World Class Faculty

Faculty in the International Business Program have served as consultants to the world's largest and most active firms. Faculty are engaged in a broad variety of research projects, most of which have direct application to the management needs of corporate executives operating in today's complex international business environment. Among the ongoing projects at the Fletcher School are the study of innovation in international project finance for companies, banks, and government enterprises in both developed and developing countries; the politics of oil; international financial and environmental risk management; the interrelation of regulatory law of different states; and the regulation of international and developing country capital markets.

Laurent Jacque [bio] [website] is the Walter B. Wriston Professor of International Finance and Banking and Director of the International Business Program at The Fletcher School.  Professor Jacque holds a secondary appointment at the HEC School of Management in France. From 1976 to 1987, Professor Jacque was on the faculty of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania before teaching at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota from 1987 to 1993. In1990, he served as the Chin Sophonpanich Foundation Research Professor of Banking and Finance at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. He is the author of Management and Control of Foreign Exchange Risk (Kluwer, 1996) as well as over 25 articles on international risk management, multinational control systems, and international capital markets. From1982 to 1990, Professor Jacque served as an advisor to the Foreign Exchange Rate Forecasting Service of Wharton Econometrics Forecasting Associates, and from 1991 to1994, he was a director of Water Technologies, Inc.
A recipient of four teaching awards at the Wharton and Carlson schools, Professor Jacque received the James Paddock Award at the Fletcher School in 1996. He is a consultant with a number of executive education programs with multinational corporations and financial institutions, including General Motors, Bunge and Born (Brazil), Rhone – Poulenc (France), Siam Commercial Bank (Thailand), Daewoo (South Korea), General Electric,Dupont de Nemour, Bangkok Bank (Thailand), INSEAD, Pechiney, and Arthur D. Little. His current research involves the area of managing financial risk and global strategic management for financial institutions. 

Michael W. Klein [bio] [website] is Associate Professor of International Economics and Co-director of the Clayton Center for International Economic Affairs. Professor Klein is also a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Professor Klein's research focuses on exchange rate policy, and includes theoretical and empirical research on the efficacy of foreign exchange market intervention by central banks of the major industrial countries as well as devaluation policy in Latin America. He has also done research on the European monetary system, foreign direct investment in the United States, import pricing, and the political business cycle. His treatise Mathematical Methods for Economists was recently published by Addison-Wesley (1997).

Lisa M. Lynch [bio] [website] is the Clayton Professor of Economics and International Business and Co-director of the Clayton Center for International Economic Affairs. In addition, she is are search associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She received her PhD in economics from the London School of Economics in 1983 and was a faculty member at M.I.T. from 1985 to 1993. Her research has focused on international comparisons of private sector training and its impact on firm competitiveness and workers' wages, youth unemployment, school to work transitions, race and gender issues in the labor market, and the impact of new technology on employment in telecommunications. Recent publications include Training and the Private Sector: International Comparisons (1994); "The Economics of Youth Training in the United States" in the Economic Journal (1992); and "Entry-level Jobs: First Rung on the Employment Ladder or Economic Dead- End" in the Journal of Labor Research. From 1995 to 1996, Professor Lynch served in Washington D.C. as the chief economist to the U.S. Secretary of Labor. In 1998, Professor Lynch was a recipient of the James L. Paddock teaching award.

Jeswald W. Salacuse [bio] [website] is the Henry J. Braker Professor of Commercial Law and former Dean, 1986 to 1994, of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. A member of the Steering Committee of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School, Professor Salacuse is also a member of the visiting faculty of the Master of International Business Program, Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Paris, and the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid. He is the author of Making Global Deals-Negotiating in the International Marketplace (1991), which was also published in ten foreign editions; The Art of advice: How To Give It and' How To Take It (1994); and he is co-author of International Business Planning: Law and Taxation, a six-volume treatise. Professor Salacuse has held positions with law firms, the Ford Foundation, and the law faculties of Columbia University and Southern Methodist University, where he also served as Dean from 1980 to 1986. A former chairman of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration, he has been a consultant to corporations and law firms, the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Ford Foundation, the United Nations Center on Transnational Corporations, and the Harvard Institute for International Development.

Bernard Simonin [bio] [website] was trained as a computer science engineer at the Ecole Supericure d’Informatique (France) before receiving a Ph.D. in International Business from the University of Michigan. He is currently an associate professor in Marketing and International Business at the Fletcher School and has been on the faculty of various institutions including the University of Washington, the University of Illinois, and Kasetsart University (Thailand). He was also an EEC fellow at the Danish Summer Research Institute. His research focuses on the international side of brand alliances, symbiotic marketing, market orientation, learning organizations and knowledge management; it has been published in various marketing and management journals including the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of International Business studies, Journal of Business Research, International Executive, Academy of Management journal, Strategic Management Journal . Simonin was awarded the 1997 American Marketing Association Overall Best Paper Award for the conference and the Best Paper Award for the Global Marketing track, as well as the journal of International Marketing 199 3 Hans B. Thorelli Best Paper Award.

Joel P Trachtman [bio] [website] is Professor of International Law and Academic Dean. Prior to joining the school in 1989, Professor Trachtman practiced international finance law with Shearman & Sterling in NewYork and Hong Kong, where he advised commercial banks, investment banks, multinational corporations, and government agencies on lending and restructuring transactions, securities transactions, acquisitions, project financing, and joint ventures. He acted as counsel to Chinese government agencies in two of the largest joint ventures implemented in China. Recently, Professor Trachtman has worked on regulatory issues in China, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Ghana, and Bulgaria. His main research and teaching interests are in international business and finance regulation and the legal aspects of international economic integration. His research concentrates on the interrelation of law of different countries and the regulation of international and emerging capital markets. In1997, Professor Trachtman was a recipient of the James L. Paddock Teaching Award.