Said El Mansour Cherkaoui: International Conferences, International Expo, International Culture and Sport Conglomeration
Public-Private Instaured Synergistic Relation in the Bay Area Collaborated on Reaching Foreign Marketplaces
The Bay Area is a tightly integrated economy, Ms. McPeak says, with its universities leading high-tech sectors, a skilled labor market developing new developments and products, and venture capital firms fueling growth.
The region has a highly skilled workforce. With more than 3 million workers, 25% have completed four or more years of college, compared to 17% nationally, according to census figures.
Bay Area is ranked at the top of the 10 best cities to do business in the United States based on a number of the region’s advantages, [Fortune magazine].
“The Bay Area is a knowledge-based economy, like Boston, but larger, with many high-tech companies, including computers, biotech, multimedia, many of which are closely tied to universities here,” said the Bay Area. . http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/
But the Bay Area, like the rest of the state, has been at the center of the economic battle in recent years. California only emerged from the last recession in the United States in the spring of 1993, while the rest of the country emerged from it two years earlier. The impact of base closures and defense reductions is particularly difficult. http://www.bayareaeconomy.org/
Within such an environment and during the year of 1994-1995, I had the chance to interact within the Federal Building at the Oakland downtown with the Heavenly Personality who served as the United States Secretary of Commerce during the first term of President Bill Clinton [Rest in Jena and Peace] and Ms. Sunne Wright McPeak president and chief executive officer of the Bay Area Economic Forum (BAEF), Greg Mignano and Paul Oliva, Jose Duenas, With federal Economic Development Administration grants, he established three innovative programs designed to aid first-time exporters: LA Trade in Southern California, Baytrade in San Francisco and Trade Americas in Florida .
I was the representative of the Center for International Trade Development and the East Bay Small Business Development representing Ms. Selma Taylor and the agenda of the meeting was to discuss and finalize the setting of an organization for the promotion of exports from the Bay Area of San Francisco called the
The program’s 15 staff members include trade analysts and consultants who provide free, one-on-one trade counseling and steer businesses to government and private resources, financing and aid. Targeted are aerospace-defense companies converting to commercial manufacturing, plus firms involved in telecommunications, computers and electronics, biotechnology, agriculture and processed foods and environmental products.
“Any company that’s export ready, we’ll work with,” Mignano said.
Companies don’t have to sell high-tech products to be good export candidates, he said, adding, “One of our clients is a bagel manufacturer.”
Mr. Mignano had forgotten than the Vietnamese Immigrants to California haves succeeded in reducing the localization of Dunkin Donuts in California
McPeak’s “public-private partnering” theme is well illustrated by the Baytrade program. Its mission is to create new jobs through expansion of exports from the greater Bay Area, the nation’s fifth-largest metro area.
The emphasis of Baytrade is on bringing the energies of the private sector to life, says its director, Paul Oliva, a trade development expert.
Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris got the initial idea behind Baytrade rolling several years ago when he called Mayor Frank Jordan of San Francisco and Mayor Hammer of San Jose and told them that the region needed more exports.
The Port of Oakland is in Mayor Harris’s domain, but it depends on healthy economic activity in the whole region. The other two mayors liked the idea of doing something to expand exports . Since they all sit on the board of BAEF, they brought the idea up at one of its meetings.
Baytrade is about 10 months into its assignment to facilitate, in a 24-month period, 320 private trade “actions” – new sales overseas by small- or medium-size companies in the Bay Area.
In one contract, a telecommunications company with no trade experience landed a large contract with the government of China to help bring phones to 1,500 remote villages.
In one element of the deal, the state of California provided a loan guarantee, with funds coming from a private bank. In another deal, a company selling prepackaged salad mixes of fresh produce is sending boxes of their product to Japan. There, consumers will pay big money for fresh products – especially if they have a California cachet.
In both cases, Baytrade helped the companies find needed marketing, credit, and other services. Baytrade is funded by: the US Department of Commerce, counties in the Bay Area, the cities of San Jose, Oakland, and San Francisco, and California’s Trade and Commerce Agency, several international trade associations, and a few service providers (such as airports and ports).
“We are a retailer of many, many services” pulled together and focused, Oliva says. “Governments offer many separate wholesale services,” he explains, adding that there had been no group to give businesses a quick, comprehensive path to all the complexities of exporting.
