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Wendy Dobson

Wendy Dobson, one of Canada's leading international economists, provides two unique vantage points based on her own experiences in the two countries and in the international system. One is top-down, informed by her role as Canada's Associate Deputy Minister of Finance responsible for international financial diplomacy in the G-7 in the late 1980s and more recently as a professor at the University of Toronto. The other perspective is bottom-up, drawing on her life and work in India in the 1960s, in a job that took her into politicians' offices and sent her into the villages, and her many visits to China starting in 1978, the year that its transformation began to emerge.

Since 1993 she has led research and teaching at the Rotman Institute for International Business at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management. She has published twenty books and many articles on Asia and the international economy. Between 1995 and 2002 she was the managing editor of the Hong Kong Bank of Canada's Papers on Asia, published by University of Toronto Press. One of her books, Multinationals and East Asian Integration, won the Ohira Prize in 1998 for the best English-language book on Asia, and several of her other publications have been translated into Chinese.

Books by Wendy Dobson

Living with China

A Middle Power Finds Its Way

by (author) Wendy Dobson

Partners and Rivals

The Uneasy Future of China's Relationship with the United States

by (author) Wendy Dobson

Gravity Shift

How Asia's New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape the 21st Century

by (author) Wendy Dobson

East Asia in Transition

Economic and Security Challenges

edited by Wendy Dobson & A.E. Safarian

Fiscal Frameworks and Financial Systems

by (author) Richard Bird & Varouj Aivazian
edited by A.E. Safarian & Wendy Dobson

Fiscal Frameworks and Financial Systems in East Asia

How Much Do They Matter?

edited by Wendy Dobson

The People Link

Human Resource Linkages across The Pacific

edited by A.E. Safarian & Wendy Dobson

East Asian Capitalism

Diversity and Dynamism

edited by Wendy Dobson & A.E. Safarian

Benchmarking the Canadian Business Presence in East Asia

edited by Wendy Dobson & A.E. Safarian