Drobnick, Dick

Contact Information
Director, USC Center for International Business Education and Research
Office: RAN 313
Phone: (213) 740-7130
E-mail: drobnick@usc.edu

Dr. Drobnick specializes in Pacific Rim economic and business issues and U.S. and Pacific Rim trade policies. He is the founding director of USC's Center for International Business Education and Research, which is supported by the U.S. Department of Education as one of its 33 national resource centers on international business. From 1994 - 2005, Drobnick served as USC's inaugural Vice Provost for International Affairs. He is a member of the United States Asia Pacific Council, which is the organizing institution for the United States National Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Asia Society of Southern California.  Drobnick was the founding Secretary General (1997-2002) of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) (www.apru.org),  was a member of APRU’s Steering Committee(1997-2011), and is the Managing Director of the APRU World Initiative (www.arpru.org/awi) (2006-).  Drobnick is the author of numerous articles regarding international economics and business, as well as the co-author of Neither Feast nor Famine: Food Conditions to the Year 2000 (D.C. Heath, 1978) and co-editor of Small Firms in Global Competition (Oxford University Press, 1994).

Education:

• M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California 

• B.S., Bradley University

Honors and Awards:

• Secretary general emeritus, Association of Pacific Rim Universities

• Vice chairman and board member, U.S. National Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council

• Executive committee member, United States Asia Pacific Council