Wendy K. Dobson
Bio
Wendy Dobson is a Professor Emerita at Rotman and former Canadian Associate Deputy Minister of Finance. She has offered courses in international business and Canadian public policy. Dobson is a former President of the C.D. Howe Institute Canada’s leading in dependent economic think tank, and has served as a non-executive director of a number of Canadian companies in finance and energy. She has also chaired the Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) pan-Pacific research network. She is a director of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation and the Leacock Foundation. She has published more than two dozen books and articles on Asia and the International economy. Gravity Shift: How Asia’s New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape the 21st Century (2009) was a prize winner in Canada and received a Chinese award for the Mandarin edition. More recent books include Partners and Rivals: the Uneasy Future of China’s Relationship with the United States (2013). In 2020 her latest book Living with China: A Middle Power Finds its Way (September 2019) was a Finalist for the 2019 Donner Prize for the best book in Canadian public policy and Finalist 2020 for The National Business Book Award.
Other Info
Wendy Dobson joined the Rotman School in 1990. 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 the Asia Pacific Foundation and member of the Advisory Committee of the Peterson Institute of International Economics. She participates actively in a number of international networks, including the Pacific Trade and Development Network (PAFTAD). Her course offerings include International Business in the World Economy and a Capstone Course for the School of Public Policy and Governance.
Academic Positions
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1993-Present
Co-Director, Institute for International Business, Rotman School of Management
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1993-Present
Professor, Rotman School of Management
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1990-1993
Professor and Senior Fellow, Faculty of Management
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1989-1991, 1998, 2000
Visiting Fellow, Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C.
Non-Academic Positions
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1987-1989
Associate Deputy Minister, Department of Finance, Government of Canada
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1981-1987
President and Executive Director, C.D. Howe Institute
Selected Publications - Papers
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"Climbing the Value Chain?
with Tom Westland
East Asia Forum
Issue:March 28
2017
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Financial Liberalisation and Trade: An examination of moving up value chains in Asia Pacific region
Wendy Dobson and Tom Westland, forthcoming
Issue:Asian Economic Integration in an Era of Global Uncertainty, managing editors: Shiro Armstrong and Tom Westland.
2017
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The Future of Canada's Relationship with China
with Paul Evans
IRPP, Policy Horizons Essay
Issue:November
2015
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Why Delay the Inevitable: Why the AIIB matters to Canada's future
Co-author Eugene Beaulieu
SPP Communique
Issue:April
2015
Pages: 7(2)
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Wendy K. Dobson
March
2014
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Gregoire-Francois Legault and Wendy K. Dobson
National Post.com
Issue:April 8
2014
Pages: On-line
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In Huang, Yiping and M. Yu, Eds., China's New Role in the World Economy, London:Routledge
2012
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CCCE and CCBC
2011
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Does Canada Have an India Strategy? Why it Should and What Both Sides Can Gain from Comprehensive Trade Talks
C.D. Howe Institute
2011
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School of Public Policy, University of Calgary
2010
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A Window of Opportunity Opens? Asian and US Views of the International Financial Architecture
Asian Economic Policy Reveiw 4
Issue:2
2009
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with Paul R. Masson
Final draft. Edited version appears in China Economic Review 20
Issue:1
2009
Pages: 124-35
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China's Integration into the Global Financial System
with Paul Masson and Robert Lafrance
Bank of Canada Review
Issue:August
2008
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with A. Edward Safarian
Final draft. Edited version published in Journal of Asian Economics 19
Issue:4
2008
Pages: 301-11
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Financial Reform in China and India: A comparative anaylsis
IFPRI/CES/SUFE International Conference on Dragon and Elephant: China and India's Economic Reforms, Shanghai, July 1-2
Issue:to be revised
2006
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Scepticism needed in China's banking frenzy
with Anil Kashyap
Financial Times
Issue:October 18
2006
Pages: (Op-Ed)
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The contradiction in China's gradualist banking reforms
with Anil Kashyap
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Washington, D.C: Brookings Institution Press.
Issue:BPEA, September
2006
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The Indian Elephant Shed its Past. The Implications for Canada
C.D. Howe Institute
Issue:Commentary. No. 235. June
2006
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The transforming Chinese economy: global and Canadian implications
International Journal. Toronto: Canadian Institute of International Affairs
Issue:vol. 61, no. 2. Spring
2006
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Beyond FTAs: Deepening North American Integration.
Paper prepared for a conference on Free Trade in the Americas, Baylor University, October 6-7
2005
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The transforming Chinese economy: global and Canadian implications
International Journal
Issue:(Forthcoming).
2005
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Taking a Giant's Measure: Canada, NAFTA and an Emergent China
C.D. Howe Institute
Issue:Commentary No. 202
2004
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Shaping the Future of the North American Economic Space: A Framework for Action
C.D. Howe Institute Commentary
Issue:No. 162
2002
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Deeper Integration in East Asia: Implications for the International Economic System
In Charles Morrison, Coordinator. East Asia in the International System. New York: The Trilateral Commission
2001
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Deeper Integration in East Asia: Regional Institutions and the International Economic System
The World Economy. Oxford and Boston: Blackwell
2001
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The Future of the Japan-Canada Economic Relationship
IIB Working Paper Series, No. 7
2000
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Fallout From the Global Financial Crisis: Should Capitalism Be Curbed?
International Journal
Issue:Summer
1999
Pages: pp.375-385
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Globalizing Trends and Canada's Economic Future
Ivey Business Journal. November/December
1999
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Prisoners of the Past in a Fast-Forward World: Canada's Policy Framework for the Financial Servies Sector
C.D. Howe Institute Commentary. No. 132.
1999
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What to do with the IMF?
