SPEAKERS and SOCIAL EVENTS 2007-2008

Calendar of appointments (3^rd Wednesday of the month)

CHRISTMAS PARTY

We invite you to join PWA and Eurocircle for a very special Christmas Networking Buffet on 19th December.

Guests will be warmly welcomed with a glass of prosecco and introduced to fellow diners, an international, multi-lingual crown that promises to be as diverse as it is engaging.
The cocktail of benvenuto will be followed by a networking buffet.
Enjoy typical Italian dishes of Antipasti (Gateaux di patate, Melanzane alla Parmigiana, Torta di Scarola), two first courses (Gnocchi alla sorrentina, Risotto di gamberi e zucchine) and as dessert a delicious Tiramisu, while walking around the fireplace and talk to old and new friends. Not to miss that plenty of red and white wine will help in comunication and networking.

To add an element of holiday fun, we'll be organising a pseudo-Kris-Kindle, where each guest brings an inexpensive gift (euro 5 -10) which are distributed anonymously at dinner. But here's the catch: instead of buying a new gift, we suggest that you 're-gift'. Wrap up a gift you've received in the past that you didn't like, and some lucky recipient that night will get it! (Just make sure the person you gave the gift isn't at the dinner that night!). This makes for some very humourous gifts and is sure to be the source of more than a few laughs.

The cost of this event will be 25 euro per person. PWA is pleased to sponsor 5 euro for each of its members if they pre-pay online before 17th December. On the door payments of PWA, Eurocircle and friends is 25 euro. No refund for cancellations after Dec 17th.!
IMPORTANT: reservations through PWA should not be repeated also under Eurocircle. Join now! .

Speakers 

"Elections in Italy and in the USA--are women getting a fair deal at the polls and in the media" by Dennis Redmont

Dennis Redmont, a veteran foreign correspondent and news executive, is a senior professional with wide experience across the private and public sectors throughout Europe and the United States.

Born in the United States, schooled in the French Lycée, and graduated with honors from the prestigious Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Redmont joined the Associated Press in New York and became the agency's youngest correspondent in Lisbon, Portugal in 1965.
During his career, he reported from over 80 countries, covered guerrilla warfare and dictatorships in Latin America, Middle East crises, and three traveling popes, before working as a Rome based executive for the AP for the Mediterranean area, handling news, photos, television and multimedia coverage and distribution for over 25 years.
Fluent in six languages, he has written for magazines and other periodicals besides broadcasting for public and private television networks, commenting on such subjects as European politics and culture and the U. S. presidential elections.

Redmont currently heads the Communications, Media and Development sector of the Rome-based Council for the United States and Italy, a business forum and think tank, affiliated with the Center for the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution.

He also works as a strategic consultant for a major global strategy and consulting firm.
Recognizing his career achievements, Columbia University's alumni awarded him the Distinguished Alumni Prize in 2005, citing his "even-handed, unbiased and thorough coverage".

In 2000, Redmont helped found a new major Italian news agency, AP.Biscom (now APCom, owned by Telecom Italia), which has wed broadband technology with traditional wire service coverage in a series of innovative strategies to expand AP news to media, private, corporate, government and wireless subscribers.

In 1983 he won one of Italy's most prestigious prizes, the Carlo Casalegno award for distinguished journalism for coverage of Italy and the Vatican, granted for the first time to a foreign news professional.

In 1978 he was Pulitzer Prize finalist for his Vatican and papal coverage. In 1991 he won Italy's Solemare prize for career achievement, sponsored by Italy's Culture Ministry. In 1995 he received the President of the Republic's medal of the International Prize Ultimo Novecento for the most outstanding foreign correspondent.

He has served four times as president of Italy's Foreign Press Association (Stampa Estera), which recently celebrated its 90th anniversary.
He was also the Italian adaptor of various editions of the famous "Trivial Pursuit" game.
He is the co-author of "Mass media e nuova Europa" (Mondadori, 2005).
He is adjunct professor at the RAI (public broadcasting) Graduate School of Journalism in Perugia, and at The University of Gorizia, Italy.

"Starting a Business in Italy" by Joie Davidow and Vikki Ericks

Joie Davidow is one of the founders of the L.A.Weekly and founder/editor/publisher of "L.A. Style" and "S" magazines. She is the author of Marked for Life, a memoir (Crown) and Infusions of Healing (Fireside) and the co-editor, with Esmeralda Santiago, of two anthologies, Las Christmas and Las Mamis (both Alfred A. Knopf). She is currently at work on her fifth book, I Wouldn't Leave Rome to Go to Heaven, a novel.

Joie has been an editorial consultant to companies such as Weider Publishing and Los Angeles Magazine. As a freelance writer, she has contributed to Town and Country, Bon Apetit, Metropolitan Home and More magazines. She has appeared as a television commentator on "Oprah" "CBS This Morning," CNN and many other programs. Joie received the Liberty Hill Foundation's Upton Sinclair Award for her role in the founding of L.A. Weekly and was named one of Publishing's Most Dynamic Leaders by Folio:The Magazine for Magazine Management. www.joiedavidow.com

Vikki Ericks is the principal of a public relations and event planning firm, working with art-related clients to develop marketing strategies. She was a freelance news coordinator and field producer for the PBS program "European Journal" a Production Coordinator with the Rome bureau of ABC News, Production Coordinator to Linda Carlin, producer of L.W. Group/NBC production, "Talk About Pictures" a talk show hosting international photographers and also Researcher, Production Coordinator and Interviewer with Jim Rosallini Film Productions, a company that concentrates on ethnographic-documentary filmaking. In Beverly Hills, California, Vikki was principal in a fine arts consulting service, developing marketing strategies for visual artists in painting and photography, organizing lectures and sales presentations and coordinating exhibitions and installations. She was also the principal of an interior design and fine arts consulting firm.

