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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University alumnus and longtime business consultant Joe Lobbato will speak on "Ethical Challenges in International Business" Monday, April 27, at OSU.

The presentation will run from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. in the Stirek Auditorium in Austin Hall, 2751 S.W. Jefferson Way, Corvallis. The talk is free and open to the public.

Lobbato graduated from OSU's College of Business in 1981 and added an MBA the following year. He then went to work in Copenhagen, Denmark, as a management consultant with Arthur Andersen, which became Andersen Consulting and later Accenture.

He spent 13 years in Europe before taking on the oversight of Accenture's Change Management Services in an array of regions ranging from Scandinavia to South Korea to Australia. Lobbato retired from Accenture as a managing partner in 2004 after 22 years with the firm. He then became chief operating officer of one of the largest companies in Thailand, Central Retail Corporation Ltd., an $8 billion retail and real estate conglomerate.

Now retired from full-time work, Lobbato is involved with ad hoc projects, board work and venture capital opportunities and also teaches business ethics at a university in Thailand one semester each year.

For more information on the talk, or to request accommodations for disabilities, call 541-737-6648.