Exploring the Geostrategic Interests of The Bahamas through the Lens of US/China Relations
Date: Tuesday, February 1, 2022
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Exploring the Geostrategic Interests of The Bahamas through the Lens of US/China Relations
Register to join GIC on Tuesday, February 1 for a live virtual Executive Briefing held in partnership with the Government & Public Policy Institute (GPPI) at the University of The Bahamas. Our speakers, including R. Evan Ellis, Ph.D., Research Professor of Latin American Studies, U.S. Army War College, will explore the Geostrategic Interests of The Bahamas through the Lens of US/China Relations. The program will take place live on zoom while simultaneously broadcasted on the radio show, Z Live: Off The Record with Zhivargo Laing. Remarks will be made by Mr. Laing as well as GIC Executive Committee Member, Michael Drury, Chief Economist of McVean Trading & Investments, and Rodney Smith, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer, University of The Bahamas.
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Speakers
Michael Drury
Chief Economist, McVean Trading & InvestmentsMichael Drury is the chief economist for McVean Trading & Investments, LLC. He joined the firm in 1992, after serving for five years as senior economist with Allen Sinai at Shearson Lehman Brothers and its successor firms. Michael began his career in New York in 1982 as senior economist at A. Gary Shilling and Company. He received his B.S. in economics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and did his graduate work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Evan Ellis, Ph.D.
Research Professor of Latin American Studies, U.S. Army War CollegeDr. Evan Ellis is a research professor of Latin American Studies at the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute, with a focus on the region’s relationships with China and other non-Western Hemisphere actors, as well as transnational organized crime and populism in the region.
Zhivargo S. Laing
Executive Director and Senior Policy Fellow of the Government and Public Policy Institute (GPPI), University of The BahamasZhivargo Laing is a Bahamian economic consultant, former cabinet member and former member of the Bahamas House of Assembly for the Marco City Constituency. Mr. Laing has served as Minister of State in Youth, Sports and Culture, Minister of State in Education and Youth, Minister of Economic Development and Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance.
Rodney D. Smith, Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer, University of The BahamasDr. Rodney D. Smith, educated in The Bahamas and the United States, has served in several senior administrative leadership positions in K-12 public education and tertiary education; including Senior Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, President of Ramapo College of New Jersey, the Premier Public Liberal Arts College of New Jersey, and last President of the College of The Bahamas and first President of the University of The Bahamas, the national multi-campus University system of The Bahamas.
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