Val Samonis

Background

About Val Samonis

Dr. Val Samonis has worked some four decades "hands-on" with top policy reformers & biz/economic leaders in many developed and emerging markets on several continents, e.g. 6 Nobel Laureates in Economics/Finance (as part of Stanford Economic Transition Group), Polish Central Banker Balcerowicz, Czech Deputy PM Mertlik, other top experts; lectured globally on economic policies (micro and macro), trade, investment/finance, corporate governance & finance, other policy reform issues in the knowledge economy; and has been extensively published (list of publications is over 30 pages). He managed and/or worked in international research and advisory ("blue ribbon") teams sponsored by the World Bank, USAID, Hudson Institute, CASE Warsaw, African Capacity Building Foundation, Joint Committee on Corporate Governance (Canada), and a number of governments, e.g. in Baltic States, Scandinavia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, Canada, etc. Dr. Samonis served as an advisor to the Czech Government, the Lithuanian Government and Parliament, international organizations (e.g. UNCTAD, WTO) and multinational corporations (e.g. Andersen Consulting, Medley Global Advisors, CARE). Prof. Samonis has been teaching online, onsite, and dual-mode courses in Strategies for Policy Reform, Transnational Management, Frontiers in East-West Business & Emerging Markets, Economics/Finance, International Business, Corporate Governance & Finance, as well as supervising graduate (MBA, MA, PhD/DBA) students at the University of Toronto, University of Maryland, The Center for European Integration Studies (Germany), Royal Roads University (Canada), Vilnius University, Warsaw School of Economics, and other institutions. Dr. Samonis is one of the two founding editors of the Journal of East-West Business (Routledge); serves on boards of other top policy journals, for example Transnational Corporations Review, digital technology & policy journals, e.g. International Journal of Education & Development Using ICT.