The IOMBA academic advisory board is responsible for guiding the design of the IOMBA programme, curriculum, and structure. It brings together a collection of internationally renowned scholars, with practical experience working in international or nongovernmental organizations as officials and consultants. Members are drawn from leading institutions around the world, both north and south as well as east and west. In addition to guiding the programme itself, board members often teach in the programme, and provide contacts for students in the respective regions.
Chair of the Board: Vinod K. Aggarwal, USA 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 is also the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Business and Politics. Professor Aggarwal received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. in international political economy from Stanford University. He has been a Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Rockefeller Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations Fellow, Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and a Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars Fellow. Dr Aggarwal consults regularly with multinational corporations. In the public sector, he has been a consultant to the World Trade Organization, OECD, the Group of Thirty, IFAD, UNCTAD, APEC, and the World Bank. He is the author or editor of 14 books and over 70 articles and book chapters on the politics of trade and finance.
Members of the Board: Professor Rakesh Basant Professor of Economics Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India
Professor Roberto Bouzas Professor of International Economics University of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, Argentina
Professor Kent Calder Professor of East Asian Studies and Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS),Johns Hopkins University Washington D.C, USA
Professor Maurizio Ferrera Professor of Political Science University of Milan Milan, Italy
Professor Fan Gang Professor of Economics and Director, National Economic Research Institute, China Reform Foundation Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Beijing, People's Republic of China
Professor Judith Goldstein Professor of Political Science, & Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies Stanford University Stanford, CA, USA
Professor Luis Mara Huete Professor of Production, Technology, and Operations Management IESE Business School Barcelona, Spain
Dr Gary Hufbauer Reginald Jones Senior Fellow Institute for International Economics Washington D.C, USA
Mr Ian Kleinman Council Member and Chairman of the Education & Examination Board, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), Geneva, Switzerland
Professor Lai To Lee Professor and Head of the Political Science Department National University of Singapore Singapore
Professor Patricio Meller Professor of International Economics University of Chile Santiago, Chile
Professor Chung-In Moon Professor of Political Science, Yonsei University Seoul, Korea
Dr Charles Morrison President East-West Center Honolulu, HI, USA
Dr Ricardo Ubiraci Sennes Director, Prospective International Consulting, Sao Paolo. Assistant Professor of International Relations, Anhembi Morumbi University.
Professor Antonio Ortiz Mena Professor of International Political Economy and Chair of the International Studies Department Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE)Mexico City, Mexico
Dr Sylvia Ostry Distinguished Research Fellow Center for International Studies, University of Toronto Toronto, Canada
Professor John Ravenhill Professor of International Relations, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Professor Shujiro Urata Professor of Economics Waseda University Tokyo, Japan
Professor Douglas Webber Professor of International Political Economy INSEAD Fontainebleau, France
