David McClain Dean, College of Business Administration University of Hawaii

David McClain joined the University of Hawai'i at M¯anoa in 1991 as the Henry A. Walker, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Business Enterprise and Professor of Financial Economics and Institutions.

McClain holds a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has taught at MIT's Sloan School of Management and Boston University, where he chaired the Department of Finance and Economics and was founding director of the Japan Management Development Program. He has been a visiting scholar at Keio University and Meiji University in Tokyo and at the Universidad Gabriela Mistral in Santiago, Chile. He is currently the U.S. government representative to the APEC Business Management Network, and served as chair of the Network from 1997-2000. McClain is also co-director of the University of Hawai'i East-West Center APEC Study Center, a member of the board of the National Association for Business Economics, and a member of the National Business Economic Issues Council.

Prior to entering academic life, McClain served as a senior staff economist on the Council of Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President, Washington, D.C. From 1974-78, he was director of Global Information Services for Data Resources, Inc. (now DRI/McGraw-Hill).

McClain's book about the 1987 stock market crash, Apocalypse on Wall Street, was published in 1988 by Dow-Jones/Irwin, and he is a frequent contributor to national and international financial print and electronic news media. He has edited Leadership Development in Small and Medium Enterprises and the forthcoming Multimedia, Distance Learning and Human Resources Development.

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