Contributors

Philippe Gugler

Professor Philippe Gugler holds the Chair of Economics and Social Policy at Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is the co-author with John H. Dunning of the book Foreign Direct Investments, Location and Competitiveness, (Oxford: Elsevier 2008). Professor Gugler is an affiliate faculty member of the Harvard Business School, USA, a guest Professor at the University of Torino, Italy, a Member of the Board of Directors of the World Trade Institute. In December 2005, Professor Gugler was elected President of the European International Business Association which is the leading European Association dealing with multinational enterprises.

Julien Chaisse

Julien Chaisse holds a PhD in Law. He coordinates the multilateral rules on investment project of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Trade Regulation and teaches WTO law at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He has been Alternate Leader of NCCR-Trade Regulation’s IP11, based at the World Trade Institute, since 2007. He was Visiting Professor at the International Law Institute of Wuhan University in China, where he taught WTO law and European Union law (2007–2008). Before joining the World Trade Institute, he taught Public International Law at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Aix-en-Provence (2004–2006). His previous experience includes two years in India, where he worked for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as Scientific Secretary at the Centre de Sciences Humaines of New Delhi. His research interests include foreign trade and foreign direct investments, international business law, investment law, WTO law and the central question of its enforcement by its Members.

Bertram Boie

Bertram Boie is a research fellow at the NCCR/World Trade Institute Berne and at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. His research focuses on the legal framework of Sino-European investment relations. Here, many matters relevant for enhancing coherence in international investment regulation come together, including in particular current fragmentation in regulatory issues, open substantive matters, and investment distortion. Before joining the WTI, Mr. Boie worked at an investment advisory firm in Beijing and was a Carlo-Schmid fellow at UNCTAD’s section for international investment agreements. Mr. Boie holds a LL.M. in European and international economic law from Maastricht University, and studied international relations at the TU Dresden’s Centre for International Studies.

Andrew Delios

Andrew Delios is an Associate Professor and Head, Department of Business Policy, at the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. He holds a PhD in General Management from the Ivey Business School, the University of Western Ontario. He has also held positions at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Toronto. His research interests include the study of the internationalization strategies of Japanese firms, and the ownership governance, growth and international expansion strategies of listed firms in China.

Ajai Singh Gaur

Ajai Gaur is currently an Assistant Professor at the College of Business and Public Administration, Old Dominion University, USA. He holds a Ph. D. In Strategy and International Business, a Ph.D. in Management, a Master in International Business and a B. Tech. in Mining Engineering. His research interests lie at the intersection of strategy and international business. His work has been published in leading management journals such as Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Management International Review and British Journal of Management.

Shawkat Kamal

Shawkat Kamal is a PhD student at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He holds a BBA and an MBA from the Institute of Business Administration, University of Dhaka. Prior to Joining the PhD program at NUS, he worked as a faculty at the Business School at BRAC University, Dhaka, Bangladesh for more than four years. His past education was in Finance. However, currently he is working on International Strategy.

Joël Ruet

Joël Ruet is the director of the Chair on Global Industry and Emerging Economies at Mines-ParisTech (www.emerging-industry.org). Since 2000 he has been associate researcher at the Centre for Industrial Economics at the Ecole des Mines de Paris. He is the author or editor of five books, an alumnus of Ecole des Mines de Paris, a doctor in industrial economics and a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He teaches at the Hautes Etudes Commerciales Paris, Ecole des Mines, and Barcelona University. A former Fellow of the London School of Economics, he directed the French Research Centre in New Delhi and taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Consultant to the governments of France and India. Member of the economic team of Dominique Strauss-Kahn’ s Presidential campaign in 2006. His research expertise covers the globalization of firms in emerging countries, impact on state--industry relations, global recomposition of capitalism and its political economy. Joël Ruet is an expert on essential urban servicesand reforms of state administration and utilities, urban governance. Joël Ruet’ s research fields are India and comparative research with China and Egypt.

Jianqiang Nie

Jianqiang Nie holds a PhD in law from the University of Bern (World Trade Institute), Switzerland. He is presently Professor of Law at Wuhan University, China and vice-director of its prestigious Institute of International Law (www.translaws.com). Jianqiang Nie teaches international economic law with a strong emphasis in his research agenda on World Trade Organization law and in particular intellectual property law. He is the author of the book Enforcement of intellectual property rights in China published in 2006 by Cameron May.

Jun Xiao

Dr iur Jun Xiao is Associate Professor at the Wuhan University Institute of International Law. He did his doctoral studies at the University of Saarland, Germany and has published in German ‘Das Prinzip der Nichtdiskriminierung in einem kuenftigen multilateralen Investitionsabkommen" (Nomos-Verlag 2007). His research activities mainly relate to international investment law and international trade law.

Darryl Jarvis

Darryl S.L. Jarvis is Associate Professor (International Relations) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. His research is concerned with risk and issues associated with regulatory and political risk for foreign investors in the Asia-Pacific region.

Chen Shaofeng

Shaofeng CHEN is a researcher at the East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. His research interests focus on oil and gas market and policy analyses in East Asia, foreign direct investment, and comparative studies on government--business relationships.

Tan Teck Boon

Tan Teck Boon has a Masters in Economics from the National University of Singapore and is currently a doctoral candidate at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. His research interests include investment markets, institutional design, government sector reforms and intelligence systems.

Sebastien Miroudot

Sébastien Miroudot is trade policy analyst at the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate. He holds a Ph.D. in International Economics from SciencesPo Paris, where he teaches in the Master’s degree program. Before joining the OECD, he worked for several years at Groupe d’Economie Mondiale as research assistant and lecturer. His research interests include trade in services, the relationship between trade