J. Michael Giles, chairman of the Merrill Lynch International Banking Group, will present the Ben K. Miller Memorial International Business Lecture at the University of Colorado at Boulder on April 25.
Giles will speak at 3:30 p.m. in room 100 of the Mathematics Building. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Giles earned a bachelor's degree from CU-Boulder in 1963 and a master's degree in international business from the University of California at Los Angeles. He began working with Citibank in Asia in 1969 and has also lived and worked in Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Greece, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom.
Giles has been active with the CU-Boulder College of Business advisory board, the UK Business in the Community Task Force, the Learning Forum and the Cap Gemini Forum.
The Ben K. Miller lecture series began in 1974 and provides College of Business students with an opportunity to hear from prominent global business executives. Miller was a 1946 graduate of the CU-Boulder College of Business who founded Miller International, one of the first American clothing manufacturers to produce goods in Japan. His chain of western wear clothing stores, Miller-Stockman, is well known to Coloradans.