- Professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa
Philippe Régnier is a university professor and senior policy consultant in international development studies. His core field of specialization is entrepreneurship, private sector and development in developing and emerging countries. Most of his 25 year field experience has focused on East and South Asia, and on economic, scientific and technology relations between Asia and Europe.
Since September 2008, Philippe Régnier has become a Full Professor at the newly created School of International Development and Global Studies (SIDGS), Faculty of Social Sciences, at the University of Ottawa. This school hosts the largest number of students in Canada specializing in the study of developing and emerging countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Being of French origin, he obtained his BA and master degrees with first honours in political science and European studies at the Universities of Strasburg (France) and Bruges (Belgium). In 1981, he continued his higher education in Geneva and received a post-graduate diploma (1983) and a PhD (with first honours, 1986) in international relations, and Asian affairs in particular, from the Graduate Institute of International Studies (GIIS). His dissertation, supervised by Swiss Ambassador and Director General of the GATT (now World Trade Organization), Professor Olivier Long, dealt with the regional and global economic functions of Singapore as a city-State in Southeast Asia was published later as a book both in English and French.
After two initial professional exposures to the banking and diplomatic careers, he became senior lecturer and then professor at the Graduate Institute of Development Studies (GIDS) in Geneva. Between 1993 and 2006, he was also the director of the Centre for Asian Studies, a joint research and training unit common to the GIIS and GIDS, which were merged in late 2007 into the new Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Since 2003, he has also been co-founder of the master degree in Asian studies at the University of Geneva, a unique degree ever launched in Switzerland, but which exists in various leading universities in Asia, Europe, and Northern America.
He is the author of several books and a number of scientific articles dealing with economic policy, entrepreneurship and small business development in Asia and the Pacific.
Since his arrival at the new school in Ottawa, Professor Philippe Régnier has been teaching several courses in the field of Asian political economy, private sector and development and international development finance. He is also chairing the research committee of the new school.
His own current fields of policy research deal with (a) Canada, the OECD and the G20 Asian emerging countries (China, India, Indonesia,…), and (b) the role of small and medium enterprises and transnational corporations in Asian and global value chains in manufacturing and services.
Prof. Philippe Régnier has been a visiting professor at the National School of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris (France), at the Institute of Development Studies in Louvain (Belgium), at the SASIN Institute of Management, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok (Thailand), at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras in Chennai (India), at the Japanese International Institute for Labour Studies in Tokyo (Japan), and since 2009 at the EPFL College of Management, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (Switzerland).
Contact information: philippe.regnier@uOttawa.ca
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