On the occasion of the visit of the President of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber, Christoph Leitl to MIT you are cordially invited to join us for a lecture followed by a buffet reception.
What: A model for the future of the European Union (Lecture and Q&A) followed by a reception with Austrian specialties
Who: Dr. Christoph Leitl, President of the Austrian Economic Chamber
Where: MIT Sloan School of Management / Room E62-250
When: December 8th 2011 at 5:30 pm
RSVP: by Dec. 6: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> OR Tel: (212)421-5250
A severe sovereign debt crisis and the obvious inability to enact suitable controls and sanctions shape the debate about the future of Europe. As an entrepreneur and a longtime leader and voice of the European business community Christoph Leitl strongly believes that Europe needs not only a new policy focus but a different approach to integration. Together with Günther Verheugen the former EU Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry he recently published an English/German anthology (“Europe? Europe!”) where he likens the Union with a complacent company resisting the need for innovation and prescribes some remedies.
Christoph Leitl was elected President of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in 2000 and reelected in 2005 and 2010. The Chamber represents 380,000 member companies and operates a foreign commercial service with 800 employees and 106 service centers in more than 60 countries. He is Honorary President of EUROCHAMBRES with a special focus on the internationalization of European businesses and the creation of a global chamber platform. From 2002 till 2005 Leitl served as President of EUROCHAMBRES, the Association of European Chambers of Commerce and Industry. As current honorary President of EUROCHAMBRES, Leitl focuses on the internationalization of European businesses and the creation of a global chamber platform. EUROCHAMBRES represents over 19 million enterprises in Europe through 46 national and transnational Chamber organizations and a European network of 2,000 regional and local Chambers
Leitl visits Cambridge on the invitation of MIT’s Executive Director of Corporate Relations Karl F. Koster to mark 25 years of cooperation with the MIT Industrial Liaison Program.