Vinod K. Aggarwal (born November 26, 1953) is an American professor and holds the Alann P. Bedford Endowed Chair of Asian Studies in the Travers Department of Political Science.
He is an Affiliated Professor in the Haas School of Business, and directs the Berkeley APEC Study Center (BASC).
[1] He is a visiting professor at INSEAD's Asia campus,[2] a blogger for the Harvard Business Review,[3] and has contributed to the New York Times.
"[8] Later, during the 2009 global recession of world markets, Aggarwal was a prominent critic of the Fortress Asia theory which speculated that East Asian countries such as China and Japan would align to become a protectionist trade bloc averse to Western imports.
[13] He has worked with a number of Fortune 500 corporations such as Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, and Qualcomm, as well as other companies including Herman Miller, Italcementi, ARCO, and Nestle.