Oliva and his group are also working on putting Baytrade’s services on the Internet.
Too late and too soon, the TradeBay and many other initiatives where I tried to introduce new and real-life perspectives on international settings, including my other direct participation in the Logistics Grant Proposal addressed to the U.S. Department of Labor.
All I have to conclude that many opponents did not want to hear the truth or to face the reality of the business and were diving head first in programs that they have no clue about how to run them in term of daily operations and more importantly how to make them efficient, productive and responsive if not creators of their own continuity, relevance and repetition of renewal of greater success.
Facts and False Predictions on the Potential and Current success of BayTrade can be found at: David Mutch: November 20, 1995 – “Public-Private Partnership Works in the Bay Area – San Francisco area leaders stimulate trade, high-tech industry, and find uses for bases,” The Christian Science Monitor.
Dr. Cherkaoui organized and presented Multiple International Conferences
Dr. Said El Mansour Cherkaoui
Center for International Trade Development – CITD
At the EBCITD, Dr. Cherkaoui created and conducted certified workforce development and training programs and international business, sales and trade operations.
Collaboration with the US Department of Commerce, the US Small Business Department, the US Small Business Association, the 2 East Bay and Bay Area Centers for International Trade Development and other local business professional representatives organizations and the Chambers of Commerce around the Bay Area of San Francisco
Director Richard Soyombo – Dr. Said Cherkaoui – Keith Rayner, CEO of Kemara 
Dr. Cherkaoui presenting Business Opportunities in Morocco and Africa North Saharan Regions 
Richard Soyombo Director of Bay Area Centre for International Trade Development 
Attendees at the Africa Conference Sponsored by the US Commercial Service at US Department of Commerce
International Conference on Africa
Historical Analysis of Doing Business in North Saharan and West Africa by Dr. Said El Mansour. cherkaoui from Said El Mansour Cherkaoui, Ph.D.
Conference on Africa with US Department of Commerce, San Francisco
Email address and Phone Number have changed, please use this email for contact: saidcherkaoui24@gmail.com
ROAD TO MOROCCO – AFRICA
Business Mission and Trade-Show in Morocco by Said El Mansour Cherkaoui, East Bay Center for International Trade Development – EBCITD
Casablanca American Café
‘Play it’: Rick: You know what I want to hear. Sam: No, I don’t. Rick: You played it for her, you can play it for me!
At the House of my Birth in Morocco ★ El Jadida – Doukkala – Morocco – The House was built by my Father in 1925
At the House of my Birth in Morocco ★ El Jadida – Doukkala – Morocco – The House was built in 1925 by my Father Moulay Ahmed Cherkaoui. … Read More
At the House of my Birth in Morocco ★ El Jadida – Doukkala – Morocco – The House was built in 1925 by my Father Moulay Ahmed Cherkaoui. … Read More
Dr. Cherkaoui & Center for International Trade Development ★ CITD in Morocco
Dr. Cherkaoui represented 25 food products / companies from California and the United States at the American Cafe / Trade Show organized by the U.S. FDA and the U.S. State Department at Casablanca, Morocco
Made in Morocco with Moroccan Legacy
Miloud Chaabi, the Moroccan Version of William Russell Grace – Continue reading Miloud Chaabi, the Moroccan Version of William Russell Grace
One example of Dr. Cherkaoui’s presentation on Nord Saharan Africa
Claremont Club & Spa, A Fairmont Hotel
AFRIQUE – USA – AFRICA and Said El Mansour Cherkaoui
International Conference on Africa, I initiated and organized with the EBCITD (East Bay Center for International Trade Development) Oakland, California.
So to combine the useful with the pleasant, I published all these photos with first that of Africa over my shoulders. This photo dates from 2001, the year I suggested and participated in the organization of the First International Conference on Africa held in Northern California at Berkeley. Another will follow later in San Francisco in 2007.
I complete this first photo with others such as the one where the former CEO of the African Development Bank (Dr. Babacar Ndiang) was holding my hand and I am surrounded by African-American executives, one during one of my presentations and others showing a partial view of the audience.
