December 13, 2011- IMC’s Chairman and CEO, Sudhakar V. Shenoy will be joining The American Enterprise Institute and the Partnership for a New American Economy distinguished panelists to discuss “Creating American Jobs through Immigration Reform”. The event will be held at the AEI’s offices this Thursday morning.

The panelists will discuss why immigration reform is a jobs solution that does not require cutting government programs or raising taxes and will highlight a new study, cosponsored by AEI and the Partnership for a New American Economy, a bipartisan group of mayors and business leaders. This study finds that immigrants can complement, rather than compete with American workers: 2.6 jobs for American workers are created for every foreign graduate of a U.S. university with an advanced degree who stays to work in a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) field. 

Headlining this event with the report’s author, Madeline Zavodny, will be U.S. Representative Tim Griffin from Arkansas's Second District, who will soon be introducing a bill to allocate green cards to foreign students who graduate from U.S. universities with advanced degrees in STEM fields, and technology CEO Sudhakar Shenoy.

Location:
American Enterprise Institute
Twelfth Floor
1150 Seventeenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036

Date:
Thursday, December 15th, 2011
8:45 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Speakers include:

Sudhakar Shenoy is founder, chairman and CEO of IMC Inc. and has been named one of the Top 25 Most Influential People in the Washington, D.C., high-tech industry, as well as being awarded the 2004 Executive of the Year by the Northern Virginia GovCon Council, the Professional Services Council and Washington Technology. Under Mr. Shenoy's leadership, IMC has become an award-winning technology solutions company, providing expert government, commercial and scientific solutions designed for each client's precise mission. He is the recipient of numerous awards for his work and citizenship and is a frequent lecturer, convocation speaker and radio personality, often discussing impacts and directions of various technology trends.

Tim Griffin (R-Ark.) was elected the 24th representative of Arkansas’s Second Congressional District on November 2, 2010. For the 112th Congress, he is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the House Committee on the Judiciary, and is an assistant whip for the majority. Rep. Griffin is currently serving in his 16th year as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, Judge Advocate General's Corps, holds the rank of major, and is assigned to the Southeast Medical Area Readiness Support Group as the Command Judge Advocate. In 2006–07, he served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas. During his tenure, in addition to federal criminal prosecutions, the U.S. Attorney’s Office provided outreach and training in rural counties and provided federal civil rights law training to law enforcement and community leaders. In 2005, he served as special assistant to the president and deputy director, Office of Political Affairs, at the White House, where his duties included organizing and coordinating support for the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr., to be chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Bobbie Kilberg is president and CEO of the Northern Virginia Technology Council, the largest technology council in the nation with about 1,000 member companies employing 200,000 people in the Potomac region. In December 2001, she was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology during his term in office. She held two consecutive positions for President George H.W. Bush, as deputy assistant to the president for the Office of Public Liaison and as director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs. In July 2009, Ms. Kilberg was named Business Leader of the Year by Washingtonian magazine. Washingtonian also named her as one of the 100 Tech Titans of Washington in 2011 and 2009.

Nick Schulz is the editor-in-chief of American.com, AEI's online magazine of ideas focusing on business, economics, and public affairs. He helped launch American.com and the Enterprise Blog. Prior to joining American.com, he was the editor-in-chief of TCS Daily and the politics editor of FoxNews.com. He was an award-winning television producer with the PBS series Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg. He has also been published widely in newspapers and magazines around the country, including the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today and Slate. In 2010, he coauthored “From Poverty to Prosperity” with Arnold Kling.

Madeline Zavodny is a professor of economics at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia, and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn. She was formerly an associate professor of economics at Occidental College and a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Her research on the economics of immigration has been published in the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Development Economics, Demography, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Research in Labor Economics and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

For more information on this event, please visit:
http://www.aei.org/events/2011/12/15/creating-american-jobs-through-immigration-reform/

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