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Karl P. Sauvant
Resident Senior Fellow, Vale Columbia Center, Columbia Law School/The Earth Institute, Columbia University
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Background

Summary Karl P. Sauvant, Ph.D., is Resident Senior Fellow at the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment (VCC – www.vcc.columbia.edu ), a joint center of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University; Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School; and Guest Professor at Nankai University, China. Prior to that, until February 2012, Dr. Sauvant was the Founding Executive Director of the VCC. Until July 2005, Dr. Sauvant was Director of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD’s) Investment Division, the focal point in the UN system for matters related to foreign direct investment, as well as a major interface with the private sector. While at the UN, he created, in 1991, the prestigious annual World Investment Report, of which he was the lead author until 2004. He is the author of, or responsible for, a substantial number of publications on issues related to economic development, FDI and services. In 2011, he was elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business; in 2006, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the European International Business Academy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975.

Experience

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• 19Policy Analysis
• 16Public Policy
• 15Public International Law