Partner Events

Thunderbird School of Global Management is honored to host Dr. Evelyn N. Farkas, executive director of the McCain Institute at Arizona State University, for a conversation about responsible business, development, and sustainability-oriented operations for the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.

Dr. Farkas has three decades of experience working on national security and foreign policy in the U.S. executive, the legislative branch, private sector, and international organizations overseas. Also, a former Congressional candidate, she ran to represent New York's 17th Congressional District in the House of Representatives in 2019/2020.

Before joining the McCain Institute, she was president of Farkas Global Strategies, a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Atlantic Council, and a national security contributor for NBC/MSNBC. You can read her full bio here

Farkas will discuss how management schools play an important role in educating the leaders of our future and how they are positioned to influence issues such as business, development, and sustainability.

The event will be held at the F. Francis and Dionne Najafi Thunderbird Global Headquarters in the Haas Digital Global Forum (first floor) on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, at 1:30 p.m. (AZ time).

The Consul General of Mexico in Phoenix, Jorge Mendoza Yescas, invites you to the dialogue “Impact of the USMCA, two years after entering into force" hosted by the Consulate General of Mexico in Phoenix and the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. The event will take place on September 30th at 10:30am.

Here are the topics of discussion:

• Benefits/impact of the USMCA.
• What sectors/areas can benefit in the future with the current agreement?
• Can the USMCA help reduce the dependency on China?

Our guest speakers are:

• Moderator: LeRoy Cavazos, Vice President of Government and International Affairs at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
• Jorge Mendoza Yescas, Consul General of Mexico in Phoenix
• Marcos Moreno Báez, Consul General of Mexico in Nogales
• Dr. Jonas Gamso, Professor at Arizona State University's Thunderbird School of Global Management
• Luis Ramírez-Thomas, President of Ramírez Advisors Inter-National, LLC
• Pedro Valenzuela, Director of Import/Export at Tetakawi
• Georgina Félix, Director of Operations & International Affairs at Fresh Produce Association of the Americas
• Mark Sanders, Director of International Affairs at Arizona Department of Transportation

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The Consulate General of Mexico in Phoenix invites you this Friday, September 30th at 2:30 PM at the Consulate General facilities to a dialogue vis-à-vis the first anniversary of the enactment of Senate Bill 1420: Consular identification; validity; biometric information.

The panel will be made up of representatives of the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, the Arizona State Senate, and local law enforcement agencies.

Together, we expect to shed light over the achievements and opportunities for the use of Consular Identification Cards in the State of Arizona; one year after the enactment of SB 1420.

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So often Africa is depicted simplistically as “one” and not a continent made up 54 separate nations, an arid landscape of famines and safaris, uniquely plagued by poverty and strife. In his debut book, Dipo Faloyin offers a compelling and needed corrective.

The event is co-sponsored with Collected Works Bookstore and in partnership with World Affairs Council of Jacksonville, International Relations Council of Kansas City, Columbus Council on World Affairs, WorldOregon.