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Video: “If you don’t innovate you’re not going to win.”December 09, 2011In this interview from the December, 2011 U.N. Climate Change talks in Durban, South Africa, OPIC President and CEO Elizabeth Littlefield outlines OPIC’s progress since it identified renewable resources as the agency’s number one sector priority a year ago. She also explains how partnerships between the public and private sectors can be effective in solving the world’s biggest environmental challenges. 
Renewing the future through investmentNovember 30, 2011OPIC’s work catalyzing private-sector investment to solve critical world challenges is increasingly focused on the renewable resources sector, with projects that support clean and sustainable development. On Dec. 2, OPIC will highlight its work in renewable resources at the COP 17, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa. OPIC President and CEO Elizabeth Littlefield and John Morton, 
Tunisian Priorities. American Investments.November 23, 2011On November 15, 2011, OPIC President and CEO Elizabeth Littlefield delivered the keynote address at the Tunisia Partnerships Forum at the U.S. Department of State. “Tunisia is one of the oldest friends and allies of the United States and a model for the region,” she said, also noting that Tunisia today “is ripe with opportunity for investors.” The full test 
U.S., Jordan commit to work together to support SMEsOctober 27, 2011On Oct. 25, OPIC President and CEO Elizabeth Littlefield joined U.S. Ambassador to Jordan Stuart Jones, and Acting USAID Mission Director Kevin Rushing and Dr. Saleh Kharabsheh, Secretary General of the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, in committing to work together to support the development of Jordanian small and medium-sized enterprises to help create jobs and encourage economic growth. “Today’s Small firms also have a role in the global economyOctober 18, 2011OPIC President and CEO Elizabeth Littlefield recently published a piece in the Miami Herald about the economic benefits of small businesses expanding into developing markets overseas. Attached is the full text of the piece, which can also be found at MiamiHerald.com Today’s business news is dominated by the affairs of America’s largest corporations, like Apple, Boeing, GE and Google. The “OPIC can transform the way we think about the business community and its relationship with international development.”October 13, 2011OPIC President and CEO Elizabeth Littlefield is featured this month in Forbes, where she discusses OPIC’s work supporting U.S. businesses investing in emerging markets, the agency’s increased focus on renewable resources and its quick response to the Arab Spring earlier this year. In the interview Littlefield notes that, because 95 percent of the world’s customers live outside of the United 
TPL Properties: Building on a “mutual economic interest”September 27, 2011“Karachi is a city of 18 million people, but it has almost no commercial real estate,” Ali Jameel, CEO of TPL Properties said at a September 26 signing ceremony for OPIC’s $20 million loan TPL to finance the completion of a 28-story office building. Jameel said that a lack of infrastructure is one of the biggest problems that Pakistan faces Business as a force for good in the developing worldSeptember 07, 2011“There is growing optimism about business as a force for good in the developing world,” OPIC President Elizabeth Littlefield writes in the current issue of Innovations. “A new momentum is building along with this around a breed of private investor that aims to solve social and environmental problems while making a financial return – impact investors.” MIT Press, publisher of Photo: President of Guinea visits OPICAugust 02, 2011Alpha Condé, President of the Republic of Guinea, visited OPIC August 1 and met with OPIC President and CEO Elizabeth Littlefield and OPIC Executive Vice President Mimi Alemayehou. President Condé highlighted some of the policy changes he is working to implement in Guinea. The group discussed opportunities for private investment in Guinea, primarily in the power, water, and agricultural sectors, Global Development Supports Domestic DevelopmentJuly 29, 2011By Elizabeth Littlefield, OPIC President and CEO At first glance, the prospects for American foreign aid and investment might look grim these days. As debt ceiling discussions and proposed austerity measures cast a shadow on all federal spending, money spent or invested far from home might seem an easy target for deep cutbacks. But such a response would be based |
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