Authors

Shiro Armstrong is co-director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University, and editor of the East Asia Forum.

Linda Qian is a Post-Graduate Research Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, and a graduate from the University of Oxford’s School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies.

Dr. Gerhard Apfelthaler is a professor of International Management and Dean of the School of Management at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California. Previously, he served as the Chair of the Department of International Management at FH Joanneum University in Austria, the Chair of the Department of International Business at FH Kufstein in Austria, as Austria’s Deputy Trade Commissioner in Los Angeles, and as Commercial Attaché at the Austrian Embassy in Singapore.

Dr. Carlyle Farrell is an Associate Professor in the Global Management Studies Department in the Ted Rogers School of Management, Ryerson University. He teaches international marketing at the undergraduate and MBA levels and is a frequent media commentator on international business issues. Dr. Farrell is the author of two textbooks on global marketing the most recent (2015) titled: Global Marketing: Practical Insights and International Perspectives published by SAGE.

Dr. Kenneth A. Grant is the Chair of the Department of Entrepreneurship and Strategy in the Ted Rogers School of Ryerson University. In addition to his teaching of undergraduate and MBA courses, his research focuses on youth entrepreneurship.

Dr. Gerhard Apfelthaler is a professor of International Management and Dean of the School of Management at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, California. Previously, he served as the Chair of the Department of International Management at FH Joanneum University in Austria, the Chair of the Department of International Business at FH Kufstein in Austria, as Austria’s Deputy Trade Commissioner in Los Angeles, and as Commercial Attaché at the Austrian Embassy in Singapore.

With research and writing assistance from Naman Shah, Graduate Assistant at the School of Management, California Lutheran University.

Dr. Howard Lin is Professor of International Business & Entrepreneurship and Co-Director of the Canada-China Institute for Business & Development at Ryerson. He has also served as Vice President, Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and Chair, Academy of International Business Canada Chapter.

Lorna Wright is executive director at the Centre for Global Enterprise, York University’s Schulich School of Business.

Katrina is a second-year student at Simon Fraser University. She recently completed a co-op term in Mae Sot, Thailand, near the border with Myanmar.

David A. Welch is CIGI Chair of Global Security at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo, and Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, where he has recently been working on Asia-Pacific Security.