INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT - Key Persons
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- Director of Strategy & Communications for U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair ( United Kingdom )
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- Freelance Writer
Angie has worked in the financial industry for over 15 years. In her current role, Angie is a Director at one of the largest financial institutions in the U.S., where she manages Financial Advisor programs and policies for their wealth management business.
Angie has a background in economics, journalism, communications, retirement and technology.
She has also written executive speeches and presentations, designed and ran development training programs, and conducted public speaking engagements nationwide.
In her spare time, Angie is a freelance writer and an Advisory Board Member for Girls on the Run, an organization that empowers and inspires young girls to be healthy and confident through a curriculum of emotional support and physical exercise. She volunteers as a coach and mentor to individuals of all ages ranging from college students through corporate leaders.
Angie graduated from Rutgers University with degrees in Economics and Journalism. She also completed the Securities Industry Institute s Excellence in Leadership program at Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Angie lives in New Jersey, and enjoys writing, running, traveling and spending time with her young son.
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- Economic Science & Business Education
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- under Secretary at National Reconstruction Authority / Government of Nepal ( Nepal )
Holcomb is the 84th recipient of the J. Shipman Gold Medal Award, receiving that award in 2015. The award is presented professionals whose unselfish, sincere and persistent efforts have aided the advancement of the supply management field. It is the highest honor awarded by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM). ISM Manufacturing Index is one of the key national indicators used by the US Federal Reserve economists and Wall Street Investors to gauge and forecast business conditions.
With a career spanning over 35 years and six companies, Holcomb was honored as a visionary leader, successful driver of change, but above all else, a role model to supply management professionals. Brad Holcomb chaired the ISM Manufacturing Business Survey Committee from 2011 to 2017. In that role, he was responsible for compiling, writing, and releasing the ISM Manufacturing Report on Business , based on the survey results of approximately 350 supply management professionals across eighteen industry sectors. Those monthly reports are released on the first business day of each month and use the PMI Index as the key manufacturing economic measure.
Holcomb has held executive procurement and supply management positions at Dean Foods Company, Royal Group Technologies, Waste Management, American Precision Industries, and Praxair. His mission has been to build high-performance teams and broaden the role of procurement to substantially reduce costs and create a competitive advantage.
In his last role as chief procurement officer, Holcomb was a senior vice president at Dean Foods, where he transformed and broadened the role of procurement and reduced costs to help fund innovation and growth. He executed a broad strategic sourcing program, drove simplification and standardization, and streamlined the supply base, resulting in a measurable competitive cost advantage. Dean Foods, headquartered in Dallas, is one of the nation s leading food and beverage companies, producing a full line of dairy and soy products, with more than 100 plants in the United States and more than 26,000 employees.
Prior to Dean Foods, Holcomb joined a new management team at Royal Group Technologies Limited as senior vice president of global materials and supply. He held P&L responsibilities for Royal s chemical plants in North America and operations in China, and managed the enterprise project management office and the procurement and supply management function. A successful transformation effort resulted in the sale of Royal to Georgia Gulf at a substantial premium over Royal s stock trading price. Royal, headquartered in Toronto, is a leading producer of resin-based building materials, with manufacturing plants throughout the United States, Canada, and China.
Before joining Royal, Holcomb was the vice president and chief procurement officer for Waste Management Inc. Over the course of five years, he helped achieve a major corporate turnaround by building a high-performance procurement team and delivering world-class results. These results were documented in a 2005 cover story in Purchasing magazine, and he also received the Chairman s Award for his team s contributions. Waste Management is North America s largest waste disposal company, headquartered in Houston.
Holcomb s career began at Eastman Kodak Company, where he held numerous management and leadership positions, including (1) general manager, digital products manufacturing, (2) general manager, international digital products marketing and sales, (3) director, corporate commercial affairs, and (4) director, supplier relationship management. His final assignment at Kodak was to re-engineer global procurement to leverage the size and scope of the entire company. The success of this effort laid the foundation for the next twenty years of Holcomb s career, as he was next recruited to Praxair as vice president and chief procurement officer, and later to American Precision Industries in the same role.