Conférence Internationale sur l’Afrique a Claremont Hotel, Berkeley, California, USA
Since my early studies at Institut des Etudes Politiques of the Grenoble University, France, the development and integration of Africa were at the forefront of my studies and topics of my presentations in seminaries and essay-papers. It was natural that I continue to work and increase the awarness about Africa and its needs of establishing new kind of relations with other countries other than the past metropolitan and colonialists.
Here below among other pictures, there is a photo taken in company with the Regretted Dr. Babacar Ndiaye, former CEO of the African Development Bank Group who hold firmly my hand and is standing at my left side.
I extended the invitation to Dr. Boubacar N’diaye for his presence among us at this International Conference on Africa. He was delighted about my presentation and we also sat together and had lunch at the same table. Wonderful Man with full love for Africa and Africans and who initiated a series of important financial and operational measures: the African Businessmen Round Table, the creation of the African Bank for import-export (Afreximbank) and the setting up of a special easy financing for the African private sector (investors and entrepreneurs) without the guarantee of their governments.
I initiated and developed a workplan on the organization of The International Conference on Africa took place in 2001. The first time in the history of the Bay Area of San Francisco and North California to have a conference of such magnitude and subject. that I submitted to Fazale Sharif the Director of the EBCITD which I was the initiator and for which I and participated directly in its organization. I contacted and invited Dr. Babacar Ndiaye and in the following photo, event / photo took place is during an International Conference on Africa I had organized in Oakland, California and of which Dr. Babacar Ndiaye, Rahimahu Allah was our Guest of Honor.
Here below are listed links which content present among others some illustrations of my activities in regard to the Integration of Africa with which I was directly involved, including the facilitation of the signing of the Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Morocco.
For many among us, time flies through horizons without leaving traces on recognition and gratitude on what we have achieved for the good for others especially in my case not be born in the United States but I remain up to now the maker of differences between cultures and the guardian of the memories I cherish and remember through my meetings and interactions with the real treasuries of the Humanity.
The second link below presents “The ADB honors its former president, the late Babacar Ndiaye: https://www.afdb.org/en/news-and-events/the-afdb-pays-tribute-to-late-president-babacar-ndiaye-17363
The Conference Room was packed with U.S. and Foreign officials and Executives as well as faculties and Researchers on Africa and the Place where all these interactions took place was the fabulous and monumental Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, Northern California.
Previous Work on Africa with the organization of visits of Business Delegation from Algeria, Senegal, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and Egypt
December 6, 1994 – AFRICA – EGYPT
– Dr. Said El Mansour Cherkaoui as Co-Chair and Laurent Roffe as the Chair of the International Business Committee Organized the First Visit of the Federation of the Egyptian Chambers of Commerce to California – Business Meeting at the Golden Gate University where Dr. Said Cherkaoui has taught in various Schools and Departments for 16 years as Adjunct Associate Professor from 1987 to 2003
Dr. Cherkaoui Co-Chair of International Business Committees at the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Laurent Roffee and Dr. Cherkaoui facilitated the signing of the Trade Treaty between San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and the Federation of the Egyptian Chambers of Commerce
欢迎 慷慨和善良
Direct Relation with Chinese People from 1994 to Now
October 8. 1994 to October 29, 1994 – Dr. Said Cherkaoui and Laurent Roffe Developed Business and Trade Connections Between California and China and provided training programs to the first Chinese Research and Development Delegation
Dr. Said El Mansour Cherkaoui invited by the central and provincial governments of China
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★ Dr. Said El Mansour Cherkaoui facilitated the meeting of High level Executive, Managers and Scientists in China and their American Peers – Contributed in the Trade Development of China and California and Southern Europe ★
★ Dr. Cherkaoui facilitated Business Deals and Contacts Between High level Executives / Managers in Export – Import and Scientists from China with their Californian Peers ★
★ Dr. Said El Mansour Cherkaoui Invited by the Central and Provincial Governments of China ★
USA – Testimonials Recognizing the Business Achievements and Competences of Dr. Said El Mansour Cherkaoui
France and USA – Letters of Recommendations on Research and Academic Teaching by Dr. Said El Mansour Cherkaoui
Dr. Said El Mansour Cherkaoui Teaching US Pilots at the Travis Air Force Base
Recommendation by Dr. Wesley Young, Director, Services for International Students and Scholars at University of California, Davis –
I was the Director of Graduate Business Programs at Dominican University of San Rafael, when Dr. Cherkaoui was teaching in our international MBA program. Said brought not only a solid academic background to the classroom, but also a wealth of business experience both in the US and in Asia and Latin America. He is passionate about his students and his work outside the classroom. This made him one of the most effective faculty that we had teaching at the time.
