In the next SIG webinar series, we invite Prof Peter J Li, Associate Professor of East Asian Politics, University of Houston - Downtown to give an ExpertSpeak on what is ailing the world today the Corona Virus Pandemic, the root cause, and its global impact.
Speaker:
Dr. Peter J. Li, Associate Professor of Political Science, brings with him knowledge and expertise of East Asia to the classrooms at the University of Houston-Downtown and the Houston community at large. Dr. Li specializes in the politics, foreign relations, and environmental governance of China. Born in mainland China, Dr. Li completed his college education there and earned bachelor’s degrees in English and foreign service. His life in the U.S. began in the mid-1980s when he was admitted to the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University to study international relations. In 2000, Dr. Li was awarded a doctoral degree in Comparative Politics from North Arizona University. He has been teaching at the University of Houston-Downtown since 2002.
As one of the international relations scholars who also study global environmental politics, Dr. Li has written extensively on the politics of modernization and its impact on animal protection policy-making. He wrote in popular media and academic journals, for example, on China’s misguided wildlife conservation policy, wildlife use regulatory failure and a global public health crisis, urbanization, development, and diversification of social interests and conflicts, and on the need for China to legislate against animal cruelty.
Moderator:
Dr. Anand Nandkumar is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at the Indian School of Business. Anand explores industry and firm-level phenomena that influence innovation - the generation and distribution of new "ideas" and, entrepreneurship - the process by which, new ideas are commercialized and brought to the market. His research focuses on high technology industries such as pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and software industries, and his research falls in between industrial organization (IO), the economics of technological change and strategy.
Anand's current work examines the effect of patent reforms on R&D productivity of Indian firms and foreign captives in India, the influence of incentives on the generation of innovation, the influence of technology markets on firm performance and the role of opportunity costs on entrepreneurial performance. Anand graduated with a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Management, with a focus on strategy and entrepreneurship from Carnegie Mellon University University in 2008. Prior to his Ph.D., Anand worked for about 3 years with a startup in the silicon valley and prior to that in New York City with one of the world's largest financial services firm.
