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Mr. Peter W. James
Name: Mr. Peter W. James
Previous Experience:
- Secretary-General, Interallied (NATO) Confederation of Reserve Organizations
Spectrum Experience:
- Mr. James is a member of the International Business Division of SPECTRUM. His expertise in all facets of international business includes a unique understanding of the Eastern European geopolitical and business environments and their diversified cultures.
Biography:
Peter James has extensive experience in international marketing and business finance. He created and managed his own management consulting firm and a public accounting practice following the founding of a regional consulting practice for Price Waterhouse, in the UK. He is a Certified Accountant ( CPA ) and Chartered Secretary ( General Counsel & commercial lawyer ) with a BSc(Econ) from U Glamorgan and MBA from U Cranfield. He is an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation, a Fellow of the Institute of Management and a Fellow of the Nautical Institute.
He is a former President of Cardiff Chamber of Commerce and was instrumental in the twinning of Xiamen, China with the City of Cardiff in 1986, the first such twinning with a Chinese City. He has worked extensively in Europe and is active in the development of trade links in former Soviet states and the newly democratic states of Central Europe and the former Soviet Union.
He was a founder Director of Cardiff World Trade Center, being involved in the planning and promotion of the entity, the arrangement of funding and monitoring of operations from its inauguration. He is a Director of World Trade Centre (Holdings), Ltd, which owns, for development, a number of WTCA franchises in the UK. He was first Chairman of the Board of World Trade Center Holdings, Inc in the USA, where he is normally resident. He owns commercial property companies in the UK and USA. In the USA, he is President of Euro-American Strategies, LLC, an international marketing company for defence and homeland security products and services. He is also a member of the prestigious SPECTRUM Group of Washington defense consultants and lobbyists and COO of World Energy Solutions, Inc, an energy efficiency company.
Mr. James served a parallel career in the Royal Naval Reserve. A navigator and mine- countermeasures specialist, he commanded minesweepers, patrol craft and shore bases.
He served in most of the UK emergencies including the South Atlantic campaign for which he was made an MBE. He is a former Secretary General of the Inter-Allied (NATO) Confederation of Reserve Organizations ( CIOR ), representing some 8 million of NATO reserve forces, in the Military Committee, International Military Staff and other NATO agencies. In that capacity, he enjoyed high access to the Ministries of Defense and Interior of NATO, former Soviet and Warsaw Pact Countries. He retired as a Captain, RNR after 34 years service.
His combination of business and military experience gives him a unique understanding of the Eastern European geopolitical and economic environments and their political cultures. Mr. James is a visiting lecturer in International Affairs at the National Defense University, Washington, DC. He visits the UK regularly where he is a Deputy Lieutenant of South Glamorgan.
Education:
Mr. James holds an M.B.A. from Cranfield University, Bedford, UK, and INSEAD, Paris, and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Glamorgan, UK.
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