It’s Honolulu – a weekend of capitalism and fun in the sun.
Hundreds of corporate execs from companies including Chevron, Wal-Mart, Boeing,
Cargill, Google, Caterpillar, Microsoft, FedEx, Visa, General Electric, Dow Chemical
and J.P. Morgan get to bend the ears of world leaders like U.S. President Barack
Obama China’s president Hu Jintao, Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev, Australian
prime minister Julia Gillard, Mexico’s president Felipe Calderón, Chile’s president
Sebastián Piñera, along with leaders from Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, the
Phillippines and Vietnam.
What’s on the table?
Trade barriers.
What are some trade barriers?
The environment. Labor regulations. National borders. And, of course, you — the 99
percent.
An APEC summit is not a democratic event. CEOs and world leaders do not have to
allow the public to participate or the free press to cover its events.
The decisions made at APEC are non-binding – which seems to mean that the
profit-maximizing deals cooked up between governments and corporations will not
be regulated by any democratic government.
Activists plan, in the spirit of aloha, to Occupy APEC. We want the corporate
executive and leaders of global economies to know that the whole world is
watching.
MEET THE 1%
Among the speakers and business community leaders from the Asia-Pacific
confirmed to date
• Richard C. Adkerson – President and CEO, Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. (USA)
• Shai Agassi – Founder and CEO, Better Place (USA)
• Gautam Banerjee – Executive Chairman, PwC (Singapore)
• Dr. Delos M. Cosgrove – President and CEO, The Cleveland Clinic (USA)
• Roger A. Crook – CEO, DHL Global Forwarding, Freight (Germany)
• Michael L. Ducker – COO, EVP and President, International, FedEx Express (USA)
• Ning Gaoning – Chairman, COFCO Limited (China)
• Deborah A. Henretta – ABAC Chair and Group President, Asia, Procter & Gamble (USA)
• William V. Hickey – President and CEO, Sealed Air Corporation (USA)
• Eduardo Hochschild – Executive Chairman, Hochschild Mining (Peru)
• Tom Jenkins – Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, Open Text Corporation (Canada)
• Andrey L. Kostin – Chairman and President, JSC VTB Bank (Russia)
• Bon-Joon Koo – Vice Chairman & CEO, LG Electronics (South Korea)
• John C. Lechleiter, Ph.D – Chairman, President and CEO, Eli Lilly and Company (USA)
• Richard Li – Chairman and Chief Executive, Pacific Century Group Limited (Hong Kong)
• Dr. Zhang Liju, Chairman – VODone Group Limited (China)
• W. James McNerney, Jr. – Chairman, President and CEO, The Boeing Company (USA)
• Alexey Miller – Chairman of the Management Committee, Gazprom (Russia)
• Luis Alberto Moreno – President, Inter-American Development Bank
• Craig Mundie – Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corporation (USA)
• Dennis M. Nally – Chairman, PwC International (USA)
• Douglas R. Oberhelman – Chairman and CEO, Caterpillar Inc. (USA)
• Scott Price – President and CEO, Walmart Asia (USA)
• John G. Rice – Vice Chairman, General Electric (USA)
• Jin Roy Ryu – Chairman and CEO, Poongsan Corporation (South Korea)
• Cher Wang – Chairperson and Co-founder, HTC Corp. (Chinese Taipei)
• William C. Weldon – Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson (USA)
• Keith E. Williams – President, CEO and Trustee, Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (USA)
• Hiromasa Yonekura – Chairman, Sumitomo Chemical Co. Ltd.; Chairman, Keidanren (Japan)
