Panel Discussion:Maine's Honorary Consuls
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Panel discussion: Maine's Honorary Consuls
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| This year’s annual meeting will take place on June 4th in Portland. Along with the regularly planned business meeting where new board members and officers will be installed, the Council will be featuring a special panel discussion with four of Maine’s Honorary Consuls. These distinguished Maine citizens serve to promote the interests of their sponsored country. They represent Germany, France, Canada, and New Zealand here in the State of Maine. The meeting is scheduled at 4:00 and the dinner program will follow at 5:00 p.m. During the dinner, special videos will be shown to feature the four countries represented. We invite you to come about their roles, what their legal boundaries are and how they go about serving both the State of Maine and their sponsored country. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Representing France | Representing Canada | |||||||||||||||||
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Severin M. Beliveau, Honorary Consul of France in Maine, was instrumental in organizing Governor Baldacci’s trade mission to France in 2005, which generated more than 5 million dollars in first-year sales. He is Distinguished Professor of Franco American Studies at the University of Maine, and recipient of the French Legion of Honor Award, the highest distinction France awards civilians, for his leadership on key projects to improve the relationship between Maine and France (2008). Mr. Beliveau serves as President of the American Association of the Forum Francophone des Affaires, the Maine-based U.S. chapter of a worldwide alliance of 36 French-speaking nations working to promote economic development through business, industry and technology exchanges. As former director of the bipartisan American Council of Young Political Leaders, he helped promote cultural and political exchange programs among NATO countries and Eastern Europe. His work took him to Moscow, Leningrad, Riga, and Tblisi in the former Soviet Union. He also served on political leadership committees dealing with U.S.-Canadian relations, European security, the environment, and technological change. He is a Founding Partner of Preti Flaherty and directs the firm’s Legislative and Regulatory practice in Augusta and Washington, D.C.
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Perry B. Newman was appointed Canada’s first Honorary Consul to the State of Maine in 2004. He has organized and coordinated trade missions to Western Europe, Russia, Asia, Canada, the United States and Latin America, and has assisted technology-driven businesses in their market entry and strategic development efforts in both established and emerging markets. Prior to founding Atlantic Group in 2000, he served as the state of Maine’s first Director of International Trade and first President of the Maine International Trade Center. During his tenure as president, the National Association of State Development Agencies named the Trade Center the “most innovative economic development organization” in the country.
Mr. Newman is an established author and sought-after speaker on issues including: cross-border economic development, foreign investment attraction, the impacts of globalization and creative cluster development. He has been nominated by the United States Secretary of Commerce in two presidential administrations to serve on the Maine District Export Council. Perry currently serves on the board of Directors of the Atlantic Institute of Market Studies (“AIMS”), the Port Authority of Maine, the Board of directors of the French American Chamber of Commerce for New England, and the Board of Directors of the New England Canada Business Council and has recently been named to the Board of Directors of the New England-Israel Business Council. He is the author of Atlantica: Re-Mapping Maine for the New Economy.
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| Representing Germany | Representing New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||
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Adrian Kendall, Honorary Consul for Maine and New Hampshire for the Federal Republic of Germany, spent more than a decade living abroad in both the United Kingdom and Germany. After earning his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Maine School of Law, Adrian worked for 5 years in a law firm known for its admiralty law expertise. He joined Norman, Hanson & DeTroy in 1997, where his practice includes corporate law, general and international commercial law, land use and real estate law.
He commenced his close working relationship with the German Consulate in Boston in 2000, when he was appointed as a “trusted attorney” by the German Foreign Office. Mr. Kendall served as Special Adviser to Governor Baldacci on the 2004 Trade Mission to Germany and Northern Italy and briefed New Hampshire Governor Lynch and other participants prior to the 2005 New Hampshire Gubernatorial Trade Mission to Germany, the Czech Republic, and the Ukraine. In 2007, the German President Horst Koehler appointed Adrian as Honorary Consul for Maine and New Hampshire.
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Simon Leeming is a director at Preti, Flaherty, Beliveau, & Pachious, PLLP, a regional New England law firm with offices in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine, where he concentrates in commercial law, finance and the representation of businesses. His practice includes New Zealand interest doing business in the United States.
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| Representing Bulgaria David T. Flanagan is a retired President and CEO of Central Maine Power, who has subsequently served as General Counsel of the US Senate Homeland Security Committee Investigation of Hurricane Katrina, and as Chairman of the Boards of the American University in Bulgaria, the Maine Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and the Transmission and Grid Committee of the Governor's Ocean Energy Task Force. He is currently chairing the Chancellor's "New Challenges, New Directions" Task Force to restructure the University of Maine System. In 2008 he was named by the Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria as that country's Honorary Consul for the State of Maine. He also serves on the boards of several companies. He lives in Manchester, Maine with his wife Kaye. |
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