Efforts for America’s economic renewal: Hillary Clinton to host Global Business Conference in Washington

Efforts for America’s economic renewal: Hillary Clinton to host Global Business Conference in Washington

Washington: (Monday, February 20, 2012) US Secretary State Department, Hillary Clinton is to host the first ever State Department Global Business Conference. The Conference will bring together senior officials from U.S. business
support organizations from over 100 countries; U.S. private sector executives focused on international business; and senior U.S. government leaders from the White House, the Departments of State, Commerce, Treasury and Energy, the Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative, the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency.

Building on the President Obama’s agenda to accelerate America’s economic renewal, the Conference will highlight how the U.S. government can promote U.S. businesses abroad, increase U.S. exports, attract new investment to the United
States, and create American jobs.

The first day of the event will feature sessions on export promotion, increasing foreign investment in the United States, creating public-private partnerships, facilitating business and leisure travel to the United States, and
key policy topics of interest to businesses abroad. The second day will include breakout sessions, hosted by the State Department’s regional Assistant Secretaries, to discuss regional strategies to advance shared economic interests.

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