Abu-Ghazaleh is Main Speaker at the Business Administration Forum at the University of Bahrain
08 Mar 2007Alwaqt – Under the patronage of the Executive President of the Economic Development Council Sheikh Mohammed Bin Issa Al Khalifah, the second Business Administration Forum will be convened under the title “Trade Liberalization, Opportunities and Challenges” during the period of March 27-29 at the headquarters of the University of Bahrain in Alskheir.
Participating in the forum will be students from the University of Bahrain and students from private universities throughout Bahrain, in addition to a student delegation from each of the Gulf countries. Registration will be open to the general public as well.
According to the President of the Organizing Committee of the Forum, a student named Ahmed Alharban, the main speaker at the forum will be Mr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman of the Arab Society of Certified Accountants (ASCA) and Chairman of the Arab Society for Intellectual Property (ASIP). Abu-Ghazaleh is chairman of other organizations as well.
The forum aims to educate students on the aspect of economic globalization and introduce them to the World Trade Organization (WTO), its objectives and role in free trade agreements. Additionally, the forum will discuss the effects of the free trade agreements on the developing countries and ways to utilize them. It will highlight where the Kingdom lies on the so-called map of free trade agreements and encourage students to get interested in this field.
The main axes at the forum are represented in the WTO and liberalization of trade, as these will deal with identifying the organization and its objectives, and the role of the organization’s agreement in liberalizing bilateral and international trade, and analyzing its policies and stances. Also, they will discuss the trade liberalization effects on the economies of developing nations, and present the challenges they face to maximally benefit from liberalizing trade. Further they’ll review the economic future of these developing countries in a world that is open economically.
The third axis will focus on the free trade agreement that was signed by Bahrain with the USA, and its effects on Bahrain’s local economy and how best to utilize free trade, plus Bahrain’s future vision for trade liberalization.
This second business administration forum comes after the success of the first one held last year entitled “Private Business and Small and Medium-Sized Ventures”.
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