Recommendation by Ersan Ertuzun, Corporate Communications Supervisor at WTC Istanbul
https://www.wtca.org/world-trade-center-istanbul
Dr. Said Cherkaoui is an exceptional figure in international business development. His broad range of expertise covers all ranges of economic development, with such accomplishments in international trade consulting, trade missions, small business development, just to name a few..
Dr. Cherkaoui has successfully conducted numerous trade missions, represented U.S. companies at trade shows, and helped companies develop their businesses overseas. His academic works have a significant contribution to the global business community, executives in world trade, and entrepreneurs.
I worked with Dr. Cherkaoui at the East Bay Center for International Trade Development. His expertise and services included and not limited to:
Always a role model and source of influence, Dr. Cherkaoui possesses extensive hands-on experience in a wide range of industries, as well as academic achievements, in the field of international trade and economic development.
Selected Publications and Research Programs by Said El Mansour Cherkaoui: Europe, China, North America – Mexico
Dr. Cherkaoui publication of his research on the development of technology in China – London 2001
American Institute of Management at Oakland – January 5, 2016 · Oakland ·
Recommendations for Dr. Said El Mansour Cherkaoui:
Recommendation by Ersan Ertuzun
Corporate Communications Supervisor at World Trade Center at Istanbul, Türkiye
https://www.wtca.org/world-trade-center-istanbul
Dr. Said El Mansour Cherkaoui as Consultant at the East Bay Center for International Trade Development, Oakland – Berkeley, California, USA
Dr. Said Cherkaoui is an exceptional figure in international business development. His broad range of expertise covers all ranges of economic development, with such accomplishments in international trade consulting, trade missions, small business development, just to name a few..
Dr. Cherkaoui has succesfully conducted numerous trade missions, represented U.S. companies at trade shows, and helped companies develop their businesses overseas. His academic works have a significant contribution to the global business community, executives in world trade, and entrepreneurs.
I worked with Dr. Cherkaoui at the East Bay Center for International Trade Development. His expertise and services included and not limited to;
– Consulting services to small businesses and the Center’s clients regarding their products and market entry in Latin America and Southeast Asia as well as in the Mediterranean regions,
– Creation and delivery of workforce training programs such as the Workshop on International Trade, International Market and International Business Development,
– Development of International Business Plans for foreign delegations,
– Operating business strategy that he wrote and submitted to the Director Fazale Sharif on the operation of the Center for International Trade Development,
– Negotiation with the Chinese Delegation from Guizhou,
– Negotiation with Dr. James Garrett, the Dean of Instruction at Vista Community College for the accreditation and the Delivery of the Training Program for the Chinese Delegation from Guizhou.
Always a role model and source of influence, Dr. Cherkaoui possesses extensive hands-on experience in a wide range of industries, as well as academic achievements, in the field of international trade and economic development.
March 9, 2014, Ersan worked indirectly for Said El Mansour at East Bay Center for International Trade U.S. Economic Development Administration
Recommendation by Dr. Wesley Young
Former Director, Services for International Students and Scholars at University of California, Davis
Dr. Said El Mansour Cherkaoui as Visiting Professor and Adjunct Associate Professor at the Dominican University of California, San Rafael, California, USA
I was the Director of Graduate Business Programs at Dominican University of San Rafael, when Dr. Cherkaoui was teaching in our international MBA program. Said brought not only a solid academic background to the classroom, but also a wealth of business experience both in the US and in Asia and Latin America. He is passionate about his students and his work outside the classroom. This made him one of the most effective faculty that we had teaching at the time.
