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Dean of the I School and Professor (I School and Dept. of City and Regional Planning) Current Research
AnnaLee Saxenian has made a career of studying regional economics and the conditions under which people, ideas, and geographies combine and connect into hubs of economic activity. Her latest book, The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy (Harvard University Press, 2006) explores how and why immigrant engineers from Silicon Valley are transferring their technology entrepreneurship to emerging regions in their home countries—Taiwan, Israel, China and India in particular—and launching companies far from established centers of skill and technology. The "brain drain," she argues, has now become "brain circulation" — a powerful economic force for the development of formerly peripheral regions that is sparking profound transformations in the global economy. Education
BA, Williams College, Economics, 1976
MCP, UC Berkeley, City & Regional Planning, 1980
Ph.D., MIT, Political Science, 1989 Biography
AnnaLee Saxenian is the dean of U.C. Berkeley’s School of Information and a professor in Berkeley’s department of city and regional planning. Her prior publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard, 1994), Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (Public Policy Institute of California, 1999), and Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (PPIC, 2002). She holds a Ph.D. in political science from MIT, a master's in regional planning from U.C. Berkeley, and a B.A. in economics from Williams College. Something few people know about you?
I have two boys, Robbie, who is 12-years old and in perpetual motion, and Jamie, who is 15, and already knows more about computers than I do. I also have a 3-year old boston terrier named JJ who keeps me busy if the other two guys don't. What keeps you up at night?
Trying to figure out how we'll all manage to fit in South Hall five years from now!! |
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