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Selected Events in 2006

Ambassador Timken on "Globalization: How Germans and Americans Can Help Shape Global Systems"

Ambassador Timken at the Heidelberg conference


Ambassador Timken at the Heidelberg conference

October 5, 2006.

On the invitation of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA), Ambassador Timken was the keynote speaker at a conference on "State and Market in a Globalized World: Transatlantic Perspectives" at the Arthotel in Heidelberg. Addressing over one hundred leading representatives of the business and academic commuinities in the Rhein-Neckar region, he shared his personal experience as a prominent American entrepreneur whose fortune 400 company had successfully met the challenges of an ever accelerating globalization process through flexibility and constant innovation. In his speech on "Globalization: How Germans and Americans Can Help Shape Global Systems" he also emphasized the continued importance of a strong transatlantic partnership to the benefit of the United States, Europe and the developing world.

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