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Weissman Center Fellows
The Weissman Center Fellows program was created to encourage scholars and practitioners to conduct research at the Center on important issues concerning international business, finance and economics. Weissman Center Fellows are an integral part of the Center's research, education and training activities. They provide guidance on the development of student service programs designed to provide students with international skills suitable for work in a global economy.
Professor Jean J. Boddewyn
Jean J. Boddewyn is Professor of International Business and former Coordinator of the International Business Program in the Zicklin School of Business of Baruch College, CUNY. He has also held teaching positions at the University of Portland, New York University and Columbia University. He has a Commercial Engineer degree from the University of Louvain (Belgium), and MBA from the University of Oregon and the Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Washington (Seattle).
He served as President of the Academy of International Business and as Chair of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management - he is a Fellow of both organizations as well as of the International Academy of Management. He presently serves as Dean of the AIB Fellows.
His current research interests center on business political behavior, international public affairs, the regulation and self-regulation of advertising around the world, international business strategy and rent-seeking behavior. His expertise gave him opportunities to advise tobacco and pharmaceutical firms as well as U.S. congressional committees and the World Health Organization.
He received the 2002 Academy of Management's Distinguished Service Award for his service as Editor of International Studies of Management & Organization since 1971, his pioneering research on comparative management, foreign divestment and international business government relations, and his leadership roles as an early Chair (1974) of the AOM's International Management Division as well as Vice-President (1975-1976) and President (1993-1994) of the Academy of International Business.
Professor Eugene Sherman
Eugene J. Sherman brings 39 years of professional experience in the financial services industry to his courses in Macroeconomics (honors), Money and Banking, and International Economics. He has been teaching since 1997. His "Wall Street" career included positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Chase Manhattan Bank (now J.P. Morgan Chase), the Bank of New York, Merrill Lynch and the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York. He worked as an economist, money manager and investment strategist in domestic and international markets and served as a senior officer with significant management responsibilities over his last 26 years before "retirement." Professor Sherman enjoys teaching, especially at Baruch College with its highly diverse student body. As an alumnus of the City College of New York (B.A., 1956) including one semester at Baruch, he feels he has come full circle. Now he is helping people like himself prepare for their careers.
Professor Clifford Wymbs
Clifford Wymbs is an assistant professor of marketing in the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, City University of New York. He received his Ph.D. in international business from Rutgers University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University. His research interests include international business questions that relate to the dynamic business landscape driven by deregulation, network technology and the Internet and those that relate to the role locations (country, State, city) play in the creation of knowledge centers and in attracting foreign direct investment.
Thomas M.T. Niles
Thomas M. T. Niles is Vice Chair of the United States Council for International Business. He served as president of USCIB from February 1999 until April 2005, capping a 36-year diplomatic career that included three key ambassadorial appointments - to Canada, Greece and the European Union - as well as service as Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Canada. Appointed ambassador to Canada in 1985, Mr. Niles played a key role in negotiations leading to the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement. As U.S. envoy to the European Union, he was closely involved in bilateral and multilateral trade issues as well as the developing political/security relationship between the U.S. and EU. As Assistant Secretary in charge of European and Canadian affairs at the State Department, Mr. Niles was responsible for some of the first steps in the transformation of the NATO alliance, the opening of more than 15 new U.S. embassies in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and the establishment of diplomatic relations with the newly independent states. Earlier in his Foreign Service career, Mr. Niles served in Belgrade, Moscow and the U.S. mission to NATO in Brussels, as well as at State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. Mr. Niles serves on the boards of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). Born in Lexington, Kentucky, Mr. Niles holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard University and a master's degree from the University of Kentucky.