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CONFERENCES & FORUMS
The Director of CMI conducts workshops and conferences in collaboration with international institutions and corporations such as the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Citigroup, Merrill Lynch, Bank of New York, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yale University, Harvard Business School, the U.S. Export Import Bank, US Treasury Department, and the Overseas Private Investment Council. Some of his lectures included a globalization series on "International Economic Development" at Harvard, "The Wealth of Nations" at MIT, "Globalization and Health" at Yale, "Economic Growth and Information Technology" at Wellesley, and "Finance & Education in the Rebirth of Africa" at Harvard College as well as annual international capital markets conferences. The Director also was the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace -Africa Policy Initiative Chair to the National Committee for the African Growth & Opportunities Act. In this role, he drafted the AGOA textile amendment for tax-free textiles and raw materials that led to the generation of thousands of textile/apparel jobs --45,000 in Swaziland, 26,000 in Lesotho, and 30,000 in Kenya -- "75 to 90 percent of these jobs have gone to impoverished women").
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GLOBAL MARKETS & RESEARCH BACKGROUND
In his four years at the HBS Research & Faculty Development Department, Reginald Mbawuike was Executive Research Associate to Michael Porter at the Harvard Business School's Institute for Strategy and Competetiveness for new billion dollar per annum CEO identification and industry analysis and Research Fellow at Harvard University scribing the courses Investing and Managing in Emerging Markets, The Entrepreneurial Manager, Strategy, and Real Asset Property Management. This preceeded his role as Strategic Partnerships Director of the International Economic Alliance and CMI Director where he directed the “Pathways to Prosperity” investment in commodities and technology sectors for US Fortune 500 companies to over fifty emerging market countries by identifying merger and acquisition prospects receiving official confirmations from ten Heads of State. While conducting this Fellowship at Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, he also served as Research Associate to Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. for what Oxford Univerisity Press has called "one of the most significant research projects of the decade." Before conducting the International Capital Markets Fellowship he created a portal enables donors in the private sector online funding capabilities. Private Sector Development
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