Date & Time: Thursday April 14, 2011 – 7:30 PM
Location: Montgomery Community College (Rockville Campus) – Humanity Building (HU), Conference Room 009 ( Get Directions, Campus Map )
Speaker: Dr. Masoud Kavoossi 
The session looks in detail at issues of global concern. The focus is going to be on the most recent wave of developments in globalization including emerging markets. Before 1980 most of the developing world was following an inward-oriented development plan.
Globalization has been going on for a long time: ever since our common ancestors began migrating out of Africa thousands of years ago. While interaction among different peoples goes back to the beginning of human history (The Silk Highway), however the deep integration of economies is a more “modern” phenomenon that really accelerated starting in the 19th century. The more recent globalization is very much connected to industrialization– the transformation of rural and traditional societies into more urban, industrial, and commercial ones The presentation will look in to the phenomenon and drivers of globalization and its consequences.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Masoud Kavoossi is currently a tenured professor who teaches international business, international business strategy and International marketing at Howard University in Washington DC. He has had graduate and undergraduate appointments at American University, Washington, DC, George Washington University, Sellinger School of Business, Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland, Georgetown University, Washington DC. R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, University of Maryland University College, He is appointed as Distinguished University Chair Professor at Shandong Institute of Business and Technology, P.R. China-2010. Distinguished University Chair Professor of International Business at South Western University of Finance Economics (SWUFE), P.R. China. He has served as graduate faculty of Industrial Management Inst. Tehran,Iran.And he has been an invited guest speaker at College of Agriculture. Tehran, Iran.
He is a holder of the 2003-04, Fulbright-Johannes Kepler Distinguished Chair Professor of International Business in Austria. Professor Kavoossi has served as a lecturer to the Kuopio Polytechnic Intercultural Business Program, Finland. Dr. is the author of a book on Globalization of Business And the Middle East.His areas of specialization include international business issues pertaining to the Middle East, with an emphasis on the business environment. He has served as the Guest Editor of a number of publications, including, Iran-Exports and Imports, Iran International. Dr. Kavoossi is a frequent contributor to a number of books on international business. Dr. Kavoossi has been interviewed by the National Public Radio. He is a recipient of A. W. Mellon, Endowed lectureship at the American University of Paris,2004.A Salzburg Seminar Fellow of 2004,Transatlantic Relationship.
Fee (including dinner): $5 Students, $15 Public
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