User:Jean-Pierre Lehmann

Jean-Pierre Lehmann is Professor of International Political Economy at IMD and the Founding Director of The Evian Group at IMD.

Biography
Jean-Pierre Lehmann was born in Washington DC on 29 August 1945. He spent most of his childhood and adolescence between Japan and Europe. In 1966 he obtained his bachelor degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and subsequently he did  his doctorate at Oxford University (St Antony’s College), where he was from 1967 to 1970. Jean-Pierre Lehmann’s areas of special interest include globalisation, global governance, trade and development, the role of business in reduction of poverty and inequality and the socio-economic, cultural, and business dynamics of Asia. He acts in various leading capacities in a number of public policy institutes and organisations, as an adviser to governments and corporations, and as a frequent commentator in the international media. He is the author of several books and numerous articles and papers primarily dealing with globalisation, modern East Asian history and East Asia and the international political economy. In 1995, Professor Lehmann launched The Evian Group, an international coalition of corporate, government, and opinion leaders, united by a common vision of enhancing global prosperity for the benefit of all by fostering an open, inclusive and equitable global market economy in a rules-based multilateral framework. The Evian Group at IMD has developed as a leading global voice on global trade and investment issues that acts as a forum for dialogue and a birth place of ideas; it also engages actively in advocacy to counter the forces of protectionism and chauvinism. Jean-Pierre Lehmann works closely with a number of international forums and think tanks, including the World Economic Forum where he is a member of two of its GACs (Global Agenda Councils), on Trade and on the Future of China. Prior to joining IMD, Professor Lehmann’s journalist, academic and business careers encompassed activities in virtually all Asian and Western European countries, as well as North America. He was founding director of the European Institute of Japanese Studies (EIJS) at the Stockholm School of Economics (from 1992) and Professor of East Asian Political Economy and Business. He established and directed the East Asian operations of InterMatrix, a London-based business strategy research and consulting organization (1986-1992). During this time he was concurrently Affiliated Professor of International Business at the London Business School. Previously, Jean-Pierre Lehmann was Associate Professor of International Business at INSEAD, Visiting Professor at the Bologna Center (Italy) of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, twice Visiting Professor and Japan Foundation Fellow at the University of Tohoku (Japan), and founding director of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Stirling (Scotland), where he also taught East Asian history. He also directed the EC-ASEAN 'Transfer of Technology and Socio-Economic Development Programs' (1981-1986).

Teaching and Presentations
Jean-Pierre Lehmann teaches both a core course and various electives in the IMD MBA program. He has been involved in annual MBA student project research field trips to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Argentina, Kenya and South Africa. In 2009 he took an MBA elective to Bangladeshto assess private sector strategies for meeting Bangladesh’s poverty and climate change challenges. Jean-Pierre Lehmann teaches in a number of the IMD executive education programs, both those for specific companies and general management, including OWP (Orchestrating Winning Performance), MTE (Mastering Technology Enterprise) and LGE (Leading the Global Enterprise). He is also engaged in teaching in institutions of tertiary education in various countries throughout the world, including as regular lecturer at the IEDC – Bled School of Management in Slovenia.

Publications
Jean-Pierre Lehmann frequently writes articles on key issues of the day in journals and online publications. This includes numerous and diverse contributions to the IMD Tomorrow’s Challenges series. He writes a monthly column for the Chinese language magazine China Entrepreneur(CEC). Many of his publications also appear in YaleGlobal Online, The Globalist and Project Syndicate. Reflecting his PhD (D.Phil) at Oxford’s St Antony’s College on Japanese economic history in the late Edo and earl Meiji eras (1850s to 1880s), Jean-Pierre Lehmann has maintained his interest in Japan about which he has written several books, the most recent, in March 2009, was co-authored with John Haffner and Tomas Casas i Klett and is entitled Japan’s Open Future: An Agenda for Global Citizenship. He has edited with his son, Fabrice Lehmann, a work commissioned by the ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) Research Foundation, entitled World Peace and Prosperity Through World Trade – Achieving the 1919 Vision to be published by Cambridge University Press in June 2010. The book is composed of individual short op-ed style chapters from some 50 authors from 26 different countries and from diverse professions and disciplines.

Personal
Jean-Pierre Lehmann has been married for over 40 years to Françoise Lehmann née Domergue; he has three children and five grand-children.