Selected Events in 2006
Ambassador Timken on "Globalization: How Germans and Americans Can Help Shape Global Systems"
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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.