Nobel Laureates in ADDU

On behalf of Fr. Antonio S. Samson S.J., President of Ateneo de Davao University, we kindly invite you to participate in the upcoming “Bridges” events and dialogues with keynote speaker Professor Robert Alexander Mundell, the 1999 Nobel Laureate for Economics from Columbia University in New York.

Professor Mundell prepared the first plan for a common currency in Europe and is known as the father of the theory of optimum currency areas. He has established the foundation for the theory which dominates practical policy considerations of monetary and fiscal policy in open economies. His contributions to monetary dynamics constitute the core of teaching in international macroeconomics.

Professor Mundell will speak on “Economic development by fitting globalization into the national development strategy” on

November 16 at 2:30 pm at Ateneo de Davao University in Davao, further information and free tickets via phone (082) 227-8771, fax (082) 226-4116 or email jse@addu.edu.ph.

We hope you could join Professor Mundell’s events in November 2007 or any other upcoming “Bridges” events with Nobel Laureates for Economics, Peace, Physics, Chemistry and Medicine and with former World Bank President James D. Wolfensohn which will be continuously held in Ateneo de Davao University from November 2007 to April 2008. The detailed schedule of all “Bridges” events and further information is available a t the website www.peace-foundation.net.

We thank you for your kind attention and consideration and would be delighted to personally welcome you at some of the upcoming “Bridges” events in the forthcoming weeks.