A panel discussion with Mariam Assefa, Richard Garnick and Michael Panzner. Moderated by Michele Wucker
America has long been seen as the destination of choice for the world's best and brightest. But in the past few years, hastily implemented post-9/11 security measures and a long-neglected immigration system created a bottleneck in visa processing. Applications from foreign students to U.S. universities dropped precipitously, and businesses reported a conservative estimate of over $30 billion in losses because of visa delays.
Even as the government has worked to resolve bureaucratic glitches, an increasingly rancorous debate over whom to let in to America threatens to undermine our ability to attract global talent. How are these developments affecting America's status as a center of innovation, and what should be done to keep America competitive in face of growing global competition for talent?- World Policy Institute The New School
Bio
Mariam Assefa
Mariam Assefa has been Executive Director and CEO of World Education Services (WES) since 1982. WES is a not-for-profit credential evaluation organization headquartered in New York and with offices in five other US cities and in Toronto, Canada.
Mariam Assefa is active in international education and exchange. She is the author of a 1988 book on the system of education of France. She has made frequent presentations on foreign educational systems and the recognition of international educational credentials at conferences and workshops in the United States and abroad. As a consultant for the US government, she has been involved in discussions regarding the recognition of academic credentials in Europe and West Africa.
In 2006 Mariam Assefa served as President of NAFSA: Association of International Educators. In 2005 she was awarded Metro International's Fulbright Award for Contribution to International Educational Exchange.
Mariam Assefa is a graduate of the University of Montpellier (France) and the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Richard Garnick
Richard Garnick is the President of North American Services at Keane, Inc.
Michael Panzer
Michael J. Panzner is a 25-year veteran of the global stock, bond, and currency markets who has worked in New York and London for HSBC, Soros Funds, ABN Amro, Dresdner Bank, and J.P. Morgan Chase. He is also a New York Institute of Finance faculty member and a graduate of Columbia University. He is the author of The New Laws of the Stock Market Jungle: An Insider's Guide to Successful Investing in a Changing World, and a regular contributor to prudentbear.com, financialsense.com, and safehaven.com.
Panzner has appeared on or been quoted by CNBC, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Barron's and other print, radio, and television outlets.
Michele Wucker
Michele Wucker is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York City, where she is co-director of the Immigrant Voting Project and director of the Program on Citizenship and Security. She specializes in immigration and assimilation, transnational political processes, the politics of culture, Latin America and the Caribbean, and international finance and debt crisis.
She is the author of Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right, and of Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola.
What a laugh, they didnt know that wall street , goldmans,lemans,jp morgan,chase,citibank,aig etc needed to be bailed out by the average tax payer. Again 3 people who know nothing about immigration they only know Money, Corperate dictatorship, everything they said meant nothing looking back from 2010, this lecture 2 years ago is now irrelevant, again white people who are numbers people that run for cover under wall street money grabbing downfalls. from a business stand point is that they crawled into a wheelchair supplied by the tax payer. Yes America survives on junk food, junk TV, addicted to remote controls and the macdonalds coke cola kfc, wendys jack box, no brain food n0 attention span, only more drugs from the doctors, Corporate dictatorship, dumb people lots of money to be made from sick dumb people, look like your helping but keep them helpless, a patient cured is a customer lost, education, medical, religion, politics military all, all on blind faith. 20 years of economics could save them from the economic depression gifted to everyone like the 2YK problem of no problem but a lot of money was made a lot of money was spent unnecessarily, all on lies. When people are foolish on coke, on lopusy paqckaged food 1 out of 8 diabetes. Hording money the uncompassionate acumalation of money where one makes large sums of money from the tax payers but spends their money in India or China. Richest man is Carlos Slim mexican does nothing for Mexico spent 250 million on New york times newspaper but wouldn,t help the Mexican people who bought and use his cell/phones. Money its only about money. not about immigration. Finally a non/white speaking about education when blacks and hispanics 50% drop out of school during high school. It is the food they eat no brain food no reading in mexican immigration average education is grade 6, se3nd them all home, let them stay in mexico and clean up the mess in mexico not create a new mess in America. Institutionalized immigration only works in the military. Next American brains will be Chinese or vHindu, the rest of the cultures, all image no substance.