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=On Jean-Francois Rischard= (Picture on the left taken from: http://www.ibnaconference.org/images/JFRischard.jpg) Jean-François Rischard served as the World Bank Vice President for Europe from 1998 to 2005, acting as the Bank’s chief spokesman both to the European Union and to individual European countries. He is the author of //High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them//, a book that documents what he sees as the most urgent global issues of the decades to come–from climate change through contagious diseases to education for all.

Mr. Rischard is a frequent speaker at international conferences and business gatherings in Europe, the United States and Asia. He addresses such topics as managing financial crises, sustainable development, corporate governance, the changing structures of government, business and private organizations. He also speaks on the benefit of applying new technologies in the developing world, the changing rules and inner workings of the new world economy, and the need for new global governance mechanisms in an increasingly complex and inter-linked world. (IB North America)

=//High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them//= "In this age of instant communication and biotechnology, on this ever smaller planet, what kinds of problems have we created for ourselves? How do we tackle them in a world where the accustomed methods used by nation-states may be reaching their natural limits?

In //High Noon//, J.F. Rischard challenges us to take a new approach to the twenty most important and urgent global problems of the twenty-first century. Rischard finds their common thread:we don't have an effective way of dealing with the problems that our increasingly crowded, interconnected world creates.

Our difficulties belong to the future, but our means of solving them belong to the past. Rischard proposes new vehicles for global problem-solving that are startling and persuasive. With its clear-eyed urgency and refreshing specificity, //High Noon// is an agenda-setting book that everyone who cares about the future must read" (Picture above taken from: http://www.clemson.edu/ICSLTE/conference/images/2007/book_cover_web2.jpg)

//(Note: Excerpt from back cover)//

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