Keynote Speakers' Biographies
Hans Ulrich Maerki
In the AIESEC International Secretariat Mr. Maerki was responsible for the exchange development and in charge of negotiations with the MIT team concerning the first electronic exchange program’s development.
Mr. Maerki chaired the Presidents’ Meetings in Basel (1971) and in Barcelona (1973) as well as the Congresses in Aarhus and in Bordeaux. (1974)
As a Branch Manager and later as Country General manager of IBM in Switzerland, Mr. Maerki, supported Career Fair events at several universities.
Serving as the General Manager of IBM Global Services EMEA, Mr. Maerki built a people-oriented IT services business which today is the largest in Europe. Between 1996 and 2001, Mr. Maerki doubled revenue to reach the level of $12 Billion.
Mr. Maerki is IBM’s Executive Sponsor of an initiative called Career Space that is fostering synchronization of information technology curricula among the IT companies operating in Europe and in the education standards.
Mr. Maerki is a member of the World Wide Management Committee of IBM Corporation since 1997.
Following this success, Mr. Maerki was appointed as the Chairman of the Board of IBM in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, thereby co-leading a 28 billion dollar business with more than 95.000 employees in 124 countries.
Robert O. Keohane
Robert O. Keohane is Professor of International Affairs, Princeton University.
He is the author of After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy (1984) and Power and Governance in a Partially Globalized World (2002). He is co-author (with Joseph S. Nye, Jr.) of Power and Interdependence (third edition 2001), and (with Gary King and Sidney Verba) of Designing Social Inquiry (1994).
He has served as the editor of the journal International Organization and president of the International Studies Association and the American Political Science Association.
He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences
