Editorial Board
Special Advisors
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Dr. Manfred Bienefeld Coordinator, MPA Program, Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University, Canada |
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Dr. Anne Miroux Head, Investment Issues Analysis Branch, Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development, United Nations Conference on Trade and Devleopment (UNCTAD) |
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Dr. Elinor Ostrom Senior Research Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, USA |
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Dr. Vincent Ostrom Founding Director, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, USA |
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Dr. Someshwar Rao Director, Productivity and Competitiveness Analysis Directorate, Industry Canada (Government of Canada) |
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Dr. Karl Sauvant Founder and Executive Director, Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment, Columbia University, USA |
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Dr. Yongding Yu Senior Researcher, Former Director, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China |
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Dr. Yanzhong Zhang Member, Chinese Academy of Engineering, Former Director, Aviation Industry Corporation of China |
Advisory Board Biographies
Dr. Manfred Bienefeld, Carleton University, Canada
Dr. Manfred A. Bienefeld is a Professor at the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the London School of Economics, and his research interests include development policy, financial deregulation, protectionism, and industrial policy. Most recently, Dr. Bienefeld has conducted research on wages and employment, commodity and capital markets, human capital, technology and industrialization, development and the environment, and historical perspectives on development. His regions of interest include Africa, East Asia, and the Pacific.
Dr. Anne Miroux, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, Switzerland
Dr. Anne Miroux is an editor of Transnational Corporations (not to be confused with TNCR) and is responsible for the World Investment Report, two publications of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). She has worked at the United Nations since 1980. Dr. Miroux’s first role was as an economist with the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations in New York, where she was involved in the negotiations on the United Nations Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations. At UNCTAD, she worked first on issues related to international capital flows and developing country debt, later heading Financial Services in the Division for Services and Trade Infrastructure. Dr. Miroux holds an MBA from École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC Paris) in Jouy-en-Josas, France. She also holds a diploma from Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP) in Paris and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Paris.
Dr. Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, USA
Dr. Elinor Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Senior Research Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. She is the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, USA, and Professor (part-time) of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University in Bloomington. Dr. Ostrom received her Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles, USA in 1965. In 2009, she received the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics). Her other awards include: the Daniel Elazar Distinguished Scholar Award from the Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section of the American Political Science Association, recognizing a lifetime of contributions to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations; the Reimar Lüst Award for International Scholarly and Cultural Exchange from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany; and the Jonathan M. Tisch Prize for Civic Engagement Research at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, USA. In 2008, she received an Honorary Doctorate from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway; the Galbraith Award of the American Agricultural Economics Association; an honorary doctorate from McGill University in Montreal, Canada; and the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science at the University of Rochester. In the same year, she also became a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Dr. Vincent Ostrom, Indiana University, USA
Dr. Vincent A. Ostrom is the Founding Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Dr. Ostrom received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles, USA in 1950. He was a Faculty Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Council from 1954 to 1955 and from 1956 to 1958. Dr. Ostrom has received multiple awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA). In 1991, he received the Daniel Elazar Distinguished Scholar Award. In 1999, for his book The Political Theory of a Compound Republic, he received the Martha Derthick Best Book Award, given for the best book published at least ten years prior that has made a lasting contribution to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations. Finally, at APSA’s 2005 meeting, he received the John Gaus Distinguished Lecturer Award honouring a lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration. At the Northern Polar Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property (IASCP), he received the 2003 Robert O. Anderson Sustainable Arctic Award from the Institute of the North for his vital role in the drafting of the Natural Resources Article of the Constitution of Alaska (the first and only state constitution to contain such an article). In 2003, he was co-recipient (with Dr. Elinor Ostrom) of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Atlas Economic Research Foundation’s Fund for the Study of Spontaneous Order.
Dr. Someshwar Rao, Industry Canada
Dr. Someshwar Rao is the Director of the Productivity and Competitiveness Analysis Directorate at Industry Canada. Dr. Rao is responsible for research and analysis of issues related to productivity, competitiveness, foreign direct investment, domestic and international trade, multinationals, information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the impact of climate change policy on Canadian industries. He was also responsible for Industry Canada’s Publications Program. Prior to joining Industry Canada, Dr. Rao was with the Economic Council of Canada, where he played a key role in the preparation of major reports on Canada’s competitiveness and the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement. Dr. Rao also served as the Acting Director of the Canadian Disaggregated Inter-Departmental Econometric (CANDIDE) model group, responsible for the development of a disaggregated model of Canadian industry and policy. He has published extensively on microeconomic and macroeconomic issues.
Dr. Karl Sauvant, Columbia University, USA
Dr. Karl P. Sauvant, a German national, received his Ph.D. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Vale Columbia Center on International Investment and a Research Scholar and Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School. Dr. Sauvant is a Special Advisor to the UN Millennium Project, Co-Director of the Millennium Cities Initiative, Chatham House Foundation Fellow, and a member of the International Advisory Council of the International Center for Corporate Accountability at Baruch College (City University of New York), USA. He is also a Special Advisor to Transnational Corporations Review and a Guest Professor at Nankai University, China.
Dr. Yongding Yu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China
Dr. Yongding Yu is a Senior Fellow and former Director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), where he is also a graduate-level Professor in the Department of World Economics. Dr. Yu joined IWEP in 1979 and was appointed Research Fellow in 1983 and Senior Research Fellow in 1987. From 1986 to 1988 he was the chief of the Division of Theoretical Studies of Western Economics at IWEP. He received his master’s degree in economics from CASS in 1986 and his Ph.D. from Oxford in 1994, and taught at the University of the West of England in 1993 and 1994. Since 1997, Dr. Yu has been Vice President of the China Society of World Economy. He is also a guest fellow of many research institutes and an advisor to many government departments. Dr. Yu’s research focuses on macroeconomics and international finance.
Dr. Yanzhong Zhang, Aviation Industry Corporation of China
Dr. Yanzhong Zhang is the former General Manager and current Secretary of the Party Committee of the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC). He has had lengthy affiliations with multiple aeronautics organizations. Dr. Zhang earned his doctorate in information engineering from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1981. After returning to China, Dr. Zhang served as Director of the Science and Technology Bureau of the Ministry of Aeronautics Industry, and later as its General Engineer. In 2001, he was honoured as a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Review Board
Dr. Connie Carter, School of Business, Royal Roads University, Canada
Dr. Jianxin Cui, School of Business, Central University of Finance and Economics, China
Dr. Michael Hansen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Dr. Manqing He, Research Center on Transnational Corporations, Ministry of Commerce, P.R. China
Dr. Hafiz Mirza, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Geneva
Dr. Val Samonis, TUI University, Central Europe
Dr. Jianmin Tang, Productivity and Competitiveness Analysis Directorate, Industry Canada
Dr. Tim Wang, Chinese eBusiness Association of Canada (CeBA)
Dr. Hong-Xing Wu, Public Health Agency of Canada (Government of Canada)
Dr. Guomin Xian, Center for Transnationals’ Studies, Nankai University, China
Dr. George Xue, School of Management, Fudan University, China
Dr. Joe Zhao, School of Economics and Management, Northwest University, China
Management
Editorial Team
Hugh Dang, Managing Editor
Karl Sauvant, Editor (Honourable)
Val Samonis, Special Editor (Knowledge Management)
Kelsey Wagner, Co-Managing Editor
Helen Zhang, Consultant Editor
Online Team
Anvella Deng, Data Specialist
Deon Liao, Online Manager
Gloria Yuan, Production Manager