Stephen Blank
Stephen Blank is Co-Chair of the North American Transportation Competitiveness Research Council. He recently retired as a professor of international business and management at Pace University's Lubin School of Business. Previously, he served as director of the Lubin Center for International Business Development and founded the Pan American Partnership for Business Education, an alliance of four North American business schools. Dr. Blank is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the North American Forum on Integration. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. In 2002, Stephen Blank was awarded l'Ordre National du Quebec for service to the Province. Earlier, Dr. Blank was Director of the Council for European Studies and headed a division on Mulitnational Corporate Conduct at The Conference Board in New York. He was the Director of Canadian Affairs at the Council of the Americas in the 1990s. Blank was a founding partner of an international consulting firm, MultiNational Strategies and also a founding partner of Stephen Blank Associates.
He is the author or co-author of more than dozen books and many articles. The main theme of his research interests over many years, beginning with his study of the Federation of British Industries and then his work on multinational corporations and host countries and, most recently, North American economic integration, has been the relationship between government and business, the interface of public policy and corporate strategy. Dr. Blank has written widely on Canada and North American developments in recent years, and appears frequently on Canadian radio and television and as as speaker at conferences and meetings. He has toured Canada for the United States Information Service's American Participation Program and headed the Canadian Alliance program at the Americas Society in New York between 1991 and 2001. Dr. Blank has also written extensively on corporate strategy in North America, including Making NAFTA Work; U.S. Firms and the New North American Business Environment.
Expertise
Canada-US Relations
NAFTA
Corporate Governance
Capitalist Systems
North American Economic Integration
Education
BA from Dartmouth College (1961)
Certificate in Historical Studies from Cambridge University (1963)
MA from Harvard University (1966)
PhD from Harvard University (1968)
Dr. Blank is a member of the PNA Steering Committee as well as a contributor to the digital library.
Other works by Dr. Blank include: