Dr. Wendy Dobson is Professor Emerita, Economic Analysis and Policy at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.
She is a former Associate Deputy Minister of Finance in the Canadian government, former President of the C.D. Howe Institute, and has served as a non-executive director of a number of Canadian companies in finance and energy.
Dobson has also chaired the Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) pan-Pacific research network. She is a director of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation and the Leacock Foundation. She has published more than two dozen books and articles on Asia and the International economy. Gravity Shift: How Asia’s New Economic Powerhouses Will Shape the 21st Century (2009) was a prize winner in Canada and received a Chinese award for the Mandarin edition. More recent books include Partners and Rivals: The Uneasy Future of China’s Relationship with the United States (2013). In 2020 her latest book Living with China: A Middle Power Finds its Way (September 2019) was a finalist for the 2019 Donner Prize for the best book in Canadian public policy and finalist 2020 for the National Business Book Award.