International Business Seminar: Professor Peter Buckley

Presentation

Anti-globalisation: Are our taken-for-granted assumptions under threat

Professor Peter Buckley

Peter J Buckley (BA (Econ), York; MA, East Anglia; PhD Economics, Lancaster; Dr hc (Uppsala); DSc hon (Lappeenranta) Dr. Merc.H.C. (Copenhagen)Doctor of Laws,HC(Carleton)) is Professor of International Business, Founder Director of the Business Confucius Institute at the University of Leeds and Founder Director of the Centre for International Business, University of Leeds, (CIBUL), UK.  He has published over 250 refereed articles and 28 books plus edited 20 more that have over 37,800 Google citations (h-index 81).  He was elected a Fellow of AIB in 1985 for “outstanding achievements in international business”.  He is also a Fellow of the British Academy of Management (BAM), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), a Fellow of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.  In 1998 he was made an Honorary Professor at the University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China.  He was President of the Academy of International Business 2002-04. He was awarded the Viipuri Prize in Strategic Management and Business Economics (2006), The Booz Allen Hamilton Strategy and Business Eminent Scholar in Management Prize (2008), The Richard Whipp Lifetime Award “for considerable and sustained contribution to the field of business and management research” (2011) and the John H Dunning Prize for Lifetime Achievement (UK&IAIB) (2017). He is past Chair of the European International Business Academy (2009-2012). He was awarded a Cheung Kong Scholar Chair Professor in the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE), Beijing in 2010.   He was Principal Consultant to UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2011.  He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s New Year Honours List 2012 “for services to higher education, international business and research”. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in July 2014.