MSLOC - Global Thought Leader Roundtable ERIC N. FRIDMAN

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1 ERIC N. FRIDMAN Assistant Dean and Director of Marketing for Executive Education, Northwestern University s Kellogg School of Management Eric Fridman is Assistant Dean and Director of Marketing for Executive Education at Northwestern University s Kellogg School of Management, where he is responsible for marketing the Kellogg School s credit and noncredit executive education programs around the world. Prior to joining The Kellogg School in 2003, he spent over twenty years working in the telecommunications industry in a variety of senior-level sales, marketing, and corporate development roles. Eric holds an MBA from Northwestern University s Kellogg School of Management, an MA degree in Humanities from the University of Chicago, and a BA degree in European history from Denison University. He has consulted for a variety of organizations including Baxter International, Alcatel-Lucent, SBC, BellSouth, the National Association of Blue-Cross Blue-Shield Plans, Coldwell-Banker Commercial Real Estate, and Hyatt Hotels, among others. In 2002 he received the Excellence in Teaching Award from DePaul University for his work as a visiting lecturer in leadership in DePaul s School for New Learning. He currently teaches leadership in Northwestern University s School for Continuing Studies.

2 BRIAN T. HANSON Associate Director of the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies & Lecturer in Political Science, Northwestern University Brian Hanson is the Associate Director of Northwestern University s Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies, where he is responsible for day to day operations. The Buffett Center is home to the Center for Global Engagement and works closely with over a dozen internationally-oriented student groups on campus. As a member of the Political Science department, Hanson teaches courses on international political economy, globalization, international trade, and the changing role of the state in world politics. Hanson is a member of a multidisciplinary research project at MIT on globalization, and his current research is on the politics of trade liberalization. Outside of academia, Hanson is a Director and Vice Chair for Programming of the Stanly Foundation, a private operating foundation which promotes and builds coalitions of support for multilateral approaches to world problems. He is a consultant to the Holthues Trust, a grant making foundation that supports international development, human rights, and environmental projects, and a Director of the TNH foundation, which supports international social justice and environmental projects. In addition, Hanson serves on the Board of the Chicago Global Donors Network, which seeks to increase internationally oriented philanthropy and its effectiveness, and chairs its Program Committee. He also serves on the Board of GlobeMed, and national organization that seeks to connect the assets of a student-led network to grassroots health organizations working in communities around the world. Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern, Hanson served as the foreign policy advisor to U.S. Senator Alan Dixon, government affair representative for John Deere & Company, and a research analyst for the US Information Agency. Hanson received his BA from Grinnell College in Iowa and did his doctoral work in political science at MIT.

3 ELIZABETH A. NICOLAY Director, International Assignments and HR Policies, Baxter International Elizabeth Nicolay is the Director of International Assignments for Baxter International. Ms. Nicolay is responsible for directing the company s global assignment activities including program design, policy development, global international assignment management, U.S. immigration administration, as well as expatriate relocation management. She is also responsible for the development of the Company s global HR policies. Prior to joining Baxter, Ms. Nicolay had an accomplished 17-year career at Square D Company the North American division of Schneider Electric of Paris, France. During those years she held a number of senior positions within advertising, public relations, communication, organizational development, human resources and international human resources. Ms. Nicolay is a frequent speaker on topics relating to best practices of international assignment management. She is a member of the Employee Relocation Council s (ERC) Global Advisory Council. Ms. Nicolay holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in organizational communication as well as a master of business administration degree from Loyola University of Chicago. Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) is a global health care company that, through its subsidiaries, provides critical therapies for people with lifethreatening conditions. Baxter s bioscience, medication delivery and renal products and services are used to treat patients with some of the most challenging medical conditions including cancer, hemophilia, immune deficiencies, infectious diseases, kidney disease and trauma.

4 KIMBERLY SCOTT Assistant Professor, Director, Master's Program in Learning and Organizational Change (MSLOC) Kimberly Scott is Assistant Professor within the School of Education and Social Policy, and Director of the MS LOC Program. She has worked with a variety of Fortune 500 companies for over ten years in consulting and management as an organization effectiveness expert. Kimberly worked for Hewitt Associates as a consultant and project leader for its Best Companies to Work For studies in the United States, Brazil, Canada, Australia and other regions around the world. She then joined the Wrigley Company to create and lead its organizational development function and help transform the organization to achieve its new strategic objectives for growth and innovation. Kimberly serves on the Board of Directors for Winning Workplaces, a national not-for-profit that helps small and midsize enterprises create great workplaces.

5 BERNHARD T. STREITWIESER (Former) Associate Director of the Study Abroad Office, Northwestern University Note: Bernhard will be a Senior Research Associate at the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence starting May 12 Bernhard is a graduate of Columbia University (Ph.D., Comparative and International Education, 2000), Georgetown University (MS, Applied Linguistics, 1996), and the University of Virginia (BA, International Relations, 1992). From he served as coordinator of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation research study at Northwestern s Searle Center for Teaching Excellence and also taught as a Part-time Faculty Member in the German Department (on eastern Germany) and the School of Education and Social Policy (on higher education and globalization). Prior to coming to Northwestern, Bernhard was a Research Analyst at the American Institutes for Research in Washington, DC, where he worked on program evaluations for the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of Education, USAID, the National Science Foundation, and the Soros Foundation, among others. Bernhard completed his Ph.D. supported by an Alexander von Humboldt Federal Chancellor Fellowship and as a visiting researcher at the Max- Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung in Berlin, Germany. In addition to presentations and publications on Germany and higher education, Bernhard is the co-editor of the academic journal, European Education: Issues and Studies and serves on the international advisory committee of the journal Research in Comparative and International Education. He is also a member of the Forum on Education Abroad s Research Committee and in is serving as the Chair of the Selection Committee for the Forum s Annual Undergraduate Study Abroad Research Awards. Bernhard has studied abroad in Spain and Germany and worked or traveled in Europe, Central America, and Africa.

6 NATHANIEL WHITTEMORE Founding Director of the Center for Global Engagement (CGE), Northwestern University Nathaniel is the founding director of the Center for Global Engagement (CGE) at Northwestern University. The CGE provides students the chance to learn from global communities experiencing poverty and injustice through programs including the Global Engagement Summit and the ENGAGE Uganda program. Through direct grants and consulting as well as programmatic partnerships with organizations such as the GlobalGiving Foundation, the CGE also helps student projects in more than a dozen countries impact thousands of lives. In addition to his work with the CGE, he runs Do Good Well Partners advisory and nonprofit incubation firm, who s first sponsored project, a digital tool for improving collaboration and sustainable philanthropy in postconflict northern Uganda, is a finalist in the $100,000 Netsquared Mashup Challenge. He sits on the advisory board for Change.org and Global Citizen Year. Whittemore has spoken about youth engagement at conferences across the United States, the Balkans, the Middle East and East Africa. In 2008, he was invited to be a table facilitator for the first annual Clinton Global Initiative University. Whittemore graduated with honors from Northwestern in 2006.