Posted on 11/03/2010 6:22:02 AM PDT by autumnraine
WASHINGTON: With trade high on his agenda, some 200 odd top US business chiefs, including soft drink giant Pepsico's India-born CEO Indra Nooyi , are expected to join US President Barack Obama on his India visit next month.
Also expected are Honeywell CEO David M Cote, who co-chairs the India-US CEO Forum with Tata group chairman Ratan Tata .
So is Terry McGraw, CEO of leading publishing house McGraw Hill, who took over from Nooyi as the chairman of the US Indian Business Council , representing 300 top US companies last June.
Two more of 12 US forum members, Louis Chênevert, CEO of aerospace major United Technologies Corp, and Ellen Kullman, chief executive of chemicals giant DuPont , may also be joining.
But there is no word yet whether Citigroup's Indian-American CEO Vikram Pandit is going.
Andrew Liveris, Chairman, CEO and President of The Dow Chemical Company had skipped last June's forum meeting here at the height of Bhopal gas leakage controversy and it's not known whether he would give Delhi a miss too.
Only last week underscoring the "significance" of the "important economic relationship" with India, Obama's Press Secretary Robert Gibbs voiced the US hope of getting "some tangible results" from Obama's India visit.
Describing it as "an important economic relationship," he also made clear that Obama will talk a lot about "what we have to do to create jobs, to grow our exports, to ensure (and) that it just doesn't fall on American consumers to drive world demand."
"That's a lot of what you'll hear the President talk about on that trip, and we'll hopefully have some tangible results from it," Gibbs said.
US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke , who would be accompanying the president, also told a medical technology conference that "trade is high on the agenda" in New Delhi.
And to get Washington and Delhi to "catch up to the business and innovation cooperation that is already happening in New York and Mumbai," as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton put it, the CEO Forum has recommended several "interesting and ambitious ideas" in four core areas of infrastructure; clean energy; education and e-health/biotechnology.
Selling jobs to India?
I’m so glad that the Democrats are ending the ties between big business and politics. < /sarc >
Just what we need, a bigger push to offshore those office worker jobs that Michelle O’bama told black Americans to avoid.
lol making jobs for other countries...nice job O.
This is a ridiculous trip. Things were pretty well settled with India 6 months ago.
We are paying $200,000,000 a day for this scam.
So it’s going to cost America at lot more than 200 million dollars a day in the long run.
IBM and other companies like American labor, they just don’t want to pay the bills. They were encouraging Americans to move to India where they would be paid less “but your money will go farther there”.
Press 2 for English.
So we, the taxpayers, are paying $200 million a day so Obama can negotiate the loss of more jobs?
“Obama will talk a lot about “what we have to do to create jobs, to grow our exports, to ensure (and) that it just doesn’t fall on American consumers to drive world demand.””
Yeah, because creating jobs is something obama is really, really good at.
Maybe they want to meet their customer service representatives...
Neo-fascism
Obama speaks with forked tongue.
First question on my mind, especially when the ONE is now so interested in “working” with republicans, just what is the ratio of dem to rep CEO’s on the trip?
Looking to make a personal vacation LOOK like he is working on a golf course.
Even fascists need a vacation from time to time... /g
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