Biography
Aggarwal is an expert on U.S. trade policy, corporate strategy, international trade institutions, globalization, international debt rescheduling, international political economy, and international relations. His research interests include the international politics of trade, international finance, comparative public policy, rational choice, and bargaining theory. He is frequently sought out in these areas by the private and public sector. Some corporations which he has worked with include Cisco, Hewlett Packard, Qualcomm, Herman Miller, Italcementi, ARCO, and Nestle. Professor Aggarwal was recently named Chief Economist for the global growth consulting firm Frost and Sullivan. In the public sector, Professor Aggarwal has consulted with the U.S. Department of Commerce, World Trade Organization, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Group of Thirty (G30), IFAD, the International Labor Organization, ASEAN, and the World Bank among other organizations. In November 2008, he was invited to speak at the APEC CEO Summit in Lima, Peru.
Professor Aggarwal was an Abe Fellow with the Japan Foundation for 2008-2009. He is a fellow with the Center for Globalisation Research at the University of London, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a founding member of the United States Asia Pacific Council. In 2003-2004, Professor Aggarwal was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in which he researched the pursuit of multiple modes of trade liberalization (unilateral, bilateral, minilateral, multilateral) on the stability of the world trading system.
He regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on international political economy, international relations, and business and public policy. Aggarwal was the recipient of the Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award from the Haas School of Business for PhD teaching in 1997. In 2003 he was first runner-up for the Cheit Award for MBA teaching and won in 2005 first place.
Aggarwal speaks five languages, including Italian, Spanish, Hindi and French. He received a bachelors degree in political science and psychology from the University of Michigan and a masters and doctorate degree with a focus on international political economy from Stanford University. He was born in Seattle, Washington.
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