva Webster University (tutor of business, finance and accounting), author of the book “Finance and entrepreneurship / financial tools used by international companies for the growth and development of organizations”, translated into Russian in 1992 and according to experts, “is still topical today”.
The visitors of his lectures and business workshops – students of profile specialties, representatives of small and average business, managers of financial institutions, as well as business new recruiters dreaming to open their business in different countries: from Monaco and Paris to Ekaterinburg and Moscow. Roy Damary has been working in Russia for 20 years. According to him, he witnessed “the last year of the USSR”, and he is already the fourth time in Izhevsk, but it’s his first lecture here.
The professor of economics thinks that the emergence of new successful native businessmen is the result of the progress in Russia and, according to him, he would be glad “to help this process if he could…”, at least, he is satisfied to point out the openness of his audience and perception of the listeners to his ideas.
By the way, the visit of Swiss colleagues to Udmurtia dedicated to business education was arranged within “Investor’s Week in Udmurtia-2013” which will take place till May 31, 2013 to improve the investment attractiveness and business image of the region. Kalashnikov ISTU is one of the official organizers of the event in the Republic.
On May 23 the Swiss guests had the meeting with the Vice-Rector for International Relations and Accreditation Alexander Elensky and Dean of the Faculty of Management and Marketing Alexey Schenyatsky and discussed the ways of prospective cooperation.
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