PMFORUM Breaking News

PMI has announced that Robyn Meredith, author of the best selling book "The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What it Means for All of Us,” will address attendees at the PMI Global Congress 2008—Asia Pacific on Monday, March 3, during the opening session. “The Elephant and the Dragon,” in which she compares the dynamic rise of India and China as world economic powers, has been on The New York Times Best Seller List and was awarded the "The Best Business Book of 2007" in the Globalization category by 800CEORead.com.

Meredith, who lives in Hong Kong, is senior editor-Asia for Forbes magazine. She began her career as a banking reporter for the American Banker and then became a business reporter for USA Today. Before joining Forbes in 1996, she was a correspondent for The New York Times. Meredith is an honors graduate (cum laude) of Boston University in Massachusetts, USA. She also has studied as a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan (USA) Business School.

The PMI Global Congress will be a three-day event, March 3-5, at the Hilton Hotel in Sydney. It will offer opportunities for project managers and PM professionals to learn new techniques, tools and best practices, and gain a global and regional perspective of their profession. More than 70 educational presentations within 12 areas of focus are being presented to meet a variety of career development paths.

As the premier project management, educational and networking event in the Asia Pacific region, the PMI Global Congress is attracting registrants from Australian, New Zealand, China, Japan, India and elsewhere in the Asia Pacific region. To register online or for more information on PMI Global Congress 2008—Asia Pacific, visit http://congresses.pmi.org/AsiaPacific2008/.



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