4 December 2006 Professor Henry Rowen Lectured at CUHK
Professor Henry S. Rowen is co-director of the Stanford Project on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Director emeritus of the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor of Public Policy and Management emeritus at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. From 1989 to 1991, Professor Rowen was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the U.S. Department of Defense. He was Chairman of the National Intelligence Council from 1981 to 1983, served as President of the RAND Corporation from 1968 to 1972 and was Assistant Director of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget from 1965 to 1966. His recent publications are (as editor) Behind East Asian Growth: The Political and Social Foundations of Prosperity, Routledge Press, 1998; and he was an editor of The Silicon Valley Edge: A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Stanford University Press 2000. He is co-editor of MAKING IT: The Rise of Asia in High Tech, Stanford University Press 2006. From 2004-2005 he was a member of the Presidential Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. He is currently doing research on regions of innovation and entrepreneurship in Greater China and on economic and political topics in Asia.
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