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2008 International Speaker Series

Al Hubbard

The Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana at the University of Evansville is pleased to welcome Allan Hubbard, former economic advisor to President George W. Bush, to campus November 13.
Hubbard, who served as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council from January 2005 until December 2007, will speak in UE’s Neu Chapel on Thursday, Nov. 13, at 7:00 p.m. His appearance is part of the Institute’s International Speaker Series, which earlier this year brought Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico, to Indiana for a two-city event in Indianapolis and Evansville.
Hubbard’s talk at Neu Chapel is free, and open to the public.
"For three years, Allan Hubbard played an integral role in the shaping of the American economy and the international market," said Robert Clark, director of the Institute for Global Enterprise in Indiana and dean of UE’s Schroeder Family School of Business Administration. "At a difficult economic time, when every fluctuation of the market is front-page news, we’re excited to offer our students, the UE community, and Evansville as a whole the opportunity to hear from someone who has been so intimately involved with the world market."
Hubbard will speak in Neu Chapel about the American economy, its role in the world market, and his time advising the Bush administration.
Before serving in the Bush administration, Hubbard served as Deputy Chief of Staff to Vice-President Dan Quayle – and as Executive Director of the President’s Council on Competitiveness – from 1990-92. He also has served on a number of for-profit and non-profit boards, including the WellPoint Corporation.
Hubbard, who has a Bachelor of Arts from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. and J.D. from Harvard, currently is the chair of E&A Industries, Inc., which owns and operates a number of businesses.

Vicente Fox

International Speaker Series lecturer Vicente Fox, President of Mexico from 2000 - 2006, visited Indiana on April 10, 2008. Fox spoke to a crowd of about 200 businessmen, educators, and politicians among others during a luncheon at the Conrad Hotel in Indianapolis. Following that event, Fox traveled to Evansville where he delivered a lecture and answered the questions of University of Evansville students in a packed Shanklin Theatre. That evening, Fox spoke to over 1,200 people in a public presentation held at the Victory Theatre in downtown Evansville. Topics included his successful efforts in decreasing corruption and crime in Mexico as well as advancements in economic growth and public education which took place under his leadership.

Fox was elected President of Mexico in 2000, ending the 71-year rule of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. While in office, he focused his many of his early efforts on improving trade relations with the US, calming civil unrest, and reducing corruption, crime, and drug trafficking. Early in his term, Fox made significant progress toward bilateral cooperation with the United States on drug trafficking and illegal immigration.

Interest in the United States stemmed from Fox’s younger years, several of which he spent in this country. He was born in 1942 in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico, and spent his youth in Mexico before coming to the United States and attending Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. He began his college career at Harvard before finishing his degree in Mexico.

Upon graduation, he was hired by Coca-Cola as a route supervisor, and eventually promoted to the company’s chief executive in Mexico. While in that position, in 1987, Fox was approached by the leaders of the National Action Party (PAN) and asked to run for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. He accepted the challenge and won in 1988. After serving three years in the chamber, he decided to run for governor of Guanajuato. It was a very controversial race, and he ended up coming in second. Over the next few years, Fox was politically inactive.

Fox came out of political retirement in 1994 to rally the PAN. The rally proved successful for Fox. In 1995, he ran for governor again, and this time won with 59.8% of the vote. After his victory, he tried to get the PAN to shed its conservative image and embrace a more moderate social welfare position. In 1998, Fox announced he would seek the PAN nomination for the presidency in the 2000.