INVITATION TO ANJOMAN'S 109th MONTHLY MEETING
Title of Meeting	The Consequences of the US Presidential Election on the Economy of the Persian Gulf
Pre-dinner Talk	Management of the Firm: The Challenges of adopting the Western Models in Iran
Presenters	Main Speaker: Dr Claire Spencer Pre-dinner speakers Mr Hormoz Naficy and Mr Mohit Mamudi
Date	Thursday 6th November 2008
Venue	The Churchill, Hyatt Regency London 30 Portman Square London W1A 4ZX
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The Main Speaker: Dr Claire Spencer
..is head of the Middle East program at Chatham House (the Royal Institute for International Affairs). Appointed in November 2005. She is responsible for the oversight of all research, funding and publications relating to the Middle East.

Prior to her current appointment, Dr. Spencer was the Head of the Asia and Middle East Policy Unit at the development agency Christian Aid, and an Associate Fellow of Chatham House since 2001. She has worked on North African and Mediterranean issues since the early 1980s, with particular emphasis on the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership initiative since its inception in 1995. She has specialized primarily on the security dimensions of the EU's relations with North Africa and the Middle East in addition to NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue, and has written and lectured extensively on these subjects, most notably as Deputy Director of the Centre for Defense Studies, King's College London from 1995 to 2001. She subsequently worked as Senior Research fellow at the International Institute
for Strategic Studies in London, and has also served as Specialist Advisor to the House of Lord's EU sub-committee enquiry into the EU's Common Mediterranean Strategy, published in 2001. She has a BSc. in politics from the University of Bristol and a Ph.D in political science from the School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London.

In recent years, Dr. Spencer has expanded her regional expertise to include the impacts of conflict and military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, with professional visits in 2004 to Kabul and Herat, Israel-Palestine, Central Asia, Turkey and Jordan. While at the IISS in 2003, she was involved in meetings with Iranian policymakers and spoke at seminars in Tehran and Mashad as part of a Chatham House delegation to Iran. Dr. Spencer is
particularly interested in the human aspects of security and in integrated solutions to conflict which link local involvement to national and international initiatives.

Tonight she will be focusing on the economy in the Persian Gulf..

The Pre-Dinner Speakers

Hormoz Naficy (BA MA FEI): is a London based oil and gas consultant who started his career in 1973 in the public sector in Iran, and held a number of senior positions including that of Director General for International Affiairs, in the Ministry of Industry and Mines. In 1981 he joined the private sector in the U.K, and has since worked for a number of international oil companies in senior management positions. He is a co-founder of Azar
Energy, the first Iranian private sector oil company operating in the upstream, and is currently on it’s Board. Hormoz has written extensively on energy and related matters and has been a regular guest speaker at international oil and gas conferences.

Mohit Mamudi(BA MBA): has had more than 30 years experience in development and implementation of management and marketing strategies for some of the most successful global brands such as Boeing, Cisco, Fiat, Kellogg’s, Pampers, Pepsi and Phillips.. He has held executive positions as Management Analyst, Brand manager, Marketing Director and Chief Executive and worked as a consultant with the senior management of more than 20 Fortune 500 corporations. Currently he is Director of the Centre for Development and Management Studies, and sits on the Board of a number of companies in the UK and overseas. He has lectured extensively on marketing and management topics and has a number of publications.

“Management… The challenges of adopting the Western Models in Iran”

Both speakers having a background of professional experience in the public and private sectors of Iran, will draw from their personal experiences. Specific questions they will focus on are as follows:

• Is there a history of the successful adoption of the well recognized western management models in Iran?
• If not, what were the fundamental reasons for that failure?
• Are there cases of success and if so what was done, or not done, differently which might explain that success?
• Is Iran any different from other developing economies grappling with similar issues and how do we compare with our peer group?