Roy C. Nelson
Roy C. Nelson is an Associate Professor of Global Studies at Thunderbird School of Global Management. He served as Academic Director of Thunderbird’s Executive MBA program in São Paulo, Brazil from 2000-2004. Professor Nelson is the author of Harnessing Globalization: The Promotion of Nontraditional Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America (Penn State University Press, 2009), one of many publications based on his extensive field research in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Costa Rica, Singapore, and Ireland.
Cited in a Business Week survey of former Thunderbird students as “among the professors they enjoyed/respected the most,” Professor Nelson is a multiple recipient of the “Outstanding Professor” award at Thunderbird. He currently teaches Global Political Economy, a course in which students develop the analytical tools necessary for understanding trends in a globalized economy. In addition to articles from The Economist, The Washington Post, and many other sources, students read articles from Foreign Affairs such as Barry Eichengreen’s recent piece “The Dollar Dilemma.”
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