Competitive Strategies For the New Millennium








MICHAEL P. CLAUDON, PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS, MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE

Michael Claudon is an economist, teacher, international consultant, and entrepreneur.
He joined the Middlebury College faculty in 1970, where he currently holds the rank of Professor of Economics.

Claudon earned his BA in economics and zoology at the University of California, Berkeley; and his doctorate in economics at The Johns Hopkins University.

Claudon co-founded the Geonomics Institute in 1987, and served as its president through the end of 1995. As its first president, Claudon established and grew the Geonomics Institute into an internationally respected, independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization of business people, policy makers, and researchers. Working at the national policy and local (enterprise/industry) levels Geonomics worked towards accelerating economic and political transition, enterprise restructuring, and business development in the states of the Former Soviet Union.

From 1991- 1995, Claudon served as an advisor to the Resource Secretariat of the Russia's Federal Commission on Securities Markets and to the Association of Professional Participants of the Securities Market (PAUFOR). In this capacity and in collaboration with the leadership of the Russian SEC and PAUFOR, Claudon assembled a team of experts that executed the first comprehensive independent assessment of Russia's emerging capital markets.

Claudon served as an unpaid advisor to the Lithuanian Ministry of Agriculture (Farm Management and Accounting Section), the Association of Lithuanian Agricultural Share Companies, and the Lithuanian Agricultural Advisory Service in the areas of agricultural on matters of domestic and foreign trade policy formation. At the request of the Lithuanian Ministry of Agriculture, Claudon designed and authored Computer-Based Farm Management System (CBMS) , Excel-based financial management and strategic planning software system for diversified Lithuania's highly diversified, large-scale successors to Soviet era collective farms.

He is currently developing an alliance with Vilnius University, where he consults on issues related to teaching with technology and developing economics and business curricula. He teaches graduate short courses and participates in the University's professional and executive training program.

Claudon has authored or edited and published over two dozen books and over a dozen articles.