McLarty Associates counsels corporations, financial institutions, and NGOs
> in the United States and abroad on strategic planning, government issues and
> advocacy, market access, mergers and acquisitions, corporate communication,
> and political and economic risk issues. He also has served the country in
> several public capacities.
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> Since Mr. Cunningham helped cofound McLarty Associates in 1998, the firm
> has advised almost 150 multinationals and NGOs including some of the world's
> best-known institutions, such as Google, UPS, Anheuser-Busch, MetLife,
> Gilead Sciences, and the Gates Foundation, on their international strategies
> and helped them advance projects abroad in over sixty countries. As managing
> partner, he expanded the firm to the world's key markets.
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> Sharon Ruwart is managing director of the Beijing office of APCO Worldwide,
> a global public affairs and strategic communications firm with twenty-nine
> offices worldwide, which provides services across the business, government,
> media, and NGO/nonprofit sectors. APCO helps companies devise market-entry
> strategies, map government bureaucracies and policies, develop corporate
> social responsibility programs, communicate through the media, and avoid or
> manage crises.
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> In 2004 Ms. Ruwart, who is fluent in Mandarin, moved back to China with her
> family and served as director of special projects at Caijing Magazine, a
> leading Beijing-based finance publication. From 2006 to 2008, as managing
> director for Elsevier Science & Technology, China, a division of the
> publishing company Reed Elsevier, she spearheaded efforts to help Chinese
> institutions invest in access to tools and information to promote scientific
> discovery. Ms. Ruwart helped position Elsevier as a partner in the country's
> science and technology establishment by building relationships with its
> science and technology officials and principal researchers to promote the
> development of China's research capabilities.
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> Mercy Corps … is known for … its efforts to facilitate social advancement,
> such as its work to improve the delivery of financial services for the poor
> through wholesale banking and technology
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You will die by having your brain slowly starved of oxygen. Consider it a literary embolism.
MM