May 23, 2014, Wesley worked directly with Said El Mansour at Dominican University of California
To access these recommendations, you can find them at the end of the text presented by this link:
Since 1993, Dr. Cherkaoui conducted training on Market and Technology to Strengthen California Trade Relationship with markets, compagnies and countries that are located in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia
In 1993-1994, within the Vista Community College at Milvia street we launched the First CITD in North California and the Third one in the History of the Californian CITD
Dr. Said El Mansour Cherkaoui and Dr. Barbara Beno Presidente of Vista Community College 
Judy Walters, Presidente of Vista Community College and Berkeley City College 
Said Cherkaoui at the Celebration of the move of Vista Community College to the New Location of Berkeley City College 
Said Cherkaoui, faculties, staff and International Trade Studies at the Celebration of the move of Vista Community College to the New Location of Berkeley City College 
President Judy Walters, Said Cherkaoui, faculties and staff Celebrating the move of Vista Community College to the New Location of Berkeley City College 
Said Cherkaoui, faculties and staff at the building of Vista Community College during the Celebration of its move to the New Location with new name: Berkeley City College 
President Judy Walters, Said Cherkaoui, faculties and staff at the building of Vista Community College during the Celebration of its move to the New Location with new name: Berkeley City College 
Said Cherkaoui, International Trade, faculties and staff at the building of Vista Community College during the Celebration of its move to the New Location with new name: Berkeley City College 
VISTA THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW BERKELEY CITY COLLEGE
On the same day with Dr. Barbara Beno and with State Senator Tom Bates at an Expo I organized with the Center for International Trade at Vista Community College, Berkeley
October 23 1994, Dr. Said El Mansour Cherkaoui and Dr. Barbara Beno Presidente of Vista Community College in front of her office and where the first office of the Center of International Trade Development was located
Tom Bates (California Assembly and Mayor of Berkeley), Said El Mansour Cherkaoui and Senior Official of the Port of Oakland 27/10/1994
Said El Mansour Cherkaoui Websites and Social Media
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Said El Mansour Cherkaoui and the Center for International Trade Development
Working and covering the International and Regional Business Communities of Berkeley – Oakland – Emeryville – Albany – Alameda – Fremont – San Leandro and San Francisco in Northern California and beyond
Tradeshow by the Bay Area Chambers of Commerce organized by the Berkeley, Oakland, Emeryville, Alameda Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Fremont, San Jose and San Francisco Chambers of Commerce,
Organizing the International Trade Student Association for and by the Students at Vista Community College with Sponsoship of the East Bay Center for International Trade Developement
Publications and Seminars on Middle East by Said El Mansour Cherkaoui
Stanford University
Said El Mansour Cherkaoui: 1991, The structural causes of the Gulf crisis and the quest for a peaceful solution in the Middle East, Comunità internazionale, 46(1/2) 1991 : 141-163
University of California, Berkeley, Havilland Conference on the Middle East
Said El Mansour Cherkaoui Research and Publications on Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru
Publication on the Economic Development of Brazil at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique de Paris par Said El Mansour Cherkaoui:
La relation ambivalente entre l’Etat fédéral et les grands groupes d’intérêts privés au Brésil dans la première moitié du XXe siècle, Auteur: CHERKAOUI, S. El Mansour
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France Source. 1985, ref : 4 p Type de document Report Langue French Classification Francis 533 Amérique latine / 533-30 Histoire
Discipline Latin america Provenance Inist-CNRS Base de données FRANCIS Identifiant INIST 12001549
Thèse de doctorat de CHERKAOUI Said El Mansour
Réf ANRT : 13965
Lille : ANRT, 1993.- 2 mf. ; 403 p., tabl., graph., ill., photogr..- bibliogr. 16 p.
Thèse doctorat : Paris, Univ. Paris 3, IHEAL : 1992
Economie ; Histoire économique ; Capitalisme ; Libre-échangisme ; Développement inégal ; Relations Nord-Sud ; Siècle 19 ; Siècle 20 : première moitié ; 1830-1930 ; Amérique latine ; Argentine ; Brésil ; Chili ; Pérou
N° : MF-92/PA03/0099
As Business Consultant at the East Bay Small Business Development Center and the Center for International Trade Development (including the East Bay Center for International Trade Development) between 1993 to 1998 and 2001 to 2007, I have worked with the Hispanic communities and their business executives and individual entrepreneurs as well as the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Alameda County and Sacramento.
Dr. Said El Mansour Cherkaoui, representante del Centro para el Desarrollo del Comercio Internacional (CITD) y Marruecos en una sesión ejecutiva de trabajo y una recepción organizada por las Cámaras Hispanas de Comercio de California, Condado de Alameda, Estados Unidos de America (https://www.cahcc.com/default.aspx#.YlFtssjMLrc).
