The San Diego Filipino

FOR RELEASE

Public Lecture hosted by the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies at UC San Diego

“Asian Concerns Related to Global Re-balancing: Perspectives from the Philippines”

Speaker:  Francis G. Estrada

Monday, 11/07/2011
04:00pm-05:00pm
Location: IR/PS, Gardner Room (UCSD)
Open to: Public, Invited Guest, Students, DRT Member, Alumni
Event email: rzfanshel@ucsd.edu

TOPIC/BIO
In these times of severe economic imbalances, testing the very foundations of globalization could not be more relevant. Mr. Estrada will speak on the  fundamental issues underlying the prevailing prescriptions to the current economic crisis.

Francis G. Estrada serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at De La Salle University, a leading Philippine private university.  He also chairs the Board of Visitors of the Philippine Military Academy. He also serves as independent director and adviser to a number of for-profit and not-for-profit institutions in Asia. He was the first alumnus to be elected President and Chief Executive Officer of the Asian Institute of Management (“AIM”).

Upon his return to the Philippines in 1997, after 22 years overseas, Mr. Estrada co-founded and served as Chairman, General Partner of Equity Managers Asia, Inc. (Philippines), a financial and investment advisory boutique.  He has extensive experience in international merchant banking, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, direct investments and general management.  He has lived in Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines. He has done business and traveled extensively in Asia, the US, Europe and the Middle East for over 35 years.

Mr. Estrada was named “Most Outstanding Alumnus” of the Asian Institute of Management in 1989. He holds Bachelor of Arts (Literature) and Bachelor of Science (Business Administration) degrees from De La Salle University (Philippines), and a Master in Business Management, “with Distinction” from the Asian Institute of Management. He completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School in 1989.  He has traveled widely and speaks Pilipino, English, Spanish and some Bahasa Indonesia/Melayu.

This event is co-sponsored by the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies and the Center on Emerging and Pacific Economies.

Registration is required. Reception following the event.  Click on this link for registration and directions:http://empac.ucsd.edu/news-events/events/events_20111005.htm

For more information about this talk, contact Rosalie Fanshel with questions. Rzfanshel@ucsd.edu or 858.822-3103

Come one, come all for a special Filipino Heritage event with FANHS and the House of the Philippines in Balboa Park at 1:00PM. Refreshments will be served. See you there.

Watch out for events this October in conjunction with Filipino Heritage month!!

The video The Learning is available for viewing from www.pbs.org until October 20,2011. The film is about four teachers recruited from the Philippines and their experiences in the Baltimore public school system. Check out the POV (point of view) link at the PBS website for this Ramona Diaz production. She also did Imelda and is working on a video on the rock group, Journey.

The 12th annual San Diego Asian Film Festival will be showing: Left by the Ship, Rakenrol and Senior Year. The festival starts on October 20. For more details log in to www.sdaff.org