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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">The University of Houston and the Borders, Trade</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#2F5496; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">,</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">
and Immigration (BTI) Institute will host the U. S. Department of State’s <b>Security and Strategic Trade Management Academy </b>(SSTMA) from May 6 through May 20th, 2023. Fifty (50) foreign trade officials from twenty countries will participate in a two-week
course focused on nonproliferation and Strategic Trade Controls. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">We seek volunteers from our faculty and staff to serve as sponsors to each of our foreign guests in our efforts to provide a "personal touch" and to assist
them in becoming acclimated during their brief stay in the U.S. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">No financial commitment is required - these officials are provided lodging at the Hilton University Houston during their stay. All are provided per diem and
incidentals for their meals. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">Sponsors are invited to participate in social functions</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#2F5496; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">:
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">Welcome Reception (May 7th) and Consuls General Reception (May 9th), tours of Space Center Houston (May 13) and Port Houston (May 16), as well as joining
us for a series of dinners out during the course of their two-week stay. </span>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">Volunteers may sign up to sponsor a guest from a specific country, on a "first come, first served" basis. We will host guests from Algeria, Argentina, Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, India, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Morocco, Panama, Philippines, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Ukraine, and Vietnam.
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">Interested individuals should contact Kevin Clement at </span><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:blue; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in"><a href="mailto:KClement@uh.edu" data-auth="NotApplicable">KClement@uh.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in"> or
call him directly at </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif; color:#2F5496; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">512.626.5413.
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<b><span style="color:#2F5496">Kevin M. Clement</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:#2F5496">Executive Director, Strategic Partnerships</span></p>
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<i><span style="color:#2F5496">Director, 2023 Security & Strategic Trade Management Academy</span></i></p>
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<i><span style="color:#2F5496">Director, 2023 Port of the Future Conference</span></i></p>
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<span style="color:#2F5496">College of Technology</span></p>
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<b><span style="color:#C00000">University of Houston</span></b></p>
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<span style="color:#2F5496">(713) 743-1676 | (512) 626-5413| <a href="mailto:kclement@central.uh.edu" data-auth="NotApplicable">
kclement@central.uh.edu</a></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:#2F5496"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:#2F5496"><img border="0" width="103" height="50" id="x_x__x0000_i1026" alt="BC8FFC2B2C324E87B937A623BC6B842C[41858750].jpg" style="width:1.0763in; height:.5208in" data-outlook-trace="F:0|T:2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D8CE98.A4C5B1C0"></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black">2023 Port of the Future Conference</span></b></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:#2F5496"> </span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt; color:black">“3 Days, 50 Ports”</span></i></b></p>
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