Dr. Denis Fred Simon is the Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs of the Levin Graduate Institute of International Relations and Commerce under the State University of New York in New York City.

Prior to joining the Levin Institute, from July 2002-August 2004, Dr. Simon served as Dean of the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.

Prior to joining Rensselaer, Dr. Simon was President of Monitor Group (China). Monitor, which was founded by competitive strategy guru Dr. Michael Porter in the early 1980s, is one of the world?ˉs leading business strategy consulting firms--with 29 offices in 24 countries and 1600+ consulting professionals.

Prior to joining Monitor, Dr. Simon was Managing Director of the Business Strategy and Architecture Innovation Center in Singapore for Scient Corporation.

Prior to his tenure at Scient, he was an Associate Partner at Andersen Consulting (Accenture) China, where he served as Director of the China Strategy Group. He also served as the General Manager for Andersen Consulting?ˉs China practice in Beijing from 1998-1999.

Dr. Simon?ˉs distinctive competence is that he is one of a select number of global management experts with dual knowledge of both business strategy & technology management and Asian business systems and cultures.

He has written and lectured widely regarding innovation, high technology development, foreign investment and corporate strategy in the PacRim and is frequently quoted in the Western and Asian business press regarding commercial and technology trends in China, HK and the Asia-Pacific region. He currently is working on a book-length manuscript dealing with the development of the computer industry in China?a1949-2004.

He also has performed as a consultant to numerous US government and international organizations regarding China and the economies of the Asia-Pacific region, including the Office of Technology Assessment (US Congress), National Academy of Sciences, World Bank, United Nations, US Department of Commerce, PECC and OECD.

Prior to joining the world of professional services in 1995, Dr. Simon served as professor of international business strategy and technology management at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University (1987-1995) and as the Ford International Professor of Management & Technology at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983-1987). At the Sloan School and Fletcher School he taught courses dealing with international business and management, international technology transfer, international manufacturing, and comparative government-business relations, especially with respect to promotion of high technology industries. He received his M.A. degree in Asian Studies in 1975 and Ph.D. in Political Science in 1980 from the University of California at Berkeley (Dissertation Adviser: Dr. Robert A. Scalapino). He received his B.A. degree in Asian Studies from the State University of New York in 1974.