Greater Tumen Initiative

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Greater Tumen Initiative

• Council of Young Leaders Business Plan
• Presentation to the GTI Business Advisory Council

Michael Blickstead Kern Chen Patrick Korb John
Park Ran Li Sutha Satkunarajah
Shanghai, China 24 March 2008
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CYL Main Objectives

• Expand Capacity of the Tumen Secretariat and
  Develop Sustainable Involvement of Young
  Professionals in the Greater Tumen Region
• Generate Increased Awareness of the Greater Tumen
  Initiative
• Promote Investment in the Greater Tumen Region
• Encourage Tourism in the Greater Tumen Region

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1. Expand Capacity of the Tumen Secretariat and
Develop Sustainable Involvement of Young
Professionals in the GTR

• OBJECTIVES
• Partner with the Tumen Secretariat, BAC, top
  academic institutions, and leading private
  companies to create programs and platforms to
  encourage sustainable involvement of young
  professionals worldwide in the GTI.
• Focus on creating opportunities for young
  professionals to contribute skills in their core
  areas of expertise--business, financial, etc.
• Establish paid fellowships, volunteer
  opportunities.
• PROJECTS
• GTR DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP
• One-year paid fellowship in the GTR funded by
  private sector and academic institutions targeted
  at professionals with private sector experience.
• Target students at top business/graduate schools
  with economic development focus as well as
  employees at leading companies seeking extended
  leave of absence for public service.

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1. Expand Capacity of the Tumen Secretariat and
Develop Sustainable Involvement of Young
Professionals in the GTR

• PROJECTS
• SUMMER GTR DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP
• Ten-week paid summer fellowship in the GTR.
• Target talented business school students with
  corporate, consulting, finance industry
  experience.
• CYL ONLINE VOLUNTEER NETWORK
• Establish international volunteer network of
  young professionals to provide project specific
  support.
• Three hour mini-projects to be identified by
  Tumen Secretariat and BAC.
• Work with technology partners to provide social
  networking, telecommunications, shared workspace.
  

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2. Generate Increased Awareness of the GTI

• OBJECTIVES
• Partner with the Tumen Secretariat and BAC to
  strengthen GTI brand.
• Generate increased awareness of and greater
  interest in the GTI in order to strengthen human
  and financial capital available to the initiative
  and GTR.
• Organize speaker series, global conference calls
  publish a quarterly newsletter create BAC and
  CYL websites.
• PROJECTS
• INTERNATIONAL SPEAKER SERIES
• GTI speaker series featuring UN, private sector,
  academic speakers.
• Formal presentations and informal dinner events
  to be held around the world.
• GLOBAL CONFERENCE CALLS
• Global conference calls on GTI general
  information, specific projects, progress updates.
• Recorded calls to be made available on BAC and
  CYL websites.

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2. Generate Increased Awareness of the GTI

• PROJECTS
• GTI NEWSLETTER
• Coordinate, write, publish quarterly electronic
  newsletter featuring GTR research, project
  updates, opportunities for GTI/CYL involvement,
  event calendar.
• WEBSITE AND SOCIAL NETWORKING
• CYL website to serve as hub for young
  professionals to learn about GTI, volunteer to
  help with specific projects, discuss topics
  relevant to the region, and access newsletters
  and conference call recordings.
• UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE SCHOOL ALLIANCES
• Alliances with undergraduate/graduate
  institutions to build greater GTI awareness.
• PRIVATE SECTOR ALLIANCES AND RECRUITING EVENTS
• Create opportunities for firms to facilitate and
  fund externships to join the Tumen Secretariat or
  a GTR company.
• Organize recruiting events such as GTR Career
  Fairs around the world.

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3. Promote Investment in the GTR

• OBJECTIVES
• Partner with the Tumen Secretariat and BAC to
  increase investors understanding of the value
  proposition of investing in the region and help
  facilitate investments by linking investors with
  existing opportunities in the region.
• Work with the global investment community to
  understand, address, resolve impediments to
  investing in the region.
• Partner with financial institutions and local
  investors to increase the availability of
  microfinance in the region.
• PROJECTS
• GLOBAL INVESTMENT ROADSHOW
• Non-deal GTI investment roadshows around the
  world.
• Modeled on investment bank roadshows conducted
  for clients in preparation for equity/bond
  offerings.

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3. Promote Investment in the GTR

• PROJECTS
• INVEST IN GREATER TUMEN OFFICE
• Form and launch Invest in Greater Tumen office
  modeled on the Irish governments one-stop
  investment office.
• Create investor-friendly working environment by
  streamlining administrative/bureaucratic hurdles
  to establishing/running GTR businesses.
• GTI MICROFINANCE FUND
• Launch GTI Microfinance Fund seek investors and
  fund administrators.
• Fund to also provide advisory services to loan
  recipients on how to start and run small business
  enterprises.
• INVESTMENT IDEAS INCUBATOR
• Monthly workshops to brainstorm potential
  investment ideas for GTR.
• Formalize ideas generated from incubator to
  well-researched investment proposals.

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4. Encourage Tourism in the GTR

• OBJECTIVES
• Partner with the Tumen Secretariat, BAC, and GTI
  Tourism Council to encourage tourism in the
  region.
• Generate increased awareness of the GTR as an
  attractive tourist destination.
• Help create a travel guide, single tourist visa,
  alliances with NGOs on voluntourism.
• PROJECTS
• TRAVEL GUIDE FOR THE GTR
• Partner with travel companies and tourist boards
  to create travel guides for the region.
• Create marketing strategy for travel guide
  distribution.

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4. Encourage Tourism in the GTR

• PROJECTS
• VOLUNTOURISM OPPORTUNITIES
• Work with NGOs to organize voluntourism trips in
  which participants would execute projects for the
  development of communities or participate in
  scientific field research.
• Participants to raise money in advance of trip
  private sector sponsorship.
• SINGLE ENTRY TOURIST VISA
• Help create single tourist visa for the GTR.
• SUMMER EXCHANGE LANGUAGE PROGRAM
• Exchange program for students to travel to the
  GTR and train GTR students to become
  English-speaking tour guides.
• GTR students to have opportunity to travel to
  US/Europe to learn English from host families.

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CYL Next Steps

• Formally launch greater CYL in a global
  conference call in April 2008.
• Appoint/elect project leaders for CYL projects in
  order to begin implementing CYL business plan.
• Seek financial aid from private sector companies,
  academic institutions, and other organizations to
  support specific projects as well as fund a
  full-time fellow/intern to help implement the CYL
  business plan.
• Identify academic and business partners,
  fellowship sponsors, private sector sponsors.