Paul M. Vaaler

Professor Vaaler has been a member of the SME Department since 2007 and a jointly appointed member of the SME Department and Law School faculties since 2014. His research and teaching interests combine business, law and public policy issues, including migrant remittances and entrepreneurship, elections and investment, structuring public private partnerships, and managing data privacy. Professor Vaaler is the author and editor of books published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, MIT Press, and Routledge Press as well as journal articles published in the Academy of Management Journal, Economics Letters, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Policy, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of International Management, Journal of International Money and Finance, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, Organization Science, Review of Development Economics, Review of Law & Economics, Strategic Management Journal, Strategy Science, Transnational Corporations and other academic journals. He is a senior editor for Journal of International Business Policy, a consulting editor for the Journal of World Business, and the co-editor-in-chief of the Social Science Research Network Global Business Issues electronic journal. Professor Vaaler received his B.A. in History from Carleton College, his M.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar, his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.