Senior Fellow and Professor, East-West Center, Honolulu

Dr. Dieter Ernst, senior fellow at the East-West Center (Honolulu, USA), is an authority on global production networks and R&D internationalization in high-tech industries and on Asia’s industrial and innovation policies, with a focus on standards and intellectual property rights. His position is at the full professorial level. He was a senior advisor to the OECD, Paris; research director of the Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy (BRIE) at the University of California at Berkeley; and professor of international business at the Copenhagen Business School. Dr. Ernst has served as scientific advisor to, among others, the World Bank, the Social Science Research Council, the National Bureau of Asian Research, the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development, the U.N. Industrial Development Organization, and the Deloitte Center for the Edge.