April 8, 1999

Middlebury College Geonomics Center for International
Studies to Host Talk on “Ethics, Business, and Corruption”
and Panel Discussion on “Year of the Euro”

Middlebury College’s Geonomics Center for International
Studies will host a policy leadership
seminar, “Ethics, Business, and Corruption,” by Pedro
J. Pick on Monday, April 12, at 4:30 p.m. On Friday, April 16,
at 4:30 p.m., a roundtable discussion titled “Year of the
Euro” will also be offered. Both events are free and open
to the public, and will take place in the Geonomics Center located
on Hillcrest Road, off College Street (Route 125).

Pedro J. Pick is at Geonomics as part
of the College’s Executive-in-Residence Program. A multilingual,
international businessman, Pick has an extensive background in
management and management consulting in the chemicals, packaging,
banking, and agribusiness industries. He has worked in Latin America,
Europe, and the United States. Pick’s management, consulting,
and training experience includes assistance in organizational,
strategic, and operational issues for leading Latin American industrial
and financial groups. In the early 1990s, he was involved in the
privatization process in Eastern Europe.

“Year of the Euro,” on April
16, will offer a broad view of the impact of the Euro—a unit
of currency adopted in January of 1999 by all member countries
of the European Union—on life in Europe, including politics,
business, economics, and the media. “Year of the Euro”
panelists are John B. Richardson, deputy head of the European
Union Delegation of the European Commission to the U.S.; Robert
Thomson, U.S. managing editor of Financial Times; Malte Krueger,
Lecturer and Bradley Fellow at the University of Western Ontario
economics department; Mitchell Smith, assistant professor of political
science at Middlebury College; Patrick Crowley, assistant professor
of economics at Middlebury College; moderator: Edward C. Knox,
College professor of French and director of European studies at
Middlebury College.

For more information, contact Charlotte
Tate, Geonomics development and events coordinator, at 802-443-5795
or tate@middlebury.edu.

Schedule of Events

Monday, April 12
Policy Leadership Seminar: “Ethics, Business, and Corruption”

4:30 p.m.
Speaker: Executive-in-Residence Pedro J. Pick

Location: Geonomics Center for International
Studies at Middlebury College, Hillcrest Road, off College Street
(Route 125)

Friday, April 16
Roundtable Discussion: “Year of the Euro”

4:30 p.m. Panelists: John B. Richardson,
deputy head of the European Union Delegation of the European Commission
to the U.S.; Robert Thomson, U.S. managing editor of the Financial
Times; Malte Krueger, Lecturer and Bradley Fellow at the University
of Western Ontario economics department; Mitchell Smith, assistant
professor of political science at Middlebury College; Patrick
Crowley, assistant professor of economics at Middlebury College;
moderator: Edward C. Knox, College professor of French and director
of European studies at Middlebury College.

Location: Geonomics Center for International
Studies at Middlebury College, Hillcrest Road, off College Street
(Route 125)