They have founded the online magazine www.inromenow.com

"Holistic Decision Making – Using intuitive intelligence in decision making process" by Emilie Janda

Leaders and business owners stand often alone with their choices. They believe that the more information they gather, the better background they have for the decisions they make..

We are so well trained in making decisions that we are not paying attention to the subtle voice telling us what is the right course of action. Intuition shows us direction while rationale helps us to get where we intend to.
Emilie will kick- start your awareness of how you can start learning about how your intuition speaks to you and how to use it in your decision making process.

Emilie Janda, is an international speaker, consultant and coach. Emilie’s background lies in Information Science, she worked in Denmark as Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence Consultant and later in Italy as a coach. Today she works with Danish and international companies helping them to use optimally their intellectual resources by changing their thinking and behavioral limitations. She is founder of Determina

"A lecture on Pakistan Society" by Tasnim Aslam, Ambassador of Pakistan

The Ambassador will talk about the Pakistani society, traditions, influence of various religions and civilizations in the evolution of Pakistani society and the role of women.

Tasnim Aslam is Pakistan’s Ambassador to Italy since August 2007. Prior to her appointment she served as Spokesperson of the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and achieved a long and distinguished career in the Pakistan Foreign Ministery, which began in October 1984. Throughout her career she held various diplomatic assignments in Pakistan Missions abroad including Paris (1989-91), The Hague (1991-93) and New Delhi (1997-2000). Ms. Aslam served at the Headquarters as Section Officer in 1987-89 and 1994 becoming Director of the same department in 1995-97 and again in 2001-05. Following that assignment, and until her post to Italy, she served as Director General for the United Nations and Spokesperson.

Ms. Aslam holds two Masters Degrees, in Business Education and International Relations.

"Leading cross cultural virtual teams in a global business environment" by Linda Botha, Director of Strategic Business Information in J&J, President PWA

Working in a global and virtual environment is certainly not impossible but it does present some challenges. This session will help professional women to deal successfully with issues arising from working globally and virtually. Learn how to align team members dispersed geographically, how to motivate people they have never met face to face and how to successfully lead a global team. This lecture is based on personal working experience and is aimed at all individuals wishing to improve leadership and communication skills in complex multicultural environments: now a reality in all areas where individuals are actively dealing with people remotely.

Linda Botha is Director of Strategic Business Information in J&J Medical Devices Business Intelligence Organisation EMEA. She holds responsibility for solutions to support business strategy. Her virtual team received Global recognition for Innovation in IT. She has organised several European conferences and is president of Professional Women’s Association of Rome. Linda holds degrees in B.Sc Information Technology and B.Com in Economics from the University of Cape Town. She is South African and relocated to Italy in 1986.Active in Women’s Leadership, she is a member of the Women’s Leadership Initiative team in Johnson and Johnson

"Competitiveness and economic development in Italy" by Avv. Antonio Catricalà, Chairman of the Italian Competition Authority

Antonio Catricalà is married with two children, and was appointed Chairman of the Competition Authority on 9 March 2005.
He was born in Catanzaro, and graduated aged 22 with a first-class Law degree from Rome University, after which he was awarded, by competitive examination, a scholarship to continue studying at the first Chair of Private Law (La Sapienza University, Faculty of Jurisprudence).
Aged 24 he successfully passed the competitive examination to the ordinary judiciary, and the qualifying examination to practise the legal profession.
He successfully passed the competitive examination as a "State procurator", and at 27 as a "State Attorney".
He successfully passed the competitive examination to serve as a "Councillor of State" (Judge of the supreme administrative court) in 1982. In 2006 he was appointed as a non-serving Division President of the Council of State.
As chairman and member of boards of directors, he has previously worked with the Legislative Office at the Office of the Prime Minister, and has served as Chef de Cabinet and legal adviser to ministries.
He was formerly the Secretary-General of the Communications Regulatory Authority.
He was formerly the Secretary-General of the Office of the Prime Minister.
He has written various publications and papers and taught private law, under contract, at the Law Faculty at Tor Vergata University of Rome.

Biografia (in italiano)
Intervista all' Avv.to Catricalà (in italiano)

'The role of women in the Middle East' by by Rania Hammad-Keil, Lecturer in International Relations and Middle East conflict at St. John’s University of Rome

Rania was born in Syria and has maintained strong connections to her homeland and culture. Starting from the cultural and historical heritage of women in the Middle East,

She will present her view of the current situation of women, in general, in the region and tell us about prospects for developments and the future trends. 

Rania Hammad-Keil was born in Damascus, Syria in 1970 and moved to Italy in 1974. Muslim by “culture” but not a practicing Muslim, Rania studied at Marymount International School of Rome, an American Catholic school, for the duration of her elementary and secondary school education.She went on to study at the school for translators and interpreters at the University of Trieste from 1990-1992, and continued on to earn a B.A in Political Science at the AmericanUniversity of Rome in1995 and an M.A in International Relations from the University of Kent (UK) in 1998.

Rania is the author of the book “Palestina nel cuore”, published by Sinnos in 1998, followed by a second edition in 2003 and a third edition currently in printing.She is also editor of the book “Vita Tua Vita Mea, le altre voci di Israele raccolte da una palestinese”, released in 2004.

Since 2003 Rania has been teaching International Relations and Middle East conflict at St. John’sUniversity in Rome. She is currently writing a book about the cultural richness immigrants bring with them to their adoptive country and about the experiences immigrants take back to their homeland. The book will be published by Kora and distributed in multicultural schools.

Read her document presented during the meeting.

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