International Economic Alliance Forms Strategic Partnership with The Global Leaders

Sept. 1, 2011 - PRLog -- The Global Leaders (TGL) and International Economic Alliance (IEA) is pleased to announced their recently formed strategic partnership to enhance and broaden event offerings for their respective communities of senior level executives and decision makers.  

Their first jointly sponsored event will be IEA’s Global Investment Symposium to be held at the Harvard Club in New York City on September 20, 2011. The event will feature notable former government and business leaders including:  Paul Volcker - Former Chairman U.S. Federal Reserve Board, Peter Peterson - former US Secretary of Commerce and Maurice Greenberg - Chairman & CEO of C.V. Starr & Company.

George Bickerstaff, Executive Chairman of the Global Leaders, describes the partnership as, “a powerful first step that will connect our key business leaders with Heads of States from various countries to share ideas and drive business intelligence.”

Van McCormick, the Founding Director of IEA comments, “We look forward to partnering with The Global Leaders to expand the offering of our events to a meaningful audience of key decision makers from around the world.” The IEA (http://www.iealliance.org) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that is dedicated to furthering global trade, development, and investment and advancing business relations among nations.

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