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Selection from the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Dr. Broaden is currently a professor of International Business and Organizational Leadership at Southern New Hampshire University. She received her doctorate in International Business, with a concentration in International Finance. Her current research focus is in the area of small business development and foreign direct investment on a global basis. She is particularly interested in FDI to African nations and has recently published in this area. She is also interesting in the shifting patterns of FDI within emerging markets and the re-shoring of FDI by manufacturing firms.
Prior to her academic career, Dr. Broaden worked in a number of multinational firms where she was an executive managing international human resource activities as well as being a member of the company's strategic management team. In her last assignment she lived in Toronto Canada for three years and managed operations in Canada and France. A key assignment was talent management and Dr. Broaden was responsible for recruiting and placing global talent.
Dr. Broaden holds the Certified Global Business Professional designation from NASBITE International , which is the qualification in Global Commerce and she is a member of the Foreign Direct Investment Association. She is a member of numerous trade and professional groups in her field.
ABOUT THE FILM:
The film's central story follows a small group of American explorers at Dallas-based oil company Kosmos Energy. Between 2007 and 2011, with unprecedented, independent access, Big Men's two-person crew filmed inside the oil company as Kosmos and its partners discovered and developed the first commercial oil field in Ghana's history. Simultaneously the crew filmed in the swamps of Nigeria's Niger Delta, following the exploits of a militant gang to reveal another side of the economy of oil: people trying to profit in any way possible, because they've given up on waiting for the money to trickle down. So what happens when a group of hungry people discover a massive and exquisitely rare pot of gold in one of the poorest places on earth?
WHY THIS FILM? VIA HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH:
In Nigeria and elsewhere, Human Rights Watch has looked extensively at the human rights cost of oil drilling, focusing in particular on the silencing of activists, the environmental impact of drilling, the lack of accountability for security force abuses, and the mismanagement of oil revenue in the face of endemic poverty. Human Rights Watch has also explored in numerous reports the link between abundant resources and unfulfilled human rights, notably basic health care and education, as well as the challenge of eradicating corruption and ensuring fiscal transparency.
99 minutes. Not Rated.
