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On Wednesday, March 14, Raymond Baker will join us at IMPACT to discuss, "The Great 21st Century Transition and You." Mr. Baker is an internationally-respected authority on corruption, money laundering, growth, and foreign policy issues. He is the Director of Global Financial Integrity, a program of the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC and author of the book, Capitalism's Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System.
Please join us for this talk at 4:30pm in the College of Management or watch the free live webcast.
More about the Speaker
Raymond Baker is the Director of Global Financial Integrity. He is also the author of Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System, a book that was cited by the Financial Times as one of the “best business books of 2005.”
Mr. Baker is an internationally-respected authority on corruption, money laundering, growth, and foreign policy issues, particularly as they concern developing and transitional economies and their impact upon western economic and foreign interests. As such, he has testified before legislative committees in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom and has commented frequently on television and radio about legislative matters and policy questions. He has appeared on Nightline, CNN, BBC, NPR, Four Corners, and GloboNews, among others.
Mr. Baker is a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C., where he studies the linkages between corruption, money laundering, and poverty. From 1985 to 1996, he provided confidential economic advisory services at the presidential level for governments of developing countries, focusing principally on issues surrounding anticorruption strategies, international terms of trade, and developing country debt.
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About the Impact Speaker Series
Since 2002, the IMPACT Speaker Series has brought highly successful business leaders from a variety of industries to campus to share their experiences and give advice to students and other entrepreneurs on topics ranging from "building a venture around intellectual capital" to "successful entrepreneurship in large organizations" and "socially responsible leadership". The weekly series provides Georgia Tech students, alumni and the Atlanta business community an opportunity to network and learn from successful entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and notable business and non-profit leaders. Events for the series take place in the LeCraw Auditorium in the College of Management building at 4:30 pm on Wednesdays unless otherwise noted.
The series is free and open to the public, and reservations are not required.
