Upcoming Event

World Trade Club Annual Dinner

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October 22, 2008, from 5:30 to 8:30pm
The Harbor Club, Columbia Room, 17th Floor
801 2nd Avenue, Seattle, WA 98104

The World Trade Club's annual dinner has a long history as one of Washington States foremost business gatherings and is consistently attended by hundreds of professionals with an interest in international business and our global community.

economic gangsters book imageWe are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker for this special event will be Ted Miguel, author of a newly published book entitled Economic Gangsters. In his book, Ted discusses how a culture of corruption threatens economic development around the world - and why it's so hard to root out. He sheds light on the tangled nexus of business-government relationships, uses new economics tools to uncover the value of political ties, and explores possible ways forward - for both policymakers and the private sector.   If your company competes for business across borders, you won't want to miss this event!

Table Sponsorship Levels:
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(Note: Table seats 10 people)

Individuals:
$100 for WTC members or $125 with WTC annual membership

Corporate Sponsorship:
$1,850, or $2,200 with WTC annual membership

Non-profit table Sponsorship:

$1,250 or $1,500 with WTC annual membership

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Price of dinner includes free parking in the building.

The dinner will include a fundraiser benefitting World Trade Education Fund

Speaker’s Biography

headshot ted miguelEdward Miguel is associate professor of economics and director of the Center of Evaluations for Global Action at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 2000. He earned S.B. degrees in both Economics and Mathematics from MIT, and received a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow. Ted's main research focus is African economic development. He has conducted field work in Kenya, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and India. Ted is a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Associate Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, recipient of the 2005 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, and winner of the 2005 Kenneth J. Arrow Prize awarded annually by the International Health Economics Association for the Best Paper in Health Economics. Economic Gangsters is his first book.