2009 RAPS Keynote Speakers
Opening Keynote - Monday, 14 September 2009
Jim Collins
Bestselling Author
 Author of best-selling business books Good to Great and co-author Built to Last, Collins is a renowned expert on enduring great companies––how they grow, how they attain superior performance and how good companies can become great companies. He is author or co-author of four books, and his work has been featured in Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Harvard Business Review, and Fast Company. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap ...And Others Don't has sold 3 million hardcover copies and has been translated into 35 languages.
» Read Business Week's cover story on Collins' most recent book, How the Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In.
Closing Keynote - Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Dr. Margaret Hamburg
FDA Commissioner
 Sworn in as FDA commissioner on 22 May 2009, Dr. Margaret Hamburg is an internationally recognized leader in public health and medicine, and an authority on global health, public health systems, infectious disease, bioterrorism and emergency preparedness.
Hamburg served as the Nuclear Threat Initiative's founding vice president for the Biological Program. Before joining NTI, she was the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to this, she served for six years as the commissioner of health for the City of New York and as the assistant director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health.
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