Professor John Dunning has been researching into the economics of international direct investment and the multinational enterprise since the 1950s. He has authored, co-authored, or edited 42 books on this subject, and on industrial and regional economics. His latest publications are a book of essays, Globalisation at Bay, a two volume compendium of his more influential contributions to international business over the past 30 years (Edward Elgar, 2002), and a newly edited volume on Making Globalization Good (Oxford University Press, (2003). He is currently working on (with Sarianna Lundan) a revised edition to his widely acclaimed textbook Multinational Enterprises and the Global Economy, first published in 1993.

Professor Dunning is Emeritus Professor of International Business at the University of Reading, UK and State of New Jersey Emeritus Professor of International Business at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. In addition, he has been Visiting Professor at several universities in North America, Europe and Asia. Professor Dunning is currently Senior Economic Adviser to the Director of the Division on Investment, Technology and Enterprise Development of UNCTAD in Geneva, and past Chairman of a London based economics and management consultancy, Economists Advisory Group Ltd.

Professor Dunning has honorary doctorates from the University of Uppsala in Sweden, the Autonomous University of Madrid and the University of Antwerp. He is also honorary Professor of International Business at the University of International Business and Economics at Beijing. He is past President of the International Trade and Finance Association, and of the Academy of International Business. A festschrift, edited by Peter Buckley and Mark Casson was published in his honour in 1992, and in 2003 a second festschrift, embracing his work at Rutgers University, and edited by Peter Gray was published. Also in 2003, a volume edited by John Cantwell and Rajneesh Narula entitled International Business and the Eclectic Paradigm was devoted to his theoretical contributions to international business. In 2002, Professor Dunning was honoured as Distinguished Scholar in International Management at the Academy of Management’s annual meeting at Denver.

Professor Dunning is Chairman of the Board of Editorial Advisors of the UNCTAD journal Transnational Corporations, and serves on several other editorial and advisory boards. He has homes at Henley on Thames in Oxfordshire, and in Cornwall.