Policy Options
Issue:July-August
1999
Pages: pp.37-42
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Summitry and International Monetary System: The Past as Prologue
Canadian Foreign Policy
Issue:III:1
1995
Pages: pp. 5-15
Selected Publications - Books and Chapters
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with Peter Petri
Chapter In N. Singh Ed., Handbook on Economics of the Pacific Rim
2014
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Financial Development and Cooperation in Asia and the Pacific
Co-edited with Edward K.Y. Chen
London: Routledge
2014
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Wendy K. Dobson and Edward K Y Chen
Intro. Chapter In Human Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific; London: Routledge
2014
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with Umar Boodoo
In Wendy K. Dobson, Ed., Human Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific; London: Routledge
2013
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Partners and Rivals: The Uneasy Future of China's Relationship with the United States
Wendy K. Dobson
University of Toronto Press
2013
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Wendy K. Dobson
Rotman-University of Toronto Press
2009
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Asia Pacific regional architecture and financial market integration
Christopher Findlay and Hadi Soesastro (eds.)
Chapter contributed to Reshaping the Asia Pacific Economic Order. New York: Routledge with PAFTAD International Secretariat.
2006
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Financial Services and International Trade Agreements: the Development Dimension
Aaditya Mattoo, Gianni Zanini, and Robert M. Stern (eds.)
Chapter contributed to Services Handbook. Washington, D.C.: World Bank in Cooperation with Palgrave Macmillan
Issue:forthcoming
2006
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Governance, Multinationals and Growth
Co-edited with Lorraine Eden
London: Elgar
Issue:June
2005
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East Asia in Transition: Economic and Security Challenges, edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
2002
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Financial services liberalization: The role of the millennium round
Chapter contributed to Freer trade in the next decade: Issues in the Millennium Round, (Subsequently published by Routledge, London)
Issue:March
2001
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World Capital Markets: Challenge to the G-10, co-authored with Gary Hufbauer
Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics
2001
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Business Networks in East Asia: Diversity and Evolution
in Rong-I Wu and Yun-Peng Chu, eds. Business Markets and Governments in the Asia Pacific
London and New York: Rutledge
1998
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Financial Services Liberalization in the WTO
with P. Jacquet
Washington DC: Institute for International Economics
1998
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Fiscal Frameworks and Financial Systems in East Asia: How Much Do They Matter? Edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
1998
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Liberalizing and Stabilizing the Canadian Economy
in B. Curtis Eaton and Richard G. Harris, Trade Technology and Economics, Brookfield US: Edward Elgar
1997
Pages: pp. 186-197
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Multinationals and East Asian Integration, edited with Chia Siow Yue. Ottawa and Singapore: IDRC Books, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Awarded 1997 Ohira Prize
1997
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Pacific Triangles: US Economic Relationships with Japan and China
in Richard Harris, ed. The Growing Importance of the Asia Pacific Region in the World Economy: Implications for Canada, Calgary: University of Calgary Press
1997
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Stabilization and Liberalization in Canadian Economic Policy
in Trade Technology and Economics: Essays in Honour of Richard G. Lipsey. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar
1997
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The People Link: Human Resource Linkages Across the Pacific, edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
1997
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Whither APEC's Ministers of Finance? Macroeconomic Policy, Exchange Rates and Financing Growth
in C. Fred Bergsten, ed. Whither APEC? Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics
1997
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East Asian Capitalism: Diversity and Dynamism, edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
1996
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Managing U.S. Japanese Trade Disputes: Are There Better Ways? edited with H. Sato. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press
1996
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Benchmarking the Canadian Business Presence in East Asia, edited with A.E. Safarian. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
1995
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Pacific Trade and Investment: Options for the 90s, edited with F. Flatters. Kingston: John Deutsch Institute, Queen's University
1995
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Surveillance and the International Monetary System: Ideas and Realities
in J.M. Boughton and K.S. Lateef, (Eds.) Fifty Years After Bretton Woods: The Future of the IMF and the World Bank. (Washington DC: International Monetary Fund World Bank Group)
1995
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Economic Policy Coordination Institutionalized? The G-7 and the Future of the Bretton Woods Institutions
Bretton Woods: Looking to the Future. Washington D.C. Bretton Woods Commission
1994
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Open Regionalism: East Asia Sets the Pace
M.A. Molot and H. von Riekhoff, (Eds.) A Part of the Peace. Ottawa: Carleton University Press
1994
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Japan in East Asia: Trade and Investment Strategies. Singapore: The Institute for Southeast Asian Studies
1993
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International Economic Policy Coordination: Requiem or Prologue? Washington DC: Institute for International Economics
1991
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Shaping Comparative Advantage, edited with R. Lipsey. Toronto: C.D. Howe Institute
1987
Research and Teaching Interests
Prof. Dobson teaches RSM2123: International Business in The World Economy and PPG 2003H a Capstone Course for the School of Public Policy and Governance. Her current research focuses on emerging market economies, economic integration in North America, the international financial system, regional and global governance, and Canadian public policy issues.
Honors and Awards
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1998
Ohira Prize, awarded by Ohira Foundation, Tokyo, for best English-language book on the Asia Pacific economies,
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1994, 2002
Student Choice Award for Teaching Excellence, Rotman School
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1993
UBC Alumni of Distinction Award,
Professional Affiliations/Memberships
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Canadian Economic Association
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American Economic Association
Academic / Professional Service
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2016 -
Co-chair, Dean's China Advisory Committee, Rotman School of Management
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2010 -
Chair, International Steering Committee, Pacific Trade and Development Network; Panel of Independent Experts (on APEC); Advisory Committee, Institute for International Economics, Washington, D.C.
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2004-
Senior Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation; Research Fellow, C.D. Howe Institute
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2009 -
Trustee, Trilateral Commission
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1999-2003
Director, University of Toronto Press