Western's College of Business and Economics to Host Boeing's Greg Pepin Oct. 27

Contact: Audrey Taylor at (360) 650-2204 or at Audrey.Taylor@wwu.edu.

BELLINGHAM – Western Washington University’s College of Business and Economics (CBE) will host Greg Pepin, vice president of Boeing International and president of Boeing Turkey, on Thursday, Oct. 27; Pepin will deliver formal presentations entitled “Competing for the Future” from noon- 1:50 p.m. in Frasier 3 and from 2-3:50 p.m. in Communications Facility 110. 

Both presentations are free and open to the public.

Pepin is vice president of Boeing International and president of Boeing Turkey.  Since 2002 Pepin has coordinated all of Boeing’s business activities in Turkey; he joined Boeing as the company’s director of Turkey in 1999.

Prior to joining Boeing, Pepin served in the U.S. Army for 26 years, which included living in Turkey for more than 20 years. As an officer in the U.S. Army, Pepin served in the Office of Defense Cooperation – Turkey, served in Syria and Egypt with the United Nations Peace Keeping Force, and fought in the Gulf War with the First Marine Division. Pepin’s final military assignment in Turkey was as the Army Attaché attached to the US Embassy in Ankara.

Pepin speaks fluent Turkish from his training at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, Calif. He is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and has a master’s degree in International Studies from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.  He is also a graduate of the United States Army War College.

The series is presented by CBE’s Accounting and International Business departments, CBE’s Center for Excellence in Management Education, the Department of Modern and Classical Languages and the International Studies Department.

For more information contact Audrey Taylor at (360) 650-2204 or at Audrey.Taylor@wwu.edu.