BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20141113T193000Z DTEND:20141113T213000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Join Women in International Trade-Orange County DESCRIPTION:Thursday November 13\, 2014\n\n11:30a.m. - 1:30p.m.\n\nJoin them for a very special extended luncheon as Mary Ryckman\, Senior Policy Advisor\, makes her only West Coast appearance to update our trade community on recent negotiations and international trade policy.\n\nKey Discussion Points with Q&A\n\n\n Recent Trade Negotiations with Asia and European Union\n Negotiations on services trade (TiSR)\, environmental goods\, and information technology\n Update from Geneva and WTO\n Export Trade Promotion activities\n Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP)\n "Women in the Economy" Initiative\n A new program of the National Export Initiative - NEI/NEXT\n\n \n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Keynote Speaker\n\n Mary Estelle Ryckman\, Senior Policy Advisor\, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)\, develops strategic policy priorities for USTR regarding the President's National Export Initiative\, the President's Global Development Strategy\, and USTR's initiative to expand economic opportunities for women-owned businesses. Ms. Ryckman is also a liaison with state governments and their economic development offices. In addition\, she is lead negotiator on competition policy in the US-EU trade negotiations and senior representative on matters relating to USTR's role on the Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.\n\n Prior to her current assignment\, Ms. Ryckman held numerous positions at USTR\, including Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Trade and Development and Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Canada. She has 25 years of negotiating experience\, including negotiations in the GATT/WTO\, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum\, numerous bilateral investment treaties and the Multilateral Agreement on Investment negotiations in the OECD.\n\n Ms. Ryckman was a commercial loan officer in Boston before joining the federal government. She received a graduate degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University and completed her undergraduate work at Princeton University.\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nThursday November 13\, 2014\n\n11:30a.m. - 1:30p.m.\n\nRadisson Hotel Newport Beach\n\n4545 MacArthur Blvd. Newport Beach\, CA\n\nMembers $60 / Non-Members $75\n\nCorporate Table of 8 - $520 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Thursday November 13\, 2014
\n11:30a.m. - 1:30p.m.

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Join them for a very special extended luncheon as Mary Ryckman\, Senior Policy Advisor\, makes her only West Coast appearance to update our trade community on recent negotiations and international trade policy.

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Key Discussion Points with Q&\;A

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  1. Recent Trade Negotiations with Asia and European Union
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  2. Negotiations on services trade (TiSR)\, environmental goods\, and information technology
    3. \n
  3. Update from Geneva and WTO
    4. \n
  4. Export Trade Promotion activities
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  5. Trans-Pacific Partnership (TTP) and Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP)
    6. \n
  6. "\;Women in the Economy"\; Initiative
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  7. A new program of the National Export Initiative - NEI/NEXT
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Keynote Speaker

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Mary Estell RyckmanMary Estelle Ryckman\, Senior Policy Advisor\, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)\, develops strategic policy priorities for USTR regarding the President'\;s National Export Initiative\, the President'\;s Global Development Strategy\, and USTR'\;s initiative to expand economic opportunities for women-owned businesses. Ms. Ryckman is also a liaison with state governments and their economic development offices. In addition\, she is lead negotiator on competition policy in the US-EU trade negotiations and senior representative on matters relating to USTR'\;s role on the Board of Directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation.

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Prior to her current assignment\, Ms. Ryckman held numerous positions at USTR\, including Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Trade and Development and Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Canada. She has 25 years of negotiating experience\, including negotiations in the GATT/WTO\, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum\, numerous bilateral investment treaties and the Multilateral Agreement on Investment negotiations in the OECD.

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Ms. Ryckman was a commercial loan officer in Boston before joining the federal government. She received a graduate degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University and completed her undergraduate work at Princeton University.

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Thursday November 13\, 2014
\n11:30a.m. - 1:30p.m.

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Radisson Hotel Newport Beach
\n4545 MacArthur Blvd. Newport Beach\, CA

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Members $60 / Non-Members $75
\nCorporate Table of 8 - $520

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