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							GUEST SPEAKER /

Dr. Jim de Wilde
President, JdW Venture Capital Strategies
Turning Extractive Industries into a
Source of Global Venture Capital: The
Quest for a Green Mining Industry and
the End of the “Oil Curse”

Monday, 28 February 2011
3:30 ― 5:00 pm
Peterson Hall
Room 116
3460 McTavish Street

For information, contact ISID:
BY EMAIL AT INFO.ISID@MCGILL.CA
OR CALL 514-398-3507




SPEAKER’S BIO /
Jim de Wilde is President of JdW Venture Capital Strategies. He has had a career as a management
educator and venture capitalist. He started teaching in Business Schools at the University of Western
Ontario (now Ivey) in 1984. He has more recently taught venture capital strategies at McGill (1990-
1992), the Helsinki School of Economics and Rotman (from 2001-5, when he set up the venture capital
strategies course and from January 2010 when he resumed responsibility for the course. He is also am
Executive in Residence at the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson and on the Board of the
Canada-India Business Council and a Charter Member of TIE. He has a PhD in political science from
McGill which focused on the relationship between Canadian public policy and the growth of "advanced
technology" sectors.