January 13, 2010 By Citizen M

How a pro-Obama diplomat discusses Russia

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From an interview with Madeleine Albright in the FT:

FT: Secretary Albright, you are now a business woman as well as everything else. What parts of the world are your clients most interested in right now as business opportunities?


MA: Well, we are – particularly my firm focuses primarily on emerging markets, and part of it has to do with the fact that I have been fascinated by what is going on outside of, as a foreign policy person, outside of the United States and what the whole role of emerging markets in emerging countries are. And I think that what we specialise in is actually helping in terms of how American companies and other multinational companies can operate within emerging markets, and we see a whole lot of opportunities in the whole emerging markets.

FT: Name the top three.

MA: Well, obviously we talk about the Bric countries. I mean we spend a lot of time in China and India, Brazil, but also –

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