Holcomb holds a bachelor s degree in engineering science and a master s in industrial engineering from Arizona State University, and a master s in chemical engineering from the University of Rochester. He is a member of the Institute for Supply Management (ISM), a Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM ), and a Certified Professional in Supplier Diversity (CPSD ). He has served on the board of directors of ISM s CAPS Research and of the Dallas/Fort Worth Minority Supplier Development Council, and is past chairman of the Houston Minority Business Council.
Holcomb has written numerous articles on procurement trends and leadership opportunities and has lectured at Arizona State University, Michigan State University, and Rochester Institute of Technology.
He is also an avid, lifelong photographer and enjoys sharing his work through Bradley Holcomb Photography.
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- Consultant for the U.S. Department of Defense
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- Vice Chair
- Vice Chair of the Advisory Board
Bruce Zagaris is a renowned international lawyer. He is a partner at the law firm of Berliner, Corcoran & Rowe, LLP and the founder and editor of the International Enforcement Law Reporter and author of International White Collar Crime: Cases and Materials. Zagaris also serves as the Immigration and Human Rights Committee Chair of the International Law Section of the District of Columbia Bar Association.
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- Advisor
- Chief Legal Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer in Chile for a Fortune 500
Cristi n Edwards serves as the chief legal counsel and chief compliance officer in Chile for a Fortune 500 company. Through its diverse family of financial services companies, Principal Financial Group offers a wide range of financial products and services including retirement, asset management and insurance.
Edwards is an active member, and previously served as Chairman, of the Insurance Companies Association s legal committee, as well as the Mutual Funds Association and US Chilean Chamber of Commerce.
Edwards has practiced in the financial services and financial regulation fields for more than 30 years, advising leading financial institutions on a wide range of regulatory, risk management and compliance issues. A significant part of his legal work has involved working closely with regulatory bodies and managing the legal and compliance departments of multinational conglomerates in Chile. He also served on several boards of directors for more than a decade.
From counseling in cross-border mergers and acquisitions between multinationals in Latin America to developing compliance programs and corporate governance policies and procedures, Edwards has spearheaded several regulatory strategies to assure compliance with both domestic and global regulations that impact business operations. He implements and advises on a broad range of financial services regulations (such as FCPA, SOX, Anti-boycott, OFAC, Dodd Frank, FATCA, UK Bribery Act and CRS).
Prior to joining Principal, Edwards served as in-house counsel two other financial conglomerates, Grupo Cruz Blanca and Empresas Interamericana (American International Group). He was also formerly a senior associate with the law Chilean firm of Grasty, Quintana & Majlis.
Edwards earned his law degree from the Catholic University in Santiago, Chile, and received additional training in corporate governance, compliance and US regulations in both the United States and Chile.
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- Historian and Professor of American Studies Emeritus at Smith College
Professor Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University psychologist, Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002...According to his research, happiness can be measured by following a day reconstruction method, which consists of recalling memories of the day previous work by writing a diary. In 2006, a second series of measurements and contents of the BNB (GNH) is proposed by Med Yones, President of the International Institute of Management. Its metric measurement system socio-economic includes the mental and emotional well-being of a given country and the value of BNB, which is a function of indices of all the average per capita of (seven wellbeing dimensions).
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- Manager Post Graduate Program in Community Development University of Glasgow Scotland
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- Professor of Philosophy at the Islamic College
Dr Ali Paya is a Professor of Philosophy at the Islamic College (London), Professor of Philosophy of Science at the Sciences and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University (Tehran), and a Visiting Professor at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.
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- Associate Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London
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- Chairman
- Leader
- Chairman of the Board of Advisors - Think Tank Research
Adriana Sanford is a Chilean-American influencer with multiple law degrees, working in top-tier large law firms and with several multinational corporations. She is of counsel with the leading Chilean law firm Puga Ortiz, recently appearing in the 2021 Best Lawyers list. The barrier-breaker belongs to one of the most underrepresented Hispanic minority groups in the United States and comes from the country with the lowest female labor participation in Latin America.
