New Modes of Organizing Trade in the Asia Pacific

Vinod Aggarwal is professor in the Department of Political Science, affiliated professor of Business and Public Policy in the Haas School of Business, and director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) at the University of California at Berkeley. He has been at Berkeley since 1980, and from 1991-1994 was chairman of the Political Economy of Industrial Societies Program.He is also the founder and editor-in-chief of the journal Business and Politics. Dr. Aggarwal consults regularly with multinational corporations on strategic planning, trade policy, and international negotiations. In the public sector, he has been a consultant to the Mexican Government, the U.S. Department of Commerce, OECD, the Group of Thirty, IFAD, and the World Bank. In 1990, he was special adviser on Trade Negotiations to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in connection with the GATT Uruguay Round negotiations and has also served as an adviser to Dr. Fred Bergsten, chairman of the APEC Eminent Persons Group. In 1997, he won the Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award at the Haas School of Business. Professor Aggarwal's authored books include Liberal Protectionism, International Debt Threat, and Debt Games, and his edited volumes include Asia-Pacific Crossroads. He is currently completing a volume on American corporate market and nonmarket strategies in Asia. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University. This seminar is part of the Shorenstein Forum's ongoing series, "The California-Asia Connection." Lunch will be served to those who RSVP to Debbie Warren at dawarren@stanford.edu or 650-723-2408 by Friday, January 31, 2003.