Vinod Aggarwal

Vinod (Vinnie) Aggarwal is a senior fellow with IGCC. He is also distinguished professor and holds the Alann P. Bedford Endowed Chair in the Travers Department of Political Science; affiliated professor at the Haas School of Business; director of the Berkeley Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Study Center (BASC); and fellow in the Public Law and Policy Center at Berkeley Law School, all at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Business and Politics. He is the former chair of the U.S. Consortium of APEC Study Centers. From 1991-1994, he was chair of the Political Economy of Industrial Societies Program at UC Berkeley.

He has held fellowships from the Brookings Institution, Rockefeller Foundation, Council on Foreign Relations, East-West Center, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and was a Japan Foundation Abe Fellow. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, the University of Geneva’s IOMBA program, INSEAD, Yonsei University, NTU Singapore, Bocconi University, Chung-Ang University, and the University of Hawaii. He is also an elected lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dr. Aggarwal consults regularly with multinational corporations. In the public sector, he was worked the Mexican government, Malaysian government, the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Defense Department, U.S. State Department, World Trade Organization, OECD, the Group of Thirty, FAO, IFAD, the ILO, ASEAN, and the World Bank. In 1990, he was Special Adviser on Trade Negotiations to UNCTAD and has worked with the APEC Eminent Persons Group.
In 1997, he won the Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award at the Haas School of Business for PhD teaching; in 2003 he was first runner up for the Cheit Award for MBA teaching and won first place for the MBA program in 2005.

He is the author or editor of 24 books, including most recently Great Power Competition and Middle Power Strategies, Springer 2023 (with Margaret Kenney); the Oxford Handbook of Geoeconomics and Economic Statecraft, Oxford 2025 (with Tai Ming Cheung); and Governing Growth: Industrial Policy from Hamilton to Trump, Oxford, in press (with Marco Di Tommaso).  He has also published eight special journal issues and 140 articles and book chapters. His current research examines industrial policy and the political economy of high technology new economic statecraft.

Dr. Aggarwal received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. Born in Seattle, Washington, he speaks five languages