Dr Said El Mansour Cherkaoui in China
Jeff Williamson• 1st Director at California State Trade Expansion (STEP), IECE @CSUSB
Response to Jeff Williamson for his promotion to more important positions to promote California in the International Trade Arena
I wish you another Giant STEP toward success. I have been around the arena of international trade and I know, I have seen, heard and read about what you have accomplished for California and its international traders and trading partners which is much more than just the exchange of goods.
In reality and more importantly you have directly enabled peace and rapprochement between different and distant cultures. You have opened new horizons for mutual understanding and laid down opportunities that carried identities, channeled values and shared beliefs that reinforced the goodness of our humanity.
These are the hidden but authentic driving forces for the authentic builders of international trade relationships between entities, organizations and nations and you are ONE designer, builder and developer of such missions. You deserve only the Best of the Best that will come to your path with the light of blessing and good health.
I look forward to keeping in touch with you and to continue to support and contribute to your drive toward making this world better for our children and the next generation.
God Bless all of us and our families together.
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Jeff Williamson• 1st Director at California State Trade Expansion (STEP), IECE @CSUSB1d •.
“La Reconnaissance est la Mémoire du Cœur” Henri Lacordaire
Said El Mansour Cherkaoui, Ph.D.
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It has been my great pleasure knowing you and working with you through the Center for International Trade Development at Oakland and later on at Berkeley.
In reality, your statement “transitioning out of this role,” brought back my memories with the CITD and the EBCITD.
You remind me too of my own transitioning within the CITD at its every productive turn from 1993 to 2007 with just a few gaps given the frequent changes of the local Directors.
I joined the CITD in 1993 when only 4 centers existed in the entire California. Our CITD was located at 2020 Milvia street inside of the Vista College with the Director Dr. Barbara Beno.
In 2006, the EBCITD and Vista College were transferred to the newly built and named Berkeley City College, here below is my presence pictured at this and other events around the world.
Moral of the story, I was at the founding of the Center for International Trade Development and at the Founding of the Berkeley City College and the transfer of the EBCITD at this new location.
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★ A Sport Picture is worth 1000 Games ★
Jeff Williamson• 1st Director at California State Trade Expansion (STEP), IECE @CSUSB1d •.
“La Reconnaissance est la Mémoire du Cœur” Henri Lacordaire
Said El Mansour Cherkaoui, Ph.D.
https://lnkd.in/g2wfAs2x
It has been my great pleasure knowing you and working with you through the Center for International Trade Development at Oakland and later on at Berkeley.
In reality, your statement “transitioning out of this role,” brought back my memories with the CITD and the EBCITD.
You remind me too of my own transitioning within the CITD at its every productive turn from 1993 to 2007 with just a few gaps given the frequent changes of the local Directors.
I joined the CITD in 1993 when only 4 centers existed in the entire California. Our CITD was located at 2020 Milvia street inside of the Vista College with the Director Dr. Barbara Beno.
In 2006, the EBCITD and Vista College were transferred to the newly built and named Berkeley City College, here below is my presence pictured at this and other events around the world.
Moral of the story, I was at the founding of the Center for International Trade Development and at the Founding of the Berkeley City College and the transfer of the EBCITD at this new location.
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Jeff Williamson• 1st Director at California State Trade Expansion (STEP), IECE @CSUSB1d •.
“La Reconnaissance est la Mémoire du Cœur” Henri Lacordaire
Said El Mansour Cherkaoui, Ph.D.
https://lnkd.in/g2wfAs2x
It has been my great pleasure knowing you and working with you through the Center for International Trade Development at Oakland and later on at Berkeley.
In reality, your statement “transitioning out of this role,” brought back my memories with the CITD and the EBCITD.
You remind me too of my own transitioning within the CITD at its every productive turn from 1993 to 2007 with just a few gaps given the frequent changes of the local Directors.
I joined the CITD in 1993 when only 4 centers existed in the entire California. Our CITD was located at 2020 Milvia street inside of the Vista College with the Director Dr. Barbara Beno.
In 2006, the EBCITD and Vista College were transferred to the newly built and named Berkeley City College, here below is my presence pictured at this and other events around the world.
Moral of the story, I was at the founding of the Center for International Trade Development and at the Founding of the Berkeley City College and the transfer of the EBCITD at this new location.
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