Council on Competitiveness Senior Executives Speak at Global Competitiveness Forum

Council Chief of Staff, William Bates, and Council, SVP, Chad Evans, were featured speakers at the recent Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

The GCF is the only event of its kind, an annual meeting of global business leaders, international political leaders, and selected intellectuals and journalists brought together to create a dialogue with respect to the positive impact organizational and national competitiveness can have on local, regional and global economic and social development. This year’s forum was focused on the issue of entrepreneurship.

Mr. Bates, who also serves as the Executive Director of the Global Federation of Competitiveness Councils (GFCC), moderated a panel of GFCC members from Russia, Korea and Brazil to explore entrepreneurship’s role in driving national competitiveness around the globe. Mr. Evans spoke to the issue of public sector entrepreneurship and also moderated a main plenary panel on innovation and sustainability.

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