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Our challenges and opportunities transcend borders.
Now our conversations do too.
As the role of corporate counsel becomes more globalized, CCCA members have asked for more information about the role of corporate counsel worldwide and differing approaches to in-house legal practice.
Developed in association with other corporate counsel associations from around the world, the World Summit will provide an advanced-level discussion of key challenges common to corporate counsel practice and shared transnational legal and business issues.
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Day One Keynote Speaker
Parag Khanna
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 We are pleased to announce our Day One keynote speaker: Parag Khanna, Economic Foreign Policy Expert and Director of the Global Governance Initiative and Senior Research Fellow at the New America Foundation. His groundbreaking work The Second World: How Emerging Powers are Redefining Global Competition in the 21st Century (Random House, 2008) has been hailed by Robert Kaplan as “a savvy, streetwise primer on dozens of individual countries that adds up to a coherent theory of global politics.” Read more
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Monday Night Keynote Speaker
Sebastian Junger |
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 Sebastian Junger is an award winning journalist and contributing editor to Vanity Fair and as a contributor to ABC News, he has covered major international news stories in Liberia, Sierra Leone and other places around the globe. Junger became a fixture in the national media when, as a first-time author, he commanded The New York Times bestseller list for more than three years with The Perfect Storm, which later set sales records and became a major motion picture from Warner Bros. Read more
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Day Two Keynote Speaker
Benjamin W. Heineman, Jr.
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 Formerly the Senior Vice President – General Counsel and then the Senior Vice President for Law and Public Affairs at General Electric, Mr. Heineman was responsible for managing a team of 1,100 in–house lawyers in over 100 countries around the world. Under his guidance, GE’s legal department became world–renowned for its excellence, not only in legal service, but also for the major role that its attorneys play in business and management. Read more
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Past Conferences
2009 Corporate Counsel World Summit
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