Stephen Blank

Stephen Blank (Ph.D. Harvard 1967) : Professeur invité Fulbright en études politiques et économiques américaines, 2004-2005 (Université de Montréal). Politologue de formation, Stephen Blank est professeur titulaire d’administration des affaires internationales et directeur du Center for International Business Development, Lubin School of Business, Pace University, New York. En reconnaissance de son travail pour l’amélioration des liens d’affaires entre les États du nord-est américain et le Québec, il a été décoré en 2001 de l’insigne de l’Ordre national du Québec.

Stephen Blank taught in the Government Departments at Harvard University (1965-67) and the University of Pittsburgh (1967-74). He was Visiting Professor at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College for nine years (1982-1991). He has served recently as a regular Visiting Professor at HEC-Montréal. His long list of visiting or adjunct appointments includes : Yale, the University of British Columbia, the International University of Japan, Dalhousie University, Columbia and the University of Toronto. Stephen Blank has written widely on Canada and North American developments in recent years, and appears frequently on Canadian radio and television and as a speaker at conferences and meetings. He is consultant on Canada at the Americas Society in New York. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Mid-Atlantic Club of New York and the Executive Committee of the North-American Committee. He serves on the Board of Advisors of the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York and the ThinkNet Commission Steering Committee of Prometheé, a Paris-based research organisation, and is a Special Advisor to the Pacific Institute. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.