Former President of the Philippines Visits Tuck
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE—April 29, 2002
CONTACT: Kim Keating
HANOVER, N.H.—Business leaders can reduce poverty and terrorism by amplifying the voices of the poor in boardrooms and by serving as models of honest dealing for governments in developing countries, former President Fidel V. Ramos of the Republic of the Philippines told students during a visit to Tuck on April 23.
Ramos came to campus as part of the Tuck Leadership Forum and the William F. Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership's CEO Speaker Series. His visit was part of a trend of increasing exposure for Tuck students to international business and political leaders.
Ramos was invited to Tuck after he met Professor Vijay Govindarajan, the center's executive director, at the Business Week CEO Forum in Hong Kong in October, 2001. Ramos was a keynote speaker at the CEO Forum, which was jointly sponsored by the Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership and Business Week.
William F. Achtmeyer T'81, president and CEO of The Parthenon Group, introduced Ramos to students, who asked probing questions after his speech. The Filipino president frequently walked into the audience and cheerfully put his arm around the shoulders of each student as he or she asked a question.
Ramos described the emergence of regional unity in southeastern Asia, and called for "development with a human face," urging particularly the cost-free transfer of intellectual capital. "Fundamentalism feeds on the frustrations inherent in impoverished peoples living on the margins of an unattainable knowledge society," he observed. He also recommended the expansion of facilities for micro-credit to stimulate entrepreneurship. "It is self help and self reliance," he declared. "The poor only need access to credit."
"We must be caring, sharing, and daring," he concluded. "Caring and sharing may be easy enough, but daring to give more than to take is more difficult. Yet this we have to do. The daring part is where leadership is expressed."
"President Ramos's address and personal discussions were inspirational for our students," Dean Paul Danos commented. "He combines passion and deep knowledge with compassion and warmth in a way that is a role model for all aspiring business leaders."
Govindarajan agreed wholeheartedly. "This visit by a world-class leader provided exactly the kind of stimulation the Achtmeyer Center wants for our students. We plan to continue in the same vein."
Founded in 1900, Tuck is the first graduate school of management and consistently ranks among the top business schools worldwide. Information about the Tuck School is available at www.tuck.dartmouth.edu.
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