Jean-Pierre Lehmann

Jean-Pierre Lehmann is Emeritus Professor at IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland, where he was appointed to the Chair of International Political Economy in 1997. He is Founder of the Evian Group (1995). He is currently visiting professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Hong Kong University and at NIIT University in Neemrana, Rajasthan, India. He is a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Trade and FDI. His latest book, co-edited with his son Fabrice Lehmann, is Peace and Prosperity through World Trade, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

The democratic drift: political malaise in the age of democracy

If the twentieth century was, in the language of the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, the “age of extremes”, then the twenty-first century may well be the age of democracy. And yet a profound sense of disconnect has emerged.

By Jean-Pierre Lehmann

/ 30 Jul 2014

Surviving 11 September: the future in the past?

Anthony Barnetts excellent assessment of the lessons of 11 September brings to mind a perhaps apocryphal remark of the late Chinese statesman Zhou Enlai; when asked a few years

By Jean-Pierre Lehmann

/ 24 Sep 2002

Interesting times: the stakes are very high in China's latest gamble

"Piao Xing" (1997), Oil on canvas by Li Dapeng born in 1963 in Hebei Province. Please see link We really cannot afford to fuck up this time. These

By Jean-Pierre Lehmann

/ 18 Jun 2002

World trade, poverty and the environment in the age of global governance

openDemocracy What are the core arguments in Oxfams report Rigged Rules, Double Standards? Kevin Watkins International trade has an enormous potential to take people out of poverty. We have

By Jean-Pierre Lehmann and Kevin Watkins

/ 11 Jun 2002