David Meyer

Senior Lecturer in Management

Research interests:

Financial networks in Asia, Chinese business networks, Asian business centers.

Selected Publications:

• "Hong Kongs Transformation as a Financial Centre,"Hong Kong SARs Monetary and Exchange Rate Challenges, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
• "Structural Changes in the Economy of Hong Kong since 1997," China Review, Issue Vol. 8, 7-29, Spring 2008
• "Networked Machinists: Forging High-Technology Industries in Antebellum America,"John Hopkins University Press, 2006
• "The Roots of American Industrialization,"Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003
• "Hong Kong: Global Capital Exchange,"Global Networks, Linked Cities, Saskia Sassen, Routledge, 2002
• "Hong Kong as a Global Metropolis,"Cambridge University Press, 2000
• "Impact of Human Capital on Joint-Venture Investment in Vietnam," World Development, Issue 27, 1413-26, with D. Anh, August, 1999

Academic/professional activities:

Director of the Urban Studies Program, Brown University, 1996-1999
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Sociology, Brown University, 1991-1993, 2001-2006
Visiting Fellow: Economic Growth Center, Yale University, 1988-1989
Co-editor: Journal of Historical Geography, 1995-1999

Awards/honors:

National Defense Education Act Title IV Fellowship, 1967-1970
National Science Foundation Traineeship, 1966-1967
National Science Foundation Summer Fellowship, 1966
Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities, 1963-1965

Personal interests:

Professor Meyer lives in St. Louis with his wife, and graduated from high school here. His daughter and son both have their MBAs. He takes advantage of the many delights in St. Louis and is an avid sports fan. Travels take him to Asia, to California to visit his son and family, and to Zurich, Switzerland, to visit his daughter and family. For reading pleasure, he likes junk novels, especially mystery and spy thrillers.