IOMBA Academic Advisory Board

The IOMBA academic advisory board brings together a collection of internationally renowned scholars, who also have practical experience working in international or non-governmental organizations as professionals and consultants. Its members come from leading institutions around the world.

The advisory board assists in the ongoing design and structuring of the programme, often teaching in the programme, and provides 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 Centre (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 Centre 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.


  • Rakesh Basant - Professor of Economics, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
  • Robert Bouzas - Professor of International Economics, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Kent Calder -    Professor of East Asian Studies and Director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Centre for East Asian Studies, School for Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University,Washington D.C., USA
  • Maurizio Ferrera - Professor of Political Science, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
  • Fan Gang - Professor of Economics, Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing, People's Republic of China
  • Judith Goldstein - Professor of Political Science and Dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies, Stanford University, CA, USA
  • Luis Maria Huete - Professor of Production, Technology and Operation Management, IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain
  • Gary Hufbauer - Reginald Jones Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics, Washington D.C., USA
  • Lai To Lee - Professor and Head of the Political Science Department, National University of Singapore, Singapore    
  • Patricio Meller - Professor of International Economics, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • Chung-In Moon - Professor of Political Science Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
  • Charles Morrison - President, East-West Centre, Honolulu, HI, USA
  • John Ravenhill - Professor of International Relations, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
  • Shujiro Urata - Professor of Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
  • Kent Weaver -     Professor of Public Policy and Government, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., USA
  • Douglas Webber - Professor of International Political Economy, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France