Dr. Wendy Dobson is a professor at the Rotman School of Management and Co-director of the Rotman Institute for International Business.  She is a former Associate Deputy Minister of Finance in the Canadian government and a former President of the C.D. Howe Institute, Canada's leading independent economic think tank and a non-executive director of Canadian companies in finance and energy.  She is also a director of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation, Senior Fellow at Massey College and member of the Advisory Committee of the Peterson Institute of International Economics.  She chairs the Pacific Trade and Development Network (PAFTAD).  Her course offerings include introductory macroeconomics and International Business in the World Economy.

 

Her most recent book, Gravity Shift:  How Asia's New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape the 21st Century was a finalist for the National Business Book Award in 2010 while the Mandarin translation, Ya Zhou Xin Shi Li,  was awarded the Annual Award for the Best Book in Finance and Economics by China's well known and influential website Hexun.com. Other recent writings include "Will the Renminbi Become a World Currency?", "The Contradiction in China's Banking Reforms," "The Transition from Imitation to Innovation:  An Enquiry into the Technological Capabilities of China's Firms," and "A Window of Opportunity Opens:  Asian and American Views of the International Economic Architecture."  

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Last Updated: 12 May 2011