In addition to serving on the advisory board of the International Institute of Management's think tank. She is also a former member of the board of directors of Amnesty International USA, which is the largest country section of the world's largest grassroots human rights organization. Sanford also served on the advisory committee of the World Economic Forum's Partnering Against Corruption Initiative (PACI), a leading international foundation and business voice on anti-corruption and transparency. As an American Program Bureau global keynote speaker, she provided the keynote addresses to hundreds of general counsel and senior legal leaders from Fortune 1000 companies at Corporate Counsel's 19th Annual SuperConference in Chicago and to hundreds of Spanish-speaking professionals at ISACA's Latin America Computer Audit Control and Security Conference in Mexico City.
Adriana is a thought leader who provides guidance on multi-dimensional legal cases that involve multi-jurisdictional requirements with competing regulators from multiple foreign countries, particular focus is on corporate actions that although legal may violate the spirit of the law , create human rights-related risks, or are considered immoral.
In addition to representing several Fortune 100 corporations, she is a regular international television commentator, and became an award-winning cybersecurity expert that serves as a CNN en Español analyst to 93+ million Spanish-speaking viewers for breaking news related to cybersecurity issues. She is also an in-demand global keynote speaker that "the unique ability to speak to captains of industry, college students, and academicians all in the same audience." Sanford coauthored two books on global threats that were adopted by the world's largest institute for supply chain leaders, Institute For Supply Management. Sanford was born in Orange County, California and has lived and worked throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
She is co-author of two business ethics books that provide critical insight for current and aspiring security, business, and supply chain professionals, Business Ethics: A Guide to Surviving Storms, Challenges, and Ethical Risks and tica Empresarial: Una perspectiva global. Sanford is a Dean's Visiting Scholar with Georgetown University Law Center, a Visiting Research Professor of the Universidad de Talca's School of Business and Economics in Chile, as well as a faculty affiliate of the Center on the Future of War, a DC-based think tank that explores the social, political, economic, and cultural implications of the changing nature of war and conflict.
She is a former clinical associate of management and an honors faculty with the Barrett Honors College, she teaches business law, ethical leadership, ethical issues of managers, and international management to 1,500 students on an annual basis at the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. In 2015, Sanford also served as ASU's Lincoln Professor of Global Corporate Compliance and Ethics to 85,000 students and faculty and as ASU's residential college faculty fellow for the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences. Previously, she served on ASU's advisory board of the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering EPICS Gold program.
Prior to teaching, Sanford had two decades of private sector legal work experience as an international corporate attorney. She served as primary U.S. counsel to several multinational businesses, including one of the largest international trading companies in the Southern Cone region Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Her clients included one of Chile's largest fisheries, one of Mexico's largest infrastructure companies, and one of the world's leading security companies. Among her in-house positions, she served as the Assistant General Counsel of a trade finance bank, as well as lead counsel for Latin America and US commercial law counsel for four divisions of a Fortune 50 company.
Academically, Sanford completed six years of law school, receiving a Juris Doctor degree from the Notre Dame Law School and a dual Masters of Law (LL.M.) degree from Georgetown University Law Center in taxation and international and comparative law. She was the first Hispanic woman to obtain Georgetown's dual LL.M. law degree and one of a handful of women to serve as a delegate to the APEC CEO summit in Santiago, Chile.
She studied international and comparative law in the year-long Concannon Program of International Law at the Notre Dame London Law Center in London, England. Sanford also attended Thunderbird School of Global Management for post-graduate studies in global management. She attended an all-girl's academy in Chile, Villa Maria Academy, and Xavier College Preparatory for young women, before receiving her B.A. in political science from Arizona State University, where she focused on comparative politics.
Sanford is a fourteenth generation Chilean and a direct descendant of one of the oldest families of Cologne, Germany. She is a member of the Overstolz dynasty which was the ancestral family of Cologne patricians. She is fluent in English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
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- Department of Sociology / Brown University
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- Permanent Secretary, NACC
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- Senior Economist, UNDP Sustainable and Inclusive Planning ( SSIP ) Project
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- Regional Director for Arab States / United Nations Population Fund
Professor Dr. Peter T. Coleman
Director of the ICC and Conflict Resolution
Columbia University
(USA)
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- Professor at Madras Medical College, Chennai ( India )
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- Advisor
- Executive Secretary / Treasurer of the International Association for Chinese Management Research
Since 2006, Eva has served as the executive secretary/treasurer of the International Association for Chinese Management Research (IACMR) a US-based professional, academic organization with over 2000 members world-wide that promotes research and knowledge sharing about managing organizations in the Chinese context.
