Students Initiative for Global Competitiveness
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About
Students Initiative for Global Competitiveness is a registered student organization at Bowling Green State University (BGSU). Our school is in Bowling Green, Ohio.
You can call our group SIGC for short.
Our team is seeking to inspire a new generation of students who can compete and collaborate globally. We are deeply passionate in helping our fellow students gain knowledge, skills, and experience to become successful contributor in the global economy and community. Well, this is our mission.
Our founder, Jake Gallardo, was trying to find answer to a simple question. How students can compete globally? In his quest to seek answers, he came up with the idea of forming a student group.
Then, Jake team up with Clare Mukolwe, Dary Manjabosco Filho, Martina Nondo, Anna Katie Hartman, Charles McBee III, Zakiya Abdurazakova, and Victor Massaquio. SIGC was founded in July 2006.
Since then, we have fun organizing two conferences, a summit, and a forum. For the past three years, we successfully invited the following prominent speakers below.
2nd Conference on Students Global Competitiveness
- Bassel Ojjeh, Senior Vice President at Yahoo!
- Kojo Appenteng, Investment Banker at Morgan Stanley
- John Burge III, Executive Vice President at Auerbach Grayson
- Dr. Kenneth Mwenda, Rhodes Scholar and Senior Legal Counsel at The World Bank
- Sonja Steptoe, Deputy News Director at Time
- Lane Greene, Global Agenda Correspondent at The Economist
- Dr. Henry Silvert, Senior Researcher at The Conference Board
- Hon Yusuf Omar, South African Consul-General
- Dr. Michael Kraig, US-Middle East expert at Stanley Foundation
- Barb Gottlieb, Outreach Director at Women's Edge Coalition
- Imam Farooq Aboelhazab, Islamic Center
- Marshall Lilly, Political Analyst at Ohio University
- Dr. Kristie Foell, International Studies expert at Bowling Green State University
- Hon. Nurtel Ural, Honorary Consul-General of Turkey
- Dr. Naji Arwashan, Honorary Consul-General of Syria
- Dr. Lara Martin Lengel, Fulbright Scholar
- Dr. Neil Engelhart, Afghanistan expert Bowling Green State University
