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PRIMARY CONCERNS PART 2 - CHINA

  • Tuesday, November 01, 2011
  • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
  • 3rd Floor Auditorium, UNH Manchester, 400 Commercial Street, Manchester

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PRIMARY CONCERNS PART 2: CHINA

MICHAEL SANTORO

Tuesday, November 1

6 p.m. – UNH Manchester


“China 2020: How Western Business Can- and Should- Influence Social and Political Change in the Coming Decade,’” with Dr. Michael Santoro, Professor of Business Ethics at Rutgers Business School

Santoro, author of “China 2020” and “Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China,” will offer a vision of China’s future economic and political development and the powerful forces that could influence these developments.

PRIMARY CONCERNS: CRITICAL FOREIGN POLICY ISSUES AT THE 2012 BALLOT BOX

A four-part series on the top national security issues facing the United States 

in the run-up to the 2012 New Hampshire Primary

Funded, in part, by the New Hampshire Humanities Council and presented in partnership with the University of New Hampshire-Manchester.


PART OF GLOBAL NEW HAMPSHIRE MONTH!

  This program on Citizen Diplomacy has been initiated through a seed grant from 

the National Council of International Visitors as part of its 50th Anniversary celebration.

MORE ABOUT SANTORO:

Prof. Santoro is a Professor of Management and Global Business at Rutgers Business School.  He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy from Harvard University, a J.D. from New York University, and an A.B. from Oberlin College.

Prof. Santoro’s first book Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China (Cornell, 2000) was widely praised in, among other places, in The New York Times Book Review and Foreign Affairs. 

His next book, China 2020: How Western Business Can--and Should--Influence Social and Political Change was published by Cornell University Press on June 1, 2009.  

Prof. Santoro is also co-editor (with Tom Gorrie, Corporate Vice President Government Affairs and Policy for Johnson & Johnson) of Ethics and the Pharmaceutical Industry (Cambridge University Press, 2005). 

He is a member of the Editorial Board of Business Ethics Quarterly and the Journal of Human Rights. 

Prof. Santoro has been an Adjunct Lecturer and a Teaching Fellow at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where he taught ethics and economics courses.  As a Research Associate at Harvard Business School, he wrote or co-authored nearly thirty case studies and teaching notes on ethical and legal topics.  He was an invited speaker at the American Bar Association Conference on Professionalism in the 21st Century.  He was the recipient of research grant from the Aspen Institute’s Initiative for Social Innovation through Business. He has also served as a GE Teaching Fellow at Rutgers Business School.

Prof. Santoro testified before the United States Senate Finance Committee on the human rights implications of China’s entry into the World Trade Organization.  He is a frequent featured speaker on human rights and business ethics at numerous venues, including Cornell, Columbia, Oberlin, Princeton, Redlands, Santa Clara, and Tufts , as well as at the Brookings Institution, the Economic Strategy Institute, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Asia Society. 

Prof. Santoro was a Fulbright Fellow at the University of Hong Kong during the 1993-94 academic year and he travels frequently to Asia.  In the summers, he has taught an executive MBA courses in Business Strategy for China’s State-Owned Enterprises and Chinese Business Law in Beijing and Shanghai.            

Prior to entering academe, Prof. Santoro practiced law.  During law school he was a clerk at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom.  He was summer associate at Shearman & Sterling and an associate at Webster & Sheffield.  He has been the General Counsel of BioTechnica International in Cambridge, Massachusetts, one of the first publicly-held biotechnology companies, and of Finevest (now Interlaken Capital) in Greenwich, Connecticut, a privately held venture firm.


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