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- Director of Research, France 's National Center for Scientific Research ( CNRS.FR )
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- President, NY Association of Black Journalists ( USA )
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- Specialist in International Bodies
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- Fellow British Academy, University of Oxford, ( UK )
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- Asset Pricing and Investment Management Research
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- Vice Chair
- Deputy Minister of Education at the Mexican Public Education Ministry
- Public Policy and Education Chair
Before being appointed to this position, Javier Trevino was a member of Mexico s Congress in the House of Representatives (Diputado Federal, State of Nuevo Le n, PRI, from 2012 through 2014). He served as secretary of the Energy Committee and of the Finance Committee; was a member of the Migratory Affairs Committee and of the Special Committee on Information and Communication Technologies.
Javier Trevino is the Deputy Minister of Education at the Mexican Public Education Ministry, since November 20, 2014.
Javier Trevino was born in Monterrey, Mexico on December 11, 1960. He divides his time between Mexico City and his native city of Monterrey, Nuevo Le n.
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- Economy and Market Columnist
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- Director of "Philosophy & Management".
Laurent Ledoux, Director of "Philosophy & Management".
Academic Director, Solvay, Brussels School, the Louvain School of Management and HEC Li ge
Chairman of the Management Committee of the Federal Public Service for Mobility and Transport (DG of the Belgian Ministry of Transport).
(Belgium)
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- Secretary of Social Development
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- Governor British Institute of Florence, ( Italy )
Med Yones, President of International Institute of Management in 2006 stated that along with economic growth the other important factors for general happiness are Environmental, Physical, Mental, Workplace, Social and Political wellness
Med Yones, the president of the International Institute of Management, conceives quality of life as being inseparable from good governance and operationalized these concepts in 2006 as a set of macroeconomic statistical indicators. This metric measures socioeconomic development by tracking seven development areas, including the nation's mental and emotional health. GNH value is proposed to be an index function of the total average per capita of the following measures, each of them being a combination of a plurality of related indicator.
Med Yones, president of International Institute of Management, moved the concept of the GNH to another level, treating it as a socioeconomic development metric.
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- Professor of History, Economics Department
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- Advisor
- 20th Head of Government
Mrs. Adesoye, Folasade Sidikatu (FCA), is The 20th Head Of Government Service Of Lagos State, Nigeria. She is also the former Permanent Secretary of the Civil Service Pensions Office, Local Government Establishments, Training and Pensions Office, Ministries of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation and Energy and Mineral Resources respectively.
She holds Masters in Public Administration from University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is also an alumnus of the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, USA and Ogun State University, Nigeria.
Folasade is an accomplished fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria and quintessential Administrator with special interest in Research, Business Development and Investment Appraisal . She was born on 28th December, 1959 at Ebutte-Metta, Lagos.
Young Folasade attended Abeokuta Girls Grammar School for her Secondary Education which she successfully completed in 1975 with a grade 1 overall score in WASC. She was at the Federal school of Arts and Science, Victoria Island Lagos and subsequently The Polytechnic Ibadan between 1975-1976 and 1976-1978 respectively.
In pursuit of knowledge and career succes, Mrs Adesoye joined the PEAT MARWICK, ANI, OGUNDE & CO now known as Akintola Williams Delliots - a Chartered Accounting and Auditing firm between1978-1982. While at PEATMARWICK, she was responsible for auditing public and private companies, preparation of draft accounts and computation of tax liabilities amongst other duties during her short but memorable experience.
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- Board Member International Association of Community Development ( United Kingdom )
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- President / Asset Management Research Corporation
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- Managing Partner, Transformative Communities
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- Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Wageningen University, ( Netherlands )
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- Accounting Information Systems Program
In 1991, he also organized and moderated a program on tax administration assistance sponsored by the International Law Institute in Washington, DC. Zagaris was co-chair of International Exchange of Tax Information Recent Developments (Practising Law Institute, 1985).
From 1979 through 1986, Zagaris served as US editor for Taxes International, a monthly publication. He helped found and has regularly spoken at programs of the Barbados branch of the International Fiscal Association.
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- Master in Prospective, Strategy, Organization