EBS Department Chair Prof. Dr. André Schmidt presents Ms. Alexander with a bottle of Rheingau Riesling.

U.S. Expert Analyzes Role of Economy in 2008 Elections
March 31, 2008. James W. Seward, head of the U.S. Consulate's press and cultural section, hosted a luncheon in honor of Susan Alexander, managing director of Minerva Co., Luxembourg, at a local restaurant in Frankfurt.  Ms. Alexander engaged prominent guests, among them the chief economist of Union Investment, the director of Frankfurt’s Center for Financial Studies, and ZDF’s stock exchange specialist, in an extended discussion of the role of the economy and economic policy in the 2008 U.S. elections. 

Later that evening she lectured on the same topic to students and faculty at the prestigious private European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel near Wiesbaden. Personally acquainted with some of the economic advisors for the Republican and Democratic candidates in the primary race, Alexander was able to offer her interlocutors special insights into the role of the state of economy in the presidential election, showing that the economy is already playing a much greater role in the campaign than foreign policy.