Dr Reid is Professor of Global Business Strategy.  He first came to Seattle University when he was appointed to the Thomas F. Gleed Chair of Business Administration in September 2006. He is a visiting professor at ESCP-EAP in Paris and Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland.

Before joining Seattle University David was the Director of the Center for International Business and Benjamin Forman Chair of International Business at Rochester Institute of Technology, in New York, where he remains a tenured full professor.

For five years prior to October 2000 he held the Malayan United Industries (MUI) Chair of International Business at Curtin University-the largest business school in Australia and before that he was the Director of the Doctoral Program at the University of Hong Kong School of Business. Previously, as Director, he headed up the full time MBA programme at the University of Edinburgh School of Management. In an earlier phase of his career he worked in international marketing with Unilever.

Professor Reid obtained his doctorate from The University of Edinburgh. He has published around 100 papers and three books: two for The Economist on Japan and Thailand and one for the Financial Times on Korea, as well as articles in management journals, mainly on international strategy. He is currently working on intellectual property protection strategy for China.

David Reid, an expert in global business strategy, has worked in 30 countries. In the last decade and a half he has analyzed the strategies of many foreign companies in Asia, having met with and interviewed around 450 CEO's and other senior officers in: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Burma and Cambodia including 150 recently interviewed in China.

He has developed a framework for securing global IP protection.

He has acted as a strategy consultant around the world to: Adam & Co. Ltd., Arthur Young Management Consultants, Betts Bros. Ltd, British Telecom Scotland plc, Electrolux Far East Ltd., International Computers Ltd., Johnson & Johnson Medical Inc, McLaren Group, Scottish and Newcastle Breweries plc, Tayside Regional Council, Visa International, BBDO Hong Kong Ltd., Charles Barker, Cooper Research and Marketing, D'Arcy Masius Benton and Bowles, Foote Cone and Belding, The Leith Agency, Loganair, The Robertson Group, TBWA Chiat Day, Standard Life Assurance Co., Swire Pacific, Woolward Royd Advertising.

For several years, prior to relocating to Seattle, he held a board appointment with Gorbel, an engineering company in New York, and influenced its market entry strategy into China. Since the beginning of 2006 he has been a consultant to SHIFF (Shanghai International Fashion Federation). In mid-2006 he was invited by the First Minister of Scotland to become a consultant in the GlobalScot network of support to Scottish companies developing international market positions.

Contact: reidd@seattleu.edu

CEO China Clinic

 

David McHardy Reid PhD

Thomas F. Gleed
Chair of Business Administration