At a glance

what

A convival forum of ideas

when

Thursday 27 May 2010
18.00 - 22.00

where

Gothischer Saal
Rathaus Zug

whom

Dominic Currer
Director ISZL
'International education and the modern enterprise'

Vera Weber
Director of Fondation Franz Weber, CH
'Biodiversity and its economical and social value'

Lukas Ritzel
Web-Strategist for IMI
'Web 3.0 The sensory web'

Dana Brice Smith
Managing Director of Trestle Group Foundation
'Empowering women entrepreneurs in emerging economies'

Dr Mark Eisenegger
Director of Fög University Zürich
'Reputation in 3 Dimensions'

Prof Dr Monika Roth
Attorney at Law, Prof HSLU
'Protect me from what I want'

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		Dominic Currer Dominic Currer is currently Director of the International School of Zug and Luzern. He was educated in the UK and received degrees from the University of Southampton. After brief flirtations with defence intelligence and banking, he took the plunge, and trained to become a teacher of History. Dominic successfully taught a range of subjects up to A level in the UK before moving abroad 13 years ago. Since then he has spent all of his time in Switzerland in various positions, making the move into administration 10 years ago. He has served on international school accreditation teams, orchestrated a school merger, and been most recently involved in the construction of a new middle school and a new high school.

		Vera Weber Vera is the Campaign Director of Fondation Franz Weber, a Swiss non-profit organisation for animal welfare and nature conservation. Vera is also the CEO of the historical, listed Grandhotel Giessbach on lake Brienz. Vera sits on the boards of various NGOs working for human welfare improvement, protection of cultural heritage sites as well as broader nature conservation issues. The daughter of well known Swiss environmentalists who have dedicated the last 40 years of their lives to animal welfare promotion activities worldwide and protection of cultural heritage sites and monuments, Vera could not but embrace a similar vocation. Following studies in hotel management and journalism, Vera began working in the Fondation Franz Weber in 1999, spearheading environmental campaigns across the world. She has also created her own vegetarian food line; because climate protection and food consumption are intimately connected.

		Lukas Ritzel Lukas is the Web-Strategist for IMI University Centre, Luzern. He also lectures at Grenoble Graduate School of Business, France, where he was awarded the favourite professor title in 2009. He is the owner and co-founder of the Purple Cow Award wining consulting company Prasena, in Bangkok. Lukas' web-presentation on eMatrix and factors of change, has over 29,000 hits. His website for IMI has just been included in the "Best of the Web" award from trend internet magazine Anthrazit, which nominates yearly the best 200 websites in Switzerland!

		Dana Brice Smith Dana Brice Smith is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Trestle Group Foundation (TGF). Guided by the belief that entrepreneurship fuels the engine that drives economic opportunity, growth and social progress, TGF works to empower women entrepreneurs in emerging economies. Created by a dynamic team of entrepreneurs and international business professionals, and based upon a new model of philanthropy, TGF bridges the gap between emerging and developed economies by providing vital “human capital” support to high potential women-led SMEs. Prior to joining Trestle Group, Mr. Smith served as public affairs professional with extensive experience in non-profit administration, governmental relations, public affairs, strategic communications and media relations. He has extensive experience developing and managing legislative programs, strategic communication efforts and public awareness campaigns on behalf of a broad range of clients including non-profit organizations, Fortune 100 companies, as well as national trade associations. Mr. Smith earned a B.A. degree in Political Science from The Ohio State University, USA.

		Mark Eisenegger Mark is a member of the Managing board of Fög, Forschungbereich Öffenlichkeit und Gesellschaft - Research 'Observatory' for the public realm and society, an institute of the University of Zürich. He is also the Chair of the European Centre for Reputation Studies, as well as being a lecturer at the Universities of Zürich, Fribourg, St Gallen, Lugano and Freiburg, Germany. Mark's scientific focuses are the communication strategies of large organisations, reputation research, political and economic communication and public sociology. His projects with Fög are in the main, reputation and public communication research studies carried out in close cooperation with large corporations, governmental organisations and even aristocracy!

		Monika Roth Monika Roth holds a doctorate in law from the University of Basel. She is an attorney, a professor at the University of Applied Sciences of Central Switzerland, and the Director of Advanced Studies for Compliance Management at the Institute for Financial Services in Zug. Since 1998 Monika has been partner in the law firm Roth Schwarz Roth. She has specific expertise in regulatory compliance. She also acts as a judge in economic fraud. In 2007 she was elected as an independent Member of the Board of Directors of Ethos Services in Geneva. Monika is author of several works of reference on corporate governance, compliance and banking law.

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