Michael Enright

China

Prof. Michael Enright, one of the founders of TCI, has been TCI Director and is now in the Board of Advisors. He became the Sun Hung Kai Professor of Business Administration at the University of Hong Kong in 1996 after six years as a professor at the Harvard Business School. He also serves as Director of Competitiveness Programs at the Hong Kong Institute of Economics and Business Strategy. Professor Enright's research has focused on international competitiveness, regional clustering of industry, and economic development. He has directed or co-directed major reviews of economies in 20 countries on five continents and has co-authored ten books on competitiveness (including works on China, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Venezuela) and numerous papers on regional clustering. Enright has consulted extensively to companies, governments, and other organizations on business strategy, international competitiveness, and economic development. He has appeared in more than 30 countries as an invited speaker, lecturer, educator, and/or trainer. Recent projects have focused on China's competitiveness and its impact on the global economy and the role of multinational companies in cluster development. Professor Enright received his A.B., his M.B.A., and his Ph.D. (in Business Economics) from Harvard University. Enright also served as research manager for the ten nation study of international industrial competitiveness that resulted in Michael Porter's book The Competitive Advantage of Nations (Free Press, 1990).