Vinod (Vinnie) Aggarwal is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Affiliated Professor
in the Business and Public Policy group in the Haas School of Business, and Director of theBerkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC) at the University of California
at Berkeley. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Business and Politics, and Co-Chair ofthe U.S. Consortium of APEC Study Centers. From 1991-1994, he chaired the Political Economyof Industrial Societies Program at UC Berkeley.
Dr. Aggarwal received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. with afocus on international political economy from Stanford University. He has held fellowships fromthe Brookings Institution, Rockefeller Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, East-West Center,Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and he currently holds an Abe Fellowship fromthe Japan Foundation for 2008-2009. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Instituteof International Studies in Geneva, the University of Geneva’s IOMBA program, INSEAD, Yonsei
University, and Bocconi University. He is also a lifetime member of the Council on ForeignRelations and founding member of the U.S. Asia Pacific Council.
Dr. Aggarwal consults regularly with multinational corporations on strategy, trade policy, andinternational negotiations, including Russell Investments, the Investment Management Consultants
Association, Cisco, Statoil, ING Clarion, Hewlett Packard, Qualcomm, Herman Miller, Italcementi,
ARCO, and Nestle. He has been a consultant to the Mexican Government, the U.S. Department ofCommerce, U.S. Defense Department, U.S. State Department, World Trade Organization, OECD,
the Group of Thirty, IFAD, the International Labor Organization, ASEAN, and the World Bank. In
1990, he was Special Adviser on Trade Negotiations to the United Nations Conference on Trade andDevelopment (UNCTAD) and has worked with the APEC Eminent Persons Group. In 1997, he won
the Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award at the Haas School of Business for PhD teaching; in 2003 hewas first runner up for the Cheit Award for MBA teaching and won first place for the MBA programin 2005.
His authored books include Liberal Protectionism, International Debt Threat, Debt Games, Le
Renseignement Stratégique d'Entreprise, Une Nouvelle Approche des Phénomènes Sociaux, and hehas edited Institutional Designs for a Complex World, Asia-Pacific Crossroads, Winning in Asia:European Style, Winning in Asia: Japanese Style, Winning in Asia: U.S. Style, Sovereign Debt
Management, European Union Trade Strategies, The Strategic Dynamics of Latin American Trade,Bilateral Trade Agreements in the Asia Pacific, and Asia’s New Institutional Architecture. His
newest book is Northeast Asia: Ripe for Integration? Prof. Aggarwal has also published over 80
articles and book chapters on the politics of trade and finance. His current research examines
comparative regionalism in Europe, North America, and Asia with a focus on implications for theinternational system and multinational corporations. Dr. Aggarwal speaks five languages. He wasborn in Seattle, Washington.
Contact:
BASC
802 Barrows Hall #1970
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1970

Tel: (510) 642-2817 or 643-1071
FAX: (510) 643-1746
Email: vinod@berkeley.edu
http://basc.berkeley.edu/