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Brandicate to launch Middle East Office Berlin/Ramallah. Brandicate Consultants is launching a new office in Ramallah, Palestine. Currently being registered with Palestinian National Authority, Brandicate Consultants - Middle East, LLC is offering world class Human Resources Management services to corporations, organizations, and institutions throughout the occupied Palestinian territories, including east Jerusalem. Bringing years of HR experience to the region, Brandicate aims to help Palestinian and international organizations and companies develop their Human Resources systems and structures. Working in such a difficult environment has pushed Brandicate to develop innovative solutions for dealing with the unique problems found in the region. Using a balanced mix of western methods, structures, and practices and local laws, customs and cultures, Brandicate Palestine aims at bringing world-class HR systems to Palestine in the hope of strengthening Palestinian civil society. For more information, please contact Akram Baker, Chairman of Brandicate Consultants at MiddleEast@/ .
Brandicate Consultants - Middle East hires new Senior Consultant Ramallah. Brandicate Consultants would like to welcome Mr. Faraj Ghunaim to the Brandicate family. As Senior Human Resources Consultant, Faraj brings a wealth of experience from his work and studies in the Middle East, Europe, and the United States with him. Completing his stuies in France and at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and was HR Director of the Palestinian Water Authority. He was also a World Bank consultant. He can be reached at MiddleEast@/ .
Brandicate Consultants - Middle East, LLC signs National Beverage Company-Coca Cola (NBC-Pal) contract. Ramallah. Brandicate Consultants - Middle East, LLC, the newly-founded Palestinian branch of Brandicate Consultants is proud to announce the signing of a Human Resources management contract with NBC-Pal. One of the region's most innovative and successful companies, Brandicate will assist NBC-Pal in strengthening and improving its HR systems.
Brandicate to host the 10th annual European Management Conference in Paris Brandicate Consultants Chairman, Akram Baker, will moderate the 10th Annual European Management Conference to be held in Paris from April 5-7, 2004. Titled "Emerging Markets: Rethinking competitive landscapes, the EMC is one of Europe's leading recruitment events. The 10th European Management Conference will offer recruitment opportunities and, at the same time, a platform for innovative debate of cutting edge management issues. "The European Management Conference is organized by Perspective Europe: an initiative of students from the European School of Management ESCP-EAP in Paris. With nine years experience in organizing the annual European Management Conference, Perspective Europe has become a well known name among European recruitment events. For managers, academics and students worldwide, the conference is a unique event for innovative debate and intercultural networking." "We are proud to be an integral part of this unique event again this year. The relationships and networking opportunities are excellent. Through Brandicate's participation over the past three years, we have been able to nurture contacts with not only exceptional business students, but with high-level management colleagues from around the world," said Baker. "In today's world, these relationships are the ones which can make or break a business." This year's speakers include Edouard Balladur, Former Prime Minister of France and Alain Pilloux, Business Group Director, Central Europe at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. For more information, please visit the conference website: http://www.perspective-europe.org/main/main.html
Brandicate Organizes Major Arab/ Western Summit Brandicate Consultants, in cooperation with Amr-Group are proud to announce the organization of the Arab Western Summit of Skills: Professionals, Policies, and Projects. The Arab Western Summit of Skills (AWS) is a first of its kind meeting of the professional Arab and European/American individuals and institutions dedicated to promoting civic and economic infrastructure development in the Arab world. To be held in Berlin on January 17-18, 2004, the AWS will bring together Arab professionals living in the Western world and the Middle East, as well as government policy makers and representatives of international NGO’s to create a platform for developing concrete project ideas to further this goal. Building on the success of the Extraordinary Meeting of the World Economic Forum held in Jordan in July 2003, the AWS will seek to systematically tap intellectual resources across the Atlantic and in the Middle East for the development of sustainable civil society structures in the Arab world. Brandicate Chairman, Akram Baker said, “We are proud that the AW Summit has such illustrious persons as US Secretary of State Colin Powell, EU Foreign Policy Chief, Javier Solana, Die Zeit Publisher Joseph Joffe, Soas Professor Lynn Welchman, and Geneva University Professor and author Tariq Ramadan identified with it. We believe that by focusing on Arab professionals living in the US, Europe, and the Middle East, we can address many key issues facing the region and serve as a catalyst for pooling and networking these competencies.” Please visit the Summit website at: http://www.awsummit.org/ for more information. Read the USINFO article about the summit.
Brandicate at the World Economic Forum Brandicate Founder & Chairman, Akram Baker, attended the extraordinary annual meeting of The World Economic Forum, dubbed the Global Reconciliation Summit held in Jordan on June 21-23, 2003. According the meeting’s official web site, the “Summit offered a platform for discussions to replace the recent period of confrontation with a spirit of cooperation through a vital exchange of views among academic, business, religious, social and political leaders.” In line with Brandicate Consultants’ involvement in the search for Middle East peace, Akram held numerous private meetings with various political, business, and media leaders in addition to building stronger ties to participating NGOs. Under the patronage
of His Majesty King Abdullah II of Jordan, the Forum was co-chaired
by Brandicate is proud to be a member of World Economic Forum community. For more information, please go to: http://www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/Content/Extraordinary+Annual+Meeting
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moderates the 9th Annual European Management Conference in Paris Paris, April 2003.Brandicate Founding Partner, Akram Baker was pleased to moderate the 9th Annual European Management Conference in Paris this year, titled "Embracing Uncertainty: New Strategies in a Dynamic World." Bringing together more than 150 of the world's top graduate students and the leaders of the business and governmental sectors, the conference is a unique oportunity for the leaders of today and tomorrow to meet and exchange ideas. This year's speakers included George Magnus, Managing Director and Chief Economist at UBS Warburg, Dr. Gordon Woo, Natural Catastrophist at Risk Management Consulting, Richard Tomkins of the Financial Timess, and Alan Svoboda, Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company, and Ged Davies, Head of Senario Planning at Royal Dutch/Shell. Brandicate also held a successful workshop entitled: "Using insecurity to your advantage: finding the silver lining." The workshop dealt with taking adverse circumstances which are seemingly over which one has little control and utilising them to improve one's situation Brandicate on assignment in Jerusalem Berlin/Jerusalem, January 2003. Brandicate Founding Partner, Akram Baker will be leading a inernationally-funded Project in Jerusalem dealing with the demilitarization of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Working closely with the various Palestinian and international organizations, Brandicate is charged with developing a strategy to strengthen the political process leading to a just and lasting settlement to the conflict. Brandicate
Consultants has entered into a strategic cooperation agreement with
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at a conference organized by Haus der Deutsche Wirtschaft (Foundation
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at The German Fulbright Alumni Association Dr. Richard
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please visit the conference site at Brandicate at European Management Conference Brandicate Consultants is to hold a workshop at the 8th European Management Conference in Paris (15-17 April, 2002) entitled "Ethics in the Office: Why employer branding starts at home". The conference (which brings together 25 leading companies and corporations with 250 of Europes top business and managment school graduates) will deal with Managing Values - Challenging New Business Principles. Brandicate Founder and Senior Partner Akram Baker will be moderating the conference's closing session and final day.
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