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Ali Ettefagh

Tehran, Iran

Dr. Ali Ettefagh serves as a director of Highmore Global Corporation, an investment company in emerging markets of Eastern Europe, CIS, and the Middle East. He is the co-author of several books on trade conflict, resolution of international trade disputes, conflicts in letters of credit, trade-related banking transactions, sovereign debt, arbitration and dispute resolutions and publications specific to the oil and gas, communication, aviation and finance sectors. Dr. Ettefagh is a member of the executive committee and the board of directors of The Development Foundation, an advisor to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and an advisor to a number of European companies. Dr. Ettefagh speaks Persian (Farsi), English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Turkish. Close.

Ali Ettefagh

Tehran, Iran

Dr. Ali Ettefagh serves as a director of Highmore Global Corporation, an investment company in emerging markets of Eastern Europe, CIS, and the Middle East. more »

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January 22, 2009 9:07 AM

Don't Blindly Follow JFK, FDR

The election season is over and President Obama by now must have realized that the actual job is going to be much different from the campaign process and the stump speech tours. He will enter office in a very difficult and entangled set of circumstances on the domestic and international economic front. He is faced with the United States's tattered reputation on both political and military fronts abroad. There's also NATO festering in Bosnia, Ukraine's gas transit convulsions, the Middle East, India or South America. Simply, America's standing in the world is dilapidated and brittle.

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