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One of the world’s most eminent economists, Professor Barry J. Eichengreen, will be a keynote speaker at the ITMA-ITMF World Textile Summit, in September.
Prof Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book, published this year, is ‘Exorbitant Privilege: The Rise and Fall of the Dollar and the Future of the International Monetary System’, and last year he co-edited ‘Emerging Giants: China and India in the World Economy’.
He is also a Research Associate of the US National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow of the UK’s Centre for Economic Policy Research. In the late 1990s he was Senior Policy Advisor at the International Monetary Fund.
Prof Eichengreen, who will deliver insights into the future of the global economy and the industrial prospects for its major players, is the Summit’s second keynote speaker. It was earlier announced that former United Nations Secretary General and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan will engage with delegates on the topic of sustainability, in the light of the UN Global Compact to which several major textile firms are signatories.
“In 2011 the world economy is recovering from a shock that has seriously damaged the textile industry and disrupted international trade,” said Prof Eichengreen. “I’m delighted to have this opportunity to engage in discussion with industry leaders at the World Textile Summit and examine how a post-crisis world will look.”
The co-founder and managing director of one of India’s biggest integrated textile enterprises is to address international industry leaders at September’s ITMA-ITMF World Textile Summit, in Barcelona, Spain.
Dilip B. Jiwrajki has been responsible for steering Alok Industries Limited through a quarter of a century of astonishing growth and is recognised as one of a handful of Indian entrepreneurs who correctly read the impact of the dismantling of bilateral trade quotas during the past decade and responded imaginatively to the opportunities of the new business order.
With immediate family members, he incorporated Alok Industries in 1986, setting up its first polyester texturising plant three years later. Now with a turnover of around €700 million, the business has expanded downstream into weaving, knitting, processing, home textiles, garments and retail, and upstream into cotton spinning and the manufacture of partially oriented yarn through continuous polymerisation. Nearly half its production is exported.
Mr Jiwrajka will join a powerful speaker panel that will include Du Yuzhou, president of China National Textile & Apparel Council (CNTAC), Loek de Vries, president and CEO of the technical textile leader TenCate, and Thomas Babacan, CEO of the world’s biggest textile machinery manufacturer, Oerlikon Textile, and COO of the OC Oerlikon Group.
Former United Nations secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize winner Kofi Annan – now an international advocate for sustainable business practice – will be a keynote speaker at the Summit, which will take place on September 21 at the Palau de Congressos de Catalunya in Barcelona, one day ahead of the opening of the ITMA 2011 textile-machinery show in the same city.
One of the most powerful men in Chinese textiles, Du Yuzhou, President of China National Textile & Apparel Council (CNTAC), is to address international industry leaders at the ITMA-ITMF World Textile Summit later this year.
Mr Du, President of China National Textile & Apparel Council (CNTAC) is one of a trio of speakers newly announced by the organisers of the Summit, which will take place in Barcelona, Spain, on September 21. He will outline China’s strategic ambitions for its textile industry and report on progress in its extensive modernisation programme.
The challenge of technological change and the drive for product innovation will be among the themes explored by both Loek de Vries, president and CEO of the technical textile leader TenCate, and Thomas Babacan, CEO of the world’s biggest textile machinery manufacturer, Oerlikon Textile, and COO of the OC Oerlikon Group.
TenCate, with an annual turnover of more than €1 billion, is a Dutch-based multinational with extensive interests in advanced textiles, composites, geosynthetics and artificial turf. Oerlikon Textile, part of the Swiss-based Oerlikon Group, has a turnover of €2 billion, making spinning, embroidery and nonwovens machinery through its Oerlikon Schlafhorst, Oerlikon Saurer, Oerlikon Barmag, Oerlikon Neumag and Oerlikon Textile Components business units.
