News Release from Northwestern Michigan College 1701 E. Front St., Traverse City MI 49686 Contact: Paul Heaton, 231 995-1019, email: pheaton@nmc.edu Date: May 8, 2008 News & Events

Rise of technology in China, India, topic of May 15 IAF

TRAVERSE CITY – Economist, author and former diplomat Ernest H. Preeg will present a lecture, “Technology-Driven Globalization: The Rise of China and India” at an International Affairs Forum to be held at 6 p.m. May 15 in Milliken Auditorium on the main campus of Northwestern Michigan College.

Preeg is a senior fellow in trade and productivity at the Washington D.C.-based Manufacturer’s Alliance/MAPI. He is the author most recently of “India & China: An Advanced Technology Race and How the United States Should Respond,” published earlier this year by the Alliance and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The book analyzes the rapid development of export-oriented advanced technology industry in India and China and projects the course ahead for U.S. trade relations with both countries. It also recommends a comprehensive U.S. policy response to the rise of China and India as “advanced technology superstates.”

Preeg’s lengthy career includes serving as  a member of the U.S. delegations to the Kennedy (1964-67) and Uruguay (1986-1994) rounds of world trade negotiations, as Executive Director of the White House Economic Policy Group in 1977, and as deputy editor for economics for Washington Quarterly from 1991-99.

He also spent 25 years in the U.S. Foreign Service, serving in posts including the Philippines, Peru and as U.S. ambassador to Haiti.

The program is the seventh in an eight-part series sponsored by the International Affairs Forum during the 2007-2008 academic year. All programs begin with a reception in the Sculpture Court of the Dennos Museum Center at Northwestern Michigan College at 5:15 p.m. and are followed at 6 p.m. by the lecture and a discussion in the Milliken Auditorium. All current educators and students are admitted free.

Individual lecture tickets are $10 each and are available in advance or at the door. Two levels of Forum membership are also available: as a Subscriber, members pay $125 and receive 16 tickets good for any lecture; as a Patron, members pay $300 and, in addition to the 16 tickets, receive recognition at each lecture and an opportunity to have dinner with the speaker. For tickets or information, call NMC Extended Education at 231-995-1700.