{"id":3619,"date":"2011-10-07T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=3619"},"modified":"2011-10-07T07:00:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T11:00:37","slug":"michael-markland-94-to-participate-in-arab-u-s-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2011\/10\/07\/michael-markland-94-to-participate-in-arab-u-s-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Markland &#039;94 to participate in Arab-U.S. Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/09\/Mike-Markland-94.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3620\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/09\/Mike-Markland-94.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"126\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a>Michael Markland &#8217;94<\/strong> will participate in the <strong>20th Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference:\u00a0 Dynamics of Recent Events in the Arab World:\u00a0 Framing the Arab and U.S. Responses<\/strong>, hosted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/ncusar.org\/\">National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations<\/a> in Washington. D.C on Oct. 27-28.\u00a0 He will chair the panel discussion on <em>Business, Investment, and Financial Development Dynamics and Prospects<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0 Video may be available from the council&#8217;s web site after the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Mike&#8217;s bio states he is a &#8220;senior member of Morgan Stanley&#8217;s Private Wealth Management team based in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, with over eighteen years of experience working with families and institutions in the Middle East. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he worked with other leading financial institutions, founded an international financial and management consultancy based in Dubai and the US, and ran international and government marketing for a technology firm which he helped list on NASDAQ in 2000.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 His\u00a0dad, Mick Markland from Crawfordsville, shared the news with us.<\/p>\n<p>Mike was\u00a0an English major at Wabash, and wrote for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/magazine\/displaystory.cfm?news_id=1923&amp;issue=SF2004\">Brothers issue<\/a> of the <em>Wabash Magazine<\/em> in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The National Council of U.S.-Arab Relations<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Markland &#8217;94 will participate in the 20th Annual Arab-U.S. Policymakers Conference:\u00a0 Dynamics of Recent Events in the Arab World:\u00a0 Framing the Arab and U.S. Responses, hosted by the National Council on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}