NEWS & EVENTS

Second EDP Joint Executive Program in Business and Public Management concludes in December 2007
EDP wrapped up its second joint program with the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University, China in December 2007. This year, EDP hosted over thirty senior level municipal government officials from China who participated in a two week executive program in Business and Public Management.
To complement the in-class portion of the program, EDP organized several site visits including tours to the Washington Convention Center, DC Office of Planning, and the World Bank Institute (WBI). The program also included presentations by prominent public adminstrative executives from the DC area, including speeches by Dr. Natwar Gandhi, CFO of the District of Columbia, Dr. Deepak Bhattasali, lead economist for China, World Bank and Dr. Yan Wang, senior economist from the World Bank Institute.

EDP and Department of Management invited Dr. Michael Maccoby, author of The Leaders We Need: And What Makes Us Follow to GWSB

EDP, in collaboration with the Department of Management at the GW School of Business, invited Dr. Michael Maccoby, an EDP fellow and president of the Maccoby Group, to discuss his new book The Leaders We Need. This event was held at GWSB on December 4, 2007 and was attended by members of GW faculty, the EDP Advisory Board, doctoral students from the

Executive Programs in Risk Management in Collaboration with PRMIA

EDP, in association with the GWSB Department of Finance and the Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA), has reached an agreement to provide a series of short executive development seminars on topics around risk management and finance. The first two classes in this series, Analytic Foundations of Risk Management and Foundations of Risk Finance were offered in October and December, 2007.

In Spring 2008, EDP will also offer a 20 week program covering the essential knowledge and skills required to be a professional financial risk manager.

Dr. Robert Savickas, Associate Professor of Finance at The George Washington University's School of Business and EDP Fellow, has been appointed the EDP/PRMIA Faculty Director.

The Executive Development Program, in collaboration with PRMIA, co-hosted a meeting of PRMIA's DC Chapter on September 24, 2007 at The George Washington University's School of Business. PRMIA CEO David Koenig and GWSB Dean Susan Phillips made welcoming remarks and Tanya Azarch, Managing Director of Standard and Poor's delivered a presentation titled Risk Management Through the Crunch.

Executive Program in Project Management

EDP held a week long executive development training program in project management in April 2007. EDP worked in collaboration with the GWSB Department of Decision Sciences in arranging this week long custom designed program in project management, at the request of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University.

The Chinese delegation included a total of 25 senior level government executives from China from the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration (STMA) of China who, together with the China National Tobacco Corporation is responsible for centralized management of staff, finance, properties, products, supply, distribution, and domestic and foreign trade of the China’s tobacco industry.  

Joint Executive Program in Business and Public Management

In March 2007, the Executive Development Program hosted a delegation of Chinese municipal executives for a two week intensive seminar in leadership and public management. The program was jointly presented in partnership with the Tsinghua University School of Public Policy and Management and was sponsored by a gift from Mr. Stephen Lau.

The Beijing portion of the program was held at Tsinghua University and the U.S. portion took place at The George Washington University's main campus, as well as in select site visits in Washington, DC and other locations nationwide. The program was a tremendous success and EDP is currently working on a second program in this series